March 30-31, 2012 Weekend

When I went to sit down to write this post I felt like I hadn’t accomplished much this last weekend. But when I thought a little more about it I think a lot was accomplished here at my house. Of course since the weather has been so spring-like there’s always the yard work that needs to be done.

I was happy to get some planting in and now I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we don’t have a hard frost here in April as we sometimes do.

Here’s a picture of the left-side front of my house and hopefully in another month or two the flower bed will be completely filled in with Four O’Clocks. Can you tell that John loves statues?

I especially love the angel,

and the little girl.

Oh by the way John cut down the evergreen tree in the front yard that didn’t survive the heat of last summer.

Here’s the White Pine that needs to come down in the back yard. I took this picture from my bedroom window. He told me that he was going to try and climb the tree and saw sections off of it at a time. I told him he better not. But he said he would do it while I was gone to work. I finally convinced him that he would need help so this White Pine tree will have to wait until John can get some extra help in a week or two.

On the crochet front I made a pair of dark blue and white “Little Man Loafers”,

2 washcloths,

and the edging on my Dahlia Throw.

I think my Dahlia Throw has become just a little bigger than a throw though. What do you think? Oh by the way I’m very scared of heights and while I was standing at the top of my little stepladder my knees began to shake just a little bit. I wondered to myself, “what lengths I would go to to get just the right picture?” I think this height would be the highest but you never know. 🙂

Oh! Did you want a closer look at that doll on my bed?

Well this is one of the many dolls that my Mom has made. The dolls head, shoulders, hands, and feet are made of ceramic. The rest of her body is made of cloth. My Mom sewed her body, camisole, slip, pantaloons, shirt, skirt, and hat. I love my doll and the fact that my Mom made her makes her even more special.

As I was writing this post, John came upstairs and asked if I would like to come and see his new mechanic’s creeper. (yes! he needed some attention)

I went down to check it out and of course take a few photos. John was so proud that he had used parts from a 35 year old creeper that was falling apart and made him a new one. Of course he had to show me how well it worked too. What I loved about it most is that he used recycled parts and didn’t have to go and purchase one.

Soooo, how did your weekend go? Did you accomplish all the things that you wanted to?