Say goodbye to this horrible compost pile. I could never really turn it properly so that it would get cooking so we are going to move it and mix it with the mound of chicken poop to the left and make sure it heats up right so I can finally use it. Then I am going to only compost the chicken poop with the bedding (near the coup, novel idea I know) and give kitchen scraps to the worm bin that is in the works. All that will be left to do is plant some grass in its place. Good riddance. The feral cats and raccoons are going to be pretty pissed that their buffet is leaving. You can see molly sneaking behind the pile, she came limping back out from it with a nice pine needle stuck in her foot.
Heres a funny pic of one of the girls squatting and foot stomping for me. If you give them a couple good firm pats on the back it seems to make them happy.
And here they are eating all the worms I worked hard to get into the garden. It was a buffet, they were sucking the worms down like spaghetti.
Me and miss hanger-on went for a good walk one day when it was nice and sunny. We walked past our neighbors the horses, she used to want to sniff them when she was little but now they just scared her. She wouldn't look at them, just sat with her head pointed towards the road. They must just look like really big dogs to her?
So I did a bonehead thing the other day. I opened the baggies of sprouts in the greenhouse and forgot about them. When I went out in the morning, after they had been in the heat and under the lights all night, they were bone dry and all shriveled up. So I had to buy new and start over on the peppers, eggplant and rosemary. Heres to second tries.
It was my mom and brothers birthday last week so I made a cake and everyone came over. At the last minute I decided I should try to make this cake look better than just plain old icing. This is how that turned out. It leaned a bit to one side, but thats cause I was too lazy to make each layer level before I stuck them all together, no one cared though so that worked out. Next time i'm going to use that to my advantage and make a mad hatter style cake.
And a little while later...
We said goodbye to the scarecrow, he worked a while last fall until his legs started to fall off and Mabel made off with them. It looks very sad but no one cried.
Oh my, heres a good one. Today I finally sprayed the window and made a curtain in the bathroom. Now the bath has only been finished for almost a year, but for some reason it didn't bother me to leave a folded curtain smashed into the top window as a nice ghetto window treatment. Those days are over now! woot!
In the first pic you can see how I left the top unfrosted so it would let in more light.
In other project news I have a couple sewing things to get done. First is an easy pillow that I want to cover to give to mom. I wanted it to be a birthday gift but that super fancy cake held me up on sunday. I got 4 yards of different fabrics in key west at this cool shop that had really wild bright prints. Mom mentioned she liked this one when I showed them to her so I figured a pillow would be nice and functional.
And this puppy is going to be awesome. I found a great shop on Etsy (Studio Cherie) that sells patterns, this one if for a large duffle that I plan on using when we go to florida in july. The second pic is from her page that shows a couple finished bags. It took me ages to pick out the fabric to use. The larger piece is the main fabric and the butterfly will be the strap.
And as our conclusion this week I give you dirt dog, this is what she has looked like after spending a whole day in our yard/swamp. And you know her mind is on our bed, if you don't direct her straight downstairs to the shower its an automatic 2 load laundry evening. But thats only if you don't mind sleeping on muddy paw prints.
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