Finally - climbing roses

Well, I've had this climbing rose bush for two or three years now. It grows very long, but I have not had roses and I'm not sure why. It's grown well, but that's it.

In February I decided that I was just going to prune it like crazy and made that would make a difference. Well, evidently it did. I have one full rose (that smells great!) and a bunch of buds. These pictures are not very good, but you get the idea.

These are Lady Banks roses, if you're wondering. I just so excited about my first roses on this bush! Hurray!!!

Pooped Pup Part II

Again, is this the life or what?

Somehow she found her way onto my couch cushions that I had stripped of their covers and washed.

When I saw her sleeping on the biggest cushion, it looked so sweet I just had to get a picture of her.

Now, she's outside whining wanting to come in and it sounds so horrible sometimes that it makes me think she's not as sweet as she looks. ;)

Pinger

My new favorite tool/toy. Found at www.pinger.com. You can send anyone with a mobile, a voice message that they can retrieve after they receive a text message from you. Now, for Sprint to Sprint users, this is unncessary since you can leave backdoor messages for other Sprint users by just dialing 11 before their full number, but it's great for calling others with a voice message (many at once if you'd like). Check it out!

Jogging - Running

Well, I've been jogging now for three weeks (about). I've jogged and such before, but didn't like it much unless it was a social time. Now, I'm actually liking it. I'm not sure why. I do like how I feel afterwards - tired, a wee bit buzzed, feeling like I accomplished something. I'm only up to three miles at this point, but am really thinking I may stick with it for now since I really enjoy it. I also thought this poster was funny.

Mr. Lizard is back!

For the last few years I've had a large tree lizard (or family of lizards) living in my yard. They get pretty big and I like them. I am hoping they eat termites!

This is the first one I've seen this year. Last year I saw at least two or three, but they were smaller when I saw them at this time last year.

The Front Porch

Since the red tip fotinas are gone from the front porch area, I decided to do something to hide the fact that the area where the fotinas were looks terrible.

I do like how it turned out, although I think that I'll probably change stuff ... rearrange stuff a bit. But, here it is for now.

I think I need something to distract the look of that gas gage thing coming out of the side of my house. Who knows what, though. Maybe if I planted a crepe myrtle there or some such.

As I promised myself that I wouldn't buy any plants this year (unless I was given a gift card or some such), but the greatness of Weston Gardens I got a free plant today because they had a deal that you could take a four inch plant if you gave them a decorated egg. The choices were petunias, lantana, dianthus, or impatients. I almost took a petunia, but the dianthus were looking good and blooming already and since I wanted color, that's what I went with. I hope it lasts as long as the last dianthus I had (lasted 2 years!).

Here are more shots of the porch area. Notice Mr. Bunny has a new place to live for now.














So, on top of the rocks and pots and planting seeds and everything, I needed a way to remember what I planted where. I planted seeds last year and thought I had a way to remember what was what, but that didn't go very well. So, this year, since I'm trying not to buy new stuff for the garden, I decided to try to come up with some way of marking my pots so I know what seeds are what. I thought about chopsticks, but I don't think I have any and didn't want to go to Pei Wei to steal some. Then I remembered that I had bamboo skewers in my pantry.

Well, that half was solved, but then what do I do for the paper part to write on? I thought about post-it notes, but they would fade when they got watered. I looked around to see what I had and there it was! I had paint chips from the local Home Depot that I got when I was thinking about painting my kitchen. I knew they would hold up much better than just plain old paper and I really like how they turned out. I also liked that I reused and recycled some items for this and that I didn't have to buy anything and I have cool colors and tags for my planted seeds!

Happy Easter!

He is risen!