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April 21, 2007
Moving and grooving...
We started out in Austin picking up 3 cross stitch pieces that have been sitting in closets for literally YEARS...i think one of them is dated 1997...even better, the next two pieces I have in to be framed are dated 1987...but at least they are being brought out of the dark and into the light...I should take pics of my samplers that are on the wall...eventually...I've tried taking pics of Clem, but she's just very wiggly, even when Brian is here to help me...everything I've taken sux...I will post what i have, but it doesn't do her hilarity justice...
So after the cross stitch, we headed BACK to Lowe's to try and find a light for the hallway...
We grabbed a kid who was nice enough (that sounds nice, huh) to phone another Lowe's who had what we were looking for...and of course, its all being discontinued...so they were nice enough to mark the new light 50% off...so we now have two lights to hang, in case we don't like one of them...sigh...its almost done...and then we move onto a new project in the house...dunno what yet...paint? flooring? bathroom? we'll figure out something...
Once home, we've been in the yard, eating our Subway sandwiches, and Brian has been mowing while I've been dead heading the roses...our yard is a sea of color and movement...the most exciting visitor so far - a small all-green hummingbird spent a few seconds at our salvia gregii and then onto our mexican sage...I think he was here for about a minute, but it seemed like forever...of course, after that treat, we had to head to the local nursery (with dog in tow) and pick up MORE hummingbird plants...my favorite blue spires sage...and a few firecracker plants...tomorrow they go in the ground (the other part of the yard that we are slowly creeping into)...I found our lone monarch caterpillar way across the yard, so I scooped him up (he froze when I picked him up) and placed him back on his milkweed (its the only thing they eat, if he was gone too long, he'd starve)...
The days are so nice, breezy, warm, not too hot or humid (they say its 90% humidity, but it sure doesn't feel like it)...I haven't taken a single pic from yesterday's class...I haven't even unwrapped the cross stitch pieces, they are just leaning against the wall in their brown paper...why is it that some days are full of excitment and others are dry? I have too much to say, too much to show and not enough time to get it all done...Thanks for checking back, I've got a new (well, its a repeat, but a fave) color scheme to make some beads with, I'll start on that Monday...so expect beads next week if all goes as planned..............go look for a hummingbird in your own backyard now...go...do it...
Posted by Donner at April 21, 2007 05:34 PM