We are getting some oddly warm weather here – its been in the 50s and 60s every day for the last week or so, with more of the same this coming week! I’m always hesitant to believe it’s really time to get our plants out, because I’ve been stung on this before. But I think… Continue reading Spring May be Springing
I recently decided it was time to go through my stash. It has been getting a little out of hand lately. I got a start Sunday afternoon – I excluded all the cats from our room, spread out an old sheet, and dumped everything out from a couple of bins. It took an hour or… Continue reading Organizing with “Helpers”
Drawn out by a beautiful day and driven by a desperate desire to go somewhere other than our house or the grocery store, DH and I went for a little drive today. If you are in Anchorage and want to go out of it, you have two choices – north to the MatSu Valley and… Continue reading Outside!
A week or two ago I started some flower seeds for our outdoor planters and baskets, along with a couple of herb seeds. Here’s the update! The first batch of seedlings is doing pretty well. I had two of the little pods start to show some mold, so I got them out of there quickly.… Continue reading Agriculture Report
Just in case you haven’t seen it, the Safe at Home blanket looks like a super-cute way to use up yarn scraps 🙂
Happy Earth Day! I borrowed this quiz from Kathy at Compassionknit – here are her questions, my answers are below. Have you planted anything by seed this year? Were you given a tree in 4th grade for Earth Day? Did you know there is recycled yarn? Have you tried it ? Do you know you… Continue reading Earth Day Quiz
I have a lot of random news to share, so here goes! The seedlings are still alive and thriving, we managed to find a second Jiffy seed starting tray so we could start the rest of our flowers. It was tough to find – we went to several stores before we were able to find… Continue reading Randomness Roundup
Boy this weekend went fast! It’s all part of the days just sort of blurring together, I suppose 🙂 Other than cooking, I didn’t get anything serious done at all. Though I did get a lot of puttering and crafting done! The flower seeds are sprouting beautifully! Now I have to just not kill them… Continue reading Sunday, Random Sunday
Guys, I am nesting in a serious way. This evening I started plants for our hanging baskets and planter boxes, which I will not get to actually put outside until late May. Normally when it’s time to do the outside planting, we hit one of our local nurseries and bring back a trunk full of… Continue reading Nesting
Quite A Yarn 