Maisie's Daisies

Here is my latest quilt. I saw this in a picture from Spring Market a few months ago, and searched the internet until I found the pattern. I've been working on it the last few weeks and am glad to have the top all done.

Attack of the Killer Pumpkins

My Pumpkin plants are growing like CRAZY. They have just about taken over the rest of my garden.


They are literally killing some corn and peas by smothering them (look at the poor little corn plants, trying to survive).


I hope I get good pumpkins out of this, and next year I'll have to find another place to plant them.

Clean Pantry

So I finally got around to cleaning and organizing my Pantry. It has been a TOTAL disaster the last little while - I could barely walk into it (I should have taken a "before" picture, but I'm sure you can imagine ;-)

Here are some after pictures - it is amazing what 2 hours of hard work can do!!!

Garden

So, as I've mentioned before, I have a "black" thumb. This year I finally planted a food garden. I had my dad and brothers build me a box, filled it with special soil, and planted Corn, Peas, and Pumpkins. I had an issue with the soaker hose at one point, and it didn't get watered for a week, but some plants still survived.


It is a little lopsided (some plants are growing really well, some not so well), but today there was VICTORY! I went out this morning to check on it, and lo and behold there were some PEAS, all ready to eat!!!!



One of my favorite foods in all the world is fresh peas, eaten straight out of the garden. They are so sweet and cool and yummy. Frozen or canned peas just don't taste as good.


So hopefully for the next few days I'll get to eat fresh peas every day - yum yum

Another reason I LOVE Quilting

I ordered this quilt kit, and was pleasantly surprised when it came all folded and packaged in a basket. SOOOOOOO fun. Here is what the quilt is supposed to look like. I'm going to replace the blue border with a green border, but the important part is ALL THE ROSES!

My Lilies are Blooming!!!

I planted these lily bulbs a few years ago, and surprise surprise they bloomed (I tend to have a black thumb). I was worried they would bloom and be done while I was at my family reunion last week - but there are still blooms. I just think they are beautiful.

Here we go

Ok, so I've decided that it is time to seriously start blogging. I'm not sure how often I'll update, but I'll try to do it fairly regularly.