She's about to... Spring has sprung!

Oh another great idea Linda Kay, again thank you. I really didn't want to try clay but I have made the clay so will try, but the foam sounds so much easier! afraid the clay will crack on me.

That is awsome, Joyce. Really good job there.

LINDA, HERE IS A PIC. OF MY GRREEN AND RED JM. THE SE3COND PIC. SEE THE WHIRLYBIRD SEEDS

MY YELLOW TEA ROSE TRYING TO OPEN, AND GOLDEN SHOWERS TRYING TO OPE, AND CHEYENE SPIRIY STARTNG TO COME ALIVE

So pretty jordankj, that rose is going to be beautiful. love roses.

Thank you Debra.

Well I threw the dough out and I am going for foam....so i decided to try making some of those concrete hands for pots. Dont know if this is going to work at all, but nothing to losse. has anyone done any?

Beautiful plants Kathy! I did not know they produce seeds!

Joyce, hope you can find the foam sheets, I know wally world carries them in the craft section, they come in assorted colors, some even have glitter.

I have never worked with concrete, do you have a form for them? Is this what you mean, they use surgical gloves to make them.

http://www.bluefoxfarm.com/hypertufa-hands.html#axzz31crUVlpv

NOT HERE , Sure wish I was as crafty as you Ladies Mom endowed me with her Looks but not her Brains , My Sisters got all of them , But I got my Gardening Skills from Daddy & The Girls got his Looks :) hehe

Well i got rid of one ailment only to develop another
My Left Knee is as big as a basket ball & my toes are Numb & Tingly so doc wants to see me in the morning .
mean while have to keep leg up witch i have not done yet so guess i will turn my other Laptop on so i can play games anyway :)) while laying up so ya all have a nice eve.

What did you do to your knee? Hope the Dr. has an easy fix fir it!

Dang Susie that is the pits! Hopefully FAST fix.

Yeap that is exactly what I did Linda Kay, but I am afraid the concrete may not be sitting up. I stuck a pin in the tip of the fingers to keep air out, filled the glove with concrete. Then mounded the sand so I could fold the gloves over the sand hump to make cupped hands. hopefully in the shape I want. Course you won't know that til it is all said and done. I LOVE working with concrete. It is so cheap it doesn't hurt alot if you mess up.

oh golly Kathy beautiful blooms.
Susie, you hafta be careful and take it easy and let us know what is up with your knee. good grief.

Joyce, I have a bag of quick rete.. come and get it .. oh I have a bag of the foam sheets, too.. could mail it to u.

remember when you needed the glass bottom for your microwave> LOL

Not Sure what is going on as ya all know I Have a Blood clotting problem My Veins are bad in my Left leg , I'm sure its not a clot But there might be a block somewhere, So I will find out tomorrow I'm sure they will do a dobbler or scan .
will let ya know when i get home .

Question : it is to get down to 44* the next couple nights thing my Brugs will be ok ? without a cover ?

They are saying that nasty "S" word up here.

As long as it don't freeze, I believe your brugs will be okay.

going to be 38-37-35 Fri-Sat-Sun Ouch going to cover them
for sure I Have My tomato cages over them right now & will cover with Garbage bags . well ya all have a great day .BBL

Yeah Mom Nature needs to warm up a little, way too cold.

Our plant sale is Saturday with the master gardners guess if it frost we have lots of tomatoes to replace the ones everyone loses...LOL

Going to a farmers market later today. We wanted it to warm up a bit before we get out there...LOL

Well gonna go make hummingbird food so they don't freeze trying to stay warm.

Surprise surprise I got the feeder hung and didn't even get in the door until I had an oriole visit the feeder! I didn't even know I had an oriole. How exciting. I have a jelly feeder and I am going to put it up.

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Amanda has the mug swap open, come and check it out!

2014 Annual Mug Swap
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1360326/

Susie, just promise us you will not overdo it or anything.. your brugs will be fine.. no worrys..
Joyce, I hear your Joy in the orieols, Joe called me to tell me we had some on the hummer feeder right outside the kitchen sink window and he was thrilled. I am thrilled cuz he is home doing the dishes LOL
Our hummers have been back about three weeks. Joe found another cardinal nest right next to the older cardinal nest in our front rose/honeysuckle corner off the porch, he said it is a "duplex" . I didn't know they built a new nest everytime they are ready to sit on eggs,. did you? I thought one for moma and one for poppa, but Joe said they aren't sitting in the old one since the baby flew out.

Still impatiently waiting for my hummers.

Back ladies Just hafta wait to know anything till later today took xrays & Blood
work. Now i wait . But with a box back later mail coming up the drive .

Susie has the KING OR QUEEN FOR THE MONTH swap open. Come and check it out!

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1360369/

It's amazing all the planting and so forth you do, Susie. I certainly hope the box was something exciting!

It sure was special Not Only Did my Gardens get new plants I Also got Pampered :) with hand made earrings from ric's wife
how cool I Have not bought any earrings probable 20 yrs + I have the same ones I wore when I Had my restrant when I was married :) EEEK How bad is that .
Rainy morning once again & 2 more days of it , Plus down in the 30's fri & sat .
well Zoey just came in so ya all have a great day BBL

Very pretty. ♥

Susie, that is an awesome box of goodies!

yes nice box , Zoey wanted my angels but i told her they were my Garden Angels, Everyone is gone for the day so Good day for Baking . BBL

Oh got up this am and found an Oriole and a Hummingbirds at the feeders. Gotta tell you when I got home last night that goofy Oriole was fighting with himself in the window..geehz!

Went shopping for plants and a birthday present yesterday. the farmers market only had 4 trucks.... ;) I did buy a rhubarb plant, I have never eaten it but wanted it to cast the leaves in concrete. My understanding I don't want to cut any leaves until next year. kmart had 6 packs of impatiences for 75cents, wasn't what I was going to use but the price talked me into it.

Debra I do remember the microwave glass plate...rofl. It worked great and is still working. It is nice to have a house husband...LOL

Well I did buy some foam to make the flip flops out of and I was saying bad things last night..LOL I must of cut out 100 flip flops that are less than an inch long, cutting one was easy but cutting a second to kind of sort of matches not so much.. now if I would of thought about it once you added the top and I added a flower not much of the shoe shows...LOL live and learn. But I can say it is DONE! Her birthday isn't until June so those plants had better live cause I am not messing with it any more at all. Linda Kay your suggestion worked like a charm and didnt cost hardly anything, thank you so much.

Right, don't cut rhubarb the first year you plant it.

Glad I could help!

i made this the other night it was so tasty

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp-recipe.html
its gone now for Brother Jim took Half of it I Have a small dish left for my super tonight :)

Baked cookies with zoey she was mixing them :) stopped raining so off to pop in a couple Plants BBL

That looks yummy!

Any test results yet?

IT Was DELISH Also Zoeys white chocolate chip cookies.

Still not heard from drs office yet not even about my coumadine Level that is very rare for they call me same day they get it .
its cleared off a little out side but is still very cold they say warmer & Sunny Sunday .

hello all we are home from Chicago. G
Had the times of our lives. Rode in taxis, buses, trains and boats. All very fun. We went up in the skydeck of the Willis tower formally sears. shedds, field museum, house of blues, cheesecake factory, man was that ever awesome... sightseeing boat tour. We did so much in the days we were there just can not get over it!!! Got back and our garden looks so beautiful. Everything is really popping out. sure wish it was warmer tho. Some sun shine would be wonderful. it is only 45 today and raining, and windy.

Guys I am so upset. I went to the cemetery where my GrandMother GrandFather GGrandMother GGrandFather and my GAunts Baby are buried. It is an old family cemetery in the middle of a farm. Thru the years the different folks who have owned the property actually took care of the cemetery but mostly they would ignore it. The last few years I have mowed it at least once a year, but the farmer is planting corn so I can only get up there during the spring then the corn is so tall I can't get in there. Now to make matters worse, this year he has tilled up part of the cemetery and planted corn....I am just beside myself. He has tilled right up to the edge of the headstone of the baby, I just want to cry. I know there are unmarked graves in that cemetery. What kind of person is he? I mean you till up part of a cemetery for $10.00 worth of corn! This is a really an OLD cemetery and no one is buried there anymore and I am not sure anyone goes up there but me. He surely knew I would notice. I guess I will have to get the platte to the cemetery and figure it all out. I am just sick.

Sorry I just needed to talk.

I feel your pain, that is just not right, Joyce. Let him know how sacred that area is to you!

So sorry to hear that! There has to be someone responsible for the cemetery you can complain to?

thank guys for your support. Just can't believe anyone would do that. It is very old cemetery and has some peony bushes that must be 80 years old or more. There are lots of headstones and the majority of folks there I do not know but I still would never do such a thing in fact I mow around the all headstones. I am hoping he knows better than me the borders of the cemetery and he has just reclaimed part of the field that I think is the cemetery, but I really don't think so.

It would seem the land should be platted and show the boundries of the cemetery. Maybe not though as it is so old. You can check with city or county or who ever would have those records. Not sure of rules for cemeteries on private land. When we were doing family research, we were told we would have to ask permission to go into private land cemeteries.

Luckily Missouri has STRONG laws about old cemeteries thanks to one women who stopped a strip mall builder from paving over an old cemetery. I even went to her once when a farmer on a different cemetery defused us entry. I can see contacting them before entry but when u buy land with a cemetery u buy certain obligations. Usually on the deed to the land with the cemetery there will be written in it obligations u are required to do.

There is a mall in Kansas city mo that the gash cememtery was left intact including the trees in the parking lot.

Well good, maybe you will have to force the issue legally. a cemetery should not be desecrated.