Spring is just around the corner!!!

A wonderfully warm weekend in north Texas!!! I have been waiting for the warm weather to come back. I went to home depot and found me some grasses to fill in around the pond. Seems like the flowers I get do not last around the water. I saw this suggestion in the Lowes create magazine. I know it was wrong to go to home depot but sometime their prices are cheaper on plants. So this is pony tail grass, the varigated plant is a Marc Anthony Lithrope.

I worked hard clearing out all the flower beds. I had a lot of dead plants, it got cold on me fast so I didn't get the clear the beds and cut down the banana tree's....boy was I sorry! If you don't cut down the banana trees right after the first freeze and wait till now...the smell is awful. They are full of water so that water has become stagnant inside of the plant...yeah lovely!


Then you see that my poppy seeds have come up. These guys I planted last November. There are some more poppy's here by the pansies. I have planted the heart paper with the wild flower seeds. I sprinkled is little bit of garden soil on top. Now it will rain for a couple of days...perfect timing!

The orange flowers and these blue ones, I decided I should not plant yet. Not sure how hardy these would be just in case of one more freeze. I have taken them inside now... its gonna get cold again!

Then I have 2 more projects I have going... my crochet I am doing....I am going to try to continue showing progress, perhaps this will get me to blog more??? I have another baby blanket to make after this one.

Then the necklace I started putting together. I wanted a 3 strand multi colored necklace...mixed with a little sparkle!! of course!!! I think this will turn out nice...I will have to play with the colors more, not sure I like the layout yet. Thats the great thing about making your own!

So now I have blogged!! yeah! I wished I was better at it my co-workers are really good at this!

Free Day!! What to do.. What to do???

I see that the guys that I keep up with have blogged today...So I am feeling a bit behind, well alot behind! We did have a nice little ice storm last night....so many sceptics at work! Boss man turned to me and said...Oh I got a feeling we'll see ya in the morning.... Yeah uh nope we didn't see each other...School is CLOSED!


Well I finally finished the book Liz loaned me...Maureen McCormick's "Here's the story". This was truely eye opening on her life, things you just don't know about people. I was curious about her songs, so I went to U tube and found her singing with Christpher Knight and some of her singing on her own and if you know anything about U tube you can get sucked in!!! I ended up with video's of Donny Osmond and the Osmond brothers. These guys were a big deal when I was a teenager. Boy O boy did that take me back!



Well I didn't get any pcitures today....wished I had my camera when I went out. I saw a cluster of beautiful trees covered in ice. What a sight that was! Since we don't have ice or snow that much (maybe once or twice a year) its a big deal to us.



I feed my birds today, I figured finding food through the frozen grass my be a problem. I also had my doves come by and sun themselves in my flower bed. Shelby ( my cat) really wanted to go outside, not necessarily for the dove...she loves to drink from the fish pond. I have let her out in the past not knowing the doves were in the back yard....and she hit the patio running! My poor momma dove barely made it out of the yard! So now I take a look and make sure no doves are relaxing in the yard. I expect the momma dove will be back again this year to lay her eggs in my wall pot. This will be her 3rd year oif she does. I have learned alot about my little buddies since they have been coming and laying and hatching their babies. They have the same mate for life and they like to return to lay their eggs in the same place. I really enjoy watching the momma dove... so devoted to her eggs, she hardly ever leaves the nest.



Since I don't have any new picture's I will attach a recent one of Alex and I that was recently taken at a wedding. At least I blogged...yea!!