March 21, 2010
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Mission Accomplished
Yesterday was lovely! Miss Sarah, child the second, is my thrift/antique/second hand shop partner in crime. We had a lovely morning of grocery store and then putzing about to find other people’s treasures. Both of us pine for the start of garage/yard/estate sale season but until then we are content with our usual haunts. We added a new one – a newly formed co-op where items are priced to sell. When I moved I discovered that I am thoroughly enamored with depression glass and have been collecting pieces of various colors. The red and pink are along the ledge in the living room; the amber lines the ledge in the kitchen and now I have begun the search for blue for the bathroom. At the new shop I found three amber pieces – two in the sunflower pattern and one in some other pattern. Those three pieces and a shelf for Miss Sarah were under $10 total. We were thrilled. We also stopped at Home Depot and I purchased the required garbage can for compost. While at Home Depot, I purchased seeds and a rosemary plant. I was quite vocal in the joy I was experiencing, so vocal in fact that Miss Sarah assured onlookers that whe was returning me to the hospital right after we left the store. Everyone laughed, some a bit more tentatively than others. Spreading joy and laughter = a good thing. When we got home, Master Thomas, child the fourth, poked the holes in the sides and bottom of the trash, filled it with “rank vegetation” and moved it three times for a mother who couldn’t make up her mind.
This morning I cut back the aloe that was taking over the kitchen windowsill. I will give the trimmings to a co-worker who makes a lovely salve with it. I also planted the basil seeds for the windowsill herbs Aloe, basil, rosemary and sunflower amber glass on the kitchen window that looks out onto a plot of earth waiting to be tilled and planted. Ah!
And so it goes.
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Here, our county extension will give you a really nice composter and all you have to do is sit through a 20 minute “how-to” video and sign off on one. Mine’s 20 steps from the back door and it well used. My major compost heap though is our leaf pile, 20 ft by 20 ft and when freshly loaded 6 feet high. It’s amazing how many leaves 13 maple trees can produce….I rarely turn the leaf pile and in a year, I can dig out about 6 inches times the dimensions of the pile of black gold….wonderful!
While you were adding to collections, I was getting rid of some of our household junk. Our enclosed porch now actually resembles the sun room it was designed to be! What a glorious day to work yesterday was….
That was a joyful day, indeed! I enjoyed reading about it. Thank you for the book referral. I watched an online video of the author and illustrating a few minutes ago and I can’t wait to read it. I might have to own one.
How nice to hear that my mother and father sit together on your windowsill. My mother’s name is Rosemary and my father is Basil.
Our first yard sale saturday! The season has started. The good guy got a hand full of c clamps for a dollar and I got a can of black spray paint for the lawn furniture. We also went to a church flea market. I got a pr of jeans for littles grand girl for .50 and a .50 picture frame. All in all a good start for the year!
Awesome! Thanks for visiting again! God bless, ~ Pete
“Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you…” Isaiah 43:4 (ref. my Xanga post of 1/24/2010 AD)