Category: General

It’s sort’a like a junk drawer thing… No other place to put it.

We Shall Have Cake

We stayed home from church today because Isabel was complaining of an earache. She was also coughing and her nose was running non stop. So I kept her in her pj’s and kept her from getting to excited.

She went off early in the morning and came back with a birthday cake for Daddy that she had made. She set up a table and chairs and even served up slices of her cake to me (Daddy had some later).

Her birthday party for Daddy.

The cake was made up of 2 slices of decorated paper, cut and taped together to form a layered (puffy) look. With the leftover paper, she made striped candles, which she then taped to the top of the cake. She glued yellow pom-poms to the candles to act as the flame and then sliced (cut) out pieces of her pie for us to eat.

Backyard Flowers

I posted my new flowers back here and thought I would update how they are doing!

I had two Gaillardia’s and planted the other plant besides Gino’s rock. All the other plants that we purchased that day, we planted in an area together along the back fence. All the plants have done very well but we realized that we had a major slug problem! The slugs started attacking the Foxglove and Daisies.

Since I took this picture I had to cut back the Foxglove and Daisies. I am hoping that next spring they will come back in full bloom. I’ve been working on removing the slug’s from the yard with some St. Gabriel organic Insect Dust.  So far I haven’t seen anymore damage to the leaves of my plants, so hopefully I’m getting the slugs under control/gone! We’ll see…

 

New Outfit For Elefante

Today Isabel said she wanted to make her elephant, Elefante, a new outfit. So she got all the items together that she wanted to use and sat down all afternoon to work on her new outfit.

After a lot of cutting and taping, her work table was getting messy but she was having so much fun!

Elefante’s new clothes.
He has a scarf for his truck, a coat for his body and ear warmers with holes in them for earrings! Can you see the hole?

She also wanted a picture with Daisy sitting in the sun with Elefante’s new clothes.

Still Here

I am still here… I’ve just been on a blog-vacation.

After school got out, I felt like I was free from the blog to enjoy summer but now that more then a month has gone by, I need to blog about something. We’ve remodeled a room (which had to remain a surprise until our guests arrived), we’ve planted a garden, worked more in the yard and have had guests for 2 weeks. We’ve been here and there and now we are home again before we go again! So I must catch up at some point otherwise you’ll think I’ve left… for good!

(BTW… be sure to check back to mid June, since my catching up begins there… Enjoy!)

New Plants

Today was a great day spent with Gino.

Grandma and Grandpa took Isabel for a few hours while we ran errands and enjoyed our time together. Our plan was to meet up later and go to dinner and then play mini golf but the weather didn’t cooperate for that and Gino (and Dad) and I bought a bunch of new perennial flower plants for the yard!

Looking south east, my Dad helped me arrange the flowers before Gino and I dug the holes to plant them. Last year this area was planted with evergreen shrubs but with all the rain during winter, they didn’t make it. So we decided to go with flowers instead!

We got Salvia, Daisies, Foxglove, Lavender and Gaillardia (which reminds me of Daisies!). I’m excited because I LOVE Daisies!!!

Looking north east, we finally got the flowers set up the way I want them. Thank you Dad for the help! They look so good!!!

Isabel had a great day with Grandma and Grandpa. Grandpa went to play golf and Grandma and Isabel got to ride along in the cart. Isabel even got to drive it! Afterward they went to Old McDonald’s and Isabel got to play in the playground after having lunch.

Getting the flowers in the ground before it started to rain, just as we began to dig the hole for the last flower. Didn’t get it in the ground that day or the next because of rain. We eventually got it planted and the flowers are doing great! The Foxglove seem to have really taken off! We have also attracted a lot of bees to the yard but I don’t mind, as long as they don’t sting!

Marigold

This morning before heading to the Botanical Conservatory, Grandma and Isabel re-potted (in a new pot from Grandma and Grandpa) Isabel’s marigold that she planted in school.

Since we didn’t have an potting soil, they had to use some dirt from the garden box.

Getting lots of dirt in that new green pot.

Grandma gets the marigolds out of the cup to place in the new pot.

Adding a bit more dirt to fill it in. Hopefully her flowers just keep on growing. They have done so well in the Styrofoam cup in the kitchen window. However I had taken them outside a few days earlier and the flowers were attacked by spiders!

UPDATE: Isabel’s marigolds have died. Grandpa had removed the spiders before they re-potted them but the little flowers just didn’t make it.
They went from bad to worse very quickly.
We’ll have to get some new ones for her new green pot from Grandma and Grandpa.