Sewing!

I decided last week to sew. Looked for some fabric to inspire me from my fabric stash and this is the result. Placemats and napkins to go with my Anemone China  I have had for 40 years.  I love to go to this little fabric store with my sister when I visit McKinney, Texas so I stock up on cool fabrics and then they lay around until I feel inspired.  I think this is Robert Allen fabric.   A sort of large and bold toile. 

Trumpet Vine

Every year we have a wonderful wall of trumpet vine that grows along our privacy fence.  It's beautiful to look at. It now runs along the fence a distance of about 20 feet.  Alot of bees seduced by the the flower but really gorgeous!

The Garden this year!

Cannas, cucumbers, tomatoes!  This was all about a week ago. Stay tuned for the latest from this weekend.  Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow.... 

The Fish Pond!

A few weekends ago we cleaned our do it yourself fishpond.  When I say do it yourself I mean we really did it ourselves. Rented a backhoe, dug a humongous hole in our backyard (check for your utilities line placement first) lined it with rubber lining, hauled in rocks on our truck, put them in place, bought pumps off of ebay and other sites, and wired it all in and then ADD WATER and alot of it.  Then we got some fish from Mike's sister and brother in law and some pond plants from them too and  we were off to the races. Now it is about 7 years later and all we do is feed fish (we feed them a large cup of catfood every morning) add water from time to time, clean the filter (every day) and the hard part -----clean the pond completely out every year or two depending on how many fish and how dirty the water gets.  Well the cleaning is a day or weekend job let me  tell you.  But when it's over - you get a nice clean pond where you can watch your fish.  Beware you get fond of fish like other pets.  We even have named a few!

Flowers and containers!

Mike's been busy planting flowers in the new containers and pots he has scored around Wichita in the past month. He is as much of a scavenger as I am.  Between EBay, Purple Auction, Craig's List,  Sam's and driving around Wichita he finds some great stuff. The two pots on the bottom, which are large, about 2 feet in diameter were a steal at $18.  Can you believe it?  And he loves to plant. This year he has been in charge of the garden (tomorrow) and all the flowers.

Spring is here!

Well spring is def here.  We are even having April showers here in Kansas. Easter has come and gone already.  Check out the old high chair I found at a local store. Cute but not safe for today's tikes. And the chair was from a roadside flea market on the border of New Mexico - I think I need to make a trip back soon.  My Easter bunny is  worn out...... Oh and the Marigolds in the window box....

New Front Yard

Well my post for today was going to be about the new front yard. We rototilled and raked this weekend. Whew!  We are both sore and cranky.  No picture today as it is drizzling all day. But we got the first part of the task done. Brian killed all the grass last fall with 3 applications of grasskiller so the grass has been yellow since then but now...we added just a little more grasskiller since we have Bermuda Grass. We are fully aware that this may not work as Bermuda is so tough to get rid of but we are going to try....once.  lol.