This and That

What a day!  I had my last crocheting class today.  They decided my cowl looked like a little girl’s dress.  Then, we were taught how to do granny squares today and because of a miscount on my part mine turned out differently than it was supposed to.  However, we all decided it would make a good granny square for a Christmas tree skirt which I plan to make at some point down the road.  Maybe I should be a designer instead of a crocheter (not sure that is a word but it sounds good).  Anyway, Wanda invited us to a class next week to learn something new.  She is also going to have the Next Step class on a Saturday when she returns from her cruise.  I am definitely going.

 

This is the piece that we decided looked like a dress.

This is one of my so called granny squares.  As you can see it isn't very square.

 

After class I stopped and got a haircut.  Had lunch and then decided to do a little weeding.  I figure it will probably take me most of the summer to get caught up.  I told Kevin I was going to start in April, but I got a day’s head start.  I weeded a couple of items that I have to “feed.”

 

I then decided it was time to start mowing the grass with my new mower.  I estimate that I mowed about 2/3 of the area that I mow.  I like my new mower.

 

Miss Penny is not happy with me because I have not spent any time with her today.  I guess I will do that now.  As you can probably tell from my postings that I am not nearly as strict with Penny as we were with Rodney.  J

 

It is Wednesday morning now and I have just finished mowing the rest of the front yard and the side yard.  I will do the back portion that I normally do tomorrow.  I plan on pulling a few weeds after lunch.

 

I also crocheted another granny square like the one I did in class yesterday.  That one was red and white.  This one is green and white.  (see picture above)  I plan to try and do one every day.  Of course, we know that isn’t going to happen, but I will try.  I am sure I need a zillion of them for my tree skirt.

 

Last night we had a severe thunderstorm watch.  Everything stayed north of us.  About five o’clock this morning we had some thunder and two drops of rain. 

 

Saw my first hummingbird today while weeding the garden.  Need to get the feeders out!  Feeders are out and the hummingbird was around while I was weeding the garden.  Actually there are two hummingbirds.  One is the “bully” and he watches the feeder from a branch on one of my plants.

 

I have finished weeding the north rock garden.  Now it’s time to spray roundup along the edge and clean up the dead leaves that accumulated over the winter.

 

Today is Friday and I didn’t get anything accomplished on my TO DO LIST.  However, I went shopping with Kevin and Renea.  They wanted to by some apple trees.  Guess what!  They didn’t buy any apple trees, or any trees for that matter.  But, I bought three tulip poplar trees.  Kevin planted them for me when we arrived home.  I helped, of course.  I told him where to plant them. J  And I have been watering them (after Kevin hooked up the hoses and drug them out to where the trees are).

 

This is a picture of one of the tulip poplar trees.  There really is some leaves starting to come out on the tree.  Once the leaves come out I will post another picture so it doesn't look like we planted sticks.