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Little Hints of Spring

March 25, 2011 at 6:27 pm by Claudia

Just a quick hello. Our second snowfall of the week (grrrr!) was Wednesday. Thankfully, at this time of year it all melts rather quickly. I grabbed a few minutes of free time to check out the garden.

I see green!

Oriental Poppy.

Sedum Autumn Joy.

I was crossing my fingers about this one. I bought a potted hyacinth last year and when the time was right, I planted the bulb in the garden bed in front of the porch.

I can’t wait to see the flowers.

Well, my friends, I’m off to Wisconsin tomorrow morning for 2 days of meetings. It promises to be a chilly weekend with temperatures in the 30’s. Then on Tuesday, I have the pleasure of rising at 4 am to catch an early morning flight home. I’ll try to post something on Tuesday afternoon, then I’m off to Boston on Wednesday. As always, I’ll share my journeys with you.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Peachy Baby

March 18, 2011 at 9:13 am by Claudia

Baby shoes. I found these a while back in an antique store. The label says Miss Day’s Ideal Baby Shoes. Size 0. They are a lovely peachy color. I wonder who wore them and where that now grown-up person is?

I’m home. Tired. I did a lot of traveling in less than 3 days. Don’s suffering from the same cold I had. All because I kissed him the day we met in NYC. That was the day I felt a little under the weather, where I thought something might be coming but wasn’t absolutely sure. I’m sure Don has cursed me repeatedly since.

Beautiful, warm weather has come to our neck of the woods. Today is the first day of The Massive Yard Clean-Up . And it will be massive. Leaves, branches, sticks – you name it – are strewn all over the place.

Are you like me? Do you have gardening on your mind? All the time?

I hope you have a wonderful, warm weekend.

ReStore, Roses & Raking

October 17, 2010 at 10:42 am by Claudia

Despite our best intentions, yesterday was just too windy to rake leaves. Cold and windy. All day long. So we went on an exploratory mission to this place:

I’d been wanting to check out the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in a neighboring town. It was much bigger than I expected – full of furniture, building supplies, old shutters, sinks, doors…you name it. We loved poking around in all the piles of old stuff. Don got some old metal pieces for a project he is planning. I got some vintage architectural pieces to use in some sort of yet-to-be-decided-upon project. We plan on going back weekly. You never know what might suddenly appear.

I had husband take a rather wind-blown picture of me in order to show the new flower pin on my jean jacket.

I love it. It makes me smile. Thanks, Debi! (Don’t like frown line between brows. Was I always frowning in my youth?)

Both of my rose bushes are flowering one more time. I cut some blooms yesterday and like the way they look next to the white pumpkins.

This is what some of us are up to this morning:

While others cannot use wind as an excuse any longer to avoid raking leaves. It’s sunny, beautiful and calm. Do you think I could train these dogs to hold a rake?

Little Hints of Spring

Peachy Baby

ReStore, Roses & Raking

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