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    Garden and treasured tea

    May 15, 2012 - By 
    It’s that busy time of year. 
    Getting the garden prepped and planted. 
    I started with my herbs that hang along the deck. I was able to over winter both a thyme and a flat leaf parsley this year. Additionally I started seeds early this Spring and picked up a couple small plants at the greenhouse yesterday. 
    We love having fresh herbs in our food.

    I have 12 tomato plants this year of 4 varieties that I started from seed back in mid-March. 
    Six live here… along with some green onions and basil I’m hoping will sprout.

    The other six are in the “big garden”. They are sharing space with green beans, snow peas, kohlrabi and jalapenos.
    I got the fence up immediately this year so  the wildlife wouldn’t get any snacks from me.

    This morning I saw that one of my book purses was this Etsy treasury.
    Just had to share…makes me happy when something I’ve created is appeciated.
    Lots of fun stuff was featured….
    Are you gardening this year?
    Thanks for stopping by for Tea Tuesday with Kimmie and the gang.

     

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    Tea with gifts

    May 8, 2012 - By 

    I was a very fortunate girl this year. 
    I received so many unexpected but certainly appreciated birthday gifts. 
    The first which was an early gift from my in-laws. Its a floating tea infuser and birdie lemon squeezer.
    The floating tea infuser works really slick! 

    Cutting the lemon to fit in the birdie was a bit of fussy work but I can’t complain about how nicely it squeezed all the juice right into the cup. 

    The day before my birthday I opened a sweet little ATC book from my dear friend Elizabeth. 
    Here’s a link to the post she wrote that has wonderful scans of each page.  
    Thanks Elizabeth!!!

      

     
     

    My daughter made me this card…
    The front said Guess what day it is?
    Inside was a nibble of chocolate from her Easter candy stash and a coupon “good for one chore done by Little J” 
    How sweet is that.

     

    When we got home from shopping and picking up sushi…YUM!….I found this plant on the front step with with a note that said:
    ” Happy 40 day ”  and was not signed.

    Lucky for me my neighbor doesn’t have a very good poker face, so when I asked if she had any idea who dropped it off, she gave her hubby away.
    I also got a double-decker plate of Special K bars from a friend of the family who’s know me from birth. I don’t have a picture because I knew I had to share the wealth of those very quickly or I’d be spending extra time at Curves working them off my butt. The neighbors teenage boys helped devour them in short order.
    Oh yeah and some spending money from my mom. WOO-HOO…who doesn’t love cash!
    Like I said, I was a very fortunate girl.

    What are you doing today? 
    I know I’m going to pop over to Kimmie’s blog to have some virtual tea with my friends. 
    Care to join us??

     

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    Late afternoon Tea Tuesday

    April 17, 2012 - By 

    Since I am so late today, I decided to answer Kimmie’s, our sweet hostess, question with my post. 

    She asked:

    what is ever-present in your not so simple life?
    off to the edge and not making it into every photo op and blog post?
     
    This is the idyllic image I  show…beautiful crab apple blossoms, lovingly gathered by my own hand alongside an anniversary card from my in-laws. 
    Lovely, right?
    But this is the whole scene….
    The seemingly ever present paper pile on the table. It gets moved from place to place but seldom ever fully dealt with. Right now there are dozens coupons, a community ed catalog that I really need to fill out registration forms for, a grocery list and kids school papers that need to be oohed and aahed over.
    I like the first picture much better. 🙂