Name that plant .....

Do YOU know what this is?????

More Knit and crochet pictures

I found a pattern for 'green' shopping bags. They are very fun to make. I made 10 of them before I realized I had made that many. Oh, and these darling little apron towels.... Look over it is hanging on the fridge.








I have been home for 2 weeks and working hard. With spring comes all the yard work and preparation for a new garden planting. We have doubled the size of the veggie garden so I have decided that most of my energy this year needs to go into it. There are still a lot of projects that need to be done:

Paint both decks
clean up back yard
clean out grasses in front and plant Cameo Quince
weed and mint control

But I have finished several projects already. I pulled out several vines from the front yard and cut back a rose bush. Sanded and painted a fence, replaced the mailbox, raked, hoed, and planted the garden with peppers, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, beans, pumpkins, regular and lemon cucumbers, strawberries, spaghetti and zucchini squash, cabbage, corn, and an artichoke. I have planted one tomato upside down in a bucket to see for myself how they grow that way. The artichoke is probably in the wrong place because it grows huge and I just planted it on a whim. They get to be 6 feet across and are in the Thistle family. The part that you eat is really a bud. If you let the bud grow it is supposed to become a spectacular flower. I may have to let one flower just to see it. It will also come back every year. So we will have to plan next years garden around the artichoke... : ) so much for not doing your homework before your impulsive plantings.....

Knit a little then crochet a little

I belong to a Yahoo group called Monthly Dishcloths. Each month we participate in 2 dishcloth KAL's (knit-a-longs). The dishcloths have been great this year. These are just a few of them. I have also been crocheting like crazy. This is the best way to keep the mind on something other than all the sadness.

I'm Lost

I've lost my friend, my playmate, my mentor, my inspiration, my hero, my MOTHER. In a time frame of just 7 weeks life turned upside down for our family. Mom started exhibiting stroke symptoms. After several Dr. appointments and tests, brain surgery to remove one tumor and 8 more being found, mom was diagnosed with Gliosarcoma. 3 weeks later she was dead. What happened? How did this happen? How can a healthy, energetic woman of 74 just be gone in a matter of a few weeks? I still feel as if I am in a dream world. I am lost. I want my mother back.


Marilyn Jeppson
July 22, 1934 - March 28, 2009