09.18.10
Posted in family stuff, felt projects, hobbies at 2:55 pm by Administrator
Today I wanted to share some pics of Mom and Dad when they were younger, but I don’t have those pictures on this computer, so that will have to be another post. So today I’ll just share more about the memorial/reception.
Aside from the slide show at Dad’s memorial, there was also some live music. There was a trio and my uncle who performed at the memorial, but a couple guitarists and my uncle who also sang at the reception. The songs I tended to like the most because it reminded me so much of Dad were the Filipino songs. In particular, my uncle sang “Dahil Sayo,” which translated means, “Because of You.” The rest of the words are, “Because of you, life is worth living.” Such a sweet song. To hear this song, here’s a version of it on YouTube. It has both English and Tagalog. Just click here.
The other song my uncle sang for my mom was, “Hindi Kita Malimot.” Translated it means “I can’t forget you.” I wasn’t able to find a good version to share online at the moment.
For the flower arrangements on the tables, I cross stitched a bunch of little pillows.
They each had different designs, but all had “Marcos 1931-2010.” My first inspiration for designs came from a cross stitch book I checked out from the library called 2001 Cross Stitch Designs. But as usual, I altered them, then later made my own designs by the time I got to the last ones. Here’s what they looked like on the center table flowers.
Each flower arrangement was slightly different.
This is one pillow of my own design and also one of my favorites.
And here’s another of my designs that I liked but got a bit covered up.
Well, I could go on with showing each and every one of them, heheh, but I think you get the gist. The florist made 12 center piece arrangements because we were only expecting 120 people (10 at each table), but I made 14 pillows just for good measure. All the pillows on the tables got taken by the guests. So I plan to make more for the year gathering come July 2011. This time I want to incorporate more embroidery stitches, and Mom wants me to include the full date of Dad’s birth and death. So I’ve got some work to do for a little while.
Today I got to join my knitting group again for the first time since Dad passed. It was nice to see that gals again. Slowly but surely I suppose life should come back. Next Saturday I hope to join my Spinning group again as well. My sister’s and I are still rotating so that at least one of us will be with Mom 24/7. Life is tighter that way, but that’s what family is all about. We’ll just have to adjust our lives this way, and I’ll have to focus on making more good memories.
Marlakins
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07.25.10
Posted in family stuff, gardening, hobbies at 11:32 am by Administrator
Aaron recently found an interest in planting cotton. He found some green and brown cotton seeds and planted them a few weeks ago.
Each morning he would check his pots and call me to see the progress. He was so happy when they first poked out of the soil, and we all got a kick at how fast they sprouted up once the sprout broke through the soil.
So it was particularly timely that the LA Spinner’s Guild meeting this month turned out to feature cotton. The guest speaker shared lots of information from the cotton plants to the harvesting of the cotton, and then the preparation of the cotton for spinning, and then down to the spinning. Here’s a pic comparing the boles of cotton. The white ones are the largest. Next come the green, and then the brown. Aaron planted both the green and the brown at home.
The speaker showed us how to use a manual cotton gin and prepare the cotton into punis ready for spinning.
She also brought along a bunch of cotton spinning supplies such as these tahklis, which she let a bunch of the group try.
And here she is demonstrating how to spin the cotton.
The procedure is very much like spinning wool, only much finer.
The other fun things the guild had in store this weekend was a show and tell of stuff the women made during the “Tour de fleece,” and the “Dye Fest.” Here’s one of the ladies showing what she made.
Here’s a close up of some of the lovely yarn another woman spun up and dyed.
Very nice! Maybe one day I’ll get to this point, but for now. . . must practice!
Marlakins
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07.14.10
Posted in Book Reviews, felt projects, hobbies, knitting and crocheting at 7:13 pm by Administrator
A few days ago I was doing my usual online snooping, when I came across some cute pin cushion designs. I wasn’t looking for pin cushions (I was flipping back and forth from various news articles to various craft sites, heh), but you know how one link leads to another, and lo and behold, I found a reference to a book called Pretty Little Pin Cushions. I found that my library carried a copy, so I checked it out and dove into my craft supplies to see what I could whip up.
The instructions inside included the pattern pieces that needed to be blown up 200%, but since I don’t have a copy machine at home that would do that, I just decided to make up my own pattern based on their instructions. Being that I had never done this before, my pin cushion ended up being quite large, ha! But I didn’t know that when I first got started. Here’s what it looked like in progress.
I actually only followed the pattern idea, but the rest of the design was mine. The pattern I used for the little crocheted flower on the top is from another book I have called Crochet Bouquet by Suzann Thompson. This book includes very easy to read simple flower patterns.
This is what it looked like completed.
And here’s a side view of it.
Now, I knew when I saw these little pin cushion ideas that I would get addicted to them and have to make several before moving on. I’m always amazed at how creative some people are, and love to look at all the stuff people share on the net. I’ve gotten so much inspiration from other crafters on the net. So, for my part, when I finish my projects, I will try to upload them to share as well. Oh, and the next one will probably be smaller, too, heh. Probably about 1/3 of the size, I think, would be better.
My review for the Pretty Little Pin Cushion book about a 7. I felt that the instructions could have been better as well as the designs. I think a person who doesn’t have much sewing and/or embroidery experience might have more trouble with this book. Also, some of the pin cushion designs involve knit and crochet, but doesn’t give the instructions for those patterns, just the shapes of how the pattern pieces should look like. I know how to knit and crochet, so can pretty much figure them out. But for someone who doesn’t, I don’t see how they would be able to make those patterns. However, I still liked the book because it gave me ideas. It was fun to try and quick as well. I’ve found that there are a lot more free patterns online employing so many different techniques that I’m itchin’ to try them out! Can’t wait! Too bad there’s only 24 hours in a day. . .
Marlakins
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07.06.10
Posted in gardening, hobbies, knitting and crocheting at 12:57 pm by Administrator
Today marks nine years since my last blood transfusion. Despite the gloomy weather outside, this is a wonderful day for me! I’m just taking it easy, working on my favorite things–crafts. . . Like any other craft addict, I have a few projects going on at the same time. Some are “years” old, sigh. But, my resolution is to finish up my old projects and plug along on any new projects so they don’t last for years. Here’s a new project I started a couple weeks ago.
It’s called “Grapevine Wreath with Floral” by Donna Dewberry. The completed stitched size should be 14″x11″. Here’s how far I got about a week ago.
Here’s how far I am on it today.
And did I say that it’s hard to just work on one project at a time? Well, I started on something this Sunday. This might end up as a small bathroom curtain if it turns out decent. I’m thinking of adding beads on the bottom.
The pink ball, I’m thinking of using to make another curtain for my back door. Not sure yet. I’ll have to work up a swatch to see if I like how it drapes.
Another project that has been hanging around here for “years” is this cross stitch mermaid by Mirabilia. I LOVE her designs! I’ve finished all the cross stitching, but just need to add the beads now. I’ve got the beads off to the side.
Uh, yeah, got lots of wrinkles. . . hope it irons out okay once I’m done.
And as if I don’t have enough projects to work on, I picked up a few more patterns that I found too irresistible to pass up. I’ve long admired P Buckley Moss, and couldn’t pass up a few of her cross stitch patterns.
Then my girlfriend found out that I love Mirabilia patterns and she picked up several patterns for me that I just adore!!! I told her a few of them that I liked, and had no idea she would pick them up for me! Oye. . .
I thought I already had a craft stash big enough to last me my lifetime. However, somehow my stash keeps growing! I’m trying to get a grip, but it’s hard being that I’m such a craft addict. . . Well, at least I’m keeping my hands busy and staying out of trouble. And the icing on the cake is that I’ve been able to indulge in these things hardly ever giving a thought to my once obsessive occupation of trying to heal my aplastic anemia. Life has been good. God is great.
I’m off to the Theodore Payne Foundation to hunt for some drought resistant plants. Happy 6th of July everyone!
Marlakins
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06.16.10
Posted in food and restaurants, hobbies at 7:45 pm by Administrator
Current events have been too depressing for me lately. To keep my sanity I like to delve into crafts and food, heheh. And fortunately, this past Sunday was craft day for me and my girlfriend. In between our craft days we still keep in touch with each other and update each other on our progress. Last week I started on a pattern of potted herbs and finished one Christmas ornament of a cat looking through a window.
Then since the boys are on quarter break we decided to eat out at Real Food Daily, our local organic vegetarian restaurant. I had the Stir it Up with soba noodles and tofu.
Brian and the boys had the Burrito Supreme dish.
So when Sunday came along, I hooked up with my friend again for “girlfriend craft day” and started off in the usual way–lunch with the family for dim sum, again. This time we hit Harbor Village in Monterey Park. Here’s how our table looked at one point.
My mom wanted to try their tripe dish.
Here’s what my dish looked like at one point with the sticky rice opened up.
After dim sum we headed out for tea (even though I had already had several refills of tea, but they wanted to go and chat some more!), then back to my parents to work on our crafts. I was able to sew up a few of my ornaments and finished up my herb pattern. Here it is framed and hung up on my wall.
This is actually a small picture about 5″x7″. Since it’s so small I decided to just pick up a desk frame that I liked and remove the stand on the back. I placed a tie on the back and hung it on the wall. I saved the stand from the back in case I later decide to use this frame again for a desk.
I’m currently working on one of the Christmas decoration patterns that my friend and I recently purchased. And I think soon, I’ll start on another larger cross-stitch pattern by Donna Dewberry. I’m also currently reading a book called Nixon and Mao. So far it’s interesting, and may blog about that later on.
Marlakins
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06.12.10
Posted in Playing the Tourist, gardening, hobbies, knitting and crocheting, museums at 8:34 pm by Administrator
Today I was able to make a quick trip down to the Huntington Library in San Marino. I really love that place, so it was a shame that I was only able to spend a couple hours there. Usually whenever I go there I have to visit their cactus garden (they have the best collection that I know of here), but today I didn’t have time. Instead I bee-lined it to the herb garden because they were having a special exhibit which featured natural dyes for yarns. Oh yeah! But first. . . I had to wend my way through their rose garden.
The only other rose garden that I know of that is comparable to this one is the one Brian and I visited during our trip to London. I forget the name right now, but I sure took a lot of pictures there! Maybe some time I’ll upload some of my rose shots.
So not far from here was my intended destination–the herb garden. Towards the back perimeter they had tables and charts set up with dying information, including some samples and a small demonstration.
This woman was very nice and helpful (actually all the women there were!) Not only did she give me lots of information, but I learned something that really made me happy–one doesn’t have to use mordants to dye yarns! Woo hoo! Mordants have been one of the things that have kept me from taking the dying plunge. I didn’t want to use any toxic chemicals, and now learning that I don’t even need to use a mordant and that I can use herbs right from my garden or even kitchen I can feel another hobby coming on. Granted, using a mordant is supposed to help the colors hold fast and fix more brightly, but I’m not that picky. Here’s a chart with samples this woman had on display that her son made back in 1977. The colors, while faded a bit, still held well enough for my taste.
There were also other fiber addicts there demonstrating their talents like this woman spinning yarn.
Another woman was sorting through some fleece. Again, I was able to learn more information about fleece from her, which is good to know since I still have my fleece to work on that I got from my trip to the Isle of Man.
There were also women working on different types of looms. This is a small rectangular loom by which one can make small woven pieces to sew together.
Apparently there are quite a few different shapes used for weaving. I was shown one that I’ve never seen before–a triangular loom.
I do have a more complicated loom that Brian bought me years ago, which I have still never used. . . I guess I just look at all that threading that needs to be done before weaving, and I just can’t seem to get myself to do it. Or maybe it’s really that I’ve been too lazy to figure it all out. But when I saw this knitter’s loom, it looked very simple and something that might be a good starting point for me.
Oh yeah, now that I could see myself dabbling in. This particular loom is called the knitter’s loom by Ashford. The woman explained to me that Japanese kimonos were originally made in strips 14″ wide and then sewn together, thus explaining some of their striped patterns. I could see trying this! Look like fun to me, and yes, I have plenty of scrap yarns to test it all out, too.
By this time I had already spent about 1 1/2 hours here, and still wanted to visit the Chinese garden Matty told me he wanted to see. So off we zoomed back through the garden.
This path lead down to the Japanese garden first.
Then we veered off to the Chinese garden.
And another shot.
Gorgeous! I really love the Huntington Library gardens! I could easily spend the whole day there, but alas I didn’t have time. So not long after strolling through this garden, we had to head back without even a peek at the library museum, bookstore, or cactus garden, wah. . . maybe next time. I thank God that there are some really creative and talented people out there who can create such beautiful, peaceful environments, not to mention the amazing variety of nature that God has given us to tend and cultivate.
Marlakins
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06.02.10
Posted in hobbies, knitting and crocheting at 9:18 pm by Administrator
Originally I was planning on blogging about The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd since I finished reading it last week. Which, by the way is a pretty good book. But with all the distractions on the news lately I almost forgot about it. I’ve been keeping an eye out on the BP Oil leak, then I came across this article, “Niger’s Agony Dwarfs the Gulf Oil Spill.” Oye. . . too much depressing stuff happening together. Too much, too much! I need a break from all this depressing news, so thought I’m just gonna blog about my crafts right now.
I’m one of those people who likes to do two things at one time especially crafting because I don’t want to feel like I’m wasting all my time crafting. So, I generally read and craft/knit at the same time. Well, there has been a lot to read recently, so I’ve been cross stitching like crazy. Plus I’ll add that it’s all my friend’s fault because she got me back into cross stitching, and now I’m hooked again. I think she and I are going for broke cross stitching Christmas things. Between the two of us we have lots of patterns to work from, but could we settle for that? Sadly, no, and just recently we received our shipment of new patterns to work on, ha, ha! She called me late one night to share a link on cross stitch kits, and so we went online shopping. Here’s what I’ve done so far using our old patterns.
Yep, being the rug rat that I am, I’m still using up old supplies that my friend and I bought years ago hence the “wrinkled aida cloth,” heheh. I’m hoping they iron out okay. . . I did try to put a few of them together to see what they would look like stuffed. They’re the ones in the clear plastic bag. It’s kinda hard to see them well in the above pic, so here’s a closer look at some.
And while I’m at it, I also finally got to work up some of the organic Peruvian cotton my sister and her hubby gifted to me a couple Christmases ago. . . Here are the lovely skeins.
Oh wait! I have to back up a bit to tell my story. . . 
A few weeks ago I was diving in my yarn stash hunting for my next project. I found some yarn and a lace book that I had purchase a year prior. Yes, a “year” prior. I decided I was in the mood to learn how to do this lace pattern in this book. So I wound up the yarn. Then, the following morning I tried to knit. For some reason I was having the hardest time. Things were not going well. I knit, ripped back, knit, ripped back, knit, ripped back, I don’t know how many times! Then I decided that maybe the yarn wasn’t right for the size needles and such. So I dove back into my stash and found another very old skein that looked like it would be suitable. So back again, I knit, ripped back, knit, ripped back, knit, ripped back. . . Oye! Something was wrong! I looked over the pattern and counted, and lo and behold, the cast on instructions were wrong! Grrr. Just looking at their graph, instead of 49, I should cast on 52. So back I went knitting and when I got to the fourth row when things went wrong again. . . I thought, I must have knit something wrong again, so back again ripping it down to the start. Knit it again, and again, and again. Finally I decided maybe there’s a list online for errata on this book. Sure enough there was errata, but not for this pattern. Hmmm. But I “know” there’s a mistake because I had just found the cast on was the wrong number. So I looked on Amazon for reviews on this book, and what did I find? A few comments stating that this book was “rife with errors!” Argh! I just went blind trying to work that thing up! Okay, so now my ego has been battered that maybe I can’t really knit after all. I dug around trying to find lace patterns that I liked, but nothing was working up to my liking. Here’s a sample of “some” of the things I tried working up and then abandoned.
Yes, there was more than this. But while straightening out my pattern folder, I came across a pattern from Lace Style by Pam Allen and Ann Bud. It was a cute little shrug that had open work. Hmm, I thought, I just may have the right yarn for that. And so I pulled out my Peruvian cotton. Once I started to work it up, I felt that this pattern and yarn were going to work. Here’s what it looked like in the process.
Ah, yes! This would be perfect for California weather. And with the big loose knitting it worked up really fast. I was done in no time. Here’s the completed shrug.
I will vouch for this organic Peruvian cotton yarn. It drapes well, and it’s very soft. I think it only took three skeins, so I still have about 7 skeins left to work up another project, woo hoo! I will also vouch for Pam Allen and Ann Bud patterns because this is the second pattern of theirs that I’ve worked up that worked beautifully. Good instructions! Which is much appreciated by hopelessly addicted knitters like me.
Marlakins
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05.18.10
Posted in Book Reviews, food and restaurants, hobbies at 9:40 am by Administrator
My longtime girlfriend and I have decided to make a one day a month craft day. We like to meet up at my parents’ house since their house is midway between our houses, and it also gives us a nice excuse to visit with my parents. So we meet up around 11:30AM, go out for a bite to eat, then head back to the house for a day of crafting. For May our craft day was last Sunday and we all went our for dim sum for lunch. I’ll take this moment to put in a plug for Restaurant 88 in San Gabriel. Tasty food at a very reasonable price. Here’s a shot of one of the food carts.
For anyone who isn’t familiar with what dim sum is, it’s basically a Chinese roving buffet. Women roll carts around full of various foods and stop at each table who wants any. If you like what’s in their cart, they’ll just place however many orders on your table that you request and stamp your ticket. At the end, they tally up all the stamps and that’s how they figure out your bill. The nice thing about dim sum is that the orders are small, so you can try lots of different dishes. Here’s an example of what our table looked like at one point. Keep in mind that as you polish off your container, they take it away and more comes, so it’s ever changing.
Usually they have so many dishes that it’s almost impossible to try everything. They also have desserts, but after my AA days, I don’t indulge in those anymore. For that matter, since my AA days, I had even avoided dim sum all together for “years”, and only recently started venturing out again. Here’s another closeup of more dishes.
I especially liked this one, which is veggies wrapped in nappa cabbage.
Now don’t ask me what these dishes are called. While I have eaten them many times in the past, I have no idea what each dish is called. And as a matter of fact, sometimes there is a bit of a language barrier, since these dim sum places are pretty much operated by Chinese, who speak Chinese and tend to have heavy accents. And even so, there are mistakes in translation. Here’s an example of what I mean.
You might ask for a lobster, and they’ll give you a crab, ha ha ha!
So moving right along. After we stuffed ourselves we headed back to the house for our day of crafting. We’ve been working on cross stitch patterns. Here’s an old pattern I made years ago and finally decided to try making it into a small pillow.
Here’s the finished, well, “almost finished” pillow along with the other little cross stitch patterns I’ve worked up. I’m kinda out of practice sewing and kinda winged it to put this pillow together. It’s a bit crooked, heheh, but I’m just going to use it as part of my Christmas decor at home, so no big deal. Plus I think I’m gonna put some cording around it to help dress it up a tad more.
Okay, so I still have a few more pics that I’ll post later because I’m almost finished with another shrug. . . and I still have the museum pictures to share from last Friday. We went to the Wende Museum in Culver City, but there is one pic I want to take to add to the post yet, so will hold off until I get that shot. I’m also still reading a couple books that have some info that I think would be interesting to share. The book, The Ayatolla Begs to Differ is turning out to be rather interesting. I’m certainly learning a lot more that I didn’t know, and I also appreciate the different perspective. I know that many cultures think differently, and understanding the culture does help to understand their behavior and decisions. This book helps in that in a funny way because the author has a nice sense of humor.
So until next time, hope all is well!
Marlakins
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05.11.10
Posted in cooking, family stuff, hobbies at 2:34 pm by Administrator
I’m not sure where Aaron got his interest in cooking, but he’s been working on it off and on for years now. He’s tried making coconut ice cream once, made some Thai custard desserts for Christmas, learned to make great cinnamon rolls, and other things. He currently makes fantastic omelettes. I think his first recipe was some sort of meatball mix when he was around 10 years old or so. If I recall correctly, it was tasty, too! Or perhaps I’m just being a biased mom who thinks everything her son makes is wonderful? Ha! Anyway, since our travels to Asia, Aaron’s interest in trying new recipes have once again ignited. Last time we returned home from the Philippines he cooked some pancit. This year he wanted to make some lumpia. Now this I have to hand to him. . . he makes great homemade lumpia wrappers!
These wrappers are made from scratch and are specifically for lumpia sariwa. Here’s what the filling of the roll looks like.
He could use a little practice wrapping the lumpia, but not bad for his first go!
I should mention that Aaron also made the sauce from scratch as well, which turned out to be really delicious!
The next recipe Aaron worked on was Red Lentil Dosas. The lentils and brown rice has to be soaked for 8 hours then the ingredients have to be blended and allowed to sit for another 24 hours (boy, this kid has patience!) This is what the mixture looked like just before cooking.
Just before cooking minced cilantro is added. The final dosa looks like this.
Not bad! Looks pretty much like the pictures in the recipe book! He has since made more, which turned out even tastier.
Okay, so in Aaron’s spare time he has been enjoying looking up how-things-are-made videos as well as cooking videos. We got a kick out of watching some such as “Cooking with Dog.” Hehehehe. Cute videos. Not only do the recipes look great and tasty, but the cook gives nice tips. Then Aaron found some videos on “pulled noodles.” This inspired him to try making handmade noodles. The problem we’ve encountered is that we only use whole grains, which seems to be a problem with elasticity, or rather the lack of elasticity. So Aaron decided to try to make buckwheat soba noodles instead. Here’s his first attempt.
Not bad! Only I didn’t take a picture of the finished product. . . oye, my bad. I will say that the noodles were tasty although a tad on the thick side. . . hee hee. But no complaints from this mom! Any of the boys cooking in this house is welcome! Brian and I joke around that Aaron’s wife is going to be one happy woman, heheheh. And as a mom, I don’t worry about him knowing how to feed himself when one day he flies the coop.
Marlakins
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04.06.10
Posted in gardening, hobbies, knitting and crocheting at 5:45 pm by Administrator
Hope everyone had a nice Resurrection Sunday. Ours was quiet except for a short-lived excitement created by a little rocking and rolling from the Baja earthquake. Thank God it was mild for us considering it was a 7.2 in Baja. It was a rolling kind of earthquake rather than the jolting shaking kind. And it was kinda long in duration as far as earthquakes go. Then today I just read that there was another earthquake in Sumatra. Oye, Haiti, Chile,Taiwan, Baja, now Sumatra. . . what is going on?
Other than that, things have been business as usual here in the Brown household. I continue to read books. I’m still reading Dark Sun: the Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. Still want to blog about The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, but just haven’t gotten around to it, yet. Just picked up Sugar Fix at the library today. I also bought another book that I haven’t started reading yet called Nuclear Showdown, North Korea Takes on the World. Then some of the nice ladies in my knit group have been knitting scarves for a charity. The organization is called “Handmade Especially for You.” They supply handmade comfort scarves for these abused women. One of the ladies in my group has been knitting up a storm for this charity and has recruited a few of us by giving us yarn to knit, too, heheh. Apparently, Handmade Especially for You has donors who supply them with all sorts of yarn. They wind them up and make little kits, so that all you have to do is just knit up the ball of yarn until it’s all gone. And it goes really super fast, too, because the scarves are knit on “large” needles such as 15s or 17s. I didn’t pick out the yarns or colors. They do that for you, including the fluffy parts on both ends. I still need to tuck in the loose ends. Here are how the scarves turned out.
While I’m on the knit subject, I also finally learned how to do entrelac, so I can now tick that off of my list of things to learn. I’ve only made a small swatch as I’m not sure what to do with this stitch as of yet. I was originally gonna make a scarf with this stitch, but decided that I didn’t like how the back is not as presentable as the front, and I tend to like my scarves reversible. Plus the yarn I was using is self-striping, and I didn’t like how the colors were pooling. But here’s the swatch I made.
I think I’ll reserve this stitch for something that’s not reversible, or try to figure out how to alter the pattern so that it is somewhat reversible.
We also got a little more rain the other day! Yay! That always is good for the plants, which by the way, we have our first produce. . . artichokes!
We planted this artichoke plant last year, but didn’t get anything until this year. Plus during our winding spell this plant fell over on it’s side, and I was concerned that we had lost it. Brian just propped it right back up with some rope and viola! We now have artichoke!
My seeds were pathetic. . . and before I could replant, Brian came home with these!
I feel like I’m cheating getting them all started up like this, but oh well! If all goes well, they’re gonna be organic string beans!
Then something Matty ordered in the mail a while ago finally came. . . His paulownia tree.
We didn’t expect it to be so small! Ha ha! But Matty likes it just the same. I like how he and his dad have been working in the yard this year. When it gets cleaned up a bit more I’ll try to share some pictures of our herb garden. I’m hoping that we’ll get some fish back there, too, but we’ll see. It got kinda wild while we were away in the Philippines and it rained like cats and dogs. Boy, did the weeds grow up like they owned the place. We’re still trying to catch up with that between my regular house chores and hobbies. Hopefully soon we’ll have a handle on it.
As another nice garden surprise this year, it appears that one of our random seed planting bloomed into this.
I love poppies! Flowers do make me happy. This reminds me that once upon a time I wanted to try to plant edible flowers. Hmmm. Another thing to add on my list. . .
Okay, well I think I’ve rambled on long enough, so will start working on dinner now. Oh! Speaking of dinner, I should share some pics of Aaron’s lumpia wrappers. That little guy is such fun in the kitchen. He definitely encourages me to try new things. But I’ll have to share those pics later.
Marlakins
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