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I've never been so proud of my gardens!!! Look at those beds! And this was taken back in June..now the empty third bed is full of basils (Thai, Lemon, Lime and 'normal'), the poppies are blooming, the greens are over-running us!

 

  My husband built the little patio this spring, and surrounded it with yarrow, comfrey, radishes, and little flowers. 

 And the Surprise Lily! We did not plant this..I've no idea where it came from, but I was thrilled when it blossomed!

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Because playing outside is the Best!..

 

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Lots of rainy days in summer have driven us to this:

 so much so that Yarrow will point to the computer in the evenings and say "Watch. Da'ia. Watch. Da'ia?" It's kind of embarrassing..

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Rainy days also bring out the creative in all of us..desperate for some indoor fun, my husband set up The Swing:

 

The Swing was such a hit we had a hard time convincing her to let us take it down.."bye, bye Swing..love you too swing!"

 

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Picnicking with Shakespeare and friends..  


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cafe dinners at home

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discovering lipstick

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Seth's guitar

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My sewing machine. I spent half the afternoon looking at patterns and dreaming up new projects..I didn’t actually Sew anything, but inspiration is half the battle, right?

Nothing prettier than Patron! I love those bottles! I wish I could find huge one to keep my vanilla in..They’re just so heavy and solid looking.

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  Look at those tiny leaves rejoicing! It was 60 degrees today & so very sunny!

That's us! At my folks for Christmas a year or two ago, when my hair was still blond.

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Yarrow loves ‘Adventures in Odyssey’ but usually can’t make it all the way through an episode..

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Winter is rough on the Garden Virgin. She's as grateful for spring as the rest of us.

Every time I get a basket I fill it up right off. This one was supposed to get a liner and become sort of a diaper basket, but now it’s holding fabric, scarves, library books, and things I need to return to the kitchen. 

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It was supposed to be a gift...but I'm selfish like that.  I've been using it as an oatmeal bowl..it's smaller than it looks here..and so very pretty!

Easter flowers..still alive after all this time! Not the sunflowers, unfortunately. I'm beginning to wonder about these.

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 Letters from friends make me so happy, especially when I can enjoy them over tea, and write back with more tea, and most especially when they contain the cutest little note-cards ever!

New tattoos make everyone happy! Especially such nice ones. Thanks John Biswell for making this one perfect!

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 ..and new tattoos inspire new, little tattoo artists!

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 It's not easy to finish 'to-do' lists when small hands smear them away!

 

 

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 Easter flowers..Sunflowers are one of my favorites, and one of the flowers we used at my wedding (Five years ago on Good Friday! It was Divine Mercy Weekend that year. We're hosting a baby shower for my sister in law and visiting the tattoo-parlor on our liturgical anniversary, with maybe a dinner out thrown in there somewhere as well! Since we couldn't do much celebrating on our actual anniversary.)

  

Seth painted Yarrow’s brown shoes bright yellow for the Vigil Mass. The oil paints looked so creamy! And the shoes themselves came out great!

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Baby in boots (her mama’s mud boots) and so proud!

Portland from the roof-top (my husband at work). Cities always look so much friendlier from above, don’t they! Makes me almost want to live there...almost.

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Napping in a mask..She loves wearing my clay masks!

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 The wagon, our only way of hauling in supplies these days..can you see the sap buckets in the background?

 and the driveway: mud, frost-heaves, and puddles - but really not a bad walk, if you can avoid all the sinking pockets of ice! This year we have big plans for the driveway - to make it driveable in all seasons!  

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