I have some garden pictures to share!! They are here: Garden!
I Planted a pomegranate bush and a Honey Berry bush today!
I really hope the Honey Berry does ok. It came in the mail and the Mail didn't treat it very nicely.
This picture is my Pomegranate bush.

I have lettuce ready to cut and I have Kale going to seed. I plan on saving the seeds for this fall. We can grow greens well here through the fall and some in the winter. I haven't attempted doing it in the fall but this year I plan to.
There is always so much to do and so little time to do it. We are supposed to have storms again tonight and tomorrow.
Have a great day!!
God Bless you!!
Mary

My Yucca plant is blooming this year!! First time since I planted it as a little baby one. It has been there something like 5 years.

I am making another Afghan. This time for a missionary that went to Africa and got Malaria. I am making the Afghan and we are going to pray over it for his complete healing! Then send it to him.

My garden is just getting started. I have lettuce up, almost ready to cut. I have Herbs, Tomato, pepper and Eggplant seedlings in little pots on my screened in porch. I got a Pomegranate bush that I need to get in the ground soon. I can hardly wait to see pomegranates on it.

My Strawberries are doing good. They have nice big blossoms on them. The Blueberry bushes are blooming too!
The nut trees have their blooms on, if that is what you would call them. They just sort of hang down but you don't really see any flowers on them.
I love Spring when everything comes to life!!
Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary

I know it has been a long time since I have posted. I have been busy making hats for people at my Church. And here they are in all their colors. I used the Snowdrop Beret pattern from Ravelry on all of them. We had some snow but it is meting today. Maybe some more will come tomorrow. With the sun out it really melted fast!
I am ready for Spring so I can start the garden, and have longer days.
I have already been browsing the seed catalogs.
Have a great day!
God Bless you!!

Look what came flying up out of my garden the other day!! A Red Tailed Hawk!! Maybe he was huting little critters in there! He is so beautiful!!

And so close to our house too!!

Well I made a plan Thought it would really work. Thought I had a great idea!! Then it didn't work. The last two nights we have had a frost. So yesterday morning I pulled the sprinkler out to my garden to sprinkle the tomato plants and wash the frost off of them before the sun touched them. You can save them a little longer that way. SO... I left the sprinkler out there Because there was going to be another frost last night. So I got up at 5:30am in my housecoat and turned the water on, and went back to bed confident that it was taking care of the plants for me. Got up at 6:30am and realized it was not sprinkling the plants. So there I went in my housecoat and found that the hose was frozen. So there was a joint where the hose was not frozen but it doesn't reach quite to the garden. My dear Hubby connected the sprinkler to it but the sprinkler was frozen. So we connected the spray nozzle to it and sprayed them by hand. By that time the sun was pretty much coming up. I don't know if we saved any of them. We will have to look later. We may be picking lots of green tomatoes. We really didn't get any ripe ones this year. It is like the dream I have had in the past where it snowed on my tomatoes before I got any. It is a crisp 33° out this morning. So we had an early morning get really cold trying to spray off the tomatoes morning! :o)
I am still working on Alligator scarves. I have some that I need to take pictures of. I am making one that is black with bling. I will make a hat to go with it.
Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary

I got the gray alligator done, and now I am working on a sort of Sage Green one. I actually got this gray one done in 2 days. It went really fast. But now I have a band-aid on my index finger from the pointyness of my knitting needles.
When I knit a lot that finger gets sore. I made a little cloth thimble kind of thing to protect my finger when it gets sore but it does get in the way of my knitting some. But then band-aids wear out too soon.
We actually got a lot of rain yesterday. It has been a looooong time since we have had any. the only green thing left is my garden because I have been watering it. I have lots of little green tomatoes coming on the vines. We had some fried green tomatoes yesterday for lunch.
Have a great day!!
God Bless you!!
Mary

I am working on more Alligator scarfs. People that see them seem to be amazed by them. I have just about memorized most of the pattern now.

These pink ones have Bling in them. There is a silver thread in the yarn. I saw some of this yarn in black and I am wondering what an Alligator scarf in that would look like. I am thinking this will be an alligator Christmas this year. I can make one up in three or four days. They are easy enough to knit while watching my favorite NCIS shows.
I really like NCIS mostly because the setting and the towns that they talk about is in the area where I grew up!
On the garden scene. We had two nights with frost already. It is early. The frost damaged the cucumber and Cantaloupe plants. So parts of them are dieing off. But it didn't harm any of the tomato plants and they have a lot of green tomatoes coming on. Hope they get ripe. I am really ready for a lot of nice ripe tomatoes. Haven't had hardly any all summer. I picked a canteloupe today. It was small but seemed to be ripe. We have had some heated weather this week. It was back in the 90's. But a cool front is supposed to come in tonight and we will be back in the 70's.
Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary