A Good Day

I hope you had a nice first day of 2014. I did important things like freshened up my blog. changed the background. I took all of the Christmas songs off my IPod playlist. Read a book, that did nothing to improve the brain cells. I had a very nice day. I took some pictures too.

I am working on a snow man rug. the background is supposed to be blue. I kept trying to use the blue that I had and I just didn't like the color-at-all!! I would find I was mad by the third loop so I would put it down. I kept thinking about it and decided I would try and get some blue I could work with. I broke out the ole dye pot. At first, I was disappointed but then the more I petted it and looked at it the better I liked it. (Surely I am not the only one who pets wool.)

 

I had to take the picture out on the railing in the morning sun because it was too dark in the house. It is much prettier in person. So I think after I do a bit of reverse hooking (ripping out) I can use these pretty colors of blue. I have a whale rug that I need to finish but I never liked the blue for that either so I think I can finish it now with some of this blue.

Now while I am a slacker, my husband it not. Since he was off today, he was out in the cold bright in early. He wanted some tractor time so first he dug holes with his post hole digger on his tractor for twenty trees to be planted.

 

He is adding more trees to his Bonsai section of the garden area.  He will be cutting his other trees down to sticks. So the base will keep growing. I imagine screams from the trees as he walks around thinking of ways to wire them in twists and turns and then cutting them down to the ground to be about 12 inches. I never even realized the mayhem that goes on in Bonsai circles.

 

This was where the old chicken house was so today he hauled 26 bucket loads of manure and dirt to my garden. He finally got it down to nice dirt and I of course walked out and said, " How about a Koi pond out here?" He looked up shocked and said, " I was just thinking the same thing." Great minds and all that.
He wants to move all of his Japanese Maples out here so he could have a little garden. 

 

He hauled all that wonderful, good stuff out here to my garden and mixed and mixed and made it look so nice. I hurt my back earlier in the week, or I would have been raking leaves to add to this. I brought my chair out while he was working and dreamed of a new garden and what I would plant and it was a very nice way to spend the day.

I really need to get the berries all cut back and get all of the leaves raked and then my home away from home will be all ready for the New Year.

Thank you for stopping by, I need to go finish up my Calzone for dinner. I have a houseful of boys here playing board games so I thought it would be nice to feed them something.

Have a great evening,
~Kim~