Sewing and gardening

I sure do love the pretty weather we're having. Rain, too. I have much gardening going on. Still not painting, but the sewing is eating up a lot of my spare time. I made the cutest little dress yesterday. I used some of the fabric Lee picked out for me for my birthday. It is in the style of my favorite top, I just made it longer, added a few special touches to it and huge 9"x10" pockets on the sides, with a lace accent. Just too adorable with my Durangos. I washed it last night because I was so excited to wear it.

We played with words in stone (a gift from my sweet friend, Cecelia) last weekend with left-over concrete from a path we are working on. It was well after dark before we finished. We are spending lots of time outside, as usual. We have tomatoes, strawberries, bell peppers and jalapeno peppers in our raised garden. We have so many flowers on and around the front porch that it looks like an old lady lives here. And, now, we are planting azaleas and hydrangeas all over the front yard.

The inside project just had to be dropped. I traded out a bedroom suit for a few of her unneeded pieces with my sister. We converted one of our guestrooms into a craft room. Lee bought me a sewing machine because I've almost wore Momma's out. It's a super-sweet piece of equipment....I compare it to butter. I love my new room. Lee put a window unit in the window to cut down on the heat up there. Our house is a two-story with the central heating and air temperature gauge (or whatever) upstairs, so if you get the upstairs cool enough, then the downstairs is freakin' freezing.

Ruby keeps bringing ticks in the house. They can't attach to her because of the Frontline we put on her, but I find them crawling around. She eats them sometimes. I found one that was missing legs this morning.