Fun With The Back Yard !

 Well, let's just say I am not really using the bike the way it's suppose to be used soooo I decided to add flowers and make it beautiful.  Oh, how I love the flowers but to be honest now I think I should maybe get the tires fixed.  I will probably need new ones, a new seat and hey, I think we will be set.  Now if I just had a place to ride it !  Oh, I remember now.  That's why I haven't went bike riding.  There is no way I would ride on Larkin Road.  I swear it has more traffic then 99 Highway and besides it's way too narrow so there is the problem.  I could ride down to Campbell and ride down it. I will think about that.

 Take a look at that lettuce.  Remember I told you about the Butter Lettuce I bought at the store.  Butter Lettuce always comes in it's own container and still has the root system still on.  Well, I looked it up on line and ask if you could plant it and low and behold there were a number of people who had asked the same question and the answer is YES you can.  So I planted it and also to the left of it is, believe it or not, green onions.  They also said you could plant the root you cut off the green onion, so I did and as you can see it's growing.  How about that !

Just another picture of my back yard.  How I love to play. BUT it's the wind that has driven me Crazy.  Yes, I am from Kansas and I do know Dorothy, she is not coming to California . I don't care how much wind we stir up here.  So Just Stop It With The WIND !


Here is my sweet Elviria.  We bought one of those ruffle hoses and I am here to tell you they are wonderful.  They are light, easy to handle, does not twist or bend so no water will come out.  When you are done using, after you shut off the faucet, let all the water out of the hose and it ruffles up again.  It's great and as you can see Elviria has put her seal of approval on it.  She is forever laying across it.  I don't know why.   Tootles

Chatting with a Cup of Tea

Making myself a cup of tea and wanting to share with you the events of the last few days.  Am I excited or What !  I have discovered a wonder farm just down the road.  It's Windmill Farm. In Gridley or rather outside of the town and absolutely a unique and beautiful place to go.  I have signed up for a class that will demonstrate bread making with yeast etc.  I can hardly wait.  There are more classes to come which I plan to sign up for.  I have also joined their CSA.  Can you imagine getting a container of fruits and Vegetables about every other week on your door step AND have them delicious and healthy.  I for one am thrilled and counting the days for our first one.  What a find !

I'm enjoying my cup of tea and plan on making another to sit outside as the birds are taking baths in our birdbath and flying under the eves to their nests.  What a show they put on.  My tea you ask ?  Today I am having Constant Comment from Bigelow although later I think I will have Acai, Pomegranate & Blueberry it's a green tea from delish.  These are tea bags.  Must get back to making my loose tea it takes time but just a little time and to have the teapot sitting beside you with the tea cozy is becoming a lost art.  Now I think I have changed my mind and my next cup will be from my teapot it's Samurai Chai Mate and Maharaja Chai Oolong mix, it's a loose tea and I get it from Tevana Tea Shop at the Gallaria in Roseville.  Tootles   Maharaja Chai/Samurai Chai Tea Blend (Google Affiliate Ad)PerfecTea Tea Maker, 16oz (Google Affiliate Ad)Peach Momotaro Blooming Flower Tea, 2oz (Google Affiliate Ad)   

Flower, Flowers and Flowers !

 What smells so good and never last as long as you want it to?  Hyacinth. The smell just takes over your senses as you breath in with your eyes closed.What a sensation. My bulbs have been put away ready for next years planting. I'm try to stay current on my yard but have been busy as a bee planting, changing things and being gone. Today's weather will be warmer as the day moves on But the wind is not making me happy. Isn't it suppose to be March wind and April showers.  Well, we have had the showers but enough already and Stop the wind. I know in July I Will want the breeze and it will be no where to be found but alas that is life, so they say. 
     I have been buying butter lettuce, you know in the little carton with the roots still attached. I just love the lettuce especially on a sandwich as the leaves just fit and the taste is yummy.  WELL, I have just discovered after you finish with the leaves you can plant the roots and get another head of lettuce.  Is that cool or what! I have mine planted as we speak and will let you know how it is doing.  I also just learned you
can plant the root end of green onion and they will also grow

another onion. I have the onions but haven't used them yet but will keep you posted.  More of my plants on our cottage porch.  I have even changed this around so need more up to date pictures. Tootles

Spring is Here !!

 Welcome.  Spring is here and I am so glad. Haven't we had a lot of cold weather this year.  I know it isn't as bad as some parts of the country, like Kansas.  My Goodness all that snow and the cold temps., brrrrr.  I am from Kansas so I do know cold.
My b-day was last week and we were able to have a barbecue.  Now that was fun.  The first one of the season.  I even made hamburgers.  I found this recipe and it called for herbs, breadcrumbs, garlic and onion, so made them the night before. This is something I will be doing a lot this spring and summer..... I found a recipe for potatoes on the grill.  You take red potatoes, cut them in half, put salt, pepper, rosemary and garlic with olive oil over them in a bowl.  Then you go out and cut some rosemary stalks (I don't know if you call them that, maybe branches) clean off the lower part of rosemary off and poke your potatoes through them.  Lay them on the barbecue and they are yummy. I put one big pan in the oven and the other smaller ones went on the grill.  I chopped up the rosemary from the branches to put on them.  It was really good and the smell I really like.  Try it.
      I want to show you what I have been doing.  It has been fun and I have had a ball.
The picture on the left is from my calendar.  Since I first looked at this picture I knew I wanted to fix one for myself.  Now I am still working on it and hope to even make more.  Mine is on the right.  My husband joined in and helped me also.  The fun part was making the word Herbs out of sticks.  That is just the beginning of the outdoors fun.  I plan on getting herbs this week and Jim is making me beds that are high, like at my mid section.  I will take a pic when I get them going.  Tootles

Yea ! Yea ! Yea !

I did it, I did it, I DID IT !
     Well glory be,  I did it.  Okay, so now I am going to take pictures and get to blogging  Tootles

Did it work ?

It has been ages since I was able to get into my blog.  Well, I should say I was able to once and then promptly forgot how I did it plus I was having trouble with my computer then got a new one and put windows 8 on it, well, it kept freezing so finally was able to get it off and went back to the original windows 7, which is just fine and for a couple of weeks I am trying to figure out how to get into my blog. What happen was I put a template on which I really loved as it should all my pic's and you just click on it and you could read the story.  Well, that is all fine and good except when I went to the blog there was no place for me to sign in.  What a nightmare !  So now I am going to publish this and go to the blog and see if I have a sign in.  Wish me luck !  Tootles

Pants full of Plants

Look on the porch up the left stairs.  This is what you see in San Francisco.  I love it.  How in the world did they come up with that and how did they do that.  Really cool uh !  Tootles