Treasury Fun

Wow! I've been featured in a couple treasuries! Here's an awesome red and yellow one by time4acure!And here's one full of gorgeous summer items by avivaschwarz!

Composting

My compost bin is composting! It's small, but then again, so's my garden. Last week I found that it was full of maggots and I was afraid that it had been ruined. I checked out some information online which indicated the maggots wouldn't hurt anything, so I left them alone.
Well, kudos, maggots - they've done more in the past week than would have happened with natural, dry decomposition. It's starting to look like soil! Hooray!

I was going to take a picture, but then I realized that everyone else is probably not as keen on a bucket of rotting foodstuffs as I am.

So check out my hot peppers - these were planted April 13th:

New Clutch

Here's my new little clutch purse!It's so cute, I think i might keep it!

counter blues

So, here I am, stuck on the counter at work. Not making things, not creating, just playing customer service rep to a stream of rude, incredibly needy people. Same place I was yesterday.
That's fair.

Not that I'm bitter about it or anything.

Anyway, since I'm lucky enough to have my computer here to distract me, I'll show you how my garden grows.
My cilantro is becoming quite large - I had to re-pot it.

My sister's baby's breath. I lost track of when this was planted so I'm going to call it ten days old.
And my dill, too, at almost a month old.

new things

So, I spent much of yesterday re-planting seedlings into larger homes. I'm hoping I can keep most of them potted, since I don't have a ton of money to drop on making a box garden and because south Florida is overflowing with hungry insects. I was happy with my collection so far, but my sisters wanted to keep planting so we started again with several varieties of lettuce, artichoke, a pumpkin, and a cantaloupe. The lettuce is starting to sprout:

And the white pumpkin:

enter, summer

The pool is back! I cannot recall how long we've been without it. Seems like forever, but it's only been a few months, I'm sure. It's almost thirty years old and has cracks and leaks and broken tiles. Well, it did. My cousin fixed it! Hooray! Now if we can get the lightning to stop, I may just have a quick dip.

Although I would love to have the sunshine come back, this rain has been great for our yard and plants. My coleus, shown here:I can't wait to see their full color patterns. They're not even a month old yet.

And, here's my mother's banana tree, making a sweet comeback. There are two, but after resuscitating the second, smaller one, my cousin promptly ran it over with the mower.

*gasp*

Well, as luck would have it, one of my co-workers at the night job asked if I wanted to switch for a morning shift and I said, "Sure thing!" because I rarely make any money on a Friday night. Mostly because I feed on the tip share and they throw a couple extra bodies on for the weekends, meaning less money for me.
And I'll have the evening to relax, for once, on a Friday.
Really, I need to get some work listed this morning, but instead I goofed off in the etsy forums.
So here's one of my new coin purses that i will be putting up this afternoon:

weird wednesday

Today has been slightly uneventful, which is not necessarily a bad thing. We were supposed to go out on a short cruise this evening, in part for my mother's birthday (which was a few weeks ago) and also for my sister's beau's birthday (which is today). However, the rain we have so desperately needed over the past few months has chosen today to make it's presence known. Good for plants, bad for boating.

Figuring I would relax after work, I logged onto mySpace and discovered a funeral announcement for an old high school classmate. Now, I'm not going to pretend that I was very close to this girl, but she was in our clique, or circle of friends, or however you describe your childhood notions, and she was sweet, quiet, and a bit shy. She never said a negative word to me, and that's more than I can say for a lot of schoolyard chums. I'm not sure if I'll attend the funeral yet. It's tomorrow.

hello, Tuesday

Here's a quick before picture of our above-ground garden.I was rummaging around in the old house when i remembered my old toy box. I hadn't used it in years and the lid was cracked, so I figured we'd give it a go. I want to get an after picture as soon as it stops raining. (Yay, rain!)

Pollywogs!

I have tadpoles. I used to have about a thousand tadpoles living in our rain-filled pool, until my cousin killed them all in an attempt to kill mosquito larvae. I think they're toad tadpoles.
So here are the little guys Allen and I are keeping to watch grow into whatever they grow into.
I fed them spinach from my garden and they seem to love it!
Once they've got legs, we'll move them to the canal out back.