I’ve been busy…
And lazy about updating the blog. Not a whole lot of stamping going on here with the weather cooperating so nicely. Lots more dye stuff, but as usual I don’t have photos.
Heck, it’s summer now. Time to be outside, not cooped in. But I do have some bits of news.
I got home a week ago from visiting my friend Jan over in OK. I’ve known Jan for about 10 years now, but only met her in person probably 8 years ago. She’s a fantastic artist, does a lot of carving and is so organized that she inspires me to become organized. I last visited her back in the middle of March. But before that it had been quite a while if we don’t count the couple hours flash visit when I had to take my son somewhere a few years ago.
Jan has been a long time customer of my LWI dyed shirts. So, when I went to visit in March I brought lots of shirts but a limited quantity of dyes, and not even enough jars and such to work with. If it had been just Jan and I, it would have been okay MAYBE… but we also had her friends: Pam and her daughter Amanda. Even though I knew Pam and Amanda would be joining us, I was ill prepared. But we still managed to dye things and have fun.
So, this time I did a dozen colors of dye, and mixed it all up before I went. Took buckets to work in this time, to try something different than the smoosh into jars method. Also took more blanks than we had buckets for, again I was a bit under the mark in buckets. We managed. (and I brought home some of the blanks we didn’t use)
Dyeing clothing wasn’t the only thing on the agenda, however. We also did some gardening. I brought a bunch new iris for Jan, and she dug up one of hers that didn’t bloom this year to share with me. I also came home with a lambs ear plant, a giant bunch of narcissus bulbs, a cutting of a houseplant that I call creeping charley, and a store bought geranium. Citronella geranium, haven’t seen one of those in a few years. I love scented geraniums! We just don’t have the quality of nurseries over here that I was used to in OK… altho perhaps we do have and just not in “my” part of the area.
First on the agenda was planting all the iris I’d brought. I don’t ever dig up the soil a lot planting iris… just give it a lift enough to tuck roots down. If I have to pull out grass… hopefully it’s weedy grass and not johnson grass. Jan didn’t have much grass to pull out of her flower beds, she keeps that nasty bermuda out of her beds. (something I find impossible here)
I need a flower bed like Jan has. We’ve got enough rocks around here to do that ring in rocks… even if they are little ones piled up, lol. Where to put it, I dunno… I can’t put it where I’d like to, because we have to keep places open for trucks and tractors… So I guess I’ll keep doing what I’m doing, and try to turn fence lines into flower beds.
Oh, a photo of Jan’s round flower bed.
(erk, sorry it’s so large on click, I forgot to resize before uploading)
I hope I’m able to go visit Jan again next year… to see all the iris blooming that I brought to her, and her wonderful patio she is having built. I got to see the pergola, it’s great. And of course to visit my bestest friend in OK. ***
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*** my best friend in OK right now is Jan’s dog, Simon, lol! Just kidding, but I do love her dogs… last visit Gander was my best friend.
