SPLIT POT FOR THE LIGHT POST

OK, I bought a huge split pot for around the pole lamp in the front yard.

For those of you who don't know it, it's a Terra cotta looking plastic flower pot, that is actually split in two!!!! With a square space missing from the center. You put it around poles or such, and when you tighten it up, it looks like one whole pot!

I didn't want to work with it all year, by putting annuals in it, so I did it better!

I put two huge roots for a bleeding heart plant, it's perennial, and each year it gets bigger and prettier, with lovely heart shaped flowers on it, and I also planted lily of the valley..... the MOST fragrant of all the flowers, and bloom all year, and come back year after year. I also put some tiny bulbs for miniature iris's around the post, so when they all bloom and fill out they should be magnificent!!!!

Plus no work, no muss, each year they come back all by them selves with now extra flowers to be bought!!!!!! A bonus to my purse!!!!! GIGGLE

Chiller

I know your all into Star Trek, but you should check this convention out!!!! It's in New Jersey, NO lines for autographs, and great for a day trip.

I'm going for the weekend with my sister, but that's just because we like to go to the pool and bar. If your looking for something NOT as geeky as Shore Leave, you should consider this one!!!!!!

Lots of cool goth men and women, and the dealers room ROCKS!!!!!!

I haven't been to Chiller before, but I've heard all the hype about it, and talked to people who go to them, so I'm looking forward to it!!!!

http://www.chillertheatre.com/main.htm

Cut the link, and paste and check it out!!!!!!

My first flowers of spring!!!!

Damn, again!

Well, I did it again, waited till near death door to figure out that my ears were infected. GIGGLE

Actually, I didn't even think about it till the vertigo hit!!! Got out of bed to go to the bathroom and found myself on the floor as the whole house tilted!!!! Geeze, gotta pay more attention!!!

But it's hard since my ears are so bad now, that I don't even feel pain anymore!!!! I was feeling grouchy, not hungry, and irritable..... but the ears didn't hurt...... even after the whole world tilted. GIGGLE

Now, three prescriptions later, I'm feeling better. But I still don't want to go out on my sweet swing, till I'm sure I'm not going to go into vertigo again, so I'm wasting time in the wonderful weather sitting inside, taking my meds, and being a good girl. YUCK

I'm still tired though, and I'm going to bed early tonight to try and catch up on my sleep.

Ohhhhhh, and I have one Daffodil blooming!!!!! Yippee, where there is one, the rest will follow. Can't wait to see them all and the tulips blooming.

I LOVE SPRING!!!!!

Oh shit, what's that...... hummmmm,

smells like pollen sneaking up on us!

Spring good, pollen baddddddddd!


achoooooooooooooo

Yippie

My PEAS ARE UP!!!! MY PEAS ARE UP!!!!!! They are peaking up thu the ground!

Do the happy dance!!!

In preperation for Easter I'm reprinting my spring song


Little bunnies hopping round
as I smash them in the ground
spring is here I hear them say
but those bunnies are too gay
smash them down, and grind them up
bunny butter for my sup!!!!!!!

Updates

Almost all the ice is gone now, and the temps have warmed up nicely! I did have a few mortality's in the ice storm. One of my little glass side tables bit the dust when a chunk of ice fell off the roof and hit it! It's been outside for almost 8 years, but the ice smacked it just right and the glass shattered. Oh well, time to get a new one.


Besides that, my big planters in the front of the house are starting to crack. Thought they were 100% cement, but seems they are Terra cotta covered with a cement finish. Sucks, but Terra cotta doesn't last long out side in the winter, and this is at least the second winter they were outside. But it's cool, I should get the summer out of them before they crack apart, next year I'll get another set.


I have only one thing left to buy. I need a beach umbrella. I've done without in the last few years, but it limits my time at the beach by like 2 hours (before burning to a crisp) so I want to get a nice umbrella so I can spend the day at the beach, and not just a few hours. I grew up spending the whole day at the beach, but mom had a nice umbrella so that you could sit and enjoy, with out burning. Gotta get one. GIGGLE


Besides that, my peas are in, should be showing signs of growth in a few more days, and my plums are planted. But so far I haven't gotten the rest of my plants from Gurney's, but I expect them by the end of the month.


Oh, Shore Leave DID cash my check! So I'm assuming we're in! though they still didn't send me anything, I think the women who runs the dealers room is a total fucking idiot! But as long as I get a table I'll stop myself from telling her what I think about her, at least until after the convention, then I'm gonna let it rip!


I have a cool craft project for selling at the con, not going to tell anyone yet what it is, but I love them! And hopefully they will be unique enough to sell at the con. GIGGLE, but if they don't I'll keep them because they are soooooooooo CUTE!


Matt is busy arranging his trip to China. Feels weird that he's actually going, at least so far! I'm going to be so board at home with out him here, but the opportunity is too good to pass up. Studying at one of the worlds famous Chinese university's? I'm keeping my mouth shut, but I think he would be an idiot to pass it up!!! So, I'm pretty sure he's going to go. I'm leaving it all to him to arrange and fix, he's old enough to do his own thing, and I'm not going to interfere at all. Let him work it all out.


Boy, that's going to give me a ton of free time!!!! Not having to drive him back and forth to school will be a shock to my system, and pocket book!!! (gas prices suck!!!!) Just think about how much I'm going to save on food alone!!!! GIGGLE

Easter, again

We've decided on Easter Dinner. I'm going to do just goodies. No main meal, though I will have hamburgers and hot dogs for Mark to cook on the grill if he wants. But other then that, just goodies........


Shrimp.... lots of it
guacamole
steamed clams
huge salad
antipasto goodies like cheese, and olives and such
and what ever else I can think of

Most of the time we eat the goodies, and by the time the main meal is served, no one's hungry!!! So, why not make the main meal the goodies? Jamie likes the idea, and so do I, so we're going to run with it. giggle

Then we're going to the boardwalk with the kids, and play games, and win stuff, and smell the ocean. Sounds good to me!!!!!

Thinking Easter

Easter is only 3 weeks away, and I'm constantly thinking about it. It's late this year, so it's going to be really warm!!! I'm having it here, with Jamie, Mark, and the kids........ but what should I make?? I'm totally sick of ham, but would like some fresh kebosie... with the sour crout and European dried mushrooms. That's cool, but it's not a main dish!

Fresh pork roast with garlic and Rosemary is a standard. And good too.

But, I'm sorta wandering outside the box too: what if we barbecue?? It'll be warm enough. But is hamburgers and hot dogs really appropriate for Easter? Maybe not, but it sounds good. GIGGLE

I could add Easter food to it, like the fresh kelbosie, and potato salad, and ................ hummmm, I don't know what else.

But then the weather could be bad, and we would have to eat indoors, and you can't barbecue in doors...... so maybe I'll have an alternate plan!

At least we can go to the board walk and try to win candy for the kids, and have fun!!!!!

LIVING AT THE SHORE ROCKS!

Weird and Yucky!!!

Well, that was totally weird and yucky! As you can see, it doesn't look like much, because all that isn't snow!!!! It's hours and hours of SLEET! No snow fell at all, just frozen, nasty pellets!!!!

But, the park was on top of it, and the roads are pretty clear, any sleet let on them is already melting in the morning sun. But, it was interesting.

I think we were fine because we have underground power lines!!! If the power lines were above ground.... I'm pretty sure that there would have been outages in this ice storm..... but nope, we're cool.

I don't think I've seen an ice storm like this in so many years that I can't even remember!!!!! I know there was one a few years ago, but I was out of state and missed it.

Oh well, that's March!!!! Never know whats going to happen!!! My birthday's in March, and I remember wonderful warm spring days, and day's when snow reached my shoulders!!! I think that's why those of us that are born in March change our mind so much..... our personality fits the weather!!!! GIGGLE