Story of the LEMON TREE and the ants.

My lemon tree before the dirt transplant.

Oooh. I don't like ants on my plants. A while back, I noticed an increasing number of ants on, in, and around my lemon plant; therefore, I had to take action. This plant was grown from a single lemon seed that I pushed into the soil; having no idea that a plant would actually grow from it.

Ants were on the leaves.

Ants were on the stem.

After removing from bucket, and before the ants dirt was shaken out.

Can you see the ants?

The anty dirt is back on the earth for remixing with "old soil".

With most of the ants shaken out, the plant is laying on the ground, waiting to be planted.

Freshy planted in "new dirt".

A young plant. Yet so many thorns.

I couldn't resist pinching a leaf just to smell that vibrant lemon fragrance.

...and this is the dirt pit that was left after I dug the dirt for the lemon tree.

Lets have WATERMELON but not the seeds

Well, actually you can have the seeds in this great project. As part of our team's project, we're making watermelon themed items. I decided to make an apron. Ok, I'll admit that I cheated a little; as I used a fabric panel to create my project.

However, I did use my imagination, as I extended the EXTRA LARGE pocket with complimentary red, black and white fabrics.

As you can see in the above photo; I added lining to the pocket for extra durability. The nice apron can be purchased in my QUILT SALAD SHOP by clicking on this link in my Etsy shop.  The apron will fit a slim to medium sized adult.

Will be nice for cookouts in any season. Great for watermelon lovers.

That ole puddy cat had an eye out for my girls. - The cat that wanted some chicken.

A little bit ago, the girls were out for their daily graze, when along came a "wise" ole puddy cat that thought that he/she might try some luck at catching a few larger sized birds. Ah ha.

Well, the girls cautiously ignored that puddy TAT and went about their business retrieving their daily supply of worms/grub.

So after a while, and perhaps after loosing faith, that puddy TAT set his/her eyes on perhaps a rabbit or some other curious interest out in the thickets.

The above photo clearly shows that the girls clearly was not afraid of the TAT/cat.

The moral of the story is: pick on someone who is afraid of you, or worms are more important than fear. LOL

Rhodie is picking fresh grass above.

After the worm/grub findings, the girls bathed, ramshacked my landscaping,

...and then conversed about that awesome partial semi cirle above them.

Hmmmnnn, could that be the moon, or a UFO !!!

Spring was springing in my yard

I love this ivy.

Oops. I'm a little late in posting these. As they were taken in my yard on March 6, 2010 as spring was springing in my front yard.

The succelents above have grown so much since this photo above.

Shooting myself for taking so long to post these. Can you say "was busy elsewhere" !!

                                 These plants grew beautiful lavendar blooms.

                             

I think the above photo is a wild onion.

**More updates sooner. I promise.**

We really did have SNOW in the Southeast USA this year. Great photos

These photos are late, but great.

I've been busy trying to get a lot of my raw yarn made into fantastic wearable big rasta hats, so that my yarn supply is mostly depleted by the end of the year.

These photos were taken on Feb. 12, 2010; but I'm just getting around to posting them. Enjoy them. 

 Perhaps they will give you a cool feeling amidst these rising spring/summer temperatures.

I can't remember how many inches we had, but it stuck on the tree limbs.

My back yard enjoyed the winter wonderland.

Only one of the chicken dared venture out into the "whiteness". The others took a look, said NO THANKS, and turned around. This girl is obviously tasting the snow. (Can't remember her reaction to it)

I hope that all of the cold weather killed most of the mosquitos.

My wonderful landscaping went to the snow.

I'm not sure of how the Yucca plants, tropical plants, felt about all of the snow. I did notice that several of them fell over.

Bon appetite/snow photos.

How about OMELET !! This egg was laid just FIVE MINUTES ago

Well, it was at the time of the photo taking; and it was laid by Ms. Fancy on Saturday March 6, 2010 in the afternoon. (all of these photos were taken today) I noticed her missing from the crew, then went searching for her. 

 I found the lady sitting at ease on the nest. I then kinda stood close by waiting for her to "give birth". 

Fancy, the white chicken, had a few drinks of water immediately after the delivery.

 When the new delivery arrived, I rushed inside and came out with the camera all loaded to shoot.

After "giving birth", Ms Fancy rejoined the rest of the crew, well except for Rhodie.

Rhodie was in a world of her own, hunting for worms and other great delicacies.

She looked up after I called her.

I love comments, so jump right in here. Who knows, one day I might have an OMELET giveaway. My chicken love being free range.

Rainy flood days and my landscaped front lawn

We've been having a lot of rain the past few months; and a great deal of it sits/lays/stands in my yard for several days. I decided to photo a bit of the drama, and share with you.

You might know that yours truly did the landscaping.

Does this remind you of DARK SHADOWS ???

You remember it, I know. The scarry gothic soap opera where men could actually wake up dead. 

 We used to rush home from school to watch every weekday evening; and it would then have us afraid to go to sleep at night. We just knew that a vampire was lurking in the closet, or in the dark.  Still gives me chills sometimes. Boy, I used to love that show.

Just an old chair that sits in my backyard

There's nothing fancy about this chair. It just sits in my back yard as part of the decoration.I love the grayish coloration/discoloration that it has taken on. It has a sister, and I'll post them both sitting together on a later blog post.

Oops, guess I'd better apologize for this being my first blog update of this year (2010) Shame on me.