05/13/2026
I made some turquoise & silver blooms to wear around your neck.
I can’t seem to get the dirt out of my fingernails these days & I don’t mind it one bit. We’ve been spending just about every spare moment outside working on getting our garden growing. One project seems to just unfold into the next & each project somehow becomes bigger than the last. I’ve got most of my cut flower starts in the ground, besides a few trays of some new-to-me varieties of zinnias, cosmos, statice, & asters still growing in the green house.
I went to a local rock yard & picked out a handful of the purdiest stepping stones I could find & made a few pathways through my big garden. I planted lots of creeping thyme between the stones to eventually cover up any blank space. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s sure gonna be pretty when everything is in full bloom come summer time.
Our most recent project was covering up a big swath of grass in our front yard & turning it into a new bed. I did some Russian roulette seed sowing in there with a whole bunch of old leftover seeds from the past couple seasons. It’ll be exciting to see what takes off.
I’ve also decided this is going to be the year of the pumpkin! So I just started a whole bunch of funky squash seeds too.
Now I just sit here patiently & let things grow. In the meantime I’ve gotta learn how to take all of these flowers I’ve planted in the ground & turn them into a teeny tiny cut flower business.
