I am way behind on projects and even further behind on blogging about them.
I do have good reason though. My goal lately is to spend all free time with Lenora and Robert mindfully doing things as a family and being outside. I guess its working because my sewing machine is silent save for a few pairs of pants I hemmed last week for my dear grams and this blog has been rather quiet.
I did make these sweet jammie pants for Lenora few weeks ago. It was horribly timed as they are flannel and its hot and humid as out there as Maryland summers always are.
But I bought the fabric for a specific pattern and the pattern only went to a certain size so I just had to make them, no matter how little use she really got out of them. We cant always be practical can we?
My neighbor has a huge tree with a couple of nice knotholes perfect for a secret garden. We decided this summer to plant a little fairy garden in the holes for kids. It started out as a girls project but was quickly hijacked by a couple of grown men with tools and shovels, intent on making the best damn fairy garden this side of the mason dixon.
You best not mess with boys and their fairy gardens.
It turned out great and the plants have really taken off. All the neighborhood kids love checking in on the fairies and Lenora likes to pay them a visit on her way to school in the morning.
Im in love with them too and one day we will finally have those 40 acres I have been dreaming of, complete with a couple of little fairy villages...and a pond...and a house...and a fire pit. Man those fairy gardens are addicting.
Have you seen any fairies in your neck of the woods lately?
I almost missed the strawberry picking season this year. A
short two weeks and its gone.
As luck would have it we came home from vacation
and I was able to squeeze in a few hours of hard core picking on Memorial Day
Monday with my neighbor. Robert was the lucky sitter of 4 kids while we did
some serious squatting between the rows. My glutes still hurt.
Mount Airy You Pick is 5 minutes from my house and a
wonderful family run operation. I was disappointed to hear that next year would probably
be the last as they are ready to retire and have no one to take over. It just
makes me sad and further fuels my dream of a little plot of land with a garden,
some chicks and a safe place for Lenora to run wild in the wild.
Between the 2 of us we picked 36 lbs. Nothing tastes as good
as a fresh vine ripe sun warmed strawberry. You just can’t beat it.
I froze most to use through the year and made a bowl of
homemade whipped cream for topping the rest.
What a perfect
day, great company and strawberries.
