Gardening at Night

W wanted me to be able to expand my gardening abilities and because we choose to live without a real yard where I could grow vegetables and flowers he bought me this AeroGarden for Christmas.


Because of the condo purchase and move, I am just now getting it set up. My first kit is gourmet herbs. I'll be growing Italian Basil, Thyme, Mint, Dill, Parsley, Chives, and Purple Basil. The first sprouts are supposed to pop up in as little as 3 days!!!


After the herbs are done, I'm going to plant the cherry tomato kit!

Old and New Craftiness

So, I've been meaning to post some pictures of my embroidery for a long time, but you know...all the usual excuses got in the way. I was going through my big ole box of embroidery stuff and found these old pieces I did more than 10 years ago. Originally I think I had 8 squares that I was going to make a quilt out of. But now I only have 5 and 4 of them are sewn together already. Not sure what I will end up doing with them.


Next, my newest endeavor is embroidering onesies with cool designs. I started this when all my friends started having babies years ago. But, they were so easy to do I just started making a stock of them. So, I'm going to start on ETSY store in the near future and see if I can sell some of them. Or, maybe a few of the cool stores downtown would want to consign them. We'll see.


Lots more to come....

Room with a View

Skinners Butte at sunset from our living room window.

Rainbow over downtown Eugene from our living room window.

Sunrise and Sisters Mt. tops from our living room window.

First rays of light at dawn from our living room window.

Unending Boxes

The moving is over. Now the fun begins!

Moving on up, just not this weekend...

I had hoped to be blogging about moving into our new condo and sharing pictures of it with you all this week, but we ran into a snag at closing and it will be another couple of weeks before we are moved in (cross your fingers). Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of our soon-to-be-view in our new deluxe condo in the sky....


Oh, and by the way, the snag we ran into had to do with flood insurance. Our condo, is on the 8th floor. You try and figure it out.

Making Spring in the Dead of Winter

I have these great white ceramic containers that used to have candles in them. I've collected a lot of them, knowing that there was something i could do with them after the candles were used up. So, I came up with the idea to plant crocus bulbs in them. I planted them in late October/early November and kept them in the refridgerator for awhile to make them think it was winter. Then I pulled them out and put them in a sunny window at home and at work.

Here they are just popping up through the soil in early December.

This is how much they grew by the end of December.

And by the middle of January the flowers were starting to show themselves.


I'll post another photo when they come into full bloom.

And,... here they are in full-bloom in late January!!!!

2007 in Review

A photo review of 2007

The hotel got our names a little wrong announcing our 1st anniversary in March.

A warm early summer day on the Oregon coast.

Celebrating W's b-day at the High Desert Museum in July.

Spending time with our nephew's at the cabin in July.

Enjoying nature in the summer.

Animals at the Lane County Fair in August.

Trip #1 to Ashland in August.


A $6 beer at the Mariner's Game in September.

Picking out pumpkins in October.

Reflection in a window in Ashland, trip #2, October.

Fall day in the park in Ashland.


Torturing PeaOui with a Christmas outfit.


Karaoke at the office Christmas party.


Driving home from Christmas in Redding with my family.