Board games

You can't even believe what I did today until you see it.

I took those plastic boxes your mom always saved from the wipies and I put the game pieces into them. Just now I did Dora Candy Land. I also worked some more on the checker/chess tables and made a storage box the same way for the chess pieces. Now everything is in smaller boxes and the pieces don't fall out for me to step on when we get a game out as long as the lid is closed good. I was showing Tommy how cool they were and the lid wasn't closed tight and the Rummy cube pieces fell all over the floor, sort of exploded like I had thrown them at him.

Dear GT
Who is Pamela? I see that name several times in the different blogs.

Sign me Curious.

Dear Curious:

Pamela is an invented name for a charicature of a lady who, though not necessarily rich, is a snob, a hypocrite and a judger. She likes to put others down to bring herself (her own poor low self esteem up) She loathes herself so much that she can't wait to go running to the neighbor or church leader with news of another's errors or random ways. (See the poem "gossip in one of the blogs, just posted yesterday.)

Pamela is the type who will copy a newpaper article on a neighbor "out of concern" when really, all she is after is to be the first to gossip about situation to put the person down, or any relatives of the person in the neighborhood. She can't wait to spread the word.

You are sure to have one or more Pamela's in your neighborhood.

Mostly she is to be pitied because she has never been "licked and groomed" so she has been on her own for validation and recognition. She is probably a beautiful awesome person,but has no liking for herself, so to cover it up she does all these uncharitable things to others to make herself look higer.

If there is anything beautiful, lovely or of good report" she will not notice it or pass it on, only the ugly, the pathological, the unwell, so that her unwellness will not look so bad on her own scale of 0 to sub 10. She could be living in the light. She could get counseling and support to bring happiness to her life, but her response would be, if confronted, "what are you talking about, I love myself; I am happy; I only do good things; I only report things out of concern for others; I am the Relief Society President or PTA President or Girl Scout Leader or 4H LEader or Webelo Leader or what ever community leadership facade she has managed to hide behind lo these many years.

LoLyn

Back yard sports center

That's our grandkids and me and the moms (my beautiful daughters) in what we call fondly "the swimming pool."
We use clorox bleach once a week to keep it spakely clean.

Yes, Pamela, there is another use for lots of bleach besides keeping clothes white and cabinet tops sinks and floors sanitized.














We just fenced in this week with the chain link fencing we used to have wrapped around the garden when I had the two lots together.

No, no, the BAsketball court does not defy gravity. I just can't figure out how to rotate the photo. Anyone?

The badmittion net, one of our foster kids' grandmother's gave to me about four years ago when I first got into the house. Steven put it up securely for the kids last summer. Now we have cemented into the ground pieces of pipe to put the plastic pipe into and can move it out of the way when not in use.












We also have several checker and chess spots, with dice (non gambeling non competetative, and other table game centers available for park like activities.

Come to My "Yard Sale" Plants and Seeds

Mike McGroaty (see Gardening Ideas Blog) gave me some good tips about starting plants for my neighbors and selling them cheap to help them and me. I've been waiting for two years to get my disability check, and haven't had a single check come through. I even got my Medicare Card, which requires a two year wait, but no deposits from disability. I'm about out of money, in fact I am out of money, so we've been doing all these projects with things we already have and putting off paying Jose while waiting for the check to come through. i gotta make some money to put back my temporary crown and pay Jose.
We have plants from seeds I gathered in the neighborhood as I took walks last fall.
Some are vines, some are trees and some are even lilac and trumpet vine, and those cute little bushes the humming birds like. Sweat peas, zinas, daizys, 4:00's, cosmos and other of many variety.

SOOOOO. We're having our Cinco de Mayo "yard Sale" every weekend in May.

We'll be gone to University classes on May 16, but here the rest of the time, Thursday through Saturday afternoon, 9 a. m through 5.00 P.m.


Some things I know what are include trumpet vine (little tiny plants today) and some things are just pure faith, ceder berry bushes, and other trees from seeds, some from starts.

I have sarts of berries and grapes in a barrel of water (seperated and labeled) come get them now and watch them grow roots.

Come get them later and pay for the potted plants.



I've made starts of orchard trees, mint, myrtl, and other plants I have growing prolifically in my rocky ground.

myrtl,


I have rasberries that I got bare rooted, and planted in planters that are leafing out, and asperagus ready to grow (you'll have to wait a couple of years to have some to eat but so much less time than if you planted from seed. They are big ol hunking root sysems, with centers as big as my fist. I even have the name of the species.


Just come see.I'm not asking for charity, just a fair price for some work I've been able to do in my yard here at home.

SOOOO You can buy them from me already coming up and ready to give for mother's day or Cinco de Mayo, or graduation gifts, or birthdays or.... well you get the drift.




I wasn't very smart last fall. Infact I was in a chemically induced lobotomized stage and I put all the seeds in one box and mixed them up together.

this spring I was a little smarter and planted them indoors so they got a little head start in cute little boxes and baskets and planters.

I have packets of seeds you can start yourself, grab bag style for $.50.

I do have a whole dill pickle jar of wild sun flower seeds that grew near my yard and you can have a scoop of those for a quarter.

Some of the things I recognize shooting up are four o'clocks, cosmos, sweet peas.


I have seeds growing in several planters, and all around my yard. As it grows I can sort it out and tell you what it is, and as they get larger I will transplant them into larger container, label them and charge more for them. This weekend I'll sell it grab bag style, and you can just pay for the container and growing objects in it $5 to $12 dollars for the really cute ones.
If you just want a sample I can give it away for a buck.




Come and see and enjoy Mexican Music and Cinco De Mayo atmosphere in my back yard. You can even bat a soft ball around while your wife makes those all important decisions.

LoLyn

"A place for everything and everything in its place"

My mommie always says have "A place for everything and everything in its place"
What she meant by that, I didn't have a clue. But now I do!

Even the scarecrows got new hats!

My husband has knotched the corners to join the cross pieces with the blossoming uprights and my grandson is picking up the wood chips to save for the coming wood stove. I'm inspecting the job with my surgical mask to keep out the dirt and dust from the construction project on 800 North in Orem. It will need to cure and stop blossoming before it is good to burn. The scare crows are happy, indeed, with their new head attire. Double click for a close up.

The upright slats are asaragus markers. Each asparagus is named after a grandchild and will grow asparagus to eat in a couple of years. I have some to sell at my yard sale too.

My Rail fence is blossoming!

I had my husband and foster son cut down the large horse chestnut tree in the front yard. They asked why, and I said, "because I really hate stepping bare foot on the thorny chest nuts when they fall, and it only blossoms for a day or two then the blossoms rot all over the lawn and continue spilling seeds and junk for days.
The chestnuts are apparantly poison. We went to the internet for recipies and tries different ways to use them but they were bitter and nasty to taste, and powdery like the poison ones were described, so I finally convinced them to cut it down just before it bloomed. Our foster son was thrilled to wield the little chain saw and he was pretty careful, except when he waved it around while it was still running even thought the motor was off. One warning and he stopped that.

He chopped and sawed the main branches, and we left a stump about two foot high which he carefully cut level for a little stool in the front yard by the flower ring.

He had to go, so I continued with the bell hawks, cutting the branches into two foot lengths so they wouldn't fight me putting them into the back of the pick up since we no longer have use of the trash trailer to take them to the dump.
My husband cut the branches off of the longer larger branches which I had dragged over to the driveway. Those I explained I would make into a rail fence around the garden, where they would both look "cute" and could be emergency fuel storage for the cook stove we ar buying when we get some extra money.
OK, he said.
Or maybe it was OK?
So We cleaned up the front yard that afternoon and drove the smaller branches to the dump where we were allowed to unload for free because it was all "green stuff."
When we came back I got busy digging holes by removing rocks, and burying the post ends in bought dirt Ihad in the garden as uprights.
I used the uprights I had carefully cut for the job, which had branches sticking out a few inches like a crotch of a tree which held the cross bars.
My husband came along a few days later to knotch and fit the cross bars so they would be stable and safe around children and me so "nothing would fall upon us."
As we did this we notices the cross bars and uprights were blossoming.
We left the blossoms, because after all, the chestnust aren't where the grandkids walk and play, and I always wear shoes to garden, and the floweres really are pretty for a day or two. We don't have to try to eat the chestnuts, they can go to the compost pile along with the other weeds and organic waste.