(Just in case you like that feeling of running barefoot in the grass, but don't like the thought of stepping on something...unexpected.. these are for YOU!)
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Indoor Picnic!
All I can say is.....who's gonna MOW it??? We only have a riding lawn mower - or a little horse. I'm gonna go with the little horse..
To compliment your indoor grass table...might I sugest a few fun picnic-y things from Onlineauction.com?
Fun picnic backpack kit from kornkountrytreasures!
Cute blue and white picnic set from angelonthewind!
And if you're gonna keep your grass table outside, you'll need one of these mosquito repellent lights from drt3035!
Plus, to keep that table looking good, a vintage 1945 lawn care book from callmemomo!
(Just in case you like that feeling of running barefoot in the grass, but don't like the thought of stepping on something...unexpected.. these are for YOU!)
(Just in case you like that feeling of running barefoot in the grass, but don't like the thought of stepping on something...unexpected.. these are for YOU!)
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Weather, plants and a freeze
Well as everyone knows this has been a crazy weather season. People used to snow not getting much, some getting too much and the same with rain. Some with freezing weather and some with not enough of that either.
We did not get more than two inches of snow. We really need some rain and will hopefully get some. Was supposed to rain yesterday and did not. We have well water and if we when it gets low we start getting some grit in our taps. Need to change filter outside more often when that happens. So far we are good with that.
Our regular season for our plants that come up every year is usually late April. Well, my hosta's are full, our dogwoods are in bloom with the wild ones down the mountian also popping out. If we get a freeze the hosta's are done for however the dog woods will survive.
The radishes I planted two weeks ago are coming up already. The scallions are showing no sign of growth. I start these from seeds. My hubby's potato plants he put in are not doing anything but it takes them a while anyway, although we have volunteers coming from last years plantings. He is waiting to put in cherry tomato, regular tomato, squash and green bell peppers. I want to try some silver queen corn this year also.
With the weather being near 80 for over a week it can be scary as the last time this happened we had a hard freeze in late April. That hard freeze took out a lot of plants and I am not looking forward to replacing 73 hosta plants should they get hit. Even my angel trumpet plant is ready to pop. It can be moved inside if that happens.
If you know what Kudzu is there are people here who are now using it for feed for their animals. Some even cook it and eat it themselves. I am not interested, thank you. There are also wild ramps that grow here and from what I have been told about them I am not interested in them either.
This has been the strangest year and it will be interesting to see what survives. If you plant a food garden I hope you fair well. For those of you who do not plant some of your own veggies, you are missing all the great benefits of planting it, nurturing it, watching it thrive and finally picking it and having the best you can get and the pride of doing it yourself.
So for me I will continue to pray for no hard freeze. Too much to lose but then some would love to see colder weather for a while longer. It is beautiful here today and hoping it stays that way.
After you are done with your ourtside work I hope you take some time and visit my store at http://ola.com/store/chateycathey as I now have it in order, some new items listed and all pictures are where they are supposed.
Please comment as all are appreciated.
We did not get more than two inches of snow. We really need some rain and will hopefully get some. Was supposed to rain yesterday and did not. We have well water and if we when it gets low we start getting some grit in our taps. Need to change filter outside more often when that happens. So far we are good with that.
Our regular season for our plants that come up every year is usually late April. Well, my hosta's are full, our dogwoods are in bloom with the wild ones down the mountian also popping out. If we get a freeze the hosta's are done for however the dog woods will survive.
The radishes I planted two weeks ago are coming up already. The scallions are showing no sign of growth. I start these from seeds. My hubby's potato plants he put in are not doing anything but it takes them a while anyway, although we have volunteers coming from last years plantings. He is waiting to put in cherry tomato, regular tomato, squash and green bell peppers. I want to try some silver queen corn this year also.
With the weather being near 80 for over a week it can be scary as the last time this happened we had a hard freeze in late April. That hard freeze took out a lot of plants and I am not looking forward to replacing 73 hosta plants should they get hit. Even my angel trumpet plant is ready to pop. It can be moved inside if that happens.
If you know what Kudzu is there are people here who are now using it for feed for their animals. Some even cook it and eat it themselves. I am not interested, thank you. There are also wild ramps that grow here and from what I have been told about them I am not interested in them either.
This has been the strangest year and it will be interesting to see what survives. If you plant a food garden I hope you fair well. For those of you who do not plant some of your own veggies, you are missing all the great benefits of planting it, nurturing it, watching it thrive and finally picking it and having the best you can get and the pride of doing it yourself.
So for me I will continue to pray for no hard freeze. Too much to lose but then some would love to see colder weather for a while longer. It is beautiful here today and hoping it stays that way.
After you are done with your ourtside work I hope you take some time and visit my store at http://ola.com/store/chateycathey as I now have it in order, some new items listed and all pictures are where they are supposed.
Please comment as all are appreciated.
Two Eaglets Hatched!!
Well, while I was puttering away in the house, the Decorah eagles were busy hatching their eggs!! Two have successfully hatched with one that they are still lovingly waiting on. You can watch the video and check it out! It is awesome!!
Last year, thousands of people watched as these two eagles successfully hatched three eggs. They are naming them in an unlikely fashion D1, D2 and so on. D12 and D13 are the latest. The Raptor Resource Project has been filming eagles like this for five years now, according to Bob Anderson.
Anderson is proud of another eagle project, D1. D1 was from the Decorah Eagles brrod last year. She has been fitted with a solar powered satellite tracking device which allows us to track her. The bird was in northern Wisconsin, the Boundary Waters, and then returned to Decorah December 29th, 2011. Anderson said “As of last night D1 was south of Spillville, Iowa on the Turkey River.”
Once the site comes up, I will add it to the post so that you can track D1 on her journey!!
It is such a wonderful adventure watching these beautiful birds!! Enjoy!!
And, if you get bored and want to do some shopping, check out our store at Korn Kountry Treasures!! And check out the other stores at OLA.com, too!! Great sellers!!
Last year, thousands of people watched as these two eagles successfully hatched three eggs. They are naming them in an unlikely fashion D1, D2 and so on. D12 and D13 are the latest. The Raptor Resource Project has been filming eagles like this for five years now, according to Bob Anderson.
Anderson is proud of another eagle project, D1. D1 was from the Decorah Eagles brrod last year. She has been fitted with a solar powered satellite tracking device which allows us to track her. The bird was in northern Wisconsin, the Boundary Waters, and then returned to Decorah December 29th, 2011. Anderson said “As of last night D1 was south of Spillville, Iowa on the Turkey River.”
Once the site comes up, I will add it to the post so that you can track D1 on her journey!!
It is such a wonderful adventure watching these beautiful birds!! Enjoy!!
And, if you get bored and want to do some shopping, check out our store at Korn Kountry Treasures!! And check out the other stores at OLA.com, too!! Great sellers!!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Save The Monarchs! Plant Milkweed!
This is a very disturbing trend. Please read and share this article and do what you can to help.
Monarch Butterflies Down Again This Year as Decline Continues.
Monarch Butterflies Down Again This Year as Decline Continues.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Tuesday is Quickly Becoming the Best Day of the Week!
Hello everyone! Tuesday is quickly becoming the best day of the week!
Every week Yogibear66 hosts the Terrific Tuesday game on OLA and we have a blast!
This sale runs for 12 hours on Tuesdays
Times are as follows:
5:30am to 5:30pm (HST - Hawaii Time)
7:30am to 7:30pm (AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time)
8:30 AM to 8;30 PM (OLA time, PDT - Pacific Daylight Time)
9:30am to 9:30pm (MDT - Mountain Daylight Time)
10:30am to 10:30pm (CDT - Central Daylight Time)
11:30am to 11:30pm (EDT - Eastern Daylight Time)
Each seller joins the sale and posts their weekly specials for the game. Buyers can then take advantage of these specials by shopping each store that is listed.
Once a buyer makes a purchase, they post the item they bought and from whom. The buyer with the most purchases wins the game and a nice prize donated from either Yogibear66 or another seller from OLA.
It is very easy and fun!
Sellers receive traffic for their listings and buyers cash in on some great deals!
If you are thinking about signing up to be a member of OLA, now would be a great time!
I am bedding4me and I try to sign up each week..although my life gets pretty hectic sometimes! I sell just about everything under the sun..and the moon too! Feel free to stop by my store!
So..why not give the game and OLA a try?
If you are a seller, there are no listing fees, no final value fees and no craziness like the "darkside" LOL
If you are looking for great deals, feel free to join! Read all about OLA here!
Tell a friend too! I have made some very wonderful friends here on OLA and I am so very proud to call OLA my family!
Every week Yogibear66 hosts the Terrific Tuesday game on OLA and we have a blast!
This sale runs for 12 hours on Tuesdays
Times are as follows:
5:30am to 5:30pm (HST - Hawaii Time)
7:30am to 7:30pm (AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time)
8:30 AM to 8;30 PM (OLA time, PDT - Pacific Daylight Time)
9:30am to 9:30pm (MDT - Mountain Daylight Time)
10:30am to 10:30pm (CDT - Central Daylight Time)
11:30am to 11:30pm (EDT - Eastern Daylight Time)
Each seller joins the sale and posts their weekly specials for the game. Buyers can then take advantage of these specials by shopping each store that is listed.
Once a buyer makes a purchase, they post the item they bought and from whom. The buyer with the most purchases wins the game and a nice prize donated from either Yogibear66 or another seller from OLA.
It is very easy and fun!
Sellers receive traffic for their listings and buyers cash in on some great deals!
If you are thinking about signing up to be a member of OLA, now would be a great time!
I am bedding4me and I try to sign up each week..although my life gets pretty hectic sometimes! I sell just about everything under the sun..and the moon too! Feel free to stop by my store!
So..why not give the game and OLA a try?
If you are a seller, there are no listing fees, no final value fees and no craziness like the "darkside" LOL
If you are looking for great deals, feel free to join! Read all about OLA here!
Tell a friend too! I have made some very wonderful friends here on OLA and I am so very proud to call OLA my family!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Sugar painting..amazing!
A friend sent this to me on Facebook, and I found it FASCINATING!
"As a unique art for producing artistic pieces entirely composed of sugar, sugar painting is very different from normal painting. First, since the hot liquid sugar could freeze solid if it cools, the painter has to produce his/her work very quickly. Second, the painter has to follow some orders of strokes and draw a continuous line into a picture of an animal or other pattern. To get familiar with the whole process, the painter has to do some practice of normal painting in the first place.
These impressionist-style paintings fall into two main categories: plane painting and solid painting. It is comparatively easier to do the former. When producing the latter, the painter needs more knowledge and techniques of sugar painting. For example, to produce a flower basket, he/she has to do a round sugar pancake first, and then make a smaller sugar circle on the pancake. Due to the difference of the two parts in temperature, it is easy to pull up the whole smaller and resilient sugar circle with some tool and form a solid basket. Later on, the artist adds a lifting beam and flowers to the basket, making a vivid flower basket.
According to some academic studies, sugar painting originated from the Ming Dynasty when sugar animals and figures were made in molds as part of a sacrifice in religious rituals. In the Qing Dynasty, sugar painting gained more popularity. The production techniques were upgraded and the patterns became more various, most of which were auspicious such as fish, loong and monkey. Afterward, the folk artists in Sichuan developed this art by incorporating techniques of Chinese shadow puppet and Chinese paper cutting. The molds were also replaced with a small bronze spoon. As time passed by, the contemporary form of sugar painting has gradually evolved.
Although the number of sugar painters has decreased, due to its unique charm, a certain number of artists are making sustained efforts to preserve it by offering classes, holding relevant activities such as sugar painting contests and applying for the National Non-material Cultural Heritage.
Nowadays, this art is garnering support again, from both the general public and the government. It has already been listed as Provincial Non-Material Culture Heritage by the Sichuan Government. Moreover, the sugar painting artists have gained increasing recognition."
Pretty impressive!
And, speaking of impressive, check out all the "sweet" deals at Onlineauction.com you'll find!
Beautiful Dragonware sugar and creamer from thebluerose!
4 lbs of Domino sugar from knightowls!
Sunset Creek Sugar Cookie Candle (mmmm...I can smell if from here!) from kornkountrytreasures!
Adorable Sugar Plum Fairies Music Box from Draggontagger!
Wishing everybody a
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
BARGAINS GALORE! It's Time For The Terrific Tuesday Sale!
Welcome to TERRIFIC TUESDAY!
If you are new here and see something you'd like to buy, sign up with OLA, bid or buy your item, then come back here and use the comment feature on the "Terrific Tuesday Sale" post to add your OLA ID and the auction # of the item you bid on or purchased. That's all there is to it! At the end of the game, we will add up the bids/buys for all who participate. The person with the most entries wins a prize!
KornKountryTreasures and CountryNaturals are offering $2 gift certificates to all new members who sign up today.
Click here to find participating members and their specials. Check back on this blog, often, to see more super specials. HAPPY SHOPPING!
If you are new here and see something you'd like to buy, sign up with OLA, bid or buy your item, then come back here and use the comment feature on the "Terrific Tuesday Sale" post to add your OLA ID and the auction # of the item you bid on or purchased. That's all there is to it! At the end of the game, we will add up the bids/buys for all who participate. The person with the most entries wins a prize!
KornKountryTreasures and CountryNaturals are offering $2 gift certificates to all new members who sign up today.
Click here to find participating members and their specials. Check back on this blog, often, to see more super specials. HAPPY SHOPPING!
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