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I wanted to share some photos with you of what we've been up to this past week--gardening.

Here's our vegetable garden. See the birdhouse in the back right hand side of the photo? A chickadee nest is in the house.


This is the little planter box next to the garage.


This is one of the native azaleas that we bought earlier this week. We still need to decide on where it is going to be planted.


Finally, here are some of the azaleas that line our back driveway. Aren't they pretty? The bees and butterflies just love them.


I've started a Tivoli T-shirt for daughter. (I tried to find a link to the pattern, and it looks like Grumperina has re-vamped it since I saved my copy. It's now called the Picovoli T-Shirt and comes in a wide range of sizes rather than just the original size 36 bust.) I'm using Cascade Sierra Quatro in color number 87. I love the yarn. It's a pink/magneta/royal blue/lime green mix. Each color is a ply in the yarn--actually, I think that the different colors are multi plyed and then these plies of colors are plied together. Did I use the word ply or a variant thereof enough times in that sentence? hehe In any case, I love the yarn and the pattern. I'd like to make daughter a coordinating skirt to go with the sweater, possibly in a small floral print. Progress photos of the t-shirt will hopefully be coming soon.

It's a gorgeous day here today, so we have a date with the deck, some knitting needles and Tivoli for me and a spinning wheel for husband. I think daughter will join us and read a bit.