The Homemaker has left the buildings... the merchantile, the house and is now taking on
The Great Outdoors!
We were watering weeds. Really? (totally different post) That just needed to stop. The city is putting in meters and while I completely agree with supporting my community, I'd rather donate to a cause than to pay for wasted precious resources like H2O. However, I can't just have a
I know! A POOL!
Yeah, that's gonna cost ya. No pool? Crud. Maybe next year... or the decade after that. (the plans are dated July 5, 2007)
Have I mentioned I love all things Susan Branch? My wonderful Aunt Sharon, who went on ahead of us to share her beaming personality with God several years back, introduced me to Susan Branch's line of cookbooks. A few years ago, Cap'n Jack (Lt. Dan got a promotion! yip yip hooray!) and I were in Cambria, CA at "Antiques on Main" (what a fun shop! 3 stories of non-stop antiquing heaven!) and I caught a glimpse of that wonderful watercolor-looking art I know and love sitting on a shelf! It was a perpetual daytimer! "Days from the Heart of the Home". (By the way, I am the mouse in "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"... I just stopped all that I was doing to go find the Susan Branch website and "liked" it on FB!) Each page lovingly penned and watercolored with amazing little trinkets and treasures of thoughts and wonderfulness. In the page adjacent to May 19-23 there is a garden plan... More accurate, *THE* garden of my dreams!
That was the start of this latest and greatest project!
So here it is Day 1: the inspiration piece and the beginning of my vision... Un petit jardin.
Stick around! There will be many more posts to come in the next handful of days of our STAYcation!
