I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend. We don’t really celebrate Easter in a religious sense around our house but we do like to celebrate the joy of spring and things growing again in the garden. To celebrate I dyed some of the eggs from the chickens, because well I like to dye things, not much is really safe from being dyed around here, accept maybe the dog.
Aside from egg dyeing we had a pretty busy and productive weekend. I am most proud of what we got done in the yard. A month or so ago I liberated (with permission!) a smallish shipping pallet with about 15 inch board sides from the tile place near my work. Of course a month ago it was still too wet and cold to set up a planter box but this weekend finally its time came. Saturday, Will and I hit the hardware store and got some fine 1/8″ hardware cloth, two big bags of “organic” potting dirt and a bunch of herb starts (my seedlings all died).
The hardware cloth went in the pallet as a liner to keep the dirt in the box while letting the water drain out. Then of course went in the two bags of dirt and lastly I set in the herb starts. I put in Sweet Basil, Cilantro, Sage and Oregano. I put a lavender plant in a separate pot as they can get big.
Will put in the squash starts in the main garden plot. Now we just hope the chickens leave it all alone, so far so good but we’ll see.
The last fun thing I did was go to a book signing on Friday night with my friend Stephine at our local yarn shop, A Verb For Keeping Warm. The book is How to Knit A Heart Back Home by Rachael Herron. If you like romance novels head to your local book store and get a copy. Unlike many knitting themed novels this one is actually a good read, even if you are not a knitter and if you are then it is even more fun then your average modern time romance. Rachael herself is a very sweet and funny gal in person, Stephanie and I stayed a while afterward to sit and knit with her and a couple other folks including Kristine and Adrienne the awesome gals that own and run A Verb.
You can find out more about Rachael, her knitting and her writing at her blog Yarn-A-Go-Go.
There is lots more I did this weekend but I’ll save it for a later date. I’m off to play with yarn.
