freshly spun

hmmm...not quite what I had in mind...
well - these certainly look alright next to one another...

ooooh!
lookin' good!I think I'm in love!

hobbledehoy's 100% merino (Hosta)
+ dream in color 100% merino (Into the Mystic)

april showers

japanese maple, lettuce (growing everywhere), dwarf sugar peas, raspberry bushes are getting some leaves, tulips, and thinned out the lettuce, which means we'll have a tasty salad for lunch and it also made a pretty bouquet!

We did some weeding today, transplanted some of the black eyed susans around the garden, and planted more seeds, including more peas, lettuce, mesclun mix, carrots, kale, sweet peas, cilantro, cosmos, cockscomb, and jerusalam artichokes. All three of our rhubarb plants have come up and our asparagus is a bit on the tiny side, but it came back this year. The weather reports are predicting a lot of rain, so don't forget your umbrellas if you are heading out!

fixin' up the living room floor!

Last summer, we ripped up the carpet in our living room. This weekend, we finally got around to moving along with the project by finishing the border of the floor. We still need to finish the center of the floor, but we're pretty happy with how it looks so far.
This is a picture from last summer after we ripped up the carpet:

David sanded the part of the floor that wasn't covered in lead paint; he plugged the holes and patched them.
Since the border was covered with lead paint and we didn't want to sand or scrape nasty lead paint flakes, we decided to just paint over it. The above picture is David drawing a line for our border.
Then we put some primer on. I'd like to also point out that it might seem like David did all of the work since I'm not in any of the pictures; I'd like to let the record show that I did in fact help out with this project. I just happen to be the one who remembers to take pictures.
We spent all of 25 seconds in our local Home Depot paint aisle and picked out a garden sage color for our border.
After two coats of paint, this is how it looks so far!

getting warmer

hyacinth, prayer flags, rose of sharon, tulips, daffodils, rhubarb, apricot tree blossoms, and japanese maple buds

basil

regular basil (seeds were saved from last year's harvest) on the right and purple basil on the left

first weekend of april

daffodil, norway spruce, lettuce, lettuce growing lots of different places, italian heirloom tomato plants are looking bigger, and a dandelion green salad*

*Dandelion greens are packed with vitamins, but they can be bitter. A friend recommended mixing in hard boiled egg to cut through the bitterness; I also added chopped almonds, some of our oven-dried tomatoes from last year's harvest and then we poured a sweet homemade dressing on top. Yum!

billberry biscuit

It is no secret that David makes some of the best biscuits I've ever eaten.

Plop on some of his delicious homemade yogurt cheese with a spoonful of our peach butter and you've got yourself one ridiculously tasty treat.