Barbara L. sent me this picture for a screensaver. I wrote back and asked where is this place. Many of us would like to go there.
Used some of my expensive fabric from Sew Elegant and glued on a fabric candy corn nose. Glue is a dirty word for some dollmakers, but I use it anyway.
From PJ's fabric, this little Annie dressed for Halloween. The cat is painted, but not sanded. I may use glue but I don't use sandpaper. 
The cats woke me up early but I got to see the light show as the sun came up over Midge's house. This bush is totally green right now, later on it will be yellow but this morning it was just lit by the beautiful light coming in. It is called Solidago Fireworks. Happy Thursday.
I had a few tomatoes left over from the salsa so thought I would try my grandmothers stewed tomatoes. Not as good as hers of course....she would open up a jar of canned tomatoes, add some butter and sugar and a slice or two of white bread and cook a few minutes. Mae Utley always made these for me when we had a potluck at the Melvindale church. She was from Kentucky too.....
This is the poke salad fruit but if you see any, don't eat it. I think it is poison to us at this stage. But the birds love it.
When my mother, Emma, came to live in Michigan, she complained that there was no poke salad for spring cooking. We transplanted some for her and now it is all over this neighborhood. I always think of her and leave a plant grow for the birds. You can only eat it when it first comes up in the spring. And of course you cook it with bacon grease.
Directly behind my garden there is a chain link fence between our yards. We have passed our garden vegetables over this fence for more than 30 years. Midge died early this morning. 
This was John's first pancake breakfast at my house. Charlie has named my pancakes "Amazing" but not to my credit, the recipe is from Land O Lakes. 
Messy kitchens are happy ones, mine is delirious. Tyler, Charlie's friend, John and Charlie celebrate breakfast. Recipe below.
This tomato is called Black Krim, it has a really good taste, sweet and juicy. I will plant it again.
These are new hollyhocks, Country Romance from Burpee. They are about 4 feet tall, and the foliage looks very nice. That's not true of all hollyhocks, eeww, they mildew. Some of them are maroon but I didn't have any white ones. I'm hoping they will come back next spring. Happy Tuesday.
The Cat says..."after you take a picture of what you make you can find all kinds of flaws. The camera doesn't lie.
I made these up from some new patterns from Crows Roost Primitives. My favorite is the little fat cat. Mine are not as primitive but I am not so good with the extreme primitive look so mine usually turn out to be semi-prim. 
First, the really good stuff. I made some apricot jam from Connie's recipe. Go to the link, I Started Out As a Child. They must be in season, there were plenty of them at Meijers.
Lunch on Wednesday. No Thanks Charlie, I'm not interested.
This is an antique coffee grinder from Germany. I didn't buy it.....yet.
I did buy this....How on earth do you take a picture of a mirror? It's some kind of old door, I really liked it. 
I hope these little girls are not worried about being replaced by zombie dolls. I say this because of the Facebook buzz about the zombie dolls at Allen Park Street Fair.
It's at 1093 Fort Street, Lincoln Park (near Outer Drive).
Pink is nice.
Shoes anyone?
All good stuff...
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I saw one of these at The Farm and liked it. Yesterday I got one UPS from Kynda. I don't think it's early at all.
Just a fuzzy picture of Jordan, our Army guy, that we made from the computer yesterday. He is smiling and so are we, he will be home from Iraq the end of this month. Woo Hoo....
Charlie is cooking Italian. You can see there wasn't much left to take a picture of. We loved it.
I really like this flower that Barb gave me but she doesn't remember the name. I did a search on it and the closest I could come was a "Tree Marigold".
One site had a tea that you make from dried leaves and drink it for arthritis. I'm not sure that I would try that.
Along the privacy fence and in front are my black-eyed peas for New Year"s day.
It is a really tall plant. Charlie is five feet tall, so it must be at least six feet. Dave's Garden site says some grow as tall as twenty feet.( Charlie has been raiding the green beans for a snack.)
A friend asked me Sunday, how many generations have you raised. My answer would probably be, not nearly enough. I am so thankful I can still contribute and enjoy. I missed babysitting for Judson and Isaac and still think about that and now there's Betsy and Kyle in Kentucky that I will also miss out on. Sometimes I wish we could be everywhere.
It was a weekend just for the girls.......
we watched these yellow butterflies, they were everywhere......
we found some cleomes hiding here.......
and just sat on the porch and looked at their hosta garden..... and no, Dave, Elvis couldn't make it.
