Gardening, Stitching and Cuteness

Well...this week is gone.  I know that Wednesday was trash day, but not sure what I did the rest of the week.  LOL

Our weather went from the low 60's to the low 90's.  I am just too darn old for that type of drama.  It seems that I am outside most mornings just keeping up with watering.  On the garden front...I am cucumber challenged.  I planted zucchini and cucumber seeds on the same day, in the same soil.  Hmmm.  Here are my plants today.  Guess which is which.  LOL  I had the same problem last year with my lemon cucumbers.  I thought it was just the seeds.  Nope.  It's all me.  LOL

I got berries!!  Granted, not a lot, but I see them on the way.  This the first year for both plants so I'm not expecting much.

Out checking my irises and found this beauty.  I honestly don't remember purchasing or planting this plant.   But it's here...and it's in my garden...so it must be mine!! 

Lots of roses this week.  The pink is so much pinker in real life, almost neon.  I planted it several years ago and am horrible with names.  But it sure is pretty.  Smile.

I love geraniums.  Pretty forgiving and easy to start your own.  These plants are all on my back patio.  I have a soft spot for the white.  Just so pretty.

These are my starts for this year.  I figure that if I shove some trimmings into the dirt and they grow...WIN!  LOL  It looks like all took this year.

On to stitching.  Have you ever seen a pattern that you love, love, love?  You purchase that pattern.  You begin stitching that pattern.  You completely forget about that pattern.  Oh?  Just me?  LOL  So I am watching Floss Tube.  I see this beautiful pattern and...there's a SAL!  I should do that!  Let's buy that pattern.  Wait.  Why does that pattern look so familiar?  That would be because I purchased and began stitching that pattern about five years ago.  It's in a project bag in my side table.  Oh. My. Goodness.  I am such a dweeb.  LOL  I can't remember why I stopped stitching this.  The border matches...nothing needs to be frogged.  Guess what I'm working on this week. 

I completed a few finishes.  I found the first as a freebie and just wanted something quick and cute. Stitched, walnut stained and stuffed with walnut shells (lizard litter!  I love saying that.  LOL) The second was a Christmas freebie last year from Brenda Gervais, With Thy Needle and Thread.  It should have a bottom row of flowers.  I decided that I would never finish stitching it.  I had to make it into something or throw it away.  It is now a Christmas plaque. 

This is a cute little stocking that my friend stitched.  There are two more to finish. I will stay with the homespun bow and rusted bell for embellishments. 

Jack Jack is looking so sweet. Thank goodness.  He has eaten three pairs of my cheater glasses this week and if he wasn't so cute....LOL  He is very long and lean.  Just the right size to put his little paws on the kitchen table to grab anything close to the edge.  Usually that is my glasses.  I am being trained to put them on a small shelf next to the front door.  And he is working on ignoring me when I tell him not to put his paws on the table.

I'm off to finish laundry.  And today will be some stitching on the forgotten sampler.  LOL  Have a wonderful weekend.  Be kind to one another.