Topic: The weekly flower report!
Good Morning! I', much better thanks for asking. What's that? You prefer the piccy of dark jedi George? Okay, then next time i have a migraine it's back to George Costanza! That was a wowser of a headache for a while. Did i mention I hate headaches? I do. For a while I was getting a migraine every ten days it seemed...After I switched my diet to wheat free gluten free the headaches went way down in frequency and intensity. I wonder if they were connected?
When I opened the door to get the morning newspaper I heard something strange...it sounded like tweet-tweet-twitter-tweet. There's only one bird that has that song, and when the sun is shining and the snow is melting that little song can only mean one thing...the robins have returned. Farewell to winter...hello to spring!
Much of the snow is melted and/or melting. Three ice storms worth of crap has migrated to the surface of the uck...I'd say snow and ice but its' mostly just uck--ice pellets, dirt, branches...If you look at the very edges of the snow melt you might be able to see spring tail ice fleas. These little insects live on the edges of melting snow, it's their dropping and dead bodies that make snow-melt edges that atrocious black. Then they go to where ever it is that seasonal insects go when it's not their season. In the forest there's a large group of fungi, primarily ascomycetes -that inhabit the fringes of melting snowbanks. They reach their peak diversity in the western mountains, around here we have bullnoses and the like. While these are close relatives of the good old Morel, they are all inedible and a few are toxic. Several of theses snowbank false morel contain MMH, which is a well know rocket fuel. I doubt rocket fuel is healthy for human consumption!
My garden is now exposed. There are many sprouting spring onions, I'll be able to have spring onion with everything this year. I need to go to the seed store and get my early spring seeds, such as peas, lettuces, and spinach. Remember I planted some spinach last fall, hoping to see it sprout in the spring? Guess what? It's sprouts ahoy! We have spinach seedlings! Thee cold spring weather is what gives us those tight curly crispy leaves. In a few weeks I'll have fresh spinach, then I'll make some chicken Florentine, or just enjoy the sweet leaves raw.
There are little horns of green poking out of the soil, There are day lilies, tulips, crocii -- I don't have daffodils because I find the scent of them nauseating. Really! To me daffodils don't smell pretty --they smell like urine!
Late today I need to go to my garden shed and dig out my seed starting stuff. I need to get the peat pellets and seeds from Ontario seed on King Street. As I said, it's like having a seed catalogue in walking distance. I also want to get more lilies and day lilies. Vesey's seeds has an alluring assortment of hardy lilies and day lilies in a bunch of amazing colours. I want more lilies in the front flower gardens. I want to be known as the home with the lilies. I had so much luck with the marigold last year I'm going to start more. I also had good luck with coleus, those brilliant coloured foliage plants that love growing in shade. I also need to go to Warren Greenhouses on Strange street and see if their pansies are ready to be sold. They said last week of March/first week of April weather permitting.
I learned a new emoticon! It's heavy metal headbanger! \m/ \m/ I was quite disappointed Dan didn't do the head banger thing during his high school graduation. So were several of the teachers. Dan thought it might be disrespectful and the one teacher said a kid graduating with honors and an Ontario Scholar designation is allowed to headbang. If he had a lower average...then not so much.I know there are parents who would be horrified if their kid did the headbanger thing while getting their high school diploma, but thankfully I don't have a pole up my ass. So \m/\m/ away!
What else? Not much, as I did have a headache yesterday. Oh yes! That shirt I was thinking about! I cut it out, sewed it together and adjusted the fit. Now I have to piece together the scraps so I can face the neck edges and the button/buttonhole areas. Then it just hemming and buttons and I'm done. I'm thinking rhinestone buttons...it's quite luxurious looking and it needs luxury buttons. It has a real nice vintage/oriental look. made a slightly raised and darted petal collar, something I saw on a few of my vintage patterns. And they also had rhinestone buttons. This gives me an excuse to go to the sewing store in Conestoga Mall. They have plenty of luxury rhinestone buttons there.
I've been reading the advice for Project Runway hopefuls (no. I won't tell you where I'm getting it. And BPR has only a handful of what I'm getting.) --and it's quite informative. Almost everyone has the same major points to make. When one person says something...meh. When ten people say the same thing...then it's something to take seriously. It's pretty much what I was thinking...have a point of view, and identity, let the three outfits reflect the point of view, and all the pictures in the portfolio should reflect the point of view, and most importantly, be a unique individual and be one's self. There's more, but I think that's the important stuff. Oh yeah, all the former contestants say the same thing: you absolutely must know how to sew, sketch, cut garments, sew, make patterns, sew, drape, and sew. All of them emphasize the sewing. Nick's first words were: so you are thinking of auditioning. If you can't sew, don't go. I still can hear my cousin saying, I don't want to sew, I want to be a fashion designer! Ryerson's website says in the first paragraph, if you don't love sewing, don't apply for fashion design.
And that's all for now. When I have a migraine I don't do much of anything, I've learned the hard way that if I try to do things while headachy, I have to do them over again the right way the next day!
(edit: spelling errors. grammar lapses. forgotten topic.)
