Baby Blue Eyes are blooming and the flowers are 3/4” - 1” wide. First try with the camera on the new phone.
Saturday morning my daughter called…what are you doing? Finishing breakfast and then I’m going to go over and feed Robin’s cats (Robin is in the city for the weekend). This was the opening weekend for the spring Farmer’s Market and did I want to go with her and the grands. So yes. Sarah and Paisleigh and Harrison picked me up and off we went. Lot’s of fun stuff for the kids; a bouncy house which Paisleigh only stayed in for a few minutes, too many bigger kids; a train of sorts with a four wheeler pulling the little cars; free balloons and popcorn for the kids; face painting, Paisleigh opted for full face.
Lots of vendors, mostly baked goods and arts and crafts since no one has a producing garden yet. We went mostly for the food. A Muslim family selling middle eastern dishes from which I bought two gyros, another family selling empanadas from which I bought four, another woman selling tamales which I also bought. All of it very good. Then we went over to Hesed House for the kids to play on the little playground there but it has recently been closed, fenced off, for more work on the levee behind it. The levee project is a result of practically the whole town flooding after hurricane Harvey. The kids just ran around the HH grounds, Harrison being able to get out of the stroller, and then we checked out the market. After we returned home we walked the kids down to the other end of the street so Paisleigh could play with Carly, one of Rocky’s grandchildren that live with him and Melissa, for a little while, and then back home and I was done. Ate my empanadas for lunch and then took a nap. I never take naps. Well, hardly ever.
Sunday I watered pots and ground, front and back, checked on my tomato plants, clipped off all the dead leaves and noted that three of the five are starting to show some new growth,
cut back the dead Mexican bird of paradise and the dead limbs of the already growing white orchid tree/shrub with the mini chainsaw across the street, still have two more things to cut back over there having done the banana trees on Friday. I meant to replant my green beans but I’ll get to that today (now done).
And I finally finished the one bookmark so here are the latest three.
Tomorrow I have a dermatologist appointment (8 am! but my choice so I don’t have to wait an hour or more) and Wednesday my bi-annual follow up with the electrophysiologist. Thursday my niece is coming in to spend the day with us before she checks into her hotel for the weekend in the city. She’s coming in from Albuquerque so I hope she’s traveling through Hobby and not IAH with the new deployment of ICE to catch all the illegals that can afford airfare and have to go through customs, because yeah all the illegals are doing that fooling the customs agents. Most the videos show them just standing around (without masks!) though I did see one of them wrestling a latino looking woman to the ground while her little girl stands there crying. I don’t know if she was flying out or arriving or just laying over. You’d think if she was flying out they’d let her go but no, the point is cruelty, treat them inhumanely as long as possible before deporting them.
I love your bookmarks.
ReplyDeleteCurrently a stranded beetle with a cast and no weight bearing means the grandchild has all the power over me. There is no escape and by nighttime my bed/sofa is covered in soft toys, books, colouring material and snacks while we slowly drift off to sleep together.
Thanks. I'm having fun with them.
DeleteYou may seem imprisoned but you are forging a deep bond with your granddaughter.
DHS is one corrupt organization. I've read different accounts of why she was stopped, but the main thread seems to be brown skin.
ReplyDeleteIt's been corrupt since it's inception af 9/11. It needs to go.
DeletePaisleigh’s painted face is wonderful but then I suppose it’s all about the canvas. I can’t imagine living in the States and experiencing the presence of the gestapo of the orange menace.
ReplyDeleteIt looked great until the first time she absentmindedly rubbed her face with her hand.
DeleteThe only thing that gives me peace about this is knowing that all these people will face real justice once Trump is gone.
Paisleigh looks terrific - almost as good as your bookmarks!
ReplyDeleteThanks David.
DeleteDidn't take long though for the kitty face to get smeared.
Whow, you sure deserve a nap, or at least a put up the feet and enjoy that treat. Our Tailgate market won't open seriously for another couple of months, but sometimes they put on a special at a local outdoor restaurant venue. I should go. Loved the face painting!
ReplyDeleteThere's a farmer's market down the highway a bit that is open all year, sources local produce when available.
DeleteThose baby blue eyes are a reminder that while I'm working my sweet little rear end off, spring is on the move. I managed to get out last weekend, but it's clearly time to head into a different part of the state. Even a hundred miles can make quite a difference in what's around. I remember a spot just north of I-10 where the baby blue eyes were thick along a country fenceline. I'd love to find them again.
ReplyDeleteCodex: Like how the bookmarks turned out. Are you laminating them?
ReplyDeleteNo, just sealing them with a clear acrylic spray. I have no way to laminate them and I'm not sure how they would look laminated anyway. I rather like the feel of the paper over plastic. I've been thinking though that I ought to put them in a book to make sure they won't rub off on the pages.
DeleteYou can buy self adhesive clear foil. May be an option? Codex
DeleteWatch Dungeons and Dragons Honor of Thieves. You'll like it.
I found a small package of self adhesive clear film so I'll try it out.
DeleteThe bookmarks are lovely and so is Paisleigh!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ellen. Didn't take long for it to become smeared on one side when she brushed the hair away from her face.
DeleteThat wrestling of that woman was at San Francisco ...
ReplyDeleteI've been told later that the incident was unrelated to the ICE agents patrolling the airport.
DeletePaisleigh's face is so much fun! I love it. And all of that sounds exhausting to me. You deserved a nap!
ReplyDeleteAfter my daughter dropped me off she spent another two hours with them at a local park. Better her than me.
DeleteI'm glad I'm not passing through any American airports in the near future. I love Paisleigh's face paint! And the bookmarks are terrific too.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be getting better since the crush of spring break is over and mornings are more crowded than afternoons since everyone wants to fly out in the mornings. Supposedly Trump signed an order to pay the TSA agents but the House voted down the measure passed unanimously in the Senate.
DeleteMy garden is breaking my heart. What isn't dead is just pathetic. Back to the nursery I must go! And the bamboo has started sprouting and so I need to be on bamboo kicking detail and the sagos need trimming and the camellias really do too and there is so much crocosmia coming up and- Ellen. I'm not sure I can even vaguely keep up with this anymore.
ReplyDeleteI had to replant my green beans and they are just now starting to poke up and I don't think the last tomato plant is going to make it. I used to be able to work outside all day regardless of the heat. Two hours now and I'm done.
DeleteWhat fun with the fam and what beautiful bookmarks. The Ice agents in airports seem to be just walking around doing not much of anything. That video of them wrestling that mother to the ground was unrelated to the airport deployment apparently. Sadly TSA turned her in from a watch list supplied to them in San Fran. She was trying to travel domestically.
ReplyDeleteI read TSA didn't want ICE helping them because they weren't trained. What happens to the kids when they take down a parent in front of them?
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