Springtime at Happy Acres

I love Spring. I don’t know about you, but for me this time of the year just makes me so happy. Along with the happiness brings lots of things to do including gardening.  However, yesterday I worked on one of my favorite places for this time of the year – our screened porch.

We enjoyed dinner out there last night, the first of many lunches and dinners and  lots of porch sitting.

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While I was cleaning the porch yesterday I was wondering when my love of screened porches started. We never had one when I was growing up, and it wasn’t until I was in my 40s that I lived in a house with one. I moved from that house to a house with a deck instead of a porch. I realized how much I missed that screened area. When we moved here one of the first projects on our agenda was to have a screened porch added. I’m so glad we did since we do enjoy this area so much.

The blueberries are coming on.

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I’m almost finished mulching the rows in the asparagus bed.

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The cherry tree has lots of blooms!

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I usually don’t take pictures of the before weeding and mulching, but here they are. This area will shortly be filled with ferns and hostas.

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And here is the sun garden with the lavender plants waiting for me to weed. Looks like they all made it through the winter.

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This is the first year in a long time that the deer have not eaten our tulips. I dug most of them up since they never have a chance. Here are a few that came back.

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Inside I’ve been busy. I dyed this cotton gauze for a baby blanket with a matching burp cloth. I still need to surge the ends of the blanket.

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This pincushion was made from some of my fabric.

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One of the local magazines, Love It EVV, featured one of my mandalas I drew just for them for an article on mandala mania written by my friend Ange.

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I’ve also spent a lot of time working on my online class, Icy Delights: Dyeing Fabric With Ice, which should go live soon!!

Well, that’s all for this beautiful Sunday morning. I hope today brings you happiness and joy and some creative fun. Thanks for dropping by.