A Mellow Life is A Good Life...#1

Thursday, July 9, 2009

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

Seriously the loveliest Twinkle Twinkle I have ever heard (or seen)

Monday, July 6, 2009

Two Different Easy Self Watering Containers

WooHoo!!!
Hubby (finally) put together our self watering pots.
Youtube is full of wonderful cheap ideas.
The first box he made with TWO storage containers. Each container is about 10 bucks, strainer about 2, making the total under $25.

Yea hubby!! (my grands were on hand to help also:)

One style is to cut off the bottom of one, and this is the reservoir for water.
Drain holes, and a hole for a strainer (to wick up water from reservoir to soil) are added next.

Here hubby is being supervised by the grands.
(I must comment my hubby loves little helpers)

Put the cut off bottom (with holes and strainer) in the not cut up container, add a pipe for filling, a hole down low for overflow, (we used a lid to hold the pipe in place) and TA DA!!!

Grand David and LauraJune were almost as impressed as I was:)
(actually they just wanted to hold the puppy:)

While looking on Youtube for directions we came across a plan where you just take these water containers, empty them, cut their bottoms off, put them in one container, make a fill hole, put in a fill pipe (she used water bottles), over flow hole, and

Ta Da!!!
I must say the second way was SO EASY!!! In this style the water wicks up from the spaces between the water containers that has been filled with soil. The storage container was just under 10 (I'm using big containers), the water containers were 2.5 each, I needed 4, so just over $20.
(I had an old container I went ahead turned into a SWC, and if you use these type of water containers normally this would be really recycling)

We decided to 'experiment' with both styles. Check out these videos-easy as pie:)

Thanks Hubby!!! (and of course my models, LauraJune, David and Frankiebaby:)

New "Favorite" Tool

The Garden Guy, on HGTV recommended this, so when I saw one at Lowes, I bought one for myself for Mother's Day.

Here's the 'scoop' (so to speak):
Ames True Temper Planter's Buddy 7-in-1 Hand Tool
Item #: 248710
Model: 2500800 $13.78
Multi-purpose stainless steel garden tool features 7 tools in 1!
Trowel, weeder, sod cutter, twine/bag cutter, measurer, digger, and tamper handle
Use tamper feature to tamp in fertilizer spikes, stakes, and small nails.
Serrated edge on tool blade easily cuts through bags of mulch an soil.

Since I'm currently weeding I love the little weeder tip, the serrated edge does cut through plastic bags, and it is solid steel. I like the twine cutter, and the measuring marks (because I'm trying to plant things the right spacing:)
The handle is comfort coated, and this blue is easy to spot.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

4th of July

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
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(from an email):
Please support all of the troops defending our Country.
And God Bless our Military who are protecting our Country & our Freedom.
Thanks to them, and their sacrifices, we can celebrate the 4th of July.
"I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform;so young, so tall, so proud.
With hair cut square and eyes alert,he'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil; how many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night, when everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant 'Amen.'
When a flag had draped a coffin of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children, of the mothers and the wives, of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea.
Of unmarked graves in Arlington
No, freedom isn't free.
Enjoy Your Freedom and God Bless Our Troops."
(After you read this please stop and say a prayer for our servicemen and country.
Of all the gifts you could give a soldier, prayer is the very best one.)