Such A Nice Day

Here is my work in progress.  That top section took way longer than I had planned.  It was not as much fun as other sections so I was not working really fast on it.  I was really happy to put the last stitch in that section.  It is beautiful.  Aww, crud.  Just now as I was looking at the photo I see that I missed a spot.  sigh...

Today was a lovely day.  The winds had totally died down. This afternoon I started to work on the backyard but ended up in the front yard.  I still had bedding plants in their containers so I wanted to get them in the ground before it was too late.  I also got my jasmine planted along with my red calla lily.  I had California poppies growing wildly that I transplanted to nicer places in the yard.  I love poppies and the orange pops in my color scheme of my garden.  I also moved some really pretty alyssum around.  My neighbor and I love to talk gardening, so I got to chat with him for a while.  His daughter came along and told me that my front yard looks so beautiful.  That made me feel really good.  It makes me feel like I am contributing to the neighborhood by making sure my front yard looks nice.  Pretty much everyone on my block works to keep their houses and yards looking nice.

Liesl and I worked it bit on our homework for her training class.  I am so surprised by how quickly she learned the hand signals.  She is so smart.  She gets so excited when she shes that we are going to work on her commands.  I love the fact the she enjoys it so much.  She is a pretty smart little dog.

I got to play a little on the internet this afternoon, too.  I found that Safeway has a pretty good web page with lots of stuff on it.  Sales, coupons, healthy living recipes, grocery lists that you can print out.  I was pretty impressed and vowed to use it more often.  I also found that they have home delivery in my area.  I don't like going to the grocery store, but even less so when I am super duper busy.  I am thinking that in really busy times of the year, like the holidays, this might be well worth it instead of fighting the crowds.  

The other thing that I did research on is worm bins for recycling kitchen scraps.  I found that they are actually pretty easy to make.  My coworker has a worm bin and offered to give me starter worms.  I am thinking that this is a project I will have to tackle soon.  Worm casings are really good for soil, too.  I learned alot and I am excited about getting started on it.  

Well, it has been a wonderful day.  I am off to say my prayers of thanks for it.