What's Up?

I can’t believe that I have not posted since Tuesday.  Since I am running two blogs I of course don’t have time to post on both everyday, but I have not posted on my other blog since Wednesday, I guess I am slacking off.  I do spent way too much time here in my cozy little office.  I work all day in here doing my two jobs and I run my Etsy shop and blogs.  I am trying to spend more time on my other interests and projects such as gardening (duh), scrap booking (for myself and family/friends), my family album scanning project an other misc. crafts as well as keeping up with house hold chores (yuck) and I was just thinking I need to re-organize my office.

So, what have I been doing that has kept me away?  Well, my mom and brother came to visit on Thursday and stayed until Saturday.  They live in Roslyn Washington (the home of Northern Exposure) along with my dad.  My dad has to stay home though to take care of the two cats and to go feed the horses.  My mom has one miniature horse which she keeps at a friends farm and he is kept company by a pony which belongs to her friend as well.  Roslyn is about an hour and a half from the Seattle area. 

“The Brick” one of Roslyn’s main attractions and oldest running saloon in Washington (so I have heard).  I had a great plate of spaghetti here once when my sister gave me the grand tour.  She worked there for a little while.

They usually come to visit every couple months and stay for a few days.  There is no where good to shop over there so we usually spend some time out shopping.  Friday we went to Half Price Books (we both read a lot), Joann Fabric, Cost Plus and Storables and then we brought dinner home from Burger Master Drive In…Yum!  Saturday we went to Michaels and then to Wight’s Nursery one of my absolute favorite places.  Wight’s at Christmas time is an awesome sight, they have tons of decorated trees and any item you could ever think of for the holidays.  This last year they even had a cute little tear drop trailer in one of their displays.  This visit I bought a new bird house with a copper roof (will post pic later) and a flat of different types of Creeping Thyme.   Some of my Creeping Thyme on my rockery has died off a bit and does not look like it is coming back so I am going to plant some fresh to jazz it up a bit.  I am also going to integrate some into my spring project.

Three varieties of Creeping Thyme, Thymus “Pink Chintz”, Thymus “Highland Cream” (variegated) and the grayish green thyme on the upper right is Wooly Thyme.  The bright green Thyme  will have lovely pink flowers in late spring.

The time with my mom went by quickly as usual and they headed home in the early evening on Saturday.  My son and I will be heading over to visit them near Mother’s day as we usually do every year.  I did get a little bit of yard time in after they left Saturday, I got the Star Jasmine (evergreen) and one of my Clematis pruned back finally.

Future postings: my new bird house, all about Creeping Thyme and more about Roslyn, WA.