Butler Farms Marsh

 Today Tommy took the boys and Millie to the marsh

We used to take our kids ice skating on it.

Not thick enough yet.

Sunday we are supposed to get snow.

I am looking forward to snow.

 We really haven't had much this winter.

Antiques and Hooked Rugs Rug

There is nothing better to me than antiques and hooked rugs.

This is a adaption of an antique rug.

It is a gloomy gray day here.

Trying to stay busy. I have been cleaning every drawer.

Kitchen cabinets and will start getting rid of clutter.

Last year during Lent, I filled up a garbage bag every day

with stuff I want anymore. Donated a lot.

Primitive Handmades Mercantile January Update

 We are having our monthly update tonight on PHM.

This is a design that I originally hooked for our friends.

 

Choosing Dahlias

I LOVE Dahlias! The flowers are beautiful.

These are some of the ones I grew last summer.

Just got a Dahlia catalogue, choosing which ones

I'm going to order.

Love these colors. The Pom Pom last in arrangements. 

I am going to get more of those in different colors.

 The only drawback is you have to dig them up in the fall.

They won't make it through the winter and will freeze.

It's fun digging them up and seeing how the tubers multiply.

 

A Favorite Flower

A couple of years ago I bought a bouquet of these flowers.

I fell in love, they look like roses.

The name of them are Linanthus.

The colors are so soft.

Almost every bud opens up.

Everyone says they are very hard to grow from seed.

This past spring I found them at

an Amish greenhouse.

She buys the plugs and starts them that way.

I had very good luck growing them.

So this spring I am going to plant lots of them.