A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Raining Cats and Frogs!

Happy days! The rains have finally decided to come our way and what a blessing it has been. We got 3 days of good hard soaking rain. It's such a wonderment that when the trees, shrubs and flowers are so parched from the lack of water and then the rains start, just like that, I swear, I can hear them sigh in complete contentment with joyful relief. Even the birds and the little tree frogs that live around my house sing louder and a bit more cheerfully! Pure wonderment!

So today after the rain I noticed little drops of liquid heaven on a few of my plants so I snapped a few pictures. The first are of my cactus with all her babies around her and drops of juicy refreshment gently resting in and on her prickly blond hairs! :-)

The next photos are of my Asparagus Fern with little dew drops clinging to her needles and her little white flowers.

And finally I have a picture of my Elephant's Foot plant with a few little sparkling sprinkles of her own too!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the pictures and until next time, have a Ya Ba Daba Do of a week!

Dog Days Of Summer

Feelin' Hot Hot Hot!

Oh my, August is here and we are having one Hot Tamale of a summer. Record highs and dry as a bone down here. Thank goodness for air conditioning and good books to read!

I have finally gotten around to taking a few snaps of the cross stitch I had been working on (because of a big nudge from my beautiful sister from way up north in Alaska) to show you. It's a sweet little pattern by Little House Needleworks called Prairie Sampler. I have to be honest and say, Hi, I'm Karan and I am a total procrastinator!

So when I put my needle down on this project I haven't picked up that needle since. But as one who suffers from Gemini Addiction Affliction, where one is addicted to starting a new project before the others are finished, as you have seen, I had started my Garden Girl doll that is so dear to my heart. In fact, she is coming along very nicely and I'll be getting a few more pictures of her so you can see how she is blossoming now.

But first, here is my Prairie Sampler. And now I have itchy fingers to pick up this needle with floss in it and do another row of cross stitching! :-)

Prairie Sampler
Little House Needleworks

Well, I guess that's about it for now. In fact I think I'm getting a terrible urge to start something new! Hmmmmmm, perhaps a bit of scrapbooking might be just the ticket! ;-)

Adios for now. Be safe, be happy and enjoy the rest of these Dog Days of summer.