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"Harvest Season"

With gardens now planted, you can look forward to harvest season. When you start to prepare for harvesting your crops, it is important to remember to use proper harvest and post harvesting methods. Here are some harvesting tips that apply for both vegetables and cut flowers.

• Keep all cutting edges sharp; a good sharp edge will increase your ease of harvest and put less stress on the plant and harvested material.
• Clean harvesting equipment frequently; this will help prevent the spread of diseases from area to area or plant to plant.
• Store your harvested material at the proper temperature; this will ensure the longest shelf life and give the material the best appearance.

Article courtesy of www.harrisseeds.com newsletter

Laughter is the BEST medicine!

Careful!!!  This will make you laugh so hard you can't stop!  I don't remember laughing so hard in a VERY long time!! My eyes were watering, my stomach hurt and I wasn't able to stop. So what did I do? Well, I called my neighbor of course and made her watch and die laughing with me!  Don't you just love great neighbors?

Enjoy!! But get the Kleenex as your eyes will be watering also!

family rated ok!   click HERE

Gwen on Dial Up

Thank you to Michelle Stamps of Boise, Idaho for sharing a photo of me waiting on my dial up service.

missing person report

I am having a whirl wind week and it isn't slowing down!  We painted the hallways and they are finally finished as of last night at 10 PM!

With a son in summer school morning and evening I am making 4 trips to the highschool daily
Tues morning is TOPS for me and after the meeting we were asked to hang out at the senior center for a presentation to a local man. His name is Raymond and the Lieutenant Governor honored him. It was fantastic and very moving! It is always wonderful to see an ex Marine or any branch of the service given an award especially when they are over the age of 65! Later in the afternoon on Tuesdays, Kasey has voice lessons at 2:30 and we go back to school at 6 for weight training for foot ball.

Yesterday I just called Vanessa and said, "Lets meet for lunch and CAN I COME OVER?" Lol  we met at subway and had a great time catching up, felt like years since I had seen or talked to her!

  HER NEW STAMP ROOM IS TO DIE FOR!
The photos don't do it justice.  Next time I go I will take my projects and stamp a while! And Larkey was laying in a basket, peering over the edge at me! hehehehe

The carpet cleaner guy left a while ago and every carpet in my home is wet so here I sit at the computer trying NOT to walk on anything- argh! And If I do... I have to remember not to just walk across the tile because I already fell once! lol

Our mower has been in the shop 3 weeks now and the part they need is backordered so I had to beg the neighbor boy to mow for me today (Argh). He is such a sweetie.

My husband is the most wonderfully kind, loving man I have ever known or met, so I talked him into some father's day purchases and we are still putting them together!  Tonight after he is home from work we are attacking the garage! Yippee!  The garage is a disaster. We have lived here 1 1/2 years now and never parked in it yet! We bought some MORE metal shelves and will assemble them and stack what we can fit on them tonight. Kay will then buy wood to build shelving at the ceiling level to put our many, many boxes of holiday decorations on and finally one of us will be parking in the garage before summer is over! Lol

I haven't stamped in so long I have almost forgot how and I can't today due to the carpets.  Next week my calendar is blocked off for stamping swaps for convention swaps.  I have NO clue what to make so if you have ideas let me know!!
I am thinking of lapel pins along the lines that Kelly purkey makes but not that intense!
I won't know till I get started but I do know that card fronts and 6x6 pages will be made too.

I hope my NEW SU 2007-08 catalogs show up by Friday so I have an idea what style to use for swaps. They shipped yesterday! hooray hooray!  Get your catalogs here!


So this is just an update on me and why I am not around much lately.  With the garden,  peas and beans are ready to pick when it cools off tonight, and my cilantro needs trimmed so do others- (will go out soon and do that before I forget! I need to spray also) of course while the carpets dry.
I just find myself never stopping-   it's ok but..............   

Hugs to all-

Retired Accessory List is here!

If you want to order any of these items before they are gone (they are color coded on the link by availability)

email me or call me! I placed a large order for 12x12 cardstock before they are all gone and for clear embossing powder!  HOLY CATS BATMAN, you better check out this list! Download US_CA_retiredaccessories.pdf

I am always amazed at what retires and grateful for the list so I can be prepared!

have a great day

Mosquito info

Here is information from a friend that came today. I wanted to share it with all of you.
The mosquitos in Missouri are THICK this year 24 hours a day! (insert frowny face)  I am a vitamin B1 taker so they dont bother me as badly as they do my hubby- they eat him alive even with deep woods off sprayed all over!

Attention Mosquitos.. prepare to be repelled!!!!!

Use Bounce Fabric Softener Sheets...Best thing ever used in Louisiana. just wipe on & go..Great for Babies

Bob, a fisherman, takes one vitamin B-1 tablet a day
April through October . He said it works. He was right.
Hasn't had a mosquito bite in 33 years. Try it.
Every one he has talked into trying it works on them.
Vitimin B-1( Thiamine Hydrochloride 100 mg.)

If you eat bananas, the mosquitos like you, - something about the banana oil as your body processes it.   
Stop eating bananas for the summer and the mosquitos
will be much less interested.

This is going to floor you, but one of the best insect repellents someone found (who is in the woods
every day), is Vick's Vaporub.

Plant marigolds around the yard, the flowers give off
a smell that bugs do not like, so plant some in that garden also to help ward off bugs without using insecticides.

"Tough guy" Marines who spend a great deal of time
"camping out" say that the very best mosquito repellant you can use is Avon Skin-So-Soft bath oil mixed about
half and half with alcohol.

One of the best natural insect repellants that I've discovered  is made from the clear real vanilla. This is the pure Vanilla that is sold in Mexico . It works great for mosquitoes and ticks,  don't know about other insects.

The retirement of a Pretty Princess

Here are some photos of samples I saw 3 years ago at convention.  I dont know who made them all, I will share 2 that I cased and made myself.  Pretty Princess stamp set is retiring in just 2 weeks!  Here are some great ideas to inspire you if you have the set or to help you get off the fence if you don't!

I cased this card at my uplines house and here is my copy.

Milk Carton Box (from a template) what a great gift idea!!

I cased this purple wand card also-

This book mark is too cute and I have no clue who made it. I hope you enjoy these shares and cards from my swap basket and from photos taken a long time ago!

Baby Wipe tips Memphis Regional January 2006

Photos are pretty self explanatory!

Dot baby wipe with Stampin Up! Reinkers

Choose  2 or 3 coordinating colors

 

Use the baby wipe as your ink pad and ink up your stamp

 

 

and there you go!  Now, I would love to post YOUR baby wipe creations here on my blog- just email them to me (please keep the file photos SMALL as I am on dial up and anything larger than 600 KB doesnt come through)  please include your name, any info and your blog or website link if you have one!

hugs- I am off to paint the hallway trim  g~

Todays thought

You can find the thought for today at this link. It's a good one!

Baby Jack!

I received TWO cd's yesterday loaded with photos of my grandson Jack (now 2 months old) and I am excited to share a few here with you !!

What a cutie bug! (he must be having dreams of being superbaby?)

Kris and Jack. Isn't this an adorable photo?  Oh, I remember those days when Ray (daddy) and I laid on the couch or bed and napped like this!

Ok enough show and tell for today! Thanks for sharing in my fun. g~