Edited to Add--- and other stuff - MY LITTLE CORNER

All through my last post I talked about "blue salvia".  There is a blue salvia, but what I meant to say was that the blue flowers in my beds are "blue sage" - very similar but very different, too.  So, I stand corrected (by myself).

I ran into this lady from California at the Blue Moon Gardens in Edom, Texas, yesterday and she was carrying around a leaf of this little plant she called "silver dichondra". I googled a picture of the 'silver' to show you but she was wantin' the dark green color - She wanted to cover her yard with it...

 

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I told this lady that this was just plain ole kidneyweed (some call it dollarweed, but dollarweed is completely circular) and that if she wanted some all she had to do was come over to my house and dig all she wanted out of my yard under the shade trees.  She said in California, people put this stuff in their yards and it makes a nice lawn - never have to mow it.  Well, I guess here in Texas we have centipede, saint augustine and bermuda and we like to see a nice "stand" on our grass. 'Course we have lots of hot summer sun here in Texas, so we don't usually have alot of cool, shady, damp spots in our yards.  She ain't from around here, for shore!  Hope she's not plannin' on having a kidneyweed yard here in Texas!

In other news, I went to the "SPRING FLING" at My Little Corner in Noonday, Texas, on Saturday. It was fun. I was actually pressed for time, cuz we were having my sweet dad's 75th Birthday get-together-charcoaled hamburgers -n- birthday cake - with the fam - minus one grandson, SO I didn't get to shop like I wanted.  I did get a few pictures for you, tho, and highlight of my trip over there was meeting a fellow blogger - Elaine from Soggy Bottom Flats!  also Margo from Margo's Junkin' Journal was manning the cash register - she has a booth over there doncha know.

Margo has become a sweet friend of mine that I don't get to see enough - she's going 90 MPH all the time with her hair on fire. Her booth is well-stocked at all times - if you've not been over there, YOU NEED TO GO! I don't know where Margo gets her energy!  We meet up at our local favorite Mexican Food restaurant from time to time to catch up! Here's a shot of Margo and Bill,one of the owners - he's real nice!

You really should see this place - might take you a couple of days. There are so many different vendors and lots of tastes and styles of antiques, vintage items, and junk - good junk, mind you - repurposed industrial junk decor is the "newest thing" in junk, so I hear.

This is a lovely lady from around Canton, Texas, way - meet Elaine, from Soggy Bottom Flats Quilting & Stitching.  You should go visit her blog - she quilts beautifully and she has a gob of blogging friends that do, too! 

Of course she was drawn to all the quilting stuff right off!  Here she is again checking out some squares amidst some of the ever-so-cool stuff for sale!!!  Happy hunting Elaine! It was SO nice to meet you!!!

See the tan slender lady behind the popcorn machine?  She's Sherri, Bill's wife. Together, they have a great thing going here at Our Little Corner!

You see that old vintage Coke cooler?  Well, I WAS TOO LATE. I wanted it bad, but it was done got. Dang.

Hey, go inside and tell somebody to come out here n move their big ole Mercury out from the front of the store so's I can take a decent picture!!!!!  If you wanna see more pictures of the sale, go check out Margo's blog, and also Our Little Corner's blog!!!

Well, there you have it folks.  My trip to Our Little Corner.  I did not spend any $$$ which was good, cuz my husband keeps tellin' me that I don't need any more junk. Can you believe that?  But I DID get to meet Elaine, a bloggy friend, and I got to see my friend Margo again.  Margo, I got a hankerin' for some enchiladas, girl!

Our Little Corner SALE!!!

Our Little Corner is behind the Blue Store in Noonday Texas.  Just a few miles south of Tyler on Hwy 155 S.  It's a neat place - all sorts of vendors and all sorts of goodies there ripe for the pickin'!  Make it YOUR FIRST & LAST STOP for the day's shoppin' for lotsa good stuff, vintage, antique & quirky!  My friend, Margo at Margo's Junkin' Journal has a booth there and she'll be there all day. Go check her blog out for some sneak peaks! Great folks out there!  Hope to see you there, too!

Around Sand Flat Farm...

Meanwhile, back at the farm..

Just a few shots of what's going on at the Farm.  They're not in any certain order. I just haven't had much time for blogging lately.  But I thought this might be a little bit entertaining - at least it was for me!  Garden's going good so far... cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, purple hull peas, green beans, onion, cukes, watermelon, cantaloupe, a little corn, some dill for my pickles, cilantro for hotsauce, all kinds of peppers, squash & zucchini.

Into the sun view - don't look at the weeds...

Here's the side of my little tin garage with the rusty roof. I did this flower bed last year and my son made me a flower box and covered it with this old shutter. Neat, huh?  Planted dianthus here last fall, and they came back beautifully as did my roses.  I added some lilies of different colors, but they haven't bloomed yet. I also added some blue salvia and I think I'm going to add some more - I love that stuff!  Found these old fence pieces at a garage sale for $2 apiece.

Can you see my little mini-gardener perched on this piece of fence?  He likes it here very much - I see him quite often!

Here's a better shot of my salvia and my rock edging.  Eventually I'm going to collect enough rocks to do all my flower beds. Looks more old-timey, and I'm all about old-timey, rusty, chippy, and broken-down!

Another view of the back of the house. Oh yeah - red potatoes - I forgot to add them to my list.

I'm really proud of this flower bed of roses. It was the first one I did at the farm.  I've been learning as I go. Tony and I attacked this one and did it.  It has pink and red roses, snapdragons, zinnias, verbena, a crepe myrtle, and a vesuvius plum - the dark purple.  Gotta find me some more rocks...

Ok, I'm having trouble moving these pictures in the order that I wanted so you're gonna have to bear with me here. Sorry.

Now - look at this old iron crib. I got it for a steal at a garage sale. I thought my husband was gonna have a fit when I got him to go with me to pick it up. "WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS OLD PIECE OF JUNK FOR?" Well, I don't know yet, but I just couldn't pass it up.  So I'm asking YOU guys - what do you think I should do with it?  Make a flower bed in it - maybe roses or something?  Maybe let some viney flowers grown on the end pieces?  The one side piece comes off, and I thought maybe I could hang that up or put it in a flower garden somewhere and put clematis or something on it.  GOT ANY GOOD IDEAS???

Oh, and what's THIS I see on my tomato vines?  Ah-HA!  Little tomatoes! Oh I can't wait til tomato season!!!!  A tomato and onion sandwich with mayo (maybe throw in a couple of slices of bacon - that's called "baconizing", people).  YUMM-O!!!

Ok, see I couldn't get this one to go where it should have.  Just another pic of my roses...

The bluebirds would NOT come to the door of their house when I wanted a picture.  This house has been up for nearly 4 years now, and this year is the first year for bluebirds to nest in it!  We have tons of bluebirds out here on the farm, those and also scissortails - you can always hear them fussing.

Lookie here - can anyone tell me what's been chompin' on my cabbage and what I can do to get rid of the chomper?  I'll fightcha for my cabbage.  Daddy says we gotta let nature have a little, bitty portion of our harvest, gotta share a little, but looks like nature could limit their chomping to just ONE of the cabbages and not all of 'em.  Greedy little boogers.

Now on to other matters.  My guys are leaving today for a fishing trip to the White River in Arkansas.  They are looking forward to it and I hope they have good weather, and no tornadic activity!  Adam, my oldest, will go on back to Nashville, so that leaves me a sad mom today.  I told him he better not wait for 5 months to come back home again.  I know he's been super busy song writing and on the road playing, but that's just too long.  We had a trip planned to go up there, but that was when MIL fell and broke her hip. (by the way, she's doing well, but now she's having a problem with "drop foot". I'm taking her to the Dr. on Tuesday - bet she's got some nerve damage or something...)  I will be enjoying having some time off to do what I want - either go see family or spend time with friends, etc. YEA!  Princess will be home, too, so I'm sure we'll find something to get into!  We always do!

Have a wonderful weekend, friends.  Sorry I'm brain dead and can't blog about something worthwhile of your time.  So many of you have such wonderful well-thought posts about politics or current affairs or religion or such, and I wish I could do that. But I can't today. Take care of yourselves and know that I'm thinking of you "con mucho carino" (I can't get the tilde thingie to work)   Bye!

Let's Hear It For The GIRLS!!!

My daughter put the whoop on her brother and PopPop last Saturday.  My little tomboy all grown up into a girly-girl kicked butt on their fishin' trip.  Princess has been wantin' to go fishin' but has been away at school, so when she got home Thursday afternoon, she called my daddy to take her.  Her big brother also went. Princess hasn't been in awhile, but you flat couldn't tell.  Daddy and bro were cryin' when it was all over.  See what I mean ---

Just gonna show you pics - Daddy took them to a private lake up here - it was so beautiful. I've gone with him to this lake, too.

Look at this lunker!!!  She got several fish that would go 5-6 lbs or better!

Ok, son, it's about time - you gonna let your little baby sister make you look bad???

OK, son, she's several up on you now!  Here's another big 'un!

WHat's the count now???

I'd be ashamed if I were you, son!  I wouldn't let anybody take my picture with that lil ole minnow!

Ok, that's much better - are you sure that's not your sister's fish? Ok, it's yours. Good.

Good job, Daddy - don't let your little granddaughter show you up!

Twins!  Cool!

Way to go, Pop!

Look at that smile!!!  She had a wonderful time with her PopPop and her brother. 'Specially when she knew that she was the fisherwoman extraordinaire!!  She wants to give them another fishin' lesson when she gets back home again!  I'll bet she will, too!

Take care peeps - been busy - I'm visiting and maybe will get to catch up some this weekend. All my guys will be gone to Arkansas to trout fish on the White River for a few days so I'll have some time to myself. I'm looking forward to it!

The Jerry Springer Show

Hello my friends - Sorry I've been away. Things have been so busy around our household and I've not been able to do any posts. I've visited a few of you, but it's been very brief.

I think I've mentioned before that I manage two self-storage facilities along with helping out in a commercial construction office.  My main office is at the storage facility, and when you come in I am sitting in my office behind my desk.  I have a window with bars in it so I can talk to my customers in a bit of safety. They may not can reach me, but they sure could shoot me. I just try not to think about that. Well, I've been there nearly 8 years now, and I'm still okay.

Picture me, working at my computer, and in comes a customer.  Now, I'm not going to make fun of this lady, but I'm just going to tell you  exactly what happened on Friday afternoon. I'm just statin' facts and descriptions and my reactions here, K?  I felt like I was on the Jerry Springer Show!

Well, this lady came in - I say lady loosely - you know the emails that go around with the pictures of the Walmart people in them?  Well, this lady had to be an escapee from the video.  Probably about my age, but with long stringy dyed dark brown hair, very strange make-up, tight britches that looked like she had two pigs in a poke, lunch spilled all down the front of her shirt and chattering away on her cell phone.  Anyway, she wanted to check on an account that her live-in boyfriend had taken up with us about 3 years ago.  It was way past due and she wanted to make sure that we hadn't sold their stuff yet. I told her no, but that she'd have to get it all paid up before the next foreclosure sale or it would go into the sale. 

Then she freaked.  She started ranting and raving and telling me that all she owned was in the storage unit. That she was now living with her uncle and renting a room from him, cuz she was on Social Security and so was her boyfriend in Kansas.  I got a long drawn out sob story about how their account had gotten so far behind.  She was having a hard time talking and she kept putting her hand up to her mouth. Going on and on about her boyfriend had moved to Kansas to be near his kids cuz his ex-wife had moved up there to live with her l*sbian l*ver and she had custody of the kids, blah, blah, blah.

She's still messin' with her mouth.  All of a sudden, she shoves several fingers with dirty nails in her mouth and whoops her bottom dentures out and slams 'em down on my window sill above my desk!!!!!  Complete with spit string from her gums!!!  On the window sill where every body and their dog puts their hands, their keys, their purses, wallets, and money is passed over that sill many times a day!!!

"I hope that don't gross you out - I just got this new teeth and they don't fit right and I cain't hardly talk with 'em in", she said.  I didn't know what to say.  I just sat there like a complete goose while she kept rattling on and on.  In my 8 years there, I cannot believe what I'm seeing.   That's the weirdest and grossest thing that's ever happened up there at my office.  I'm flabbergasted.  Gross! Yuck! EEEWWWWWW!  I just don't have the words for it.

When she quit yappin', she picked up those nasty teeth and shoved 'em back into her mouth, germs and all.  I cain't tell you what all she said - it ain't fittin', it just ain't fittin'.  As soon as her tail was out the door, I jumped up and ran to the bathroom for my Lysol bleach cleaner and scrubbed the little pool of slobber off my windowsill BUT good.  Now, aren't you glad you stopped by my blog today?

Adam will be home in a few days for a few days. I'll be so glad to see him. He's been gone since Christmas and it's been way too long for this mama not to see her boy. My husband and a friend of his are going to take my 2 boys and the other guy's son to Arkansas on a fishin' trip next week.  I know they'll have fun. I plan on working on my garden, OR I may go see my seester for a couple of days.  We need to catch up! And bug my brother in law.  He's so fun to bug and embarrass!

I'm leaving you with a couple of pictures that have absolutely nothing to do with this post. But people like to look at pictures - I know I do - so here's a couple of big fellas that live down the road from the farm. I hope to have a couple of these guys on my place sometime. They're so... so... so TEXAS!

Keep that gown down!  See ya later ---