How Does Your Garden Grow?

Windy days and the Japanese maple still hasn't lost it's leaves

The Watchers. Not often that I can get them in one shot.

If you look carefully through the trees, you can see a ginormous house being built.  Prissy and Gruff owned that plot of land and wanted to build a house for their daughter. Because of an unusually heavy rainfall in April of that year, the plot didn't pass the perk test and they were never able to build the house.

The November garden flag which looks similar to the September flag

Most of the leaves are down in the backyard.

How does your garden grow?

Happy, Little, Time Waster

 

Can Crochet Summon Dragons?

The Friday Five Good Things

Five good things that happened this week.

1. Another warm day. Probably the last evening in the sunroom

2. Ran out of stick butter so I had to substitute vegetable oil in a cornbread recipe. A slight change in texture and taste, but not noticeable by the rest of the family 

3. Deep cleaned the living room in anticipation of The Young One's  visit.

4. Another sunny and warm day.

5. Another warm day. November weather has been unbelievable. Perfect day to spend with Teague as ladies who lunch and then afternoon in her sunroom. Ice cream was involved, too.

How was your week?

You 🤬

 

Doodling for Stress Reduction

 

On Mondays via Zoom, I participate in a class where we spend  a half an hour doodling our stress away.  The leader's inspiration for this doodle was the affirmation from her Yogi tea bag.

The exercise was a neurographic drawing of circles on the line. I interpreted the instruction more literally and drew faces and then added the quote from the tea bag.

T Stands for A Cup of Tea Poem

 

A Cup of Tea

by Anonymous

When the world is all at odds

And the mind is all at sea

Then cease the useless tedium

And brew a cup of tea.

There is magic in its fragrance,

There is solace in its taste;

And then laden moments vanish

Somehow into space.

And the world becomes a lovely thing!

There's beauty as you'll see;

All because you briefly stopped

To brew a cup of tea.

Drop by hosts, Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog to find out what the rest of the T Stands For gang is up to. If you want to play, include in your Tuesday post a beverage or container for a beverage. Don't forget to link your blog to Bleubeard and Elizabeth's page.

Monet and Me

 

are trying out a new pen called Curva Pen. It boasts that no matter your grip wrist position you can use this pen. The nib has a hook to it. Literally a hook. The pen can be used by left or right handers and is ergonomically designed especially for those with hand-related conditions.

The pen comes in a set of two. The thickness of the line at .07 mm. I found the pen to be nice and slim and easy to hold. No matter how I held the pen, I was able to get a smooth line. The pen also came with a white foam cushion which is supposed to ease pressure on your hand especially if you are elderly. I tried the cushion, but found it difficult to get on and off the pen. Not very helpful if you already have hand-related conditions.

Ordering was easy off the website and the pen was delivered quickly. Free shipping was also a nice benefit.

I was disappointed that the ink was not waterproof. I had hoped to be able to use this pen in the doodle class I take where I like to add color with watercolors. My bad that I didn't pay attention when I was ordering and received pens with blue ink instead of black ink which I prefer to use.