Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

It's been 4 years since I've had my veggie garden. I'm tired of having to eat Price Chopper veggies, so I told hubby I'm putting in my garden again this Spring. House selling or no house selling, I want my veggies. Nothing beats the taste of, not just home grown, but organically-grown heirloom varieties. Of course, you KNOW what this means. I'll do all the grunt work to get the garden planted, THEN someone will buy the house, and I won't get to harvest half the stuff.

I need a place to start my tomatoes indoors though. I used to do them in the basement, but the lights weren't the right ones and the basement is too cold, really, for starting seedlings, so I gotta see about getting a grow light and a couple shelves to put in the family room, which is not warm, but warm enough. We do have sunny windows in some rooms, but they're cold rooms - not good for plants. This can wait 'til January some time, so I can begin them in February. I always get my seeds from Cook's Garden.

Gonna give my fingertips a break from the capelet today - the wool is sturdy, and I have no calluses, so will work on these caps-in-progress, instead, and wrap up hubby's gifts, before he gets nosey! But I'm just past the joining after the arm slits, so have made good progress.

And I'm gonna pull out the wired gold-patterned ribbons and see if I can't make a pretty bow for the front door. No wreath this year, but I like something on the door. If it comes out OK, I'll post a pic.

(OK - pic below - not great, needs some tweaking, but I think it'll do.)


I made a bunch of vine wreaths, years ago, after pulling miles (or what seemed like miles) of grape vines from out of oh so many of the trees in our yards, which were choking them - the previous owner was and old lady and, therefore, deferred maintenance on so many things. But they've long been given away and/or fell apart. I used to cut greenery from the spruces and pines and stick them into the vine wreath, which worked OK. But I'm not going out into the 20-something degree air to pull out more vines from any trees, any day soon - so a bow will have to do.