T Stands for This and That

Hello to the T Group with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth,

     I thought I would pop in to visit at least once a month going forward. Larry is getting a bit better every week now. Looks like Medicare will probably only pay for in home physical therapy for three more weeks. Hoping they can extend that. One of the oversearer was out last week and said their goal is to get Larry walking up the steps at the end of three weeks. That would be awesome but I don't see that happening in that time frame at all. Larry tires out super fast now with his heart condtion so I really can't visualize that just yet-but will pray on it.

 

   We did get a blast of winter over this weekend, ice first and  then several inches of snow on top.(photos previous post)  We still have low temperatures but with full sun I am surprised how much has melted off over the weekend. Saturday most of the hill was melted off.

  For my drink share for T  I grabbed one of my Yellowstone water bottles-that I love-and filled with water to use in the house. Makes me happy-smiles. I also wanted to try out a decaf freeze dried coffee that I found on Amazon. If I make up a pot of coffee for me it lasts over a week sometimes-so if I just want one cup I thought this sounded perfect. This coffee has excellent deep flavor-I love it. Not at all like just a instant coffee. My coffee cup is handmade pottery.

After I drank most of my coffee and I had more light for a nicer photo-I also grabbed apples from the refrigerator to make up an apple crisp.I made that Sunday morning with fresh blueberries

 I wanted to share my vintage postcards, stickers amd ATC from Bleubeard and Elizabeth. The cards and stickers were so thoughtful and chosen just for me  thank you so much

  With the very cold weather starting on  Friday I decided perfect to wear my new slippers-cozy and warm

  Sunday morning-surprise! The new amarylis bulb I purchased around November had bloomed but had no leaves. This looked like a very young bulb. However, when I watered my older bulb and this one today, I discovered a leaf growing and also another flower stem-what a wonderful surprise! The flowers will be red and white.

      Sunday morning's sunrise was very very bright, so did not capture a good photo to share

  Not sure anyone reading this will be nterested but I wanted to share a family owned company I love. They send out very interesting newsletters too that I have always learned something new.

    The Buffalo Wool Company   They process buffalo fibers, I love their socks-sooo warm and comfy.I try to support USA home business's when possible. I have been eyeing their buffalo fibers for soil amendment. for awhile  now. It's rather expensive but their site has a big sale going along with free shipping when you spend a certain amount. Alot of items are sold out already. I bought another pair of their ankle size socks and  I decided to buy some of this fiber to see how coarse it is and if it could be spun or not along with using it for gardening.  When I searched online about adding fiber like this to soils everything was positive about it.   Have any of you tried a fiber in your gardens?

     I want to get the big plastic tubs we have that held food for ranchers that we still have at the woods home-up here to the lake.  These are very large and perfect for growing things in.  I have organic cotton seeds coming in the mail soon that I want to grow in these tubs along with flowers. Vegetables are difficult as the chipmunks and squirrels eat everything they find. It can get very hot here in this area of Missouri in the late summer months-so I think plants will do better in these tubs.

  As I am writing this  my apple-blueberry crisp just came out of the oven

I did make a couple batches of roll out sugar cookies wheat and gluten free-turned out really delicious-good thing a froze them in small bags haha

I shared photos on my Instagram page here

Happy T

T Stands for 10th Anniversary

   T This week is a celebration event with our hostess's Bleubeard and Elizabeth for 10 years of T Stands for Tuesday. 

  I would like to thank Elizabeth for hosting this event for all of us every week for 10 years, and I don't believe she ever missed a Tuesday.(that I remember)

  I first learned about T from being invited to join from two blog friends-Deb now living in Texas and Carol from Missouri. When my favorite social media site-Multiply-sold out to a foreign company, and that company got rid of our blogs-sigh-I was having a difficult time finding another blog site that I liked.  By this time most of my friends were no longer blogging but were enjoying Facebook instead.  I had enjoyed Blogger as there are many crafts persons and artists here-just very difficult to find and connect with. 

  Over the years that I have been here on T,  I have learned about mixed media, journals, painting and more. I also have enjoyed our hostess's tutorials and reading your T posts. Being mostly a fiber artist I learned allot of new things  over the years from T.

  Elizabeth wanted us to share a photo of something 10, so I decided to grab 10 tea bags. Most all of these I have shared on one of my blogs for my drink reference over the years.

  My swap partner was Cloudia in Hawaii, I have never known or gotten mail from Hawaii before.

   I didn't even think about taking photos of the small package I had sent her at the time-and was so surprised how fast it arrived-only took 3-4 days from Missouri. That is really fast I found a vintage postcard of Lake in the Ozarks online, I also made a postcard to celebrate the 10th anniversary, and I sent along several tea bags.

    Cloudia sent me a vintage postcard too which I really love, that was mailed inside a pretty envelope with butterflies. I love the postcard-thank you. She sent me a sample packet of white truffle face moisturizer by Truffloire which will be new to me to try. Cloudia also sent along a card about a lady shopping in a wine store-that said " I don't remember the name, but it had a taste that I liked"  That was a fun "funny" That circle is the state of Hawaii seal.

I did also get a photo of the stamp

   For mine, I sent out small packages instead of envelopes, I wanted tracking on them, and being around $5.00 or more-that was just too many stamps to ask the postal lady to put on the packages-and I would not have had the tracking either. Sorry I know Elizabeth wanted actual stamps.

 I also sent a postcard to friend Deb, and she sent me a lovely ATC

and the back has the number 10

  I will close with another root beer float-smiles (for my drink reference today)-I am out of my homemade ice cream now so will need to make more once it cools down enough to go grocery shopping.  There is also an empty bottle of wine in the back.

  Happy 10th anniversary for T Stands for Tuesday

Find coffee, decaf coffee & hot water for tea for our T party today

(photos found online)

    Just a little update: my swap partner did not share what I sent her for T's 10th anniversary today, but I did want to at least share the vintage postcard I had sent to Cloudia  I had searched around for one and found this postcard on Ebay-I liked the map of Lake in the Ozarks on this card-known as the snake since it is very long and curvy.  

   We live on this lake near Versailles - find upper middle of card.   I don't remember now what postcard I had made her for the anniversary, thinking like the one Deb shared.

Early Tuesday morning my swap partner did share a photo of some of the items I mailed to her thanks Cloudia