I had my girls day and night out last weekend. We had so much fun!
We started out by getting facials at a downtown spa. Man that was nice! Then we went out shopping in the fashion district.
I wasn’t planning on buying anything, but I came home with three bags! I bought a nice blouse, a dress and some lingerie. Oh la la!
Once we’d spent all we could spend shopping we went to one of my favorite french restaurants. Delicious!
By the time we’d finished dinner it was getting late and I think we were all tipsy. We thought about hitting a dance club but in the end we couldn’t decide where to go and nixed the idea.
All in all it was a really great time!
Do you ever go out just with your girlfriends? When’s the last time you did it?
Tags: girlfriends, girls night out, restaurant, Shopping, spa, tipsy
I’ll be spending some time in the garden this weekend. It’s time to put some alfalfa tea on the garden beds.
I have two big plastic garbage cans of alfalfa tea brewing in my driveway. Alfalfa apparently has some kind of organic growth hormone in it and it just gives plants a huge boost. It’s the only thing I use to fertilize my garden. Well .. other than some home made compost and sometimes manure. LOL
It’s easy to make too – just add about four cups of alfalfa pellets to a large garbage can, fill with water and stir daily for two to three weeks. I also add some molasses ( it helps combat some of the fermentation) and sometimes – usually in late spring, I add some Epsom salts to the mix.
the only problem with the alfalfa tea is the smell. If you don’t stir it and aerate it daily as it’s “brewing” it can really get stinky. Even well stirred brew smells. When I put it on the garden I have to put on protective clothing to guard against smell splashes, and I tend to apply it to my garden in the evening – usually after dinner time. Why? Well since it smells I’m trying to spare my neighbors some of the bad smell … if I put it on the garden after dinner most of my neighbors who would be affected by the smell are indoors watching tv.
So .. sometime this weekend I’ll be applying the smelly alfalfa tea that I’ve been brewing to my garden. I’ll give it a little water afterwords – as it seems to help ton down the smell. Then .. about four or five days after my application my garden will start to look great. I’ll see new growth on my roses and the leaves of all my plants will look nice and healthy.
Do you ever treat your garden to an organic fertilizer like alfalfa tea?
Tags: alfalfa tea, garden beds, neighbors, organic, organic fertlizer, smells, splash, stinky
I’ve been very lazy about taking pictures lately. Actually, it’s not just lately … I think it started sometime last fall.
I have a photoblog that I barely post in anymore. I also have a lovely garden that I used to take tons of photos of – macros of flowers in bloom, seed heads and so on … but I don’t think I’ve pulled out one of my digital cameras in at least a month.
I still enjoy taking photos, but I think it’s processing them on the computer that I don’t like. I have quite a few – maybe 300 or 400 photos – from things that we did in June and photos of our flowers blooming that are sitting in folders on my computer waiting to be cropped and then uploaded to my Flickr account.
Do you ever get lazy about taking photos when you to parties or interesting events? Or are you like me – you take the pictures, but don’t do anything with them once they’re uploaded on to your computer?
I’ve got to get out of this funk .. I think I take pretty good photographs and I should be at least including a few on each of my blogs.
Tags: camera, computer, cropping, digital camera, editing, flowers, garden, lazy, macro, photographs, photos, pictures, posting
