Am I 90 years old?

I feel like it. Weeding and weeding has given me an ache in me bones and hips and back, and I feel pretty rickety. I'm so close to being done though, and it's really delicious every time I clear a few more feet of jungle-forest and replace it with happy little plants.
David is very amazing, and is almost done re-bricking our path out back. Hours and hours of sand and sawing and tamping and strange proceedures that go into such a man-endeavor. A lot of people I've not seen for some time have been asking me what's new or what I'm up to lately. I'm up to old-lady activities. Weeds and flowers and Xmas-ing my new home for the first time. What's that? A pair of home-made magical stockings? How old-ladyish of me.Oh my, what a lovely wreath, made by me at a Punch Studio Xmas party 2 years ago, amazing!I'm really enjoying my nesting, it was wonderful to come home after 2 days of lovely peaceful family time to 2 days of sprucing my house for the holidays and taking care of chores. Lots of sweeping, lots of weeding, lots of sewing and stuffing, and I'm quite cozy by Sunday night. Now to put lights on our lovely fatty Christmas tree and adorn it with tiny birdies.

one more day...

Jam packed days.
Tabetha's baby shower was fun with food and crafts and presents and big pink bows! We painted on onesies and she looked lovely.
Joel's b-day in the park was also fun, I frisbied for the first time since, I don't know, fourth grade? and I caught it once or twice even. Sunday I finally got to set up the craft room all day, and was attempting to start making our Xmas stockings, but the sun was going down and the light in here isn't bright enough for working with out it. So... sigh... maybe next weekend :)
I had a quick visit from Hazel, so lovley to see her! And she brought me these amazing darling tea cups with magical animals drawn on them, my favorite is the duck with a crown.
Just wishing this weekend was one day longer...

Babies

Oh Man, am I behind.
Last weekend was a really fun crafting baby shower for Melissa, hosted by Rachel, with lovely handmade decorations and lots of delicious treats. We made stuffed animals and felted onesies for baby Grace, on her way soon.


Today I'm on my way out to another baby shower for my friend & co-worker, Tabetha, and she is getting a stroller from her registry from me and the other Lindsay combined. But it's too hard to resist knitting up some tiny baby booties, so she's getting these too!
It's hard keeping up with all the events going on at the end of the year, plus I've been majorly allergy ridden since we've gained these hardwood floors, so I've not been around much. But I'm determined to make it to Joel's b-day in the park today after the shower, and just rest tomorrow. Rest and whip more of this craft room into shape, it's needing serious attention.

Another happy Saturday spent mucking around the back yard. The going is slow, but I just want to keep steadily at it. My hands are puffy and sore from weeding, and David pulled every brick out of the backyard path, stacked them into a tidy wall-pile, and is digging up 3 inches of dirt and weeds to lay in sand eventually, before re-bricking the thing. Elwood ate some grass, and can't tell where the birds are chirping from, because he is a half-deaf one-ear. I feel old-lady sore now, in my back and my hips, from all the bending and leaning over, but it's wonderful. It's truly wonderful and does my heart more good than I can say, to sit in my own grass, and look at flowers and touch the earth, and feel the breeze. I'm not kidding, living under a freeway with no real access to outdoorsiness for 3 years got us here, and I don't ever want to live again with out a little bit of outside that one can claim and be in, even if it's just a porch or stoop, with a potted plant sitting on it.

Also, gardening all day is a good way to keep me out of stores where I want to buy things I can't afford to decorate & furnish my house. We started arranging the crafty room this morning, and I'm hoping to get some drawing or painting in tomorrow. Well, time for a shower, I have filthy hobbity feet from my gardening day.

Saturday was full of yard work, Agata came over and we cleared out a massive trash can full of crazy weeds from the back flowerbed of our backyard, and it is much prettier now. Elwood likes it, he likes to sit in the dirt, eat a couple plants so he can throw them up later in the middle of the night, and then burrow deep into the remaining weeds along the side flowerbeds that I'll have to get to next weekend.

Suday I was useless, my allergies have been flaring up with all the grass and dust I've been taking in, and now they're developing into a fairly stong cold. So I slept like a zombie into the midday, then lounged half passed out in the back yard in my new patio chair, as the hot sun dried out my sinuses some, and managed to read some of the Sunday paper. David assembled his BBQ the day before, and he made us hot links for dinner, and was very very very happy.