A Trip to the Flower Mart - Mt Eden Flower Company

Joslyn flew into San Jose today. Nancy, Claudia, Kelly and I picked her up at the airport and headed over to the flower mart to look at flowers for Jamie and Andy's wedding celebrations.

Flowers, flowers and more flowers equals -

HEA-van!!
























Are these roses naturally this blue? What do you think?


"Did you see these ones over here?"

"What do you think about these?"

Looking beautiful.

Checking out the ribbons and vases etc department.

Some very fun things over here. These fuzzy things came with their own sunglasses. :-)

Interesting merchandizing displays - these are silk flowers.

I loved the colors of this display - well, more than the colors -loved all of it.

Joslyn and all checking selections.

Final product. The flowers and colors are beautiful. Jamie and Andy I think will be very pleased, happy, satisfied - all those good positive "job well done" type feelings!

What a Kid!

Something's missing

How can one person have so many missing matches?

It's Hip to be Square

Evan's home for Spring break. I had a project for the both of us. Can you guess what it is?
Home Depot - 3 2x8x8 planks of untreated pine - 4 brackets - 4 giant nail things.

After getting the wood cut to size we loaded up.We kept 2 planks as is and cut the third plank into two 3 foot lengths.
Have it figured out?

After we purchased some bags of vermiculite and compost we headed to OSH to buy screws (smaller quantities than Home Depot ;-) and buy some peat moss.

Now do you know?
Wood laid out to line everything up.

Making sure the equipment is in working order.

Drilling pilot holes.


Putting in the screws.

Attaching anchor brackets.

Brackets and giant nail things to secure everything in place.

Voila! A "Square Foot Garden" planter box!
And see -it is a project for the both of us - I helped.

Evan's spreading a layer of garden soil.

Making our own "Mel's Mix" - 1 part vermiculite, 1 part peat moss, 1 part compost.
We started out on painter's plastic - way too thin...

Oops!

Onto a tarp. Was much more manageable. We mixed the "mix" together by rolling it back and forth, side to side, in the tarp. That's 6 cubic feet of mix.

We needed another 6 cubic feet of mix - which we had everything on hand.

Ready for planting!

Here's wiki info on Square Foot Gardening - YAY

And the rain, rain, rain, came down, down, down

Greg was up and at 'em this morning, tackling taxes and then the lawn. Taxes of course - tax day is coming. The lawn - rain was coming. And he did it just in time. He said it started to rain just as he was finishing which was just in time for General Conference to begin.

It's been raining since. I half expect Pooh and Pigglet to go floating by. We are happy for this down pour - San Jose needs the rain.

We're excited for the afternoon Conference session - hoping to see Sister Andrea Busath in the choir!!!

Grow your Groceries

My girl friend forwarded me this link. Give it a try. It's fun - if you're into knowing when to plant lettuce etc. :-)

http://sproutrobot.com

So True

I love this!

the real adult

Claire and I grabbed some food at the mall food court. And yes, the Happy Meal is mine. I'm always telling people "Claire is the real adult woman in our home."

Anatevka

Anatevka is the setting for the play "Fiddler on the Roof". And, the play is over. It went well. Claire had a great experience. The young man who played Tevye was incredible. I wish we had some video of him. He's in our ward - we knew he'd be awesome - and he did not disappoint. Claire also was awesome :-)

The show ran for 6 nights and one matinee - two weeks Thurs - Sat. The 2nd week the nights were sold out.

Claire was so tired, and many in the cast ended up sick. But the show went on. Including a switch in the lead female role, Golde. The girl cast for Golde for some reason was only able to participate the 1st week. Another friend from our ward was asked to fill in (they don't have regular understudies) and like the champ she is, the young woman learned the part in a week and practiced in the role once with everyone before her first night in the part. She did great.

This is Claire and Alexa - both played Mommas. Nothing like photoshopping, or whatever it is called, a photo to confuse your posterity. They'll think this is a picture of some great great great...grandmother who is the spitting image of Claire Diane Hardester.