Pretty Peony Blog
My 7-year-old had this fabulous plan to make and decorate sugar cookies. I wasn't able to make the sugar cookies from scratch because of limited time so I bought premade dough. They turned out pretty tasty even thought they lost their shape in the oven.
Getting ready to plant these.
A few weeks ago we got the house tested for radon. It was above 4 pCi/L twice so we had it mitigated.
Daughter's safari team project in Spanish class. She was creative and added the grass, weeds, and pond even though it wasn't required.
Decided to get going on the Taurus drawing. This is what I use to draw: sketching pencils, an erasure, two size pencil sharpener (for the larger pencils that don't fit in the electric sharpener), the sketchbook, music, and the electric sharpener.
My daughter finished regional competitions this year. She is very passionate about dance and it shows. Here she is captured (by a professional) doing a leap.
When we had the front lawn landscaped, we had a couple of cistena plum bushes put in. Then we bought a couple more later on and planted those ourselves. For some reason, those two died after a couple of years of pretty blossoms. I wonder what happened. They were planted in the same area as... Continue Reading →
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon was a book I read based on good reviews on Goodreads.com. I really had no idea what I was getting myself into because it was my first sci-fi dystopian fantasy with paranormal, but I ended up loving it. There's something about Samantha's writing that draws me to the characters... Continue Reading →
I didn't believe we could get snow in the middle of May, but it happened. We planted four aspen trees a few days ago. I hope they make it. The peony was doing so well but now I'm worried.
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