How cool is that? I was just checking my blogstats when I saw WASHOE VALLEY WEBSITE as a referrer so I clicked it on to see what it was. I didn’t know Washoe Valley had their own website!
Washoe Valley. Taken from south end of lake looking [...]
Archive for April, 2008
I’m a Featured Local Blog on Washoe Valley’s Website! Very Cool!
Posted in Family, Friends, Life in General, tagged 4-H, Bowers Mansion, bowers mansion bluegrass festival, Davis Creek Park, Jumbo Grade, Kruses Feed, Nevada, Swinging Swine, Washoe Lake, Washoe Valley, Wooster High School on 30 April 2008 | 4 Comments »
Raised Garden Bed Box for Backyard ~ Finished! Well…it’s made.
Posted in Life in General, garden, tagged garden, garden box, lowes, raised beds, raised garden on 28 April 2008 | 8 Comments »
NOTE: HERE IS WHAT MY BEDS LOOK LIKE AFTER TAKING THE ONE BIG ONE APART AND MAKING THEM INTO TWO BEDS!
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Yesterday after buying a new bed for upstairs I dropped my husband off at Savers and I went to Lowes to shop for the garden lumber. Taking with me the directions from Sunset’s [...]
Swarms of Earthquakes in Western Nevada
Posted in Life in General, tagged earthquakes, mackay school of mines, mogul, Nevada, nevada earthquakes, Reno, seismology lab, unr on 25 April 2008 | 4 Comments »
26 April 2008 Update….had a nice earthquake around 11:40 pm Friday night. Was downstairs at the time as I was finishing sewing a quilt. Good rumbler…I think they said it was around a 4.6 – heard the ground moan and pop.
I grew up in Canyon Country, California…so these wee earthquakes are nothing to write home [...]
Leo, The Devil’s Cabana Boy and Max, Mama’s Bubba-boo
Posted in Life in General, critters, tagged bengal, cats, devil's cabana boy, ragdoll, russian blue, tabby on 24 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s time to meet the boys ~ we have two cats…with totally two differrent personalities.
We’ve had Max since he was a kitten, picked him out of a litter in Mogul (between Reno and Verdi). His mom was a Ragdoll and his dad was the neighbor’s Russian Blue…they weren’t supposed to get together! But [...]
Sea Salt Soap, Quilting and Pizza!
Posted in Crafts, Life in General, Quilts, etsy, food, soap, tagged black rock pizza, etsy, hospice, Odyssey Healthcare, Quilting, salt soap, split rail fence quilt on 23 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
SEA SALT SOAP ~
Last month I played hooky and made up a batch of Raspberry Lemonade Sea Salt Soap. I used coarse Dead Sea Salts and fine Pacific Sea Salt in this batch ~ along with colloidal oatmeal. The oils used were Sunflower, Castor, Jojoba, Palm & Coconut. Butters used were Shea, [...]
Blue Oyster Cult & the Rest of the Weekend
Posted in Life in General, Quilts, music, tagged blue oyster cult, copper, eric bloom, gulfport, hospice, longaberger basket, Odyssey Healthcare, quilt, Quilting, split rail quilt, Thistles, washoe zephyrs on 21 April 2008 | 7 Comments »
Had a pretty good weekend, even if the flipping Washoe Zephyrs tried to blow us off of the road. I really, really, really hate the winds…I don’t mind a breeze…hate the winds, especially those over 40 mph. Grrrrr….
Hit the garage sales and found a few things for $4 total ~ including a [...]
University of Nevada’s Medical School Canada Geese Goslings
Posted in Birds, Photography, tagged Canada Geese, canada goose gosling, goslings, UNR Medical School on 18 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well…the Howard Medical Building’s new gaggle of Canada Geese are here! Every year a Mama goose lays her eggs on the edge of our second floor balcony. We have four new goslings ~ I took these pictures this morning. Mama only hissed at me once.
Vegetable Gardening in Northern Nevada & How to make a Raised Garden
Posted in Life in General, books, flowers, garden, tagged backyard, cooperative extension, gardening, northern nevada, raised garden beds, small garden, sunset western landscaping, unr, vegatable garden, vegetables in nevada, washoe county on 17 April 2008 | 9 Comments »
After just about killing ourselves over those bloody junipers and planting the lilac and weeping cherry, I’ve turned my sights to the back yard and making my raised vegetable beds!
In the very back of Sunset’s WESTERN LANDSCAPING BOOK, pages 404-405, in the Materials and Techniques chapter, there is a section on Building A [...]
