we finally got our real springtime weather back and today was SO nice! we had a very productive day. morning okay, this part was lazy. adella watched sesame street and i knitted more dishcloths. once sesame was over, we went shopping at home depot. we bought: a bag of sand to refill adella's sandbox 2 tomato plants - 'mr. stripey' heirloom and 'patio' cherry tomatoes (seems fitting since i am going to try growing these in containers on the porch, the only place in the yard that gets even remotely close to full sun) a 6-pack of impatiens - pink, for the windowboxes we came home and planted the impatiens and i discovered i had no potting soil, so the tomatoes had to wait. oh, but i did have a little soil, so i started some seeds - columbine and poppies. lunch/naptime adella took a nap, as you may have guessed. i dusted off my trusty sewing machine and got back to work on a skirt that i started weeks ago. i made my own bias tape and successfully sewed it to the bottom hemline. then i started ripping out the waistband seam that i screwed up. i got bored with that, so i made this: it used to be a skirt, now it is a handy little bag. perfect for holding knitting projects! afternoon here it is, the great toy clean-up: i dragged every single toy and chair and moveable thing off of the screen porch onto the front porch and started cleaning. everything had a yucky yellow layer of pollen and needed some good washing. now that the pollen has stopped invading our lives, i felt it was safe to wash it away. it took me and adella at least an hour or two of spraying and splashing and spraying some more, but at last we were finished, and i dragged everything back to the screen porch. stig came home and i talked him into another trip to home depot, this time to buy mulch for the garden and for adella's playground. oh, and more potting soil and another basil plant. once that was accomplished, we headed home, spread the playground mulch, ate dinner, and here we are... i hear stig trying to convince adella that it is storytime and then off to bed. and she doesn't sound convinced - i better go up and help... whew. i'm beat.