Hi everyone,
Well, it seems like everyone enjoyed seeing some dolls in the post yesterday (thanks so much Cindy!) … even if we didn’t know half of them, it was still fun to see sweet little faces in dresses longing for someone to fall in love with them and take them home. I hope some of them were bought today! :o)
I do have a sweet little girl in a pretty pink and white dress to show you. I’m still not finished, but I did get the bows added to her shoulders and a tiny little slip made. Ten Ping found this flowery pole in the props box and wanted to model by it tonight. I still have a few things left to do before Ten Ping’s set will be listed on Ebay…
I was busy helping my hubby with getting our fountain put back together… If you remember, back when we had that terrible ice storm a few months ago, we lost our huge Heritage River Birch tree…
… the branches were so heavy with the ice, they broke off and fell smack dab onto the terra cotta fountain we have in our courtyard. The fountain miraculously didn’t break or crack, but just broke apart where each section was attached to the one below it.
It has been sitting in the courtyard like this…
…even under the water from a thunderstorm recently that left us with our “cement pond” filled to the brim. You can also see the stump of where the tree was cut down. I took a couple pictures of where my hubby cut it down as much as he was able without a grinder. I took the yardstick we were using today and measured how wide the tree’s base was… over a yard wide. It was a BIG tree!
Well, it was pretty warm out today (in the 80’s actually) and my hubby decided we were going to try and get it stacked back together. When the branches hit the fountain, they must have pushed the blocks we had the fountain sitting on, down farther into the ground, because we had a crazy time trying to get the base of the fountain level… with much trial and error and “shims” we got it as level as possible.
My hubby was not happy I was going to show pictures of the fountain, WHEN HE HADN’T USED HIS WEED EATER YET! It’s been too wet…
There were 5 pieces of the terra cotta that had to be leveled each time we added a new layer…
My hubby used a silicone caulk to put it back together… he knows his caulks and this is the one he picked. When we got all the pieces stacked on top of each other, we had to quickly put the pvc pipe down the center hole and have it come out the bottom. It will have to dry before he can do more… the shims will have to be replaced with something that doesn’t show.
Then he can hook it up to the pump and make sure it works. The fountain needs a nice scrubbing… that will probably be my job..
One of the times when he went back to the garage to find something he needed, I took a few pictures of his raised bed garden… it’s just tomatoes on the right side and cucumbers on the left…
The wind was so strong recently, it was bending our fence and trying to break our boards, so he has them braced for now…
Who spies Reuben? The hens? They were both curious when we were outside today.
Well that was my exciting day… hope you did something fun too! I’ll see you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh, Ten Ping’s dress is adorable! The shoulder bows give it a sort of 1950s vibe, I think. So cute!
You and George made good progress on the fountain today. I’m so glad it was fixable; it’s one thing to just have to stack the pieces again, and quite another if any of those pieces were broken.
Soon we will be seeing pictures of fresh veggies on your table!! I love home-grown veggies, but I am certainly no gardner.
Jeanne, those bows on Ten Ping’s dress are adorable, and make it look so special! How did you get the ribbon to stay down and not stick up when you attached the bows?
Those veggies are really looking good and you will be having some wonderful salads in the near future! Your yard looks so big, how big is it actually? Do you have more than an acre?
What a lucky turn of events that the fountain did not sustain any damage other than getting knocked over! It looks beautiful now, and I wonder if you ever had it hooked up with water?
Finally we are looking forward to a couple of days with no rain, but the Memorial Day weekend looks soggy, at least for us! We still don’t have the patio set up! This is ridiculous!