I wanted to update everyone on the status of this blog, since I obviously rarely post here anymore.  My original intent was to move all sewing topics to my sewing blog, and keep this as my personal blog for gardening, cooking, etc, but I’ve decided that having two blogs is more work than I want to keep up with.

So, I’m going to set up cooking and gardening blog sections over on Created by CJ.  The sewing blog will remain the front page of the site, but the other two blogs will be regular blogs and you can subscribe to the RSS feeds just like you would here.

I’ve already paid the hosting on this site for another year, so it will remain here in stagnant form until the hosting expires, at which time I will redirect the tinkletimes domain over to createdbycj.com.  So if there is any information here that you want to print off, fair warning (haha, I didn’t give warning last time).  You’ve got about 10 months to do so.

Seems like that’s all Jim and I do around here in the Spring and Fall. I thought we would have already started the clean up and landscaping this Fall around the new shop, but nope.  We haven’t torn the fence down yet, or finished the driveway either. There’s still ground that needs to be smoothed out, all the landscaping put in, grass started…

I guess this is going to take us a few years.  Oh well!

We picked up these pretty little flowering evergreens this morning at Lowes and planted them.  They’re Dwarf Cavatine Pieris, with pretty little white bell shaped flowers on them.  The y won’t get a whole lot bigger than they are now.  I’m going to intersperse them with something else… I haven’t decided what yet.  I’ll be putting a bed around these, edged with rock, that will extend all the way down to the driveway.  Around the trees you see, I’m going to be filling in with hostas and shade loving flowers.  The rest will be grass.

I fertilized all the fruit trees and berry bushes this afternoon as well.  No more energy today.

I spent most of my day outside yesterday cleaning out the shop for Jim, because in typical man fashion, he waited until the last minute and then didn’t have time to do it!  Hmph!  The forklift operator came out to the house yesterday to see about getting Jim’s metal mill off the semi when it arrived today, and into our shop.  He said the shop would have to be pretty much empty because our driveway was too steep for the forklift to go up with the weight of the mill on it, so it would have to be loaded onto a flatbed first, driven in, then unloaded.

This morning the truck arrived.  The white arrow is pointing to Jim’s mill:

I couldn’t resist a shot of this (ahem) “art”.  I had to ask the very nice driver what the heck that huge butterfly sculpture was on the back of the semi, and he laughed and said he was delivering it to a $15 million dollar home out in Arizona, it was his next stop.

Now I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I could afford a $15 million dollar home, I sure as heck wouldn’t put this in my yard!  The driver was nervous about it because he said a piece had already went flying off of it…. so if you’re between Arkansas and Arizona and hear of an alien butterfly decapitating someone along the interstate in the next couple of days…

Jim unwrapping his new toy:

Lifting it off the bed of the semi:

Carefully moving around the garage overhead lights:

And finally, in place:

Hard to imagine that ugly sucker (well used) cost nearly as much as my longarm!  Jim has two more large pieces like that still back home in Missouri we have to go fetch soon.  Anyway, there’s Jim’s “new” Bridgeport Mill.  Enjoy it honey!