Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Good News

Good news includes all the things which make us happy or otherwise feel good. It can be personal or public. We never know when something wonderful will happen, and when it does, most people want to share it with someone. It's disappointing when nobody is there to appreciate it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our joys and pat each other on the back.

What good news have you had recently?
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rhodielady_47

rhodielady_47

April 28 2016, 04:23:43 UTC 5 years ago

All my gardening plans have been successful so far this week. I'm getting a lot of planting done for it not to be May yet.
And my learn-to-use-a-serger class went well tonight too.

Now if I can just keep it up....
:^}
ysabetwordsmith

Yay!

ysabetwordsmith

April 28 2016, 04:31:03 UTC 5 years ago

I have been making good progress on my gardening too.
rhodielady_47

Re: Yay!

rhodielady_47

April 28 2016, 04:39:14 UTC 5 years ago

Your wildflower garden sounds like it's going to be wonderful!
:^)
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yay!

ysabetwordsmith

April 28 2016, 05:01:18 UTC 5 years ago

It has been in past years. I keep adding new plants and pulling out weeds/grass to replace with native species. The wildflower garden is about the size of a kitchen table and mostly full of prairie plants such as purple coneflower and yellow coneflower. Once it blooms it is very colorful and full of butterflies.
rhodielady_47

Re: Yay!

rhodielady_47

April 28 2016, 13:39:48 UTC 5 years ago

Please don't forget the tiny stuff.
Spring Beauties are in bloom right now and can easily be gotten from vacant lots and the sides of roads. It's a perennial and actually has a tiny bulb.
Considering how many people insist on having a "weed-free" lawn, I'm surprised it isn't on the endangered list yet. (It grows quite well in a lawn--since it goes dormant just like daffodils do.)
:^)

ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yay!

ysabetwordsmith

April 28 2016, 17:12:20 UTC 5 years ago

I've started putting in small stuff last fall, with scylla and purple grape hyacinths of wild types. Spring beauties wouldn't grow in the wildflower garden, it's too sunny and they are woodland plants. (My parents have them.) I do have a forest garden, though, and they might survive there. The trilliums have, and the bloodroot even bloomed this year. If I see spring beauties for sale, I'll probably buy some. I am less inclined to dig up wildflowers because they're so hard to transplant.
rhodielady_47

Re: Yay!

rhodielady_47

April 28 2016, 21:05:45 UTC 5 years ago

Spring Beauties are easy. Just take them with a shovelful of dirt.
:^)
songspinner9

songspinner9

April 28 2016, 05:02:27 UTC 5 years ago

My little sister (okay, so we're both in our 40's - she's 3 years younger) just got tenure as a music professor and I'm really proud and happy that she has that now!
ysabetwordsmith

Congratulations!

ysabetwordsmith

April 28 2016, 05:03:36 UTC 5 years ago

*fanfare* *confetti*

How exciting! It's hard to get tenure. That's quite an accomplishment.
cat_sanctuary

cat_sanctuary

April 28 2016, 20:09:36 UTC 5 years ago

Well...it's been a slow spring all across Virginia, I just learned on Twitter. I've enjoyed the gradually warming weather and greening hills tremendously, myself. Now the Washington Post says this weather pattern has made it a comfortable spring for pollen allergy sufferers.

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