We stopped at Li'l Sprout Nursery in Mill Creek on Saturday morning. I was sure it used to be Wileywood Nursery where I took Matt and Rachel when they were little in search of flowers for our garden. They used to have red wagons for customers to put their plants in as they shopped, and Rachel would climb in and I would pull her around the nursery. When Larry and I checked out I asked the clerk and indeed it was the old Wileywood. I was disappointed that the red wagons were a thing of the past, but we filled up our cart with three tomato plants, some basil, baby bok choy, and a couple of pepper plants, along with some pansies and stock, which filled our car with its wonderful aroma.
We stopped off at an estate sale and found these chairs. They fold up and fit just fine in my car for the ride home.
I scrubbed and scrubbed and was able to remove most of the moss from the chairs, but couldn't get this brown stain off.
The basil in a Mexican pot from the estate sale. I offered to scrub the moss of this one, but Larry likes the weathered look. At least we didn't bring the slug home that was living inside of it when Larry found it at the sale.
Larry bought these buckets at home depot and painted them green for the tomatoes.
My beautiful Mother's Day lily from Matt, Nora and the boys. Larry found this bunny planter abandoned alongside our shed here. We have learned that there are many, many live bunnies living here as well, and have seen a couple. It will be a challenge keeping them away from all of our little seedlings. The lady who lives kitty-corner from us has her lettuce covered with plastic milk crates and upside down laundry baskets to keep the critters away. We'll have to come up with some kind of a solution as well - maybe a little plastic picket fence.
After we got everything in pots, we just wanted to sit outside in our new chairs, have a glass of wine and a beer, and relax. We hadn't been out there long when the guy who lives across from us came over and began chatting. We're as friendly as most people, but a little bit of this guy goes a long way - he just doesn't know when to stop talking, and tells the same stories over and over. This had been going since we moved in. Whenever we set foot outside Jumbo, there he was! Finally, Larry told him we were going for a walk, and off we went...
Some of the mobile homes in the park...
Yesterday we got Internet and TV thanks to the speedy people at Comcast -yay! We've only been able to watch whatever we could get with our antenna for so long that we're overwhelmed with the selection we have now. And I can be online whenever I want! While Larry was here dealing with the Comcast hook up, I discovered the Central Market in Mill Creek - what a place! The produce was amazing - I came away with some gorgeous rainbow chard - and while I was wandering about in the vicinity of the salad bar, I discovered that they had a large assortment of Indian food that could be purchased by he pound, the same as the salad bar. Larry & I are going to stop by there tonight on our way home from Everett to pick up dinner!
Matt and Nora and the boys came over yesterday afternoon, bearing gifts of beer and wine! We sat outside and dodged the raindrops, and were happy that our overly-friendly neighbor didn't join us. Don't get me wrong - he's not a bad guy - it's just hard to get a word in edgewise when he's around!
Larry had a meeting last night at work, and on his way home saw some free black plastic pots along the side of the road, so we simply had to go to Flower World this morning to get some more plants to fill them up!
We have a couple of varieties of lettuce and some rainbow chard...
We added a purple Cherokee tomato plant, a zucchini, some snow peas, and strawberries...
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