PP No. 15 what I'm thinking... I'm t hinking of adding another line drawing and seeing if I like it better ;-) I think it needs more. 
The quilt needs to be stitched to the canvas base, however I've decided to add some beads and other embellishements to the surface first.
I'm thinking of adding a treatment to my base canvas, well the edges anyway, like the canvas in the above picture. I started the above piece two years ago and got wrapped up in moving the shop and never finished the thing. It has vintage paint by number pots glued to the surface, somewhere I have around here I have the images and collage items to add to the surface and then it gets placed inside of an altered clock body.
The thing about hanging onto a piece long enough is eventually you realize that it needs more and in this case PP No. 15 needs dimension, dimension in the form of beads etc. The base canvas covered frame needs more paint, I missed a few areas on the edging where it's most likely to be seen.
We picked up a load of aged horse manure last night to put on the east garden. First we put down a layer of chipped leaves and compost, then a layer of garden lime, then the manure, then another layer of lime. By the time we were done tilling up the remaining sod in the side yard, to make one continious garden space, it was too dark and too late to chip the remaining leaves to put on top of the manure! This is my first year lasanga gardening.
South looking north, about 45 feet, maybe more, for veggies, herbs, and flowers.
I grew rather tired of the rabbits destroying my grapevines, like the local thief wasn't bad enough, so the grape arbor is now inside of the fenced area.
The fence runs along the sidewalk which will soon have thyme and other herbs growing to fill in the space.
Above - looking north towards the garden shed. Below - looking south towards the front porch and the street.
We enlarged the east garden combining it with the south garden beside the front porch. Dh will build a raised bed, octagon shaped, to go around the crab apple tree under which we will plant currants and goose berries. 
Trouble, our attic squirrel - well it is her fifth year or so of living in our attic not our choice mind you - eating crabapples competing with the robins and cedar waxwings.
Oregano, Cilantrao, Basil (sweet basil)
Roma Tomatoes
Purple Cabbages (above) and Green Cabbages (below)
It's snowing today, hmmm after several days of above 60F weather, it's supposed to be 8F tonight and my peonies and lilies have decided to make an appearance. I hope they survive this experience. The snowflakes are huge the size of half dollars!!!
This was the last picture I took of Silky today - we took her to the vet around 5ish and sent her over the rainbow bridge. She just didn't have the energy to pull through this one.
Carla Emery"s Old Fashioned Recipe Book an Encyclopedia of Country Living copyright 1977. Carla rewrote her book right before her death several years ago. 
John repacked the olive oil, which came in a rather large bottle, into smaller glass pint jars this afternoon. This increases the shelf life by about three months as we will now move the OO to the basement pantry where it stays a balmy 55-60F year round.
Well I finally got the loom moved into the dining room - thank goodness for Duncan Phife tables right! Ours folds up into a very nice compact size that fits nicely behind a large easy chair and acts as a second sofa table in a pinch! I still have a bunch of stuff left to put away in the dining room and floor is in sorry need of washing which should be a tad bit easier now that the table is no longer in my way. 
This is what we had for dinner and it was delcious. I substituted out Italian flavored Pork Sausage for the turkey sausage and yams for the sweet potatoes which were outrageously over priced ($4.97 a pound~!) The Kale was exceptional in this recipe, it reminds me of a soup I've eaten before down south.
