Retirement Life at the Lakehouse

I retired June 2009 and I have spent much more time at The Lakehouse. I have enjoyed each and every day and have not had a bored moment. I stay so busy doing things I want to do that I rarely find myself idle. I guess with the major remodeling complete there has not been as much to post. This is a new phase of life at The Lakehouse and maybe I can post retirement memories.















Tuesday, May 26, 2009

My Garden and My Sewing Projects

This photo shows a lot of my garden.

Thebanana peppers are doing good.

This is my cherry tomatoes and they are doing the best of all our garden. I have gotten 5 off of them last week and you can see I have a couple ready to pick now.


This is cucumbers planted in a flower bed by the big deck, we just planted them a week or so ago, they are just coming up, so we will just have to see if we get and cucumbers.



This is another cheery tomatoe plant it does not have as many tomatoes on it as the others, but notice the leaf lettuce in the background. I think we can have us a fresh salad from out patio graden soon.




This is my 3 better boy tomatoe plants, they don't look so good to me and we only have 2 tomatoes on them, I moved them to a sunnier spot so maybe they will do better.




This is squash planted in an area we usually plant flowers. The bucket squash was not looking very good so we planted more.



This is squash that we planted in buckets, it was not looking so good so we planted some in the ground. It is actually beginning to look better, so maybe we will have plenty of squash.


Bell peppers are doing pretty good I have 4 plants and they all have lil bell peppers on them. This one actually has a bell pepper big as my fist.
More bell pepper.


Now for my sewing projects.


I actaully only put Emma's name on here several weeks ago, forgot to take to Texas and forgot to mail it with the beach shirts, so hopefully I can get it to her soon, via Pops and Grandmother or a visit from Emma would be nice.




This is to be a wall hanging once I get it framed. I think it will be very appropriate for my sewing area, lol.




This is a shirt I did for Tyler who will be graduating in 2010, not sure he will wear it but maybe he will.


This shirt should be for me but if Brooke wants it she can have it, lol.




This I made for Tracy, I had to get creative because I had problems with my machinetrying to eat the fabric and created a hole in the shirt so I had to use a applique from another design to cover the hole and embroidery on. I was not pleased with the outcome so if Tracy never wears it its ok. I just waanted to attempt to salvage it. I think part of sewing is being creative to fix errors, lol.





I just had to do this for Tanner, hope he likes it as much as he does the trumpet shirt.



I did this one for Rusty, I think he will like it.


This one is for Kyle, since he graduates this year. He seems to think that guys don't wear t-shirts that have embroidery on them.



I made this forNylah,I may have posted it already.




These are the beach shirts I made for Will, Walker and Emma. I have been on a steep learning curve with my machine lately.




This is for Blake since he is going to play football this year.
I have enjoyed my sewing machine and so many more things I wanna do, I doubt I do many this summer, butI am sure in the winter I will make up for lost time. Dang I just remembered the pillow cases I made and the Bama bathroom items. Well check back in a few days and see these if you are interested. I will be traveling tomorrow to Vicksburg to see Tanner and Brooke graduate the 6th grade and then on Thursday see Kyle graduate high school.