Despite my lovely plant stand and my success growing seedlings on it, I'm going small on seeds this year, and hopefully on plant purchases once the garden centers open.
I'm focusing on reorganizing my entire garden, adding nicer soil and amendments, and giving it an intentional design rather than just tossing things in.
Here are my two orders in pictures, as that's all everyone wants to see anyway.
It’s the last day of an icky January. Bad, Bad January! February is all Valentines, repotting of houseplants as they begin new growth, and working on those bread making, crochet, sewing and embroidery skills. Sounds pleasant, right?
One: Game Day! Mr. DOA and I have been playing Scrabble for decades. I, as a lifelong reader and lover of words have a much better vocabulary than he does. He wins more often than not, anyway, because he is a fiend for winning any game. He plots. He ponders. He strategizes. I just want to lay down nice words.
Two: I love this required kindergarten skill set for the tinies from 1954. All very good, doable skills.
Three: Speaking of the garden…
Four: It’s back to the fifties week! How about these complaints from 1957 about the current state of society and culture.
Five: Tomorrow’s Saturday Puzzle is a Rebus. Here’s a short one to tide you over.
I more often than not lose/ misplace my garden notebook every June, just in the middle the most activity. Here is this year’s effort to spot it in a pile and to easily tell what garden year is covered. This could work.
It's TV time! I've three shows this week: Will Trent, Night Agent Season Two Episodes 1-5, and a Netflix film Back In Action. Next week NCIS Origins and Matlock are back.
Will Trent Find A New Pond
Angie, waiting for approval of her return to the force is tasked with removing the body of a swan on the grounds of the gated community where she provides security. While she waits for the body to be picked up, she notices a human finger lodged in it's mouth.
There's something for everyone as Betty gets a new scarf, one left behind by Angie. She is also feeling a bit frayed, so she chews on Will's favorite dress shoes.
Amanda picks out a series of outfits for Sunny. Amanda has plenty of style, but will it suit a young girl?
The Night Agent Season Two Episodes 1-5
This post would have been out this morning as usual, but I thought for some reason Night Agent Season Two was five episodes, so I watched till 1:30 thinking I could finish. Oops! Ten episodes this time. There's little downtime or escape from the constant pressure of bad guys, and chases on foot in Thailand and New York.
Add to this an intense story line about a young woman working at the Iranian Embassy trying to trade information to the US for help getting her mother and brother out of Iran. She's not a spy, just a desperate woman who is treated dismissively by her contact and promised nothing, while she puts herself in more and more danger at the Embassy trying to get something to please the agent.
Rose, in faraway California, has a new job at a tech company when she receives a phone call from a man who wants to know if she's seen Peter Sutherland.
Peter seems somewhat cursed as he is never able to trust his superiors in Night Action. His partner in Thailand was killed when someone leaked that they were there doing intel work. His new supervisor knew Peter's father, so she doesn't trust him and asks him if he wants to get out of the program as he's not ready and hasn't had enough training.
I think Peter does extremely well on the run, never hesitating, always a step ahead of his pursuers.
Five episodes to go, yow.
Back In Action
Somehow I snuck in a Netflix film called Back In Action with Jamie Foxx and Carmen Diaz as special agents for the CIA who decide to disappear and lead normal lives after a plane crashes while on a mission. She's pregnant, and they feel they can start fresh together.
Fifteen years later, they're enjoying a suburban life with their teen age kids who don't listen to them or respect them so much. Typical teens.
This reminded me somewhat of True Lies, but here, both Diaz and Foxx are super agents with all the moves that they don't get to make anymore. That is, until they track their fourteen year old to a club for over eighteens, and get into a bar fight with a bouncer who wants them to leave and their daughter to stay.
The scene is captured on phones and goes viral. The next day, an old colleague from the CIA shows up at their door and warns them their cover is blown and they need to leave now before all of their enemies descend on the cozy suburban house. He's shot in the head mid-sentence, and vans and motorcycles full of gun men pull up shooting.
It's a quick trip to the school to pick up their scoffing kids, then they're on the run for England.
I loved the show, and thought it was great fun. Diaz and Foxx seemed to be having so much fun kicking ass.
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PERHAPS I AM A BEAR, OR SOME HIBERNATING ANIMAL UNDERNEATH, FOR THE INSTINCT TO BE HALF ASLEEP ALL WINTER IS SO STRONG IN ME.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Just finished this book in the nick of time to do the puzzle!
It seemed like a rough week. It was a rough week! Soothing thoughts, silly thoughts. Aren’t you glad you stopped by?
One: You never know when you might need a handy escape vehicle, right? Here you go.
Two: I love the Vintage Christmas group, and I also love old ads featuring elegant dining. But hey, is this girl up to no good or what?
Three: Eggs have been in good supply at our grocery store and I confess it hasn’t occurred to me to note the price. I just get what’s on my grocery list and keep moving. TP, well, Mr DOA keeps things moving there.
Four: It’s the circle, the circle of life!
Five: Here is a pretty, light, charming quilt to brighten your day.
Here's the new Crafty DOA Logo. I've changed a few of the elements. There was this wierd thing going on with the previous post about the logo where (for me) droves of people were looking at the dang thing. Since we all know nobody read this S*&^, if there's some older post picking up speed, something is amiss.
Hmmm the Crafty DOA is hard to see. Will fix on the next version.
I've been actively crafting! I'm doing a pink blanket with the squares bordered in pastel. Pink is my favorite, plus I have, no lie, an entire closet of pink yarn. I placed them on an old hairpin lace blanket I made years ago for added charm.
Also on the hook is more yarn I'm trying to use up, that features a few varieties of Caron Baby Cakes Yarn. I've got them set so you see how the colors unspool as you go, and I'm using a sea green for the join and borders.
I've been itching to do some embroidery for awhile, and this is the project I chose to come back to. I got frustrated because the thread kept getting knotted up and I couldn't work on it at all. The material is very thin, which doesn't help. I think they are supposed to be tea towels, but I can't imagine they would dry a thing. Still, the stitches are simple and I have a love of Mason Jars. I tried working the letters this morning (b and e) with a short length of thread, pulling carefully, and I think it will be fine. At least it is a start on the craft.
All I have is this week's episode of Will Trent. I watched another show but dozed through it, through no fault of the show. I will need to re-watch.
Will Trent Sunny-Side Up
We found out last week that Rafael's daughter had been kidnapped, and this week the team works to find her. Rafael and Amanda work together to contact Sunny via a hand held game she has with her. Asking the girl about her surroundings, Amanda guessed she was in a police safe house, and the kidnapper was a cop. Telling Sunny to use the phone under the bed, they kept her on the phone while her kidnapper took her out of the house and stuffed her in a car trunk.
The actress playing Sunny did a great job of portraying a teen who was scared, but determined. Once she was rescued, she went to Amanda's apartment to stay with her, but Amanda's tight rules right off the bat may have soured things between them.
Angie, still stuck at the gatehouse to a gated community as a security officer, used an AI to help her find the right words to use when she had to go before a police board to ask to come back to the force.
Will finds a new woman of interest in Marion Alba, with the DA's Office. She's ok. I think Angie and Will were never going to make it, so I'm ok with them separating. I'd just like to keep Angie's character on the show because she's fascinating.
My favorite scene is Will getting back to his own self in a super sharp suit. Then he attempts to get Betty to take the Pips part while he channels Gladys Knight singing Last Train To Georgia. Will is back to stay.
I was looking for a quote about Life. I am so Deep. This is from Confucius.
Ta da! I found the old Cryptogram logo. It explains the puzzle in case you've not tried one. Happy decoding!
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