Mystery Man Market bag

Here is the story behind this bag:

On Tuesday I took dear daughter to one of the temp agencies so she can continue her job search. I stayed in the truck crocheting while she was inside.

I am in the process of making a very bright bag from orange and a red heart yarn called mexicana. vibrant bright colors.

Anyway sitting there with the windows down, radio on and a man walks toward the truck down the sidewalk. He is scruffy looking. needs a shave, clothing a bit torn. he stops and says he likes my truck, and I tell him we do too thanks.

then he notices what I have in my hands. he asks if he can come closer to look. I had no problem with it. he came over and asked what I was crocheting. So I explained what it was. He said he really liked it. I told him I wished it was done I would have given it to him, and he said no, there is another plan for that bag, you just do not know yet what it is. he then placed his hand on the bag, closed his eyes a moment, then shook my hand, said God bless and walked away.I turned around to say goodbye and he was gone...no where to be seen.

Today I finished the bag.

Update on the bug

I found out what this is.
it is a Hummingbird Moth
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/hummingbird_moth.htm thats a website that shows it.
now we know!!

huge fruits and other happenings

I finally got emails sorted out, what a mess! Had to send everything one by one to myself from incredimail, then uninstall and reinstall incredimail.

but it is all back up and working now thankfully.

We picked one of the cantaloupe from the volunteer vine.

8 pounds 3 ounces. Yes, that's what I wrote. it is huge. here is a photo of it, and one of hubby holding it. it is almost the size of a basketball!!

This strange creature was flying around the Zinnias today. its wings were so fast, like a hummingbird, and it was about the same size as one too. At first I thought it was a Hummingbird, till i took this photo, it is no hummingbird. no idea what it is, never saw anything like it.

we have picked 35 Tomatoes from our volunteer plant. with still many many more to come. I am dehydrating them all.

Drowning in seed....

Wanted to post this photo. its taken through the greenhouse door.

we set tables up in our greenhouse, and are using it to dry seeds.

overflowing with seeds even!!

I have given away so many marigold seeds and still more coming. Need any?

we have Marigold seed, Yucca plant seeds, Zinnia, Mello and not sure yet what else i'll have by the time I am done.

Also, just a note.

I am having major email program issues. my incredimail program is a mess. My Antivirus claims it has a virus so every time i open it, it acts weird. I have checked my machine with 3 other scanners (including a professional network one) and they all show clear. Weird stuff.

But I am going through all my old emails and saving as much as it will let me.

Links I saved for things I like I am posting here:
http://www.myhq.com/public/j/a/janglesfromjo/

Until I get that all cleared up I can't do much with email.

So if you do not hear from me you know why.

Our garden

This Summer has kept me quite busy.

Last summer we built raised flower beds for the front walkway. We filled them with cut grass all summer last year, and into the fall. then left them sit uncovered all winter.

this is what they looked like at the beginning of spring.

This spring I planted a hand full of marigold seed and a few Zinnias in the longest one. They grew...and grew....and GREW!!

27 ft of flowers.

one of the smaller boxes has Love Lies Bleeding,

and the last started out with Mello in one corner and i was going to wait to see what else I wanted to put in it. then, a volunteer tomato plant showed up.

these are the Mello at the end.

We decided to let it grow to see what happened. It got HUGE. we have counted over 50 tomatoes!!

That is hubby in behind the tomato..see how big it is. ONE plant!!

about the same time the tomato showed up 3 tiny vines showed up in the flower beds, so I moved them to the end of the box that has the Tomato. we thought they were cucumber, but they are not., they are a cantaloupe!! We have lots of baby cantaloupe.

this is what they look like today

This is one of the baby cantaloupe. It is starting to get the typical ridges cantaloupe are known for.

so now you know what I am doing.

trying to crochet some too, but seem to have lost the creative ability. most days i just pick up the yarn and put it right back down again.

Anyone know?

I have some things i am needing to know an approximate selling/buying price on and canot find.

Anyone know how much this monkey set is worth?

it is just the face, hands and feet.

Shopaholic's Shopper finished

Well I finished the Shopaholic shopper bag.

original pattern called for WW yarn and an H hook.

So I used Red Heart WW yarn and an H hook and started crocheting.

The sides you work each by itself. following the instructions they seemed quite long, so I stopped before I got to the required number of rows.

I finished off all the pieces shorter than they were supposed to be in the pattern.

I started to put it together and oh no it is HUGE!! almost twice the size of the original pattern dimensions.

I was talking to a friend about it, and telling her it was big enough around after i put all the sides together to be a shirt.

I was so upset, almost in tears. I really wanted this one to be perfect and it flopped badly. But I finished it.

I Improvised handles for it, not using what the patten called for.

Here is the finished item, filled with 12, yes 12 giant rolls of paper towels!

This is hubby's hand holding one of the big rolls of towels we put in the bag.

Yes April, it will carry Toilet paper quite nicely (or laundry).

I hope you enjoy the bag.