Garden Fairies continued

I can't believe it. A fairy in my garden. I couldn't wait to get back out there and find the fairy again. I got out of bed and threw on my clothes. Coffee could wait. I didn't even grab my tools. I had so many plans for this little fairy. I walked to the garden and knelt down by the cement block. I leaned over and looked in. No fairy!! Where did she go. I sat up and looked around. Nowhere. Just gone.I felt myself getting misty eyed. My heart felt heavy. I felt like I had lost my best friend. Slowly, I got up and went back to the house.
All day long, I kept going to the kitchen window and looking out at the garden. I wanted so bad to see the shine and glitter of wings out there. No such luck. I wasn't giving up. I started making plans. Did fairies eat? What did they eat? I went to the refrigerator and checked to see if there was anything that might appeal to a fairy. Cake, I had cake. I pinched off a tiny piece and put it on a plate..Then I went to my sewing box and got my thimble and took it back to the kitchen. A tablespoon of milk and it was full enough. I set the thimble on the plate and then went out the back door and out to the garden. I carefully set the plate down on the cement block. I stood up and stepped back. I stood and watched for a few minutes and then turned around and went back to the house. It was hard waiting. I sat and watched tv a little, then crocheted some, picked up a book and put it back down when I realized that I had read the same paragraph four times and still didn't know what I had read. I kept checking the clock. Two hours. I would wait two hours. How much time had passed so far? Twenty minutes? Only twenty minutes? I knew this was going to be a long day. I sat back down in the chair, put my head back and closed my eyes.

Well here it is, Tuesday, march18, 2008 and Roy is off work today and how do we use his day off? I'm on the computer and he's asleep in the bed with both the boyz. I have been working on the carnations. I have all 6 crocheted and all the leaves done. Now I have to wait until I get some floral tape. I have some around here, but so far, haven't found it. It is probably packed up in this crochet closet and I just don't feel like pulling all that stuff out to look for it. I need the tape and maybe some green floral paper. Haven't decided whether I'm going to wrap them in paper or crochet a vase to put them in. Thought of the vase and figured out thatI could put rice in a nylon stocking and drop it in the bottom to make it stand up with the flowers in it. I'll try it and see if it works. I should be keeping track of my stitches so I can write a pattern. I may still do that before I get too far.
Gonna make some oatmeal cookies for Roy today. Maybe chocolate chip too. I need to get in the kitchen if I'm going to do anything and I seem to be addicted to the computer. Oh well, until later.

Keeping busy

Well, it appears that I don't know what I'm doing yet. I just typed up a whole page and then somehow, erased the whole thing. Well, I have been very busy working on my 12 item surprise exchange with a partner in my crochet group. We both have to crochet 12 items and send them to each other on Dec. 1st. I have made 3 hotpads and a half dozen carnations. All are very pretty. I am going to also make an afghan and a scarf, maybe a couple of doilies and possibly some of those little miniature animals, that are so popular now. Well, I will post some pictures if I ever figure out how to do it. I don't understand all I know about this blog stuff but I will learn, have no fear.

Got up early this morning to get a start on my new garden. I had been waiting for spring to arrive and here it is. As I gathered all my tools and my gloves and headed to the garden site, I could see in my mind, a lush garden full of herbs. vegetables and flowers. First on the agenda though was to clear out all the grass and weeds that had grown up in the fall and withered in the winter. I sank down to my knees and pulled on my gloves. As I attacked the brush around me, I saw a cement block. Now what was that doing in my garden? I reached to pull it out and something fluttered by my hand and behind my arm. I moved my arm, but what ever it was, appeared to be gone. I reached for the block again, and again, something fluttered past my hand and arm. This time I got a glimpse of something sheer and shiny. I stood up and looked around. Now this was odd. What was that. I acted like a butterfly or moth, but it was so fast, I was sure that wasn't what it was. I got back down on my hands and knees and stooped way down so I could look in the blocks opening. There, something was backed way up into the block and I could see it quivering toward the back of the hole. I got back up and went into the house. I had to find out what this was. I rounded up my old butterfly net and headed back to the garden. I got down on the ground again and this time I used the butterfly net to cover up the back of the block, then I reached in and something flew out the back and into the net. I sat up and grabbed the net and pulled it toward me. There inside, was a tiny little fairy. She had the longest silver hair with sparkles in it. Her wings shown with a glittering that went from pink to blue to yellow and back. She was beautiful. I could see her heart beating and she reminded me of a mouse I had caught in a trap that had gotten caught by the tail and was scared to death. I picked it up and carried it outside and set it loose, but on the way out, I could see his little heart beating like it was going to pop out of its body. I saw this now with the little fairy, as she fluttered and struggled to get away. I talked as soft and reassuring as I could and told her that I wasn't going to hurt her, I just wanted to see her up close and then I would let her go. Her heart slowed down and she quit trying to get away. I gently pulled the net closer and peered at the little fairy. She looked back at me and seemed to be studying me as much as I was her. I gently opened the top of the net and held it away from me. She sat there for a few minutes and then, as if she thought I might change my mind, she burst out of the net and landed on a tree branch above my head. I stood up slowly and looked up at her. She flew off the branch and down onto my shoulder. Now my heart was beating fast. She trusted me!! I stood there for a long time, not wanting to move for fear of scaring her, but I need not have worried. She was no longer frightened. It was starting to get late so I reached down and gathered up my garden tools and she flew off my shoulder and disappeared into the trees. I headed to the tool shed to put up my equiptment and headed for the house. Wait until tomorrow. I would be back in the garden early. Would she?