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Thursday, July 3, 2025

"Even the best laid plans

of mice and men often go awry". :)

Yes, they do! My intentions were to post once a week.  Anyhow, busy this morning with my usual jobs, the words, "even the best laid plans", kept going through my mind. Where did this come from? So, I Googled it. Awww, the poem, "To a Mouse", by Robert Burns. I sat and read the poem. 

Oh my, now I could get into some mouse stories. I've done a couple posts way back about tiny mice and my struggle to save their tiny lives. 

image borrowed from the computer

 

Maybe later. :) Friends, I am not believing, (forgive me for bragging) how pretty the teeny tiny garden is. Thank you Rose for your suggesting the old timey corn...the corn stalks are tall, some already 10' and still growing...


It's so much fun to watch everything grow and thrive. Last year the bell peppers and eggplants and even the tomatoes were such a disappointment. This year everything is doing well, and the one squash plant...



Well, you can see Poppy's arm, how small it appears compared to the plant. So far, we've gathered 22 squashes, there are 5 more almost ready to pick, and still many tiny ones coming on...one squash plant!!

Back to the corn, we found a tiny ear of corn coming on. Hickory Cane Corn grows only 2 ears per stalk...


How cute! Pink tassels for hair and see the huge cornfield bean vines winding up the huge stalks...so exciting!

And look what I found in the shade beneath the corn, a kitty cat...


 The next prettiest thing growing in the garden is the one Cone Flower...


All these blooms are from one single plant. I've never had any luck growing Cone Flowers so next year I just may have a row of just flowers. Wouldn't that be fun, and pretty!

Speaking of fun, Shelby and I were vendors at the Bee Jubilee in Oxford last Saturday. Fun, but a very hot humid 95-degree day. I was too busy fanning myself to take pictures. :)  Thank goodness for the cooler full of crushed ice, drinks, and battery-operated fans. The day went well. lots of customers, lots of sells. 

I do have an apron picture to show you. I've decided this is my favorite of all apron patterns. It's a little harder to make but worth the work...


I love the heart shaped bib, skirt, and pocket, and here's a blue print...


and matching bonnets...


The chicken print sold fast, as usual. I came home ready to start sewing again. 

Oh my gosh, I have talked your ears off again. So I will end this bragging and showing off pictures, but can I show you one more?

Little Violet got a new pocketbook to carry her important stuff in...


One year old and putting a cell phone in her bag. :) 

Thank you for visiting. Hope I haven't driven you all away. 

Love, Henny


15 comments:

  1. Hello Henny, Violet will be a girly girl. and good old Smokey restin' in the corn! So glad your veggies are coming on gang busters. You'll can and eat good this season. Great that you and your sister had a good day selling while sweating bullets. What a hot and humid few weeks it's been up here after a cold wet worthless Spring. And now the 4th is here!
    Happy Summer to you and Poppy. Tell him we have lots of fawns around. Lynn and Precious

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  2. Violet is just adorable!
    Our cone flowers are doing great this year too.
    I love that apron!!!

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  3. An important question: do mice make plans?

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  4. Everything about this post is cute or pretty or charming.

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  5. Violet is so cute with her phone and purse. -:) Your garden is doing so well. I do miss having a garden and all of the fresh veggies and fruits. And those aprons! I'm in love. You do such beautiful work at the sewing machine. I'm so glad you're back writing.
    Blessings and hugs.
    Betsy

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  6. Violet is adorable!! So happy your garden has taken off this year. Love the aprons, especially the first one.

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  7. Your garden is amazing, Henny! Maybe, it's because of more rain this season? And seeing little Miss Violet made my day, all grown with her purse and cellphone. May God continue to bless you and yours!

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  8. What a wonderful garden! This year I did plant a row of flowers- zinnia and cosmos. I can’t wait until they start blooming! Awww sweet little girl with her purse! - Jenn

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  9. diane in northern wisJuly 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM

    What a lovely garden you have....things are growing so well. I love sweet corn! Everything looks so healthy...and I love your pretty cone flowers too. How nice that you had good sales at the Jubilee. Your aprons and bonnets are just darling. What a sweet picture at the end, of Violet and her new pocketbook. Take good care Melba and Poppy too. God bless you. Have a great 4th!

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    1. Hey Diane in Northern Wisconsin! :) Thank you for your nice comment. Happy 4th to you and your husband! Love you!

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  10. Your garden is just amazing!! Corn 10' tall and incredible number of squash from a single plant!!! I hope your summer is going well. It sounds like you're busy with sewing ( love the aprons) and your garden. Little Violet is a cutieπŸ’—.
    I don't think any of my coneflowers came through the winter. I think yours is beautiful.
    Keep trying for one post a week. I know it takes time but your posts are always so welcome.

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  11. BEAUTIFUL garden pictures, enjoyed them so much. We grew corn this year too, just for fun! It's not too tall yet, we planted it late. The squash is all harvested and eaten or put up here. Happy holiday, have a great one!

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  12. Oh! My! My! All behind again....HeHe! Just got back from
    town...And, it's hot..again...30+ and has been all week,
    to hot for the garden, a little rain forecast for tomorrow..?

    HaHa! Mice! I wonder if Smokey has an opinion of them,
    l'm sure if asked, he'd give a detailed description, on how
    to stalk, hide, catch, dispatch and possibly consume said
    beast...HeHe! Bless him..! :()).

    Can l say the pinnies/aprons look nice to, especially the
    top one, and the bonnets are lovely to...!
    And little Violet looks lovely, with her 'pink' pocket book..!
    At least she has the right colour...! :O)

    And the poem... 'To a Mouse' by Robbie Burns is a strange
    poem, it must be read in a Scottish accent, to understand it...
    HeHe! :0).
    Here's the first verse...There are eight...
    Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
    O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
    Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
    Wi’ bickerin brattle!
    I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee
    Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
    (I rest my case)....!
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    1. Oh Willie, I had such a hard time reading the poem. I tried to read it with a Scottish accent but with my southern drawl, I had a hard time. I do like the poem though and understood the meaning. Poor little mouse and her home. Oh, Smokey has wrecked many a little mouse household, I'm sure! And usually brings some of it to us on the front porch. :( Thank you for visiting.

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  13. Life sometimes has a way of stealing away our free moments, but that is perfectly okay. I can see you have really been working hard, not only in your garden, but with sewing projects. Oh geez...your garden!! Everything is so green and healthy...hoping you get an abundant harvest of veggies. That blue apron...be still my heart. absolutely gorgeous.. Enjoy the 4th and all of the Blessings that we have in this Nation..

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