Maybe things aren't so bad after all...

After the worst week ever, and just an okay day today, I came home feeling pretty yucky.  I decided that I needed a little dirt therapy, so I went out in the garden for a couple of hours.

• Yard work, check  (now the neighbors aren't cringing at the sight of my yard.
• I ALWAYS, without fail feel better after working in my tiny garden for a while.  
• Green beans are looking good (see below), so I mulched them with free, that's right, I said FREE yard clippings that have been drying out in a pile in my side yard.  (I have two more piles ready to mulch with when I get more plants into the beds). 

• I think the mulch looks pretty good--or as good as mulch ever looks.  I hate red mulch, and black mulch seems unnatural, so I prefer brown mulch anyway, and this looks like any other mulch.  And I'm improving the soil at the same time.
• My passion plant is blooming--look at this lovely lady!  I need to find a nice big trellis for her to drape herself over. 

• I saw several tiny toads out in the yard near the garden, which is really good, it means I have lots of nice juicy living things in the dirt.  No photo.
• Last, the strawberries are running!  Yea!

• Oh yeah, I've been meaning to take a picture of this--this is my little herb propagating and seedling area next to my kitchen window.  

• After I finished all my fun in the dirt, I decided to make a little something for my favorite new teacher ever--Trina Kennedy.  These are pillow covers I sewed for her new (and first!) classroom.  I just adore that girl!  They are much prettier in person--so much so that I think I'll make some for my own classroom...

• ... although mine were made from men's shirts from the thrift store.  I even used the buttons on the back as a closure.  I think I'm pretty clever.