The Pink Pearl Progress

The Pearls Jolly Roger 

Update number two!  

The Pink Pearl Progress...

This past week was spent readying The Pearl for her next voyage coming up soon...  

Thunder finished the Jolly Roger!  It's perfect!  Now she needs some grommets and The Pearl needs a flagpole, or mast or something, then we're good to go.

This is to become some of the decor.  One of my girls had fun making this little scenario up...  

My biggest girl had fun making up this lovely
decorative element.  

Here lies the missing bird (no
animals were actually harmed in
the making of this)

I took a pile of this

And made about a million of these until
I ran out of thread.  

The crew works on her exterior.

A lock, finally!

This one's a little lazy.  She tested out the bed.

The 8th member of our crew finally showed up for duty

guess what this is?

cleaning the whole exterior with a magic eraser

and a spot here too...

No reveal yet.  Just wanted to give you a little taste of what we've been up to.   We are a week away from our next voyage, lets hope we have no more 'family vacation' style incidents.  More on the Pearl Progress as the week progresses, I hope... 

and a little update on the farm report.  This morning I awoke to catch the carnation eating culprit in the act-- well sort of...  

I think she was resting there after her meal.  

when I opened the door she promptly sat up
in an attempt to look innocent

realizing it was futile she hopped over to the
other pot to sample what's over there
(my freshly planted Jasmine and more
carnations-- yum!)

Look at that face though, who could be mad?

As I step out the door she hops up to apologize ( I
would like to think anyway) and to say good morning.

The results.  Not a carnation or stem left to
be found...  

She gives me kisses.  Sweet bun, you know I still love you.

Spring at the Geenies Lamp Studio

Aren't these gorgeous?  Blueberry blossoms.

Spring at the Geenies Lamp Studio

The bush bean sprouts 

It's spring here and I thought I'd give you a quick, but very picture full
update.   The kids and I have been out planting for about a month.  And look!  It's one of my favorite things to watch spring bloom, seeds sprout and fruits and veggies appear almost magically in our backyard.

Lettuce

check it out it's even in rows.  

there are about a million apricots already

the new nectarine tree with fruit on it

the plum tree is blooming!

I think Cleo is eating my
carnations!

Not sure who did it, but they bit this
beautiful mandevilla, a red flowering vine,
off at the roots.

the first fruit of our new naval orange tree

this is the rasberry
coming back to life

 the ducks and chickens ate one rasberry bush down to nothing last summer, so I planted this one.  I have to keep it all caged up or they'll do it again.

the apricots with the valencia orange tree in the
background

My posse

Mmmmm blueberries!

the caged in apple tree

the first hibiscus flower of the season

and the grapevine is returning to life

the marigolds to keep bugs away

These jasmine flowers are both
stunning and highly fragrant

Orange blossoms
the scent has been filling my yard for weeks

Pomegranate blooms

Almost all of the bulbs I planted last year
have been eaten.  This one made it
but between the bitties and the fowl it's
looking pretty sad.

I did not take pictures of everything.  There are more blooms, roses, fruit trees, etc out there.  The dwarf nectarine tree my kids snapped off at the neck has come back something fierce and is full of blooms!  I'm amazed that it survived it's beheading by basketball.