Erica’s Blog

She grows!  Now, dontcha just love how every time I post pictures of Olympia, she looks like a different color?  I actually went outside with the intention of getting some nice “natural light” pictures of her, but since winter has actually returned this week (rain, some frost-inducing temperatures, wind, etc.), the light was pretty bad, and I didn’t have any dry surfaces to use.

YES, the second picture is fuzzy.  I don’t care.  The entire purpose of that picture is to show the mistake I referenced the other day.  I was probably very foolish to have answered the phone while knitting in the car the other day.  I can’t pay attention to Olympia and Bobcat at the same time!

Knit on, you Olympic knitters!  (BTW, I’ve discovered a new sport — snowboard cross.  It’s crazy!  Thing Two and I were watching it last night as Thing Two and hubby snuggled and snoozed.  Well, we watched until Thing Two said, “I’m going to stay up all the way until I fall asleep!”  Of course, she was asleep less than five minutes later.)

 Houston, we have flowers.  As you can see, it’s time to put out snail bait b/c the snails are getting to the purty yaller ones before they can even be photographed.  The weird orange flowers are up, too.  They bloomed later than last time, probably b/c 2005 was “the hottest year in a century”.  My paperwhites came up, but they don’t have buds on them.  Last time, they bloomed in December. 

Anybody know how to resurrect roses?   I forgot to cut back my rose bushes in the fall and didn’t take care of them, and now they look horrible.  Should I just cut them all back and fertilize them?