2 Year Blog Anniversary Giveaway

My 2 year blogging anniversary kind of snuck up on me so I'm a bit late with this post. I've been going through posts for the year to mention and show some pictures but I haven't seen anything memorable. Guess it just hasn't been a great year.

I was the lucky recipient of a birdfeeder and seeds on Beccas blog anniversary giveaway over at A Southern Garden By Becca. This was the greatest prize and just what I needed to go with another feeder I had just gotten at a garage sale. To read this post click here.

I bought myself gifts to keep from going stir crazy when I couldn't garden.

On a later post I showed what I filled it with. It turned out great, if I do say so myself. ;-) In fact I bought many nice planters for the deck last year and they all looked so good. I'm trying to replace all of my old plastic ones with pottery. This same post also had the Tipsy Pots I finally got around to doing. Click here to see all the new containers I got and what I put in some of them.

Keeping Records Of The Plants You Buy I'm glad I put on because it’s so easy and you all seemed to think it was a great way to keep track of your flowers. Easy or simple would be my middle name. Click here to read what I do.

I showed some work I did, finally, on the sedum garden I eventually want to do. Click here to see many of my sedums and the gardens they will connect.

We have a Western Tanager that visits every day or so to take a bath. What a beautiful guy he is but ohhhhhhh does he get funny looking towards the end of his bath. To see this scary sight click here.

I do love the birds and critters around the place and thought this was the funniest bunch I've taken in a while. It's a story of the Grosbeaks and the Chipmunk. Click here to see more.

I did do a couple of cute ones for Vintage Thingies Thursday that got great responses but they had nothing to do with gardening. But I do like variety and in February and March there isn't really anything here anyway except things just starting to pop up which is exciting but nothing to take great pictures of. Sooooooo . . .
One of the ones I enjoyed was with ColoradoLady for Vintage Thingies Thursday. It was on my vintage record player and I included a video of an adorable song I had on a 78 record and everyone seemed to love that post. A nice change when the weather is cruddy. If you'd like to see the post with the video playing this cute song click here.

I did some Fertilizer Fridays with Tootsie over at Tootsie Time throughout the year.

Another Vintage Thingies Thursday one I especially liked was about my 1946 Bendix Radio. You have to see this little treasure - it looks like a sewing machine, is a drop leaf table BUT . . . when you turn it on the wood lights up with a dial.

Go here to see it lit up.

Click here to read the story of The Nutty Narrows bridge (named after the Tacoma Narrows). This is a wonderful story about a man who cared about the little creatures that were being killed while trying to cross the streets.


Our trip to California was fun this year and many of you added Eureka and Ferndale to your list of places to visit after seeing these 2 towns with the beautiful Victorian homes. I did 4 posts on California and if you'd like to read them just go to my index and click on California.

I visited friends' gardens, some locals including a Daylily nursery, a 'Rare' plant nursery, a nursery with lots of yard art and wood carvings, and my new favorite nursery. Click here to read this one.

Now for the drawing. Gee, it's taken me so long to do this I guess I can't have it on Friday now so lets shoot for Tuesday since I'll be gone to an appointment out of town on Monday. Just come to this post and leave a comment and your name will go in.

This is a piece of slate with the prettiest picture painted on it. You can prop it up in one of your gardens and it will look very nice I think. After Bob draws a name on Tuesday I will contact you for your address. Good luck!