Sometimes it feels like, instead of a nine-color spectrum of belt colors, there’s really only four belts in Krav: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and black belt.
Next stop: black belt.
Two Years of Krav Maga
Status: Upcycling
Hey, @sea_lemon! I was inspired by your Junior Mints notebook tutorial to make a cover from an old print-on-demand photo calendar I was saving. I didn’t know exactly what I’d do with my calendar photos, but it seemed a waste to pitch perfectly good prints. Now they have purpose!
Early to Rise
I seem to have become one of those people: the ones who wake up with only a hungry cat as an alarm, who (after feeding said cat) will go outside to cut fresh flowers to enjoy indoors.
May 2021 in the Garden
I finally figured out why I haven’t been blogging like I used to: I journal longhand instead, pasting photos of my garden into my gardening journal, creating pages for plants I’d like to research, noting which seeds germinated successfully and which didn’t (I’m looking at you, larkspur), etc.
However, I do like the convenience of being able to just search my blog and compare year to year for particular events or milestones, gardening or otherwise. So, here I am, back-blogging Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for May 2021.
Early Spring Border / Japanese Garden
The highlights of this border are the dwarf Japanese maple and the tree peony, but it really shines in early spring, when all the bulbs come up and remind me that things will get warmer and greener.
After all these alliums finished blooming and their foliage browned, I dug them up (and LABELED THEM) in preparation for converting this border into something more minimalist that the chipmunks might not find as inviting.
Hammer Skillz
This is the woodworking equivalent of that time I successfully sewed a pincushion.
I’m planning to make this into a platform bird feeder… but the chipmunks might assume it’s for them. We’ll see how this turns out.