Wrapped up tight.
People are serious about their yard art here.
I don’t think I’ll ever get used to seeing leaves stuffed into paper bags.
I wonder how many shamrock headstones they sell a year? I wanted to stop and ask but the HH wouldn’t let me. I think there might be a rather large population of Irish in New England. Also, do the two little cutouts on the shamrock bother you? It’s almost begging for a teenager up to no good to come along at 1 am with a black sharpie and draw a mouth. Or maybe I’m just seeing things again.
No matter where I go, Mrs. Hillbilly is always just around the corner waiting to say hello.
They lost me at chickpea flour.
Waking up to a winter wonderland. #BestFeelingEver unless of course you’re the one who has to snowblow the driveway. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a Beautiful Weekend
~Mavis
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Sue R. says
I had forgotten about wrapping tender shrubs in burlap!! (That was true living in Minnesota but not now in Oregon.)
Stephanie says
Oh no! Chickpea flour is awesome! It’s used a lot in Indian and vegan cooking, because it makes a nice substitute for eggs and thus you can turn it into a really tasty omelet-like creation or a scramble (also good for people who can’t eat eggs). I keep a few bags of it on hand, a chickpea scramble with whatever veggies I have floating around the fridge or freezer makes a wonderful lunch. This is the recipe I usually use: http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/2014/02/recipe-besan-scramble-high-protein-soy-free-gluten-free-vegan-power-breakfast/ My four year-old daughter enjoys it too! 🙂
Leslie says
“They lost me at chickpea flour.” Bahahahaha
If you haven’t already seen it, Martha Stewart’s blog “the Martha Blog” shows some pretty awesome shrub wrap jobs. One New Year’s Eve when I was pregnant and my husband was working, I went through about two years worth of that blog
Nesha Dee says
Thanks for the tip on the Martha Blog! I have been a long time reader of Mavis’ blog(s) and psyched she is now here with me in New England, now I get to enjoy Martha as well. Stay warm out there folks.
Leslie says
Enjoy!
Katie says
If I wasn’t lost at chick-pea flour, I certainly would have been lost at cultured macadamia-cashew cheese LOL
Mavis Butterfield says
I wouldn’t even know where to begin to look for cultured macadamia-cashew cheese.
Pam Kaufman says
I saw that placker and thought of my husband!! I find them everywhere! Drives me nuts!
Mavis Butterfield says
March is SO INTENSE around here. Every time the Girl and I see a front door {or lawn} decorated with shamrocks we just look at each other and say… Freakin’ Shamrocks! 🙂 It’s so funny. I love it.
Kim says
Will you collect those bags of leaves to go on your garden? We collect about 120 bags and use them to mulch around vegetables and then put the leftovers on the garden after the first freeze.
Mavis Butterfield says
No. Ha! We have all the leaves we could possibly want in our own yard… and then some.
Indio says
I can never have enough compost. I collect my neighbors conveniently packaged leaves too and put them into a set of three homemade pallet compost bins. Everything, including the bag, decomposes by next Spring and gets put to good use in the beds. I don’t like to supplement with purchased soil but after a year of growing the soil always needs improving for next year. I’ve found that I don’t need to rotate tomatoes and kale locations, if I add enough leaf and chicken compost the beds. It such a huge amount of enriched soil that I can grow tomatoes in the same spot year after year and they still thrive.
Marybeth says
We always use paper bags for leaves. Those are definitely eyes on the shamrock. It’s creepy.
Torry says
The eyes on the shamrock are the eyes of the Grinch! I would never be able to buy that for anyone, because that is all I would see!