It’s late afternoon Sunday, but not really late as we just “sprang forward” with regard to time, and I will need several days to adjust. LOL.
It has been a quiet week on the sewing front as I’ve been in the yard for 4 full days now working at the spring clean-up, uprooting plants that are not working, pruning, raking grass, weeding grass and just loving being outside in shorts and and a short-sleeve t-shirt in warm sunshine. I think I was spurred into going outside by the fact that our brown grass is turning green.
I’ve never raked the Centipede grass before, but it has been 3 years now, and there was a lot of thatch that this grass doesn’t like. I did what I could with a wide leaf garden rake. I hesitate to have a professional person thatch with a machine as the sod has a net of plastic on the bottom, and I’m pretty sure a thatch machine would pull it up and make a huge mess.
I’ve also replaced all the dirt in my outdoor planting containers as it was well past time to give new plants a dirt uplift. I visited the local plant stores, but we are apparently between very early plants, like viola and pansies, and the summer annuals that can take heat. So I didn’t come home with any plants for my containers. Maybe later next week.
As I wrote months ago, I saw an orange blooming Tea Olive last fall and fell in love. I think I have a spot where one could go, especially as they are slow growing and prune well. Remember this picture, taken outside Local Jo’s Natural Foods, where I get my raw milk, raw butter, raw honey, local clean eggs, and so forth?
Tea Olives are famous for their strong fragrance in the late fall or early winter. The white ones are more common, but…I loved this orange one. And look at that gorgeous foliage. Tea Olives are one of the iconic plants here in the Charleston, SC, coastal, tropcal area.
I’m also gradually refolding my t-shirts so that they look like this picture in my bedroom shows:
And I’m liking the result a lot. I can see what I have without pawing through stacks, and the shirts do not wrinkle as they do when folded flat, especially when they sit for several seasons to pass.
Have a terrific week everyone!
Louisa Enright's Blog 
I learned years ago to roll clothes for packing in a suitcase, and I finally applied that to my t-shirt drawer. As you noted, it is far easier to choose the t-shirt I want when they are rolled up and all visible. Not quite warm enough for t-shirts here, but spring is coming!