Sloane Solanto

    I have been in a quandary since last year on whether or not to continue gardening as well as where to continue if I do.  And now I find it really silly that I would have even considered NOT having a garden.  I have already started having dreams of me in the garden. So [...]

 Over at my friend Jeannine’s blog, Four Rooms, she expressed her love of John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together(1979). I couldn’t agree with her more! I still have my scratched old vinyl copy but have updated to the iPod as well…Christmas is not Christmas without the Muppets….or The Peanuts!   Last weekend I [...]

I am in a quandary…to garden or not to garden? My garden is an absolute disaster this year. I walked back the other day and was ashamed of myself that I have let it get so completely out of hand. It is way to big for me to manage alone (and still have time to [...]

The zinnia’s have completely taken over… When I pulled up this morning to cut some flowers the garden was full of butterflies and gold finches..I sat in the truck for a while to watch the little birds fly around flower to flower…the butterflies aren’t scared and hung out while I poked around. I finally got [...]

Mom has been giving me grief over my lack of blogging….and I have to admit I have been bad and will get back in the swing of things. Now that my computer is running like new it will be much more enjoyable. )So here’s mom’s new baby (well kind of a baby, he may be [...]

In the garden…first zinnias opening explosions of lavender…. Hmmmm cucumbers will be here soon…. This volunteer sunflower is huge and covered with buds… my first cosmo of the season… yellow squash is growing fast….

I had a birthday…number 39..here is an awesome mermaid my mom got from fellow artist, Gina Bonds, at the Fred Heutte show… Another bit of awesomeness is this sweet kitty made for me by my step-mom, Judy ….the pictures do neither of these two beauties justice…. I have actually finished this little hippo since this [...]

Mom and I hit the garden on Sunday…whew, what a work out, I am sore!Look at this mess! Horrible! Much better! Even started weeding… Mom’s girl, Zoe, basking in the sun… It sure felt good to be out in the sunshine!

The flowers in the garden are going crazy! I am loving them. The tomatoes are fading fast no thanks to darn leaf hoppers sucking the life blood out of the stems! I have 3 beautiful and bountiful red pepper plants called The Big Early…I have been eating them already but now I am having an [...]

Hello everyone, I have been a really bad blogger lately. I think my nerves are getting the best of me with my upcoming art show. Silly, I know….I think it doesn’t bother me until I go to sleep and have these wild dream…mostly shocking and bad…then I wake up exhausted. That being said I haven’t [...]