http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com About and FOR friends of Ruthe's Secret Roses (blog edition) en-us Tues May 21 2013 12:00:00 GMT Tues May 21 2013 11:54:01 GMT Ruth Marlene Friesen Ruth Marlene Friesen http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/category/the-rosebouquet/at-home/ Garden-making time has arrived at last. Actually, it's no later than last year when I made my garden on the Saturday of the Victoria Day weekend. It just seems so much later because it took so long for winter to leave. Spring lasted about one day, and then winter returned for another week, and suddenly, it is summer! My neighbour, Joe, had promised to borrow a tiller and go through my garden for me on Saturday, but he was of a mood to clean up first. He loaded his trailer with stuff for the dump, and when I came out he offered to take a trailer load of my stuff away too, when he'd finished the first trip. I decided to accept and helped him load a huge heap of leaves and dead branches, and then 8 bags of leaves that I'd raked up. We hooked a big elastic net of his over it all, and he took it away. It was already past noon. Eventually Joe was back with his friends' rototiller, and went through my garden. He found the soil so . . . . MORE Tues May 21 2013 http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/category/the-rosebouquet/whats-new/ Speaking of weather, the reports out of Oklahoma are very sad, aren't they? I've never seen a tornado, so I don't think I can imagine the full impact. My mind stalls at the thought of it all. I must make a correction on my report on Marie Ens' Place of Rescue ministry.... I want to remind my faithful readers that I'm taking a week off next week, so there will be no RoseBouquet next week. Well, I'm updating and preparing a laptop to take along, so if I have a few minutes - and find it easy to get online (I recall a previous trip when that did not work out) - then I may post a brief progress report on the RoseBouquet blog, but only on that edition. The last few days I've tried to remember when I last had a vacation . . . . . MORE Tues May 21 2013 http://blogs.ruthes-secretroses.com/category/the-rosebouquet/tips-solutions/ Remember that tea I was telling you about last week? Well, my two week sample arrived on Friday, and so of course, i tried it out over the weekend. It worked so well at cleansing my bowels on Saturday that on Sunday I cut back to just one cup. (that's just a quarter cup of the steeped brew with the rest of the cup filled with water). It doesn't taste bad at all. However, on Sunday I decided to . . . . MORE Tues May 21 2013