{Toadstools Recycling Dead Trees}

If you have a huge garden like we have, than there are dead trees, fallen limbs and what not.

Mother Nature does take care of all of it by recycling those dead trees!

Yes, toadstools can break down the lignine from trees!

Walking through our wood garden, we find lots of toadstools or mushrooms.

Husband Pieter made all these photos while making such a walk.

It is quite amazing to see how the toadstools are the last in Mother Nature's cycle for doing its work. No creature can actually 'eat' trees.

Those toadstools do decompose tree trunks and you can often observe different varieties of mushroom attacking it simultaneously.

These look even beautiful!

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{Pleurotus Ostreatus in Wood Garden Provided Meal} | previous post by me

{Centipede Grass Sods}

In October when husband Pieter did remove the HUGE Indian Hawthorn and also got rid of all the rattlesnake weeds, he did sow a mix of grass.

From Home Depot, Pieter did haul back home several sods, on a piece of ply wood on the bike rack behind our Toyota RAV4...

Supervisor Spooky boy is watching that it is getting laid straight!

This photo is from October 31, 2015 where some of the grass seed did actually come up but it died already in the spring.

The Centipede that was supposed to be mixed in, did never come up.

This was the reason that we had to dig up all our Azaleas since it got infested by this pesky Rattlesnakeweed or Hieracium venosum L. 

Several loads and often they did run out of sods at Home Depot...

Keeping the ones that already got laid alive was also a struggle in mid June.

Sods that have been on pallets for days, seem to turn yellowish...

Light and water helps to change that quickly.

Row by row...

While we were in Florida, our cat sitter did turn on the sprinklers a lot so it is growing now and it has been mowed already.

Hoping to get this added section of lawn in good shape over time.

In the shade of our huge Magnolia tree, grass will not likely grow, so that has been left bare but grass will spread out.

Centipede is a grass variety that stands the heat and in winter it turns completely brown. That's a time that I hate.. looking so dreary!

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{My White Escada Jeans Score}

In May I did find a beautiful White Escada Jeans on eBay that I did Score!
They are in a cotton stretch.

Here I am wearing both my Outlet Score of Last Call Sandals and my precious white Escada Jeans with very special stitching.

Photo is taken during our 3 day stay at the Hyatt House Miami Airport, our favorite home away from home and this time it was FREE for points!

Photo courtesy from eBay, showing the label and the size 34 or US 4...

Inseam length was sufficient for my long legs, so I was happy!

Worn 1 x and only for US $ 30 and FREE shipping...

Wow, that truly was a SCORE!

BUT... they were not quite truthful. When I did wear it one time, I felt like a caterpillar as it was VERY tight in the waist!

My, did I feel FAT...

But when I was feeling in the back while wearing it, there was a bump in the seam.

Frankly, I'd been wearing a form fitting Wolford panty underneath and since it was high waisted, I kept tugging my top down for covering it and not showing...

So once I got home, I pulled my jeans down and investigated.

Sure enough, it had been ALTERED!

In the center it had been stitched off, making it a size 32 or US size 2 in the waist!

No wonder I was feeling FAT.

BUT I did solve it in a simple way.

Letting out the back seam and adding white bias tape on the inside, so I could proceed again with the top stitching.

Than I took off the waist band till the sides and did take a part out from the inside, replacing the inside part with a wide bias tape and sewing it back together, adding more width over the entire back.

I did gain about 5 cm or 2 inches as shown with my fingers.

Sorry, my left index looks flaky, had worked blisters on it from weeding, even with wearing a cotton glove and plastic glove over it!

This is the result!

Quite happy with it and it is still a Score.

Paid US $ 30 + $ 1.67 for the bias tape (the wide one, the other I still had).

Love wearing cropped cotton tops like this old one from Neiman Marcus...

Love my sandals too!

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