Sprung Out

With the "finally" theme running warm through my veins, 96 degrees in Green Country was a welcome reprieve today.  Spring is blooming like mad around every corner.  Trees are blossoming, grass pasty and wet, birds and bees and everything in between humming with new life since the last freeze bid us farewell a few weeks back.  And there's a sweet little cardinal nest on in the porch light fixture to welcome the season with love.

We moved into this house nearly 9 months ago, and this rose bush hasn't done a darn thing all that time.  Except for now.  The voluptuous, electric magenta of these medium sized beauties is filling our home with vitality.

Not much on the quilting front since I finished piecing a top from How to Make a Too Cool T-shirt Quilt. A decent publication, with detailed step-by-step instructions on how to put together all those t-shirts that you've been meaning to make a quilt out of for years.  It's a unique, quick and hassle-free method. Yet to be quilted.

Transplant's Pantry

How many women do I know that rave about food co-ops?  My roommate in college, my mother-in-law, and countless others who possess that cooking soul and demand fresh, organic products for their culinary creations.  

Since we're transplants for awhile, and I'm officially weary of the cost necessary to feed my family humanely by means of Whole Foods, I decided to do the homework on food co-ops.

Today my son and I made the trip to Anner's Pantry, a Tulsa, OK based organic, as-local-as-possible food co-op.  What a treasure, in true Glass Collector spirit!  Fruit and veggie bags, juice bags, weekender bags, meat, dry goods, spices, you name it!  

Anner and her family run the co-op out of their home in Maple Ridge, something reminiscent of  Dorothy's Kansas home transplanted to OZ.  I fully expected to find two legs in striped stockings and boots emerging from the slab as we approached the porch.  And as if this delectable discovery weren't enough, Anner maintains an enormous circular herb garden in her front yard.  Members may come to pick herbs at their leisure, day or night.  Just bring a pair of shears if it's after hours!