Go to Museums and Gardens for Free!

Want to visit a museum for free?  There's lots of California and Texas museums and gardens offering free admission in May!

• Admission is free  the Mayborn Children's Museum in Waco, TX on May 1, 2011.  (I really recommend this one...you can spend the whole day there and not see everything there is to see!  The pictures above are from there.)
  
  
• Free Museum Day lists days you can visit museums for free.  Currently their list includes museums in these California Cities:  Los Angelos, San Diego, and San Francisco.
  
  
• Today is the last day to enter for a 4 pack of Tickets to Sea Life Aquarium in Carlsbad, CA (plus get a $50 Froots gift card).  Only 8 people have entered this!
  
  
• Get free admission to local gardens May 6. They have gardens from all over the country.

Hop and Squidoo

Hello, and welcome fellow Squido Lensmasters! For those who aren't travelling here by blog hop and don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose, and maybe earn a little money for yourself or a charity in the process.

And guess what, I have a squidoo for Texifornia.  It has some fun interactive stuff like funny and useful lists you can add to, photos, and more.    

Well, recently it got delisted, which means it doesn't show up in the Squidoo directory anymore :(.  It may be because my lens intro is so short.  They keep asking me to make it longer, but I like it short so people can get right into content without a lot of intro. 

What's your opinion...does a lens intro have to be long to be good?  Or is brief sometimes better?

(Oh, by the way, I'm hopping in from two blogs today...this one, and my other blog Such Fun to Give.)

2 Question Thursday/Aloha Friday

Funny Allergic Gardener T Shirt by Swisstoons

Every now and then I participate in Aloha Friday, where I ask a simple question for you to answer (nothing that requires a lengthy response) and Two Question Thursday (same idea...only TWO questions).  If you'ld like to, comment with an answer to the questions below:

1.  Do you get seasonal allergies?

2.  If so, what is the most drastic thing you would do to get rid of them?

Please leave your answers in a comment.  Thanks a bunch!

As for my answer...I do get allergies, but fairly mild.   My husband, however, gets them horribly.   I've actually heard about people going so far as to infect themselves with hook-worms, which may suppress allergic reactions.   Neither of us would go that far. 

Happy Easter!

I'm taking a break from the computer for the next few days as our family takes time to remember the death and ressurection of Jesus, and I wanted to wish you all a wonderful happy Easter!  

Praise God for his mercy and grace!

(My Own Story of Faith)

A Few More Days To Earn Money for Cameron Park Zoo - And a Coupon!

Big photos is still donating $1 to Cameron Park Zoo for everyone who registers at the new Cameron Park Zoo Photo Site through April 22nd! Plus you can get $5 off photo books with coupon code HOLSM! What's especially cool about these photo books is that you can use zoo animal photos provided by Cameron park alongside your own photos...so if you didn't get a really great shot of that Rhino or Leopard you can use theirs right next to a pic of your smiling kiddo.

Veggies to Plant in Texas in April

1. Cantaloupes, 2. Collards, 3. Corn, 4. Cucumber, 5. Cushaw (and Pumpkins) 6. Eggplant, 7. Melons (honeydew), 8. Lima Beans, 9. Luffa, 10. Malabar Spinach, 11. Okra, 12. Peppers, 13. Pumpkin., 14. Snapbeans (19), 15. Southern Peas, 16. Summer Squash, 17. Sweet Potatoes, 18. Swiss Chard, 19. Tomato* 20. Watermelon

*On tomatoes plant transplants (too late to plant from seed)

These are all plants which are great for planting in April here in Texas.  I've been learning all about the best time to plant different plants from a book called Month-to-Month Gardening in Texas.  I wish I had gotten this book years ago...it's teaching me so much about Texas gardening that I really was absolutely clueless on!  I knew Texas had two growing seasons but I really didn't understand when the seasons started or ended.  It turns out I trying to grow nearly everything at the wrong time!  I'm going to try to share tips from the book each month (but there's so much info, I couldn't even begin to share it all).   They also share what else you need to do each month (when to fertilize, aerate your soil, tackle weeds, etc.). 

But, if you just want info on what veggies and herbs to plant each month, you can also get that information online here.  That's a good resource for  other states too.

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I found the photos for my mosaic on Flickr, and the photographers were nice enough to offer up for use through Creative Commons (click on the links to see the photos larger).  Yes, the Sountern Peas (ie cowpeas) in that picture are blighted (that was just a hard one to find, so I took what I could get.)

I'm linking up at the gardening linkies at Living More, Spending Less and Ramblings of a Christian Mom.  Also linking up at Mosaic Monday.

Aloha Friday - First Flowers of Spring

Welcome to this week’s edition of Aloha Friday. Every Friday (well, ok, almost every Friday) I ask a simple question for you to answer--nothing that requires a lengthy response.

Today, I spotted the first spring wildflowers in my yard...

 

Mexican Evening Primrose!  They're natives wildflower that we discovered in our yard last year.  They are actually a very pale pink, though they look white in this picture.  The ones in my front yard are pinker, but they haven't started blooming yet.

So, this week's question is...

What were the first flowers to appear in your yard (or are you still waiting)?  And what state/country is your yard in?

You can answer in the comments.  Thanks!

If you have a blog and would like to post your own questions you can leave your link  at the linkys at An Island Life.