Death Star Pinata

In honor of May the 4th be with you and Cinco De Mayo, I made a Death Star pinata for my Young Women church group.

Mindy, if you are reading this post, I totally thought of you and your family the whole time I was making it!

I purchased a punching balloon from the Dollar Store, cut some newspaper into about 3 x 3 inch strips, made up a paste of flour and water and got to work!

I dipped the newspaper into the flour paste and enclosed the balloon. Let it dry and then did another layer. I did this a total of 3 times.

Once dried, we cut a hole in the upper portion to make the indented part of the Death Star. This also popped the balloon inside, which we removed and replaced with a bunch of candy.

We taped the inverted part back onto the rest of the pinata and then spray painted it gray. I would recommend spray painting it once before cutting away the hole, because the tape didn't stick to the floury paper very well. Once dried, the Dude drew the lines on the inverted part and wrapped electrical tape around the middle.

The girls loved it! 

Some may have had to look up what the Death Star even was, but they all thought it was pretty neat!

But, who doesn't love hitting a pinata that is going to produce candy as the end result??

Plus there is just something satisfying about fighting the Dark Side.

Stumped

As I was going through the dirt and trying to get rid of some the left over grass, my shovel hit something a little hard. I started to dig around it and noticed that there was a tree root. No biggie, right? It was just going to be from that dead stump we removed last year and should come out fairly easy.

So I assigned the Dude to get it out.

I was getting some things taken care of in the house, when the Dude called me out to see this.....

"This?! You couldn't see this?!" 

(Name that movie line!)

That right there is a twenty year old stump, of what used to be a giant pine tree like the other two in our backyard.

There wasn't any rot to this sucker!! 

It was healthy as could be. You would think it would of either grown back or just finally died off.

So, what did we do? We buried it back up of course!!

Ain't nobody got time for that!

(At this point, the Dude had to leave the room. He couldn't take the improper grammar. Let's be honest though, my whole blog is full of grammar/spelling errors, a'ght!)

We will just be putting a nice planter box area over this cover. 

You will never know it was even here!

Looking Good!

A couple of weeks ago I moved some of my plants into bigger containers since they were out growing the ones they started in. 

I meant to post this sooner, sorry I am a little behind.

The tomatoes are doing so well!! 

The Jelly Belly tomatoes look like they are doing the best so far.

I have not grown broccoli or cabbage before, but they seem to doing awesome.

I had to put my shop light on an angle since the tomato plants are so tall and some of the other plants were a little ways behind them in growth.

Fight for the Water Bucket

Forget putting out a roosting stick, these silly birds are fighting over who gets to spend the night on the water bucket!!

A little blurry, but there are 5 birds on that bucket! 

The one on the right spent a lot time trying to figure out how she was going to get on with the others.

They are more entertaining than watching T.V. :).