Our neighborhood puts on the best fireworks display each July 4th! And since so many neighbors around us shoot their own fireworks now, Crazy Joel has retired from his yearly shows, and we just enjoy everyone else's! It works out pretty well for us, haha. This year our friends walked over to eat hotdogs and watch fireworks with us. It was the best night! We let the kids swim while we waited for it to get dark. Joel and I commented to each other the next morning about how sweet it was to hear so many happy little voices in our pool. My son enjoyed grilling with Joel and I think he now has a new hobby. We had a couple of kinds of hotdogs with toppings and our friends brought ... Read more
Father’s Day Weekend Recap
Happy Tuesday! We had a fun Father's Day weekend with a couple of family gatherings. Here are the highlights! Saturday night my side of the family came for a big BBQ supper. My husband, son, and I worked on house and yard throughout the day to get ready. My daughter is still recovering from surgery and wasn't allowed to do much which was a bummer for her because part of the fun of having company is the buzz around the house to get ready. My son worked so hard on the patio, cleaning and pressure washing. The kids/teens were planning to swim that night but this is what the sky looked like an hour before everyone arrived and then it started raining. It did clear up for a little ... Read more
Snapshot Saturday: A Little Country Life
Just a few photos from life in the country lately...... The deer have been out in the early mornings while I'm taking my walk. Many mornings lately have been foggy which looks so pretty hovering around the garden. I went out one morning with my coffee just to check on the garden, set my mug down to pull up a couple of weeds that caught my eye and ended up working for an hour and a half! When I finally came back to my coffee it was full of dead flies. Eww. I saw this little green guy on my potting table. I used to hate lizards but now I welcome them in my garden because they eat the bad bugs. And this sweet mama bird. I had this new birdhouse set on the fence waiting ... Read more
Strawberry Moon
Did anyone see the strawberry moon this week? I found out about it Tuesday evening so I looked it up and its peak was to be around 3:00 the next morning. There was a time when my kids were younger and all 3 of them homeschooling that we would have set an alarm, gotten up, thrown some quilts on the grass and made hot chocolate for a middle-of-the-night astronomy show! Well, I'm not saying those days are totally gone, but seeing as how there seems to be some kind of special moon every few months, I decided to let this one quietly pass while I slumbered. That is until 1:17 a.m. Barney was on the back porch and started barking and whining so I went out to see what was going on with him. ... Read more
Summer is Here and This is Where You Can Find Me
Hello, old friends! It's been a while. It was a busy spring and now we're moving into summer, ready or not. I'm ready. Spring brought soccer season, travel to DC to see our nation's capital and visit family, the end of another school year for both my son and my daughter who works at a preschool, two trips to Texas, annnnd a new baby boy born to my daughter and son-in-law in May! He's the sweetest little thing and my daughter and SIL are just the best new parents! I won't be posting pictures of him here so if you'd like to know what he looks like, just imagine the most beautiful baby boy ever and there you have it! Parents and baby are doing well, and we are so thankful to add this precious ... Read more
Goodbye, August!
I hate to wish any season away and I do enjoy so much about summer, but it's been so hot here lately that we're all just over it and ready to move on to fall. Every day we're looking for any sign of autumn's arrival. I've loved having this tree out my front window this week. But don't let the fall colors fool you; it was in the upper 90s when I took this pic. My husband had a business meeting in Atlanta one day, so my son and I rode with him because my grain store is just outside of Atlanta, and I needed to restock. It was a hot day, but a pretty ride and I had just received a new issue of Southern Lady, so I took that with me to read in the car. It's full of beautiful photos and ... Read more
Summer Garden Recap: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
As far as gardening goes, I've never had anything more than what I call a little "kitchen garden"--some herbs and a few veggies and melons, at most. So, I'm still very much a beginner. I haven't even had a garden for the last few years (other than herbs), and I was ready to get back to it, but I also remembered how my gardens usually play out. The season always seems to start out strong and lovely and makes me feel like I really have a green thumb, ha, and then it starts going downhill about mid-summer with the onset of heat, bugs, and disease. So, here it is-- the good, the bad, and the ugly of this year's summer garden! The Good! Late spring and the first half of summer were a ... Read more
Snapshot Saturday: Odds and Ends
Hello there! It's Saturday so I have some snapshots from the week, just odds and ends really. Summer evenings will be coming to an end in a few more weeks but the summer garden already came to an end last Saturday when I pulled up everything except my herb bed and tea bed. It was such a mess! Next week I'll post a summer garden recap. While I worked in the garden, the guys worked on a different project. Earlier in the summer, my son and his friends built a raft to ride down the widest and deepest part of the creek which only worked for about an hour, but they were so excited. The experience inspired the idea to build a small boat which the guys have been working on the last few ... Read more
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