Flowers-Flowers-Flowes

Are you enjoying the flowers this autumn? It seems they are all in full bloom now. The other day when we were coming home, I saw these sunflowers...one of my favorite blooms. (Of course being a farmers daughter...sunflowers are normally not a friendly 'weed'..)

My son and I were both discussing this...how when  we each had to cut these flowers (weeds) down out of the bean fields. BUT...they are YELLOW, and their a flowers. I even love the name SUN-FLOWER!!! smile..

I told you I'd share with you how much my porch flowers have grown this summer.

 

Aren't they pretty?? My friend Laurie did an amazing job potting them didn't she??

 

These are hanging and are such a nice variety too... Their just perfect for this half basket. I bought the basket years ago and try to continue to use it every year as it fits perfect on the garage! 

Just a close up of  one of the plants... I love these!!!

Another close up of another one of them..

 

And finally the last one!

 

I've been busy finishing up the quarterly newsletter. Whew...another one done!

 

Our day was cool and gorgeous! Rusty and I sat outside for a long while. We just enjoyed watching and listening to the sounds of world going by!! (I kept hearing this clicking...as a bug or something flew by me.. I tried to see what it was. It landed here and there.. but couldn't get a good view of it. Even though it sounded somewhat familiar...different things went through my head.  Could it be a hummingbird? A butterfly (I did see the Monarchs flying by)?? NO...it ended up being a 'grasshopper'!! Ugggg...[another story for another day..])

 

My son, Randy continues to heal, it's been two months of H____ for him. But bless his heart he is a fighter and very strong in his faith. I pray soon he will be back to his new 'normal'. He and his lovely wife just celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary this week! She too is a very 'strong, caring, loving and God fearing woman. How blessed we are to have her in our family.

 

My sister in law, Karen is having more health issues and I would really appreciate your prayers and or good thoughts for her.

 

Blessings and have a wonderful SONday!!

 

Flowers and house cleaning..



Oh look...our day lilies are blooming. They are so pretty. I have to thank those who lived here before me. There were other flowers too, that have died off or just haven't bloomed this year. (But whichever one did it I thank them..)

 



Oh my, I was so excited the other day when I saw the flash of red! I was like, "oh there is a cardinal"!! I grabbed my camera and got this picture before he flew off! smile...

 

This is what it looks like outside. We're getting some smoke from the Canadian fires. You smell it when you're outside. So sad....we must prayer for all those who are effected by those fires as well as the ones in Washington state.

Looky...looky, I'm so excited...our volunteer sunflower has come back this year. (Got lots of flocks too. I'm sure we'll have to thin them out soon. Otherwise they might take over...smile...)

Smile...

How was your day?? We were busy, we had the carpet cleaned. It smells so nice in here. Do you have your carpets cleaned or do you do it yourself? (I use to clean my own years ago..) They steam them now (and don't use soap, as they discovered sometimes the soap didn't get rinsed out. And it was like a magnet to dust and dirt!) I've discovered that is the same with Pledge. I use to dust quite often (with Pledge), then my friend told me it was a dust magnet. So I just dusted with it once a week, then dusted with a plain cloth the rest of the week. smile.. Now I see they have Pledge for asthma people. (I didn't think it was that much different..--just my opinion!)

Have an appointment bright and early tomorrow with the dentist. I hope he can figure this tooth problem out. (I have faith that he will...smile, he's a good dentist.)

 

I was so tired last night...after I took my shot, I hit the sack and didn't get up till this morning. The last couple nights poor Rusty was having such a terrible time, we just stayed up with him trying to calm him down. There were only a couple "pops" today and I pray there won't be any tonight. smile..

 

Hope your in for a nice week..

Great Seminar and more...

 

Yesterday our skies in the afternoon were quite overcast and cloudy. The clouds were very pretty, but no matter what setting I put my camera on they didn't look as pretty as they really were.  

 

Last night we had a MS Seminar to go to...just across the river! Not far at all. It started at 6 p.m., so we left home at 5 (remember I said it was just across the bridge..smile..) When we were approaching it..all we saw were cars....all across the bridge...... Yikes! They were working on it..so had it down to a single lane of traffic. But....we got across and headed to the restaurant. The weather was extremely HOT,

and we saw a few boats out on the river, trying to beat the heat!!







 

They had a small room for us, and we did get there at a decent time. We got a good place to sit at a front table. The waitress came around and bought our drinks. The program coordinator had a problem with her computer. So that kind of slowed down the presentation. They also had about double the people than they expected... The tables had 8 people instead of 6..squeezed together. Then the waitresses came around and gave us our menu's and told us we could order 'anything' we wanted. Now this was really unusual, as they normally have a set menu.. I ordered a "surf and turf".. and Tom ordered a bone in ribeye steak. (one was $45 and one was $50--can you imagine??) So they got all orders, and then 'whoops' they said...they just found out..it had to be anything under $28. smile.. So, that made a smaller choice, but a good one. (And made a lot more sense..) Finally, the doctor started speaking and we got our food. Their kind of like a "lunch and learn" only it's a dinner and learn. smile.. After she spoke, they had an ambassador speaking also. He has been on the drug they spoke about for a couple years and was very happy with it. Finally, we finished eating (btw the salmon was 'amazing'!!) Then they came around with a dessert menu.. (over kill...ha..ha...) Tom got the ice cream sundae (pictured) and I ordered the cheesecake.. (I brought mine home and had it this afternoon...) I will ask my doctor about this pill they were talking about. Sounds too good to be true, no more shots! But I know there are a lot of side effects. So, we'll see...

 

 

Goodness, for us it was a late night. On our way home, we spotted the Hard Rock guitar all lit up!! When we finally got home around 9 p.m., we felt we needed to stay up for awhile, to let our food settle..ha.. Since we got up early, I finally was ready to go bed!!

 

This morning we had to get up early again to take my SIL to get a test. Then we did a little shopping. Nice day, but again very HOT, worse than yesterday! These huge sunflowers were really enjoying the sun today!! They must be about 10 foot tall. We go by them all the time...Tom was finally able to stop, so I could get a photo...smile..

 

By the way today was our 28th wedding anniversary!!!

 

 

Time once again for bed.. Hope you're in for a wonderful weekend!

Hot and Humid Weather

 

Look at this pretty little 'house finch'...he is really pretty I think. I read about him and it said they were introduced into the eastern United States in the 1940's by cage-bird dealers.

I see they like this ground seed.

 

I spotted this robin the other day and thought maybe it was something else. But when I zoomed in it was just a pretty robin! ha..ha...

 

Isn't this dove pretty? We just love to watch them fly across the sky and land on the telephone lines and poles! Then they zip over to our patio for a little bite to eat. smile...

 

Remember our pretty little sunflower? Well, something or someone cut it down. We were all so sad, but are thankful that Tom got such wonderful pictures of it. We're hoping it was our local little squirrel and that he enjoyed munching on it or burying it for later. smile...

 

Today we had temperatures of 92 degrees with a heat index of 108! Yikes, I know...I of course have stayed  inside and enjoyed the air conditioning all day...smile.. They said on the news tonight, people should put their thermostats on 78 degrees!!! I told Tom, I'd be dead if I had to live with those kind of temps...lol  Tomorrow is to be the same...uggg I hope we'll stay in, unless the doctor wants to see me. I'm having some sciatica nerve problems again, so not sure what they will suggest, maybe another epidural flood. Whatever, I hope I get some relief pretty soon.

 

How is your week going so far? What is your weather like??