My Pride and Joy

 

Thank you to my dear friend, Mary Fetter, for sharing your Pride of Barbados seedling with me 2 springs ago. The first blossom popped out 4 days ago and it is now in full bloom, but this first one had been long awaited. Patience is a virtue... says an old saying, not from Proverbs, but true enough.

Giant Mammoth Sunflower

 

 

 

 

 



Bumble Bee

 

{Temporary} Weed-pulling Hiatus

Last couple of weekends Tom and I made a concentrated effort to dig up most of the weeds in our garden. Tom made several runs to Home Depot for mulch to slow the return of the ever-present nuisance. Weeds. Weeds. Weeds. I'm really satisfied with the results of our sweat and sore muscles! The plants are happy too, although they seem to be a bit weary of the multiple days of over 100 degrees. We keep watering minimally and praying for rain. :-)

More Sunflowers!

My First Sunflower



April 25th

 

Today, June 30th! 

All I can say is, this is totally awesome!

In my book, this fits in the miraculous category.



Paint the Adirondack Chairs

 

My sweet Tom said that even though I'm not his mother, he would buy me a Mother's Day gift this year. He wanted to know if I would like to pick out some new chairs for the front yard since our plastic ones were breaking and one got smashed by the tree trimmer's falling limb. I've dreamed about having real Adirondack for years. So long that I had almost forgotten about them. We looked online and decided that these locally made chairs would be the best choice for us. The chair-maker is from Bastrop and has a day job in Austin, so Tom met him at his office parking after work one day. It only took a couple of weeks for him to make them. Father's Day weekend I told Tom that even though he wasn't my father, I would paint the chairs for him for Father's Day. We went to Home Depot to look at paint and decided on Behr's "red pepper" for the chairs. It took most of last Saturday to put the first coat of paint on the chairs, but I'm totally pleased with their new look! Another project transformed with paint!