Lavender

My lavender this year is so happy! There was a lavender festival in the town where the family gathering was held. The police shut it down because there were so many people it was a hazard. People just love lavender, including my sweet Grand.

I made a trip to the dump and found 2 books I might like to read in the swap shop. On the way back I stopped at a farm stand and got a couple of summer squash, tis the season yum.

I was asked several times how to keep hollyhocks looking this good. Well partly luck, but I also spray them with rose spray, and they are under a slight overhang so no pounding rain on them. 

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Back to the heat ugg. This weekend could not have been more perfect.

Have a great week.

Garden fairy

Free concert on the common. The police dept was offering free hot dogs and burgers. 

My gardens are doing well. But I am afraid by August they will have all gone by.

Hollyhock garden fairy. I had never made one before.

And husband is having an issue with his foot. Not sure he got any answers with his dr appointment. Another one next week 

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We got to meet our daughter and grand for dinner last night a very big treat for us. 

We are off to a family cookout tomorrow thankfully it will be cooler. 

Have a wonderful weekend.

Fireflies

Summer living at its best. The heat has finally broken and it is just glorious! We are porch-sitting waiting for fireflies to come out and dance.

My gardens are bursting forth! With the heat everything is so lush. I did keep everything well watered. 

Hollyhocks....

And my shade garden with my witches' boot purchased at a church sale last winter.

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Not much got done during the heat. We did watch the movie Tombstone. Kurt Russell was Wyatt Earp. Val kilmer as Doc Holliday was exceptional. I'm not much for westerns, but since it was loosely biographical, I did enjoy it.

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Have a wonderful week.

Steamy Heat

Sunset last night. 

A steamy start this morning. We got rain overnight, so my rain barrel is nice and full again for deep watering tomorrow.

Deer GRRR!

We have a house guest until after the 4th. She likes the chair as she is right under the ceiling fan. I don't blame her; it is so hot, and hotter still tomorrow. I don't do well in the heat, I never have. So I am hiding out in our bedroom until it is over (the only air-conditioned room).

Stay cool, everyone.

Keeping Busy

One of the years we went to Star Island for a rug hooking retreat, our sweet leader gave us this apron. Well, after a five-year break, we are going back. And we are making our aprons fancy for the return trip.



Because I have a horrid addiction to my phone, I found a woman who is making lavender baskets. My lavender is in full bloom, so I had to make one.

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We are getting all kinds of alerts about the heat coming in and the very high dew point. We've had such lovely days with rain every few days. So I'm very, very sad about this and a bit worried that we only have one air conditioner in our bedroom.I really hate the heat!!

If I haven't gotten back to you, I am sorry. Computer issues and I am working on my phone, which is not easy.

 Stay cool and safe everyone!

Stange Things

Do we have wee folks living here?

I bought a bag of sewing odds and ends at the thrift store for $1.00. I only wanted some needles and this box of threaders. I break them on a pretty regular basis.

We have a game camera set up near a shed. It is on the edge of the woods. No electricity goes out to the shed and there are no outside lights on that side of the house. So what the heck is this? This was after 11 p.m. We were both in bed. It does make me feel unsettled. It has a heavy tree canopy, so I'm not sure a drone could get in there.

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My name is cathy. I have met a lot of new people lately through mahjong. If someone gets my name wrong they always call me Carol. And as I think back it has happened most of my life being called Carol. Was I a Carol in another life?

So that's the strange things from here.

Staying Home

My rose bush smells so heavenly. 

The colors are not right in this picture at all but I did some dying. On top, the cotton fabric on the left is the "before." The blue is very much like a denim blue. The wool pieces I threw in because I put way too much dye in my pot. (The green was a bright orange.)

A few weeks ago I bought this vest at a thrift store intending to stitch on it. It is jet black linen, J Jill, so expensive in its day, but for $3.00 I am giving it a try.

    

Tomorrow my daughter and family are coming for brunch. She wants to sell her old Barbies. My granddaughter never had any interest in them, so I'm happy to get them out of my attic.

There were some very long-time special friends who moved away who were in town. Six of us gathered for a nice long lunch. So wonderful!

But as you can see, it wore him out, lol.

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It is motorcycle week here and it is noisy and much to busy.

We have one VRBO in our neighborhood. It's a nice, quiet, dead-end, wooded neighborhood.

On Wednesday afternoon, here came 11 bikers and a camper! Well, the camper left, but the 11 bikers stayed. Much too loud and much too fast in this little neighborhood. Looking forward to Sunday when they all leave.

Have a great week!