Happy Sunday everyone -
Happy Father's Day although except for DH, all the men are gone in my life. No more living grandpas, dads, brothers, or uncles.
Yesterday was an interesting day. It was overcast and at time spitting moisture so not the best of days weather wise. The mosquitoes were ferocious as usual. The event was held at a local greenhouse - she has gorgeous flowers - her begonias literally glowed they were so fiery. They had a couple of workshops - one making a serving tray out of a giant rhubarb leaf, another making imprints of flowers onto fabric using a mallet -however that one took some extra embellishments with markers or paints - but still, an interesting concept. There was another workshop in which people were doing something with plain glass bottles and vases but I wasn't able to stick around enough to see the finished product. My cousin's wife took a class on painting flowers on glass bottles and she was actually very good at it. There were a couple of vendors there with handcrafted goods. I got a very interesting vase which makes it quite easy for flower arrangements when you are not adept (like me) at arranging flowers. I will have to see if I can snip some of my flowers and will post a picture for you. The animal photographer I worked with was just the sweetest, nicest girl ever. She was born in the town we were working in, then moved south to go to college and recently moved to a neighboring state to the "big cities". She really has a flair for photography and animals. We had 9 dogs and someone was thinking of bringing their horse over after my shift. She said one year someone brought both their dog AND their pet parrot. The bird was a beautiful green. It was fun, except for the mosquitoes I really enjoyed it. On the way home I stopped at a local gift shop in town I had meant to visit but never did and also picked up a few groceries from the small store there. Got home and DH said he had a taste for Chinese food which I am always up for. So the steaks will wait until today and we had a nice take out dinner yesterday. Took a nap afterwards and watched some tv and had a quiet night. We got some rain but not enough perhaps for the garden so I'll go out and check and harvest some arugula for a salad tonight. It's supposed to be rather chilly again tonight - I am really concerned that I won't be getting much in the way of cucumbers or tomatoes out of my garden this year.
Mel - I hope you get the relief you need soon. Rest up as you know best and we will be missing you in the mean time.
Where's Igor with a gentle back rub when you need him?
Shad - we have one of those scaffold type ladders too. Very handy it is. Especially when you can walk side to side and not have to keep stretching precariously and moving the ladder. Be careful though. Sounds as if Miss S is going to be staying with you during her visit. How long are they in for? Is there room for DS and his partner or is it just you and the baby? Miss Sunday will no doubt be displeased that yet another intruder is in "her" house.
Thank you for validating that you also have the problem with the font size. I really thought it was me except for the fact that it only happens on this site. Boo on the neighbor who ignores their lawn. We had neighbors like that in TN. Was a young couple who loved to spend their weekends away from the house doing outdoor things like camping and kayaking and the like. I never understood why they bought a house since they had no interest at all in taking care of it. DH was super frustrated since their front lawn quickly went to weeds, the seeds of which would always blow downhill and infest the lawn he worked so hard to keep decent - not perfect but grass filled. Then those people sold out to another young couple - the wife was a very unfriendly, snooty princess who spent her days laying out by the pool while the guy mowed the lawn twice and then neglected it just like his predecessor. Which was quite frustrating for us having sunk a lot of money into making our house prim and pristine and then having the house next door look like an abandoned lot.
I guess mowing the lawn is for old folks
Laura - my former co-worker's husband would make what she said was awesome deer jerky. I never did get to try any. He also would get a beef roast and make jerky - but I didn't get any of that either, will just have to take her word for it. DH had some deer jerky that one of my cousin's friend's made - he said it was really, really good - would love to know how he made it but this guy is VERY secretive about most aspects of his life so that's a no go. D said it's not hard to make it and since you are making it for yourself, you don't have to put in all the salt and preservatives that you would if making it commercially for extended shelf life. I imagine it must be similar to fruit leathers which were popular several years back. Most of that stuff has a smoke flavoring which for some reason gives me really bad reflux so I don't eat that stuff. Did the Hawks win last night?
Ceejay - I hope the neighbor boys don't give you any trouble. After all you suffer through I'll be you'll be looking for a quiet place with your sister. It's one of the reasons we like our place as much as we do. Undeveloped land on one side of us, 100 acres of undeveloped forest across the road and we only have one neighbor to the side - a nice guy with teenaged girls but we have a fairly thick pine tree border between us so it feels quite like we are by ourselves. No neighbor's screaming young kids, no having to look at people who don't want to mow their lawns, no bouncing balls in the yard, no yards with abandoned junk cars littering the property - it's HEAVENLY
Michelle - sounds like you had a lovely time with Santa. California sure is agreeing with you - seemed like you worked non stop in WI and barely had any time for recreation. At least you can enjoy the sun and the sand! Santa seems to be making the adjustment well also.
What's Annie up to? Lemme guess - outside in the garden??? Take good care of your ouchie toe there woman!!!!
Ok, let me get off the computer and accomplish something useful today. I think I'll try my hand at the dog biscuits for the Humane Society too. I'll pass along the recipe if anyone is interested - all natural ingredients - we could eat them too although they are a bit hard on the human teeth
BELATED HB TO AINSLEY
GOOD MORNING WORLDY CHICKS
