Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Happy White Wednesday!

well, we are having another hotter than hot week on the prairie...
upper 90s until Thursday when a cold front is supposed to come in...
so here is some whites...
red, WHITE, and blue...
these are just starting to turn white and getting bigger every day...
they fill in the bottom of the kitchen windows...
white shed with tiger lilies getting ready to bloom...
and the back of my ice cream chair with shadows playing in the background...
hope you all have a great week and that it cools down for all of us soon...

well, back to normal...

up and at 'em first thing this morning...
got another scorching hot day coming...
grapevine...
not exactly where I would have planted it...
but God knows better about these things than I do...
so here it will stay...
tried to move one last year and it didn't make it...
look!
it's opening!
and my neighbors' day lilies are up and blooming this morning...
mine aren't even close!
what's up with that?
just wanted to show you the bean field at the end of the street this morning...
everything is coming up and even if the farmers thought they got a late start...
you won't be able to tell by the end of the month...
looking hot already...
I just can't believe the weather this year...
hard telling how it's going to end...
I do know we could use some more rain already...
the best place to be anytime of the day is in the shade...
and I am so grateful that we planted these trees many years ago...
wish we would have started doing that sooner...
but the guys didn't want trees in their way of playing football, baseball and practicing their golf swings...
you know- those crazy little boys grew up to be men...
figures- should have known that's how they would turn out...
sun coming up over the corn field...
and headed back inside...
plant place was 1/2 off this morning so bought dusty miller, airplane plants and a couple spikes...
put a few in the ground, but I need more cans...
the guys need to eat more veggies anyway...

couple things I need to work on on the blog today...
one thing is my playlist...
I have to hit play anytime I come in, so I don't know if you have to or not...
I have to check to see if any of the songs have been taken off, cuz that will stop it from playing for sure...

hope you all aren't as hot as we are...
and I hope the ones who live is Iowa will be safe and their homes not flooded...

our town is testing our sirens right now...
can hardly hear them in here with the house shut up and the air on...
it wouldn't wake us up at night...
they test them the first Tuesday of every month...
we used to have a noon whistle that went off every day and they used that for the volunteer fire department, too, so we knew every time the fire trucks went out...
but, with technology the way it is, they all carry pagers now...
just not as fun as it used to be...
and with facebook, we're all on here, we don't have to run to the post office or grocery store to find out what happened...
I love a small town...
if only we had some fast food places and a Dollar Store...
it would be Heaven on earth!