another great day here...

our mums are opening already...

high of 79 today and the rest of the week is going to be between 79-81...

a chance of rain tonight and tomorrow...

started out dead heading the day lilies...

went onto picking green beans...

then pulled the first patch of green beans and cleared up the space...

watered everything and took all the clean linens out and put them back on the stuff on the deck...

broke for lunch and a shower...

took a nap and then cleaned house and did laundry...

supper, a few walks in and a trip to the store so we could make brownies...

those are out of the oven, so I plan on laying down for a bit...

they should be cooled off by the time I get up again...

got 5 pickings of green beans off of these...

no red ones yet...

so another summer day down...

love my kids' tools...

been a busy day...

just went from one thing to another...

Craig had today off, so he helped a lot...

see fall coming?

nice and clean again...

and our cats find the strangest places to sleep...

and that's why this planter has nothing alive left in it...

she is pregnant and huge and miserable...

and she slept there awhile...

 we have to be careful where we walk...

she moves every half hour or so...

just cannot get comfortable...

I remember being like that...

been a long time, though...

;)

have a great night...

it was the best weekend...

we got up Saturday morning to find this...

a larger dog had broken out the storm door window on the back door...

there were faint muddy paw marks on the screen and 2 piles of large dog poop in the south yard...

we called it in and Jack, our local police chief thought the same thing...

but it was such a beautiful day...

and we took many walks...

and just puttered around...

the leaves are already starting to fall...

and I predict an early fall for us...

my mums are starting to bloom...

these are walnut catapillars...

they can strip and kill an entire tree in no time...

found the branch they were on and had DH cut it off and I picked up every single one I could find and put them in a zip lock bag and smashed them...

then this morning, I got up, cut my hair and showered...

we headed out for a walk and ended up here...

oh, while we are here, why don't we?

and it began...

the forsythia took a hard hit from the drought last year...

so we pulled weeds and took out the dead...

wish I had gotten a before shot, but I didn't have the camera with me when we started...

but you can see by the circle, we took out quite a bit...

we have had 70's during the day and in the 50's at night...

then we moved onto DH's willow tree...

he has wanted to do this all year...

so, why not today?

took the top layer of grass off, laid down the black fabric weed barrier and mulched...

I trimmed it back again and there you go...

we took a break for lunch and then DH went out and picked up all the debris...

then he took me for a Sunday drive in the country...

the clouds were amazing...

and we saw cows...

and gates...

hay wagons and a creek...

nothing but fields and blue skies with big fluffy clouds...

coming back into town...

part of our construction work going on...

I wish they would take one of those big rollers and roll my yard...

a friend of mine's beagles...

there are 2 there- count the tails...

we even had time Saturday afternoon for ice cream a cake at the neighbor's for a 3 year old grandson...

and that's the way it was...

love country roads...

hope you had a fantastic weekend...

in an hour, it will be Monday...

can't believe our 3 day weekend is over...

;)

running behind again...

on Thursday, I took my life in my own hands...

and let junior do the driving...

he was laughing at my peril...

we went over by the school to see some new construction going on...

they added an enclosure to the main door of the grade school...

it will contain a security camera and you will be buzzed in by someone in the office...

the schools will be locked down during the day...

they also put new triple pane windows across the front where the offices are...

the old ones were single pane from the 60s and a bit drafty...

this is going to help with the heating and cooling bills...

then there is major construction going on to prevent future flooding for us...

it starts all the way on the other side of town with new storm sewer drains going in...

then there's road construction going on...

they ground down the top of the road to resurface it...

plenty of dump trucks running through there today...

so after our trip to the grocery store...

we decided to get out of town and all the work going on...

its more peaceful out here...

it was a wonderful day to be on a country road...

there are corn and beans every where...

loved this road sign...

it you sit still long enough here...

something's going to grow over you...

queen anne's lace and clover in front of a bean field...

love this old gate...

and finally...

one of my favorite things...

cows!

too busy eating to talk to me...

Craig calls them future hamburgers of America...

love white face cows...

hadn't seen one in many years...

isn't she pretty?

that's where chocolate milk comes from...

spa day...

standing in the middle of the creek...

and then this old girl wasn't even going to give me the time of day...

she kept calling over her shoulder for the others to follow...

but they weren't done wading and grazing, so she took off in a huff...

yeah...

she was udderly ticked off...

get it?

;)

got my day off today with the old man...

and I have so much to get caught up on here with you...

where did the last few days go?

its just been too nice to be inside after the cold front went through...

have a good weekend!