its warming up...

just got breakfast done...

still trying to wake up...

Craig is off and we are hauling more brick this morning...

before the sun gets over head...

I have plenty to do inside, should it prove to be to nasty out there...

the mornings are pretty humid yet...

but have no idea where its all coming from...

monarch butterfly caterpillars on milk weed... 

there is a movement gaining momentum here on planting milk weed...

to gain the butterflies...

people are growing it in town in their flower beds...

Bender, the baby kitten...

started eating hard food and lapping water on his own yesterday...

no more bottles for that big boy, now...

I am just pouring his formula on the moist food when I feed him...

by the end of next week he might even be ready to go...

can you see yourself walking this path?

it leads to a creek...

hoping to get some more beds done this weekend...

I kind of like having things done a little earlier than normal...

it looks so much better, too...

we have a bunch of walnuts to pick up...

got to do that before the mowing can begin...

I think it might be time to clean the deck off again, too...

how can one place collect so much stuff?

when it cools off next month, I want to start doing more bon fires in the pit...

and sitting out in the dark...

I am ready for flannel and sweat shirts...

but I am so not ready for the 3 months of snow and ice that will follow that...

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school starts here next week...

the college kids are starting to trek back in...

shopping in Charleston will not happen for a couple weeks...

it gets crazy down there...

so if we go, it will be toward Paris...

and Burger King...

I know, just breaks my heart, too...

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come with me...

this is the bed that I did earlier this week...

cut back and pulled out that which was spent...

getting it all ready for the fall clean out...

this rose just hasn't produced this year like she normally does...

going to cut it way back this fall...

mums with buds...

the bricks we are getting...

this is all we hauled the other night, but Craig will get them tomorrow and Saturday...

none of the cabbage made heads...

but that's ok...

I just wanted the foliage...

lots to haul away and burn...

that's from one tiny bed...

I need to find more shade plants next spring...

the garden is holding its own now...

we had to water last night again...

with the cooler days, we can go every other day...

and the green beans are doing great...

should've planted them thicker the first time...

this is the pot the sparrow nest is in and there are still 4 eggs in there...

the rose of sharon still have some blooms left on it...

we have lightning bugs out the butt this year...

the back of the tomato racks...

inside the racks...

we start heating up today...

85 and then its going to hit the 90s by the weekend...

you can guarantee 2 things around here...

its going to rain during fair week...

and its going to get hot when school starts...

but now they have ac in the rooms, so its not so bad on the kids...

and not as many early outs...

the baby ate canned cat food last night for the first time and did well...

he ate without choking- no problems at all

he is 6 weeks old now...

so going to have him done sooner than expected...

I will photos of Bender this weekend so you can see him...

he's a gray tiger...

cute and fat...

not many plans for today...

just working with Bender and his eating and lapping...

he is little box trained already...

so, have good days...

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the weekend is coming!

the most amazing sky...

yesterday was such a wonderful day for August...

in the 70s with these awesome, big white, puffy clouds...

so, we headed out of town a little bit chasing clouds...

Craig had the day off...

and we ran across the train moving cars...

didn't get much done, but we did have fun...

I love this shot...

and the clouds just kept coming...

we have clear blue skies today...

but it was in the 60s here this morning...

hoping for another pretty day...

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have a good one!

good morning...

I hope your Monday wasn't too bad...

I had a good day...

nothing exciting...

just picked the kitchen to start in on...

and, like always...

one thing led to another...

some semi serious deep cleaning...

and at this rate...

I will be working on it all week long...

and there's nothing exciting about that at all...

one of our neighbors is doing a little landscaping...

or rather, unlandscaping...

and digging out the bricks that have lined the flower beds there for years...

and I asked him Sunday how much he wanted for them...

FREE

technology in the middle of a corn field...

so load by load, we will be bringing it all this way...

not sure how many there are...

but I have plans...

had to water it all last night...

picked 2 more tomatoes...

took the dog for a walk...

cleaned out one flower bed...

weeded and cut back the iris and columbine in there...

I had one glad bloom there, so cut it back...

need to pick up more glad bulbs one of these days...

I used to have them years ago...

its almost time to start thinking about if I want to add more spring bulbs in here or not...

tulips come up, bloom and you can mow them off...

so that might be something we can do more off that won't be a summer long problem to deal with...

the nuts are sure coming off of the walnut trees now...

so being careful out there under them...

I have yet to get beaned, but it could happen...

;0)

so, off you go to have fun today...

be blessed...

that was a short four day weekend...

the days passed by so fast...

and we are sure getting slower at getting things done...

there's no more of getting everything done in one day anymore...

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'even the kids are slowing down...

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they are starting to feel it, too...

when they over do it...

I just wish we had more time to do it all...

we did get a bit more rain yesterday morning...

so no watering the garden last night...

I got zero deck time in...

but we did have a couple of very nice drives...

I am feeling better...

I did find coconut oil and I am using it now...

its supposed to cure all kinds of things...

so hoping this helps...

school starts here on the 18th, so there's not much summer left...

I am so glad I don't have to do that back to school shopping...

and then, I do miss it...

;0)

have a wonderful Monday...

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