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A Sentimental Life

you can't beat 80s during the day...

and 60s at night...

everyone was here yesterday...

Edison lights...

found them at Walmart...

hung them over the picnic table...

they are not bright, bright...

they glow a more softer light...

this is done...

we will add more day lilies here as we clean out the beds and thin them down...

this should keep out the corn stalks if we get a lot of rain...

Doug and Paula are camping out behind the island...

DH had a great time at the concert...

Cheap Trick and Stix played at Champaign, Il last night...

he loved it...

more to do today...

not sure how much will get done, but we don't have to work as hard as yesterday...

;0)

my wish for your today:

glowing embers in your camp fire...

we finally got our rain!

we ended up with .7...

a shower in the morning and a shower in the afternoon...

we sure needed it...

most places got a lot more than that...

2 nice days for us here, now...

plugging away at it...

one project at a time...

this guy got a major trim last night after supper...

you should see him now!

he was just too top heavy...

have good days...

my wish for you:

a rainbow after your storm...

it looked like rain...

so I headed out pretty early to get some outside time...

only a couple of these left now...

I dead headed the peonies...

and saved the petals...

just piddle farted around...

you know there is always something to dead head...

especially in my yard...

there will be a pot of these on the stove this weekend...

this is the best area for growing green beans...

still growing yours in the ground?

rethink that...

major back saver when you pick and weed free...

the clouds passed us by in the morning...

things heated up with the sun shining...

clouds in the afternoon moved through...

rained all around us and we got nothing...

;o(

BUT...

a cool breeze blew in off the backside of the storms...

and cooled us off and took out the humidity...

and after supper, this is where I was for a time...

as the breeze blew through the deck...

billowing fabric as the chimes softly danced...

;o)

if only every minute of summer were like that...

I would never get off of the deck...

my wish for you today:

softly dancing chimes

Monday's aren't so bad...

it was a lot nicer out yesterday morning...

not as much humidity and a nice breeze...

so this is what I started on...

and this is after all of that was pulled out and thrown on the brush pile...

the beginnings of a fairy garden...

its not what I had planned at all...

actually, I had nothing planned at all...

this was the best place to play at last evening...

these three things went in there...

and now I have a chair to sit on to work on the potting table...

beans are coming up behind us...

if he could only crow...

played for awhile outside and then came in and did nothing...

this hollyhock is from Ellie!

and we have green beans!

won't be long...

we need to stock up on bacon...

the peonies are at their end...

;o)

my wish for you today:

cool breezes and naps