One of the Rose of Sharon bushes is full of blooms. The other is a bit behind. I got the cuttings from my friend Noble at the same time, but “Junior” was not quite as big a cutting, so he’s grown more slowly. I actually like this because I’ll have blossoms on the other bush when this one is fading.
Thank you, Noble, for these sweet little cuttings you gave me several years ago. Noble and Tina have since moved to another house, but in their former garden he planted several Rose of Sharons flanking a path and they were magnificent.
I weeded for quite a while yesterday, mostly by hand, because the battery died on the weed whacker. I didn’t get to mulch this year, so the big garden bed is full of weeds and I’m just now able to ruthlessly pull them out. The mulching didn’t happen because of my hand injury, as well as a flat tire on the much needed-for-mulching wheelbarrow. So the weeds are a bit of a pain. I’ll weed whack a bit more this morning and then, on Sunday through Wednesday when we’re hit with another round of heat and humidity, I’ll stay inside. The long range forecast shows temps dropping into the eighties after this next blast. Fingers crossed.
The gift that keeps on giving. I have to say it: right at this moment, our gardens are darned charming. And now that the brown-eyed/black-eyed susans are flowering, there’s a wonderful splash of yellow and brown, along with the red of the bee balm.
I contacted my friend who has Wren. She said the delay for the replacement body will be 8 months! So we chatted about the broken finger, which she had glued back on, and I decided I was fine with that. So I’m going to sell a few more things on Etsy to help with the funding – have to work on that today – and I should have her within a month.
I have to help Don with a self-tape audition this morning. He’s got a gig tonight.
Stay safe.
Happy Saturday.
Happy you will be getting Wren back so soon. I still have a rubber doll that was mine. She must be about 65 years old. She is missing a finger and would bet it was bitten off. I still love her. The doll’s name is Baby Joyce and my Mom saved the box tops from Rice Krispies and mailed away for her. I got her for Christmas. We moved across country and I was only allowed to bring one toy and I brought my doll. Four kids in a station wagon plus everything we could fit. Good luck with your sales on Etsy.
I remember my mom saving things like box tops and green stamps in order to buy a gift for someone. That’s a great memory, Olivia.
Stay safe.
happy to hear that wren will soon be on her way home to you (you two can commiserate on the hand pain)!
your flowers are beautiful, in quantity and structure and color. enjoy (i know you do)!
stay safe in all that heat and humidity!
here? in the last six weeks, i’ve been to four appointments for someone in my family and yesterday we had to wait around for a worker at my parents’ townhome to do some work. in that same time frame, i’ve had for myself nine appointments and procedures (a couple very painful) to try to figure out a source of pain that goes from my abdomen down the front of one leg (no answers yet). plus a routine appointment with my dentist, an unplanned trip to the eye doctor for a likely stye (and no appointment with the expert until late august, just very expensive lotions/treatment masks … cost nearly $300.00), then thursday’s appointment with a neurologist (she believes it is “essential tremors” or “tremors with dysphonia”, the thing that makes my voice quake and start and stop … she said “the good news is i see no parkinson’s today … don’t know about ten years from now, but no parkinson’s today”). so i am tired (and do not deal well with the not-knowing) so i pray and i am glad that this is saturday because it means there can be no appointments today. time to rest and do fun things. and do laundry (as i walk around without a bra ready. sorry if that’s too much information … haha).
anyway, thanks for listening.
hope you, don and everyone else are keeping cool, out of the heat and sun and have a great weekend!
xo,
kathy
Kathy.
I wil add my prayers to yours. Wow!! What a boatload of appointments!!!! You take care, and keep us posted. Chris. xo
thanks and xo to you, chris.
i appreciate the prayers, especially for my family. we’ve been “hit” with a lot of health concerns in the past couple of months and are surely tired … but we are making it through. that last part is due to God’s goodness and lots of prayers. thanks again for yours, very much.
and yes, will keep you posted.
you all are included in prayers here. miss hearing how you’re doing, but know how life can keep people busy and there’s always lots to do. how are you? hope you and your family are all well and staying comfy, having plenty of time for fun this summer. any big plans? how about with your granddaughter (who, i think, is now four? how is that possible, huh?!?)?
enjoy summer, every day, even if it gets hot.
thanks again.
xo,
kathy
meant to add earlier …
hope don’s gig went well and his audition leads to a great job for him. so happy that you two have and help each other. carry on!
xo,
kathy
xoxo
I’m so sorry you have to go through all this. I know it’s frightening and draining. Prayers for you, dear Kathy. We’re all holding you in our prayers.
(I almost never wear a bra!)
Stay safe.
Hope your Etsy sale goes well and also Don’s gig tonight. It’s certainly been the year of the weed! I have cleared bags full of them and still they come along. Dandelions just seem to take over the flower beds and have such tough roots.
I am going to try suppressing any weeds later in the year by covering the flower beds with thick cardboard. You allow it get throughly soaked in the rain and when soft enough, cover with a layer of top soil and you can plant new plants through the cardboard.
It seems to work for other gardeners, so nothing lost in trying.
Happy Saturday
I used cardboard to clear an area of weeds so that I could start a new garden bed. Give it a try, Dee Dee.
Stay safe.
Weeding in this heat feels so unending and exhausting. But we also have tons more cone flowers, Shasta daisies and sun flowers than we’ve ever had. And I’ve really loved looking at everyone’s hydrangea bushes which are so loaded with blooms. What a weird, very wet spring/summer we’re having. Even as I’m writing a violent storm is blowing outside. I’ve only had to water my potted flowers twice since May.
Good to hear Wren will be coming home.
It is a very weird summer. More intense heat for the next 3 days. I am so over it!
Stay safe, Kay.
Oh, Claudia. Have you had your television on to see the news? Wonder what this will bring along as to theories as to who did it and who planned it, etc. My heart is so heavy for all the C#%P going on and this will only add on to that. ugh.
Yes. I read it on Threads just after it happened. We now know the guy was a Republican, which makes it harder for the GOP to blame Biden – though. because they’re idiots, they’ll keep trying.
Stay safe, Chris.
You’ve been productive! The garden pix are gorgeous. My Susans have popped too and look wonderful. The poor Annabelles have basically collapsed in the rain and I think I will be pruning it seriously as no one can get to the back yard!
Here’s hoping Wren will come sooner rather than later. Eight months feels far away. And good wishes for the gig and upcoming audition tape.
I’m waiting for the Annabelle collapse, but so far, so good. I’m sorry yours got hit.
Stay safe, Jeanie.