Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Life in our little cottage in the country

Dressing Up

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A quickish post this morning. I didn’t sleep well, we have another heat advisory, it’s incredibly humid and I have to get outside to hand water everything.

Sharing some photos of the girls that I’ve shared on IG over the past 3 or 4 days.

Pippa told me that it might not be fair to dress Holly in heavy winter clothes during a heat wave just because I think “she will look cute in this.”

Bless her heart, she put up with it.

Lucy in a pair of overalls that were a gift from Stacey.

I mentioned to Lucy that I myself had overalls like this in the 70s. And that I wore Earth Shoes and wide bells and wore bandanas on my head.

I’m not at all sure Lucy was impressed.

On the other hand, I am impressed with Lucy in these overalls. They’re made for her. Peace, Lucy!

I love dressing these girls so much, I can’t stand it!

I’m going to write a post soon about what to look for when you’re contemplating buying a Blythe doll. A few readers have purchased them since I started my little doll family. Ideally, that post would be today’s post but I’m behind and I have to get out there and water!

This heat wave continues through Tuesday – endless – and then it breaks.

Stay safe.

Happy Sunday.

And On It Goes

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The limelight hydrangeas are in bloom. A small bush, planted maybe 7 or 8 years ago, is HUGE! Every year it gets fuller and fuller.

But my little hydrangea that I planted in the chicken wire fence garden had only one bloom this year. That has never happened.  I do believe it gets too much sun, especially this year, but the blooms weren’t appearing even before the heat wave. I’m scratching my head on that one. I may need to move it.

This heat wave is never-ending. On and on it goes, through Monday or Tuesday. It’s too miserable to be outside except in the early morning. We did get a bit of rain yesterday. A bit. We had a gentle rain shower early in the afternoon. It probably lasted 10 minutes. Then in the late afternoon, we had another shower of 10 -15 minutes. But in each case, there was lots of thunder off in the distance and neighboring communities had big storms. Nothing here.

If only this could happen in the winter instead; everyone else gets big snowfalls, and for some strange reason, we get nothing. That  I would be happy about.

But some rain is better than none and I’m grateful for it, if only for the fact that I don’t have to hand water this morning.

I’m going to do some prep work this morning on one of the shows I’m coaching. At some point this weekend, I am going to put the puzzle back in the box and free the kitchen table for tax deduction work.

Exciting weekend, right?

We’re going stir crazy, but only because the heat and humidity is so bad and has been for over a week and a half.

Sigh.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

Over It

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Paris puzzle finished. Finishing off the trees was tedious. But I love this puzzle and, though I can barely imagine begin able to visit Paris again, this sure makes me want to.

I have had it with the heat. Yesterday, the heat index was 105°. Once again, I spent a long time watering everything in the morning, then I stayed inside for the rest of the day. The weather forecast was for thunderstorms in the afternoon – a 90% chance. I watched the radar and was so happy to see that we were going to get some rain. The wind kicked up, so much so, that Don went outside and took down the umbrella and I put the hanging plants on the floor of the porch. Storms were supposed to arrive by 7 pm.

Nothing. Nada. Zip.

Dumbfounded, I looked at the radar and there wasn’t a storm in sight.

This has happened EVERY TIME a major storm has been predicted. We are desperate for rain. The grass is brown, the plants are suffering. The humidity is high and my allergies are out of control.

Okay. Thanks for letting me vent. This has been a depressing summer and it looks like it’s going to continue.

Pippa and and the girls are sick of it, too.

Short of going naked, this is the coolest outfit we’ve got and Pip won out. They’d like to run in the sprinkler, but we don’t have one. Maybe we should walk over to the river?

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

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