Breakfast with the neighbors

Rain and more...

So far a half inch of rain, and a little hail.



Yesterday, George tilled the garden and then I hoed out the rows. It looks great. The hail did not seem to hurt the tomatoes.

I have had cornbread and radishes 3 times in the last week. I have lettuce and onions, but it is the radishes I like the best.




This is one of the iris I stole from Patsy last year.





George has dozens of birds on the feeders tonight. Yellow, red and blue.

My flowers

This is a planter I fixed for the table on my deck. I bought the plants from the German's and put them in a basket I had. I found the metal tray and the water can at junk / yard sales yesterday, 75 cents for the metal tray and 25 cents for the can, I think. There is also a very small wire tea pot in the planter that I got for a quarter. This looks alright now, but in a month or so it will be beautiful. It has a red germanium in the middle, a variegated sweet potato vine, a white petunia, a lacy plant with small white flowers that I do not know the name of and probably other things I have forgotten.


If you enlarge this, you can see the yellow iris and the white plant I dug up form Patsy's place last year. The white bush is not a bridal wreath as I thought but it is another form of spirea plant. Then there are 2 roses, yellow I think, and the rose of sharon here.



This is a shrub I bought last year. It starts with a W. and it is supposed to get big and bloom all summer. In the other corner is a forsythia I got from Patsy's old yard.



This is the front steps with the small planters with red and white petunia's. In the large pot I planted red daises I bought at Wally world yesterday, and some white petunias, one of those big leaf plants that is red and green, caldium or something like that. Then I planted some mint that I got at the sale yesterday. $3 for 2 kinds of mint.

Here are my seeds, Shasta daises, black eyed susans, thyme, painted daises, dill and some other things. They are doing pretty good, but the dill is not up yet. I planted it later than the others.

This is Patsy's little pink rose. There are 2 here and one down by the lilac in the middle of the yard. I have three here, but I moved one down by the mail boxes. We will see if it lives there. These little things bloomed last year for months until frost and did not get much bigger than they are here.

To the right, is a cutting of a bleeding heart I stole at wally world yesterday. It had broken off in the storm the night before. I put rooting harmone on it and we will see if it grows. If it grows, is there anything you want me to steal for you and see if we can get it to grow?

This is some of the stuff I dug up and planted down by the light pole at the corner of the yard. I have to be careful what I plant here, because it is hard to water this far from the house. You can see on of Patsy's roses in the middle. I am not sure what color it is. Most of this I stole from Patsy.

This is a new bed I planted to the east of the deck. I have all these flowers in the garden and I wanted more space for transplants by the house. I think I will look for more edging around the yard and extend this to the end of the trailer.

This is stuff I planted by the mail boxes. Again, I do not want to have to water this often, as I will have to haul water down here. I planted Shasta Daiseys and cone flowers that I bought and iris I got for $2 yesterday. Then I have some stuff I got from my yard and the flowers I planted.

This is another view of the light pole.

These are watermelons and cantaloupes I bought yesterday. The cantaloupes must have been under the drip line, because they look rough today and the watermelons look find. I got these at Wally in Harrison. Nine seedlings for $3.50.

This is the back of the mail box in the pasture. I planted iris, rose of sharon, a piece of patsy's peony that has been growing in this pasture for 20 years.

More mail box.

Garden with flowers and potatoes.

Chair and $2 table.

Lamp I got for $3 yesterday. I am painting it black and getting shades to match for it and the other pole lamp I have in the living room. With matching shades the will look good in here.

Other side of the garden with tomatoes, flowers and strawberries. The strawberries do not look to promising.

The fountain in front of the deck with the red and white impatiences.

Today is my day

to do whatever I want. That is my way of looking at Saturday. Today, there is a garden sale on the square at Berryville and I am going to see if I can find some plants. Last year, I went there and got the woolly lamb's ear plants that I love. One year, me and Jackie went and got a couple dozen Rose of Sharon plants for a dollar. I hope to find a bargain to plant in the big planter I have set by my front steps. I have had the planter for a long time, left by the renter we had here years ago. It has set by the water spout holding junk. I put the junk in one of George's black tubs and have the planter full of dirt ready to plant. All I need now is inspiration and some new plants.

We have blue bird babies in our bird house. I was hopping the wrens would return to my little house this year, but I fear they are building in the old shop this year. George says he thinks it is still early. We will see. I just saw one hop across the deck.

Well, off to the Garden sale and then going junking. My day.

2010 Census Reward

Arrived today...




I had to hire a crew to get them in the house. No telling how much it will cost me. They said they would send a bill.





See the new floor in the living room? It ends just in front of the couch. Maybe in a week or two we will have it all the way into the kitchen.

The strawberries arrived also. I planted 75 in a 50 foot row at the edge of the garden next to the road. I gave 25 to brother. I offered some to the big boys that put the furniture in the house, but they did not want to work on growing strawberries.

Pictures for Patsy

Patsy, I tried to call you and the line was busy. Then, I called back and no answer. Did you run away?

If you are looking for things to use for planters, I have about a dozen of these cattle cube barrells that Dan Norton gave George. Dan said you can plant tomatoes in them and George thought that was a good idea. I planted my tomatoes in the big garden George plowed up. I told George I would plant some flowers in a few if he would put dirt in them. They are still empty. Do you want some for your planters? I will bring them by tomorrow after work if you want them. All or however many you want. Give me a call.

Then, I need to know what kind of birds these are and why they were watching over my house yesterday. They were sitting in the dead tree right behind my house. What do you think they were waiting for.

I am going in the strawberry business if any one wants to put in orders for next year. I wanted Cardinal strawberries like Daddy grew but could not find them. I found them at Simmons Plant farm at Mountianburg on the net. They are sending 100 plants UPS. Should be here by Friday at the latest. That is really more than I wanted, but I will probably kill some of them. Anyway, I might share with someone if they wanted some plants, but next year, if you want strawberries, I am selling, not giving. I know birds like berries. Do you think these birds will eat my strawberries?