Catching Up

It’s time to get caught up with my blog.  CRAP is over and plans are starting to be made for next year.  Jana and David have been here for a month visiting.  They left yesterday morning and should arrive home sometime today.  Since Jana is the only driver now they are taking two days.  I am going to miss them.  However, mom sure is looking forward to them coming home.  I know she has missed them.

 

After they left I cleaned my house, which I had neglected because I was “too busy” shopping and visiting.  I also did five loads of laundry.  I was able to keep caught up with laundering my clothes, this was all the extras.  Today I am getting caught up on computer stuff, straightening cupboards, etc.  Brian arrived late last night and will be leaving later today.  He is taking Jana and David’s trailer back to the campground where they have a spot. 

 

Jana and I also put together the CRAP JUNE 2012 album.  I printed the pictures, and Jana helped me put the albums together.  The pictures turned out great, and so did the albums.

 

While they were here we did a lot of shopping.  I bought new curtains for both my kitchen and living room.  They haven’t arrived yet.  I will post pictures after I hang them.  We spent several evenings sitting on my deck.  The deck faces the east so it has shade in the evenings.  However, this past week we had storms every evening, so we spent some time inside.  We had three inches of rain the past couple of days.  Our weather here is 90’s and hot during the day then a thunder shower in the evening with a lot of rain, wind, thunder and lightning. 

 

I haven’t had much time to do yard work.  I did get my front grass cut again, but not Kevin’s.  Hopefully, I will get that done on Monday.  I did get my hibiscus planted and they are doing great.

The vinca plants, impatiens and pentas are also doing great.  In fact I had to repot the vincas because the original pot wasn’t big enough.

The sunflowers died.  I didn’t get them planted in time and I couldn’t revive them.  Hopefully, I will have better luck next year.

I moved my hummingbird feeder to the hook in the rock garden.  I had a spinner on the hook and noticed that a hummingbird get coming to it apparently because it was red.  Jana suggested that I put the hummingbird feeder there.  So, I replaced the spinner with the feeder and the hummingbird comes there several times a day.  I don’t know if it’s only one bird and several.

This must also be the time for cardinals.  In the morning and evening I have at least a dozen cardinals, both male and female, at my birdfeeder. I know this picture is of just one cardinal.  If you look real close, you can see a finch at the finch feeder.  Since my birdbath had to be thrown away, I found this one that hangs on a hook.  The birds really like it.

As you can tell, I am enjoying both my garden/flowers and the birds.