Today I am doing laundry and working on my ornaments. The
weather forecasters have been predicting storms every afternoon this week. So far nothing. If nothing happens this afternoon I am going
to water my plants after supper. Some
are looking pretty sad.
Today is Friday, July 31, and it is Miss Penny’s first
birthday. She sure has grown into a
beautiful loving girl. She was adorable
as a kitten and even more so now. I am
so glad to have her in my life.
Spending the day inside again as it is still really
hot. Kevin is outside mowing the back
grass with his tractor. Oh, to be young
again and able to stand the heat. I have
been working on my genealogy. I am
having a great time tracing my ancestors.
I am about as far as I can go without researching other countries,
especially Germany. It seems most of my
ancestors are from Germany. My one
grandfather kept referring to being Pennsylvania Dutch. I have figured out that the Pennsylvania
Dutch were from Germany. In fact, a lot
of them were Amish and Mennonite. This
should be some really interesting research!
Finally…..the donut hole closed. We have had a pretty good rain along with
some thunder and lightning.
Today is Saturday.
Kevin came over this morning, and we discussed finishing the area in
front and side of my deck. We also
discussed the concrete patio in my backyard and the fence to be put up before
Jana arrives with Smoky. Everything has
been pretty much decided on except for what kind of fence. He also wants to start a compost pile and we
talked about where he would put it, along with where he is going to put next
year’s garden. This year’s didn’t work
out too well.
My project for the coming week is trees. We have been talking about planting more
trees, both front and back. We want to
put several pecan trees in front near the old one in my yard. He and Renea want to plant several Granny
Smith apple trees and several cherry trees.
So today I checked on the best planting time for all these trees. Also found that I’m not sure cherry trees
will grow in this area.
We checked out the peach tree in my yard. It did much better this year. Plenty of peaches but they are hard. So next year we are going to work on it some
more and see what happens. The pecan
trees on the north side of my property have plenty of pecans. They look really good this year. The lone tree out front doesn’t have
many. We have been told that pecan trees
produce every other year.
My tulip poplar trees that we planted earlier this year are
doing really good so far. I was worried
about them because it is has been rather dry this summer, but I guess between
me watering them and the little bit of rain we had they are doing okay.
This evening I pulled some more weeds from the east rock
garden. I am almost half finished with
the weed pulling in that area.
Today (Sunday) when I arrived home from church Kevin had
finished mowing my grass and was using the weedeater. I sure haven’t been much help with the grass mowing this year. It’s really frustrating that I can’t do much
right now. The doctor’s keep saying
don’t go out in the heat, don’t do this and don’t do that. I may start ignoring them!
This afternoon Ryan and Renea came over and put together two
of my new large bookshelves. That was
such a big help. They both look really
nice. I probably won’t start putting
items on them until tomorrow. One is for
my craft supplies and the other one is for office type supplies. The third one is going in my bedroom, but we
ran out of time and didn’t get that one put together. In between this Renea fixed us a really good
supper.
No yard work was accomplished tonight. The next couple of days will be around 100
degrees so no yard work will not be done
for a few days.
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