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Retired, housewife, mother of three. Picking up the pieces after God decided the 145 year old farmhouse was no longer the house for us. Praise God for His mercy and love!
Showing posts with label Wisteria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wisteria. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Not much to post about

Trying to do a bit of catching up today, blogwise.
Had a few friends over yesterday who hadn't been able to make it to the reunion. We did a small crawfish boil for them, with a little of our sweet corn that we managed to save from the 'coons...

I have a new respect for small farmers, that's for sure. :-)

We still have Wisteria blooming.
The cicadas are starting to make their noise music.


So, tomorrow I will be another year older, haha! We're going to see Despicable Me 2! Some days I start to feel it a little bit. Especially with all the changes to our lives this last year. I'll be... wait for it.... 29. Haha!! Sorry. Not really. I'll be 61. Gosh. Where does the time go?

And this Saturday we celebrate our 39th anniversary. We're thinking of going out to dinner. Want to do a few things we won't be able to do after hubby gets his shoulder surgery next Thursday the 11th. He's ready for it now, as he says it has been bothering him more and more.

For those of you who celebrate it, have a Safe, Happy 4th of July. ♥

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Bits and Pieces Sunday

Hot, hot, hot! Instead of trying to cook dinner this evening, we're going to see the new Star Trek Movie.

We have more Wisteria blooming. Small, but it smells just as pretty. :-)



The Cicada are hatching.



Sorry for the quality of the photo. Took the pictures with my phone and it just didn't want to focus on the shell for some reason.

Spread some grass seed and turned on the sprinklers. Then hubby came in and showed me a sort of blister on his arm. He said he thought it was an infection, so off to the VA Hospital we went. He's diabetic, so any sort of infection is particularly troublesome. Four hours, or maybe five or six hours later, we came back home. A staff infection. So he got shots for that, and the pain in his shoulder.

I went out and shut the sprinklers off. Hopefully all the grass seed didn't drown or wash away.

Anyway, I took some trash out to the burn pile. When I came back, I realized I had almost run over a snake. I turned around to see what it was. Obviously it did not like the mower I was riding. (Not mowing, just riding.) Anyway. I shut the mower off so I could take a picture or two.




At first hubby said it was a Copperhead. Joy! But after watching the video (which I am too illiterate to know how to post), he said it was a Cottonmouth. So much better! Not!

I asked him what a water snake was doing in our yard! I know we watered a bit, but not that much!

He said it was probably laying eggs. Like all the turtles that come over from the bayou. He said the baby snakes can't breathe water.
So, at some unknown point in the future, we could have poisonous baby snakes heading off to the bayou. Double joy. ;-)

Highlights of the day?
That Wisteria, and our first good regular tomato!



In hindsight I may have picked it a day or two early, but I couldn't tell that from where it was in the middle of the tomato plant.
And look! No blossom end rot!



And yes, that's my hand holding it. :-)

That's it from this little piece of heaven. Hope you are all having a wonderful, safe weekend! ♥

Thursday, March 28, 2013

More Wisteria






An old power pole, felled by time and Wisteria.





If you don't already follow my friend Gail, please stop by and spare her a prayer, good thought or best wishes as her husband goes into the hospital.
Thank you.
Have a blessed Easter and a wonderful weekend. ♥