TOO MUCH STUFF

This is me in our hammock on Saturday.

Image taken by my dumb phone.

Ikea makes a fabulous hammock by the way.

Land's End flip flops were four dollars at a favorite thrift store and the flowers are leather.

There has been no chilling out or hammock time allowed today.

I moved CC, our daughter, from her dorm apartment back to our old house. It took seven hours. To say we are exhausted is not enough. I noticed that girls bring TOO MUCH STUFF while boy students do not.  

One of her friends helped us load up our Jeep and I took him out to a BBQ lunch. Joe and CC unpacked the Jeep when we got home and I had supper in the slow cooker {love that}.

It is wonderful CC is home for the summer all though she is taking online summer school classes. We are so proud that she has earned an academic scholarship this year.

I realize I have been missing from your blogs {and mine} the past few days but I needed a break and was planting many perennials which brings me much joy. I hope all of you had a lovely Mother's day.

This is an Iceland Poppy I rescued from a big box store for one dollar and even I doubted it would live. It was dry and withered but after watering and twenty four hours in the earth it gave me a bloom.

I do hope to get back to my regularly scheduled irregular posting soon.

I am linking to Coastal Charm for  Nifty Thrifty Tuesday.

grace surrounds us

Olive

His Mama's Hips

Is it Batman?

Nope.

It's Clovis.
He has his mama's hips.

This is my all time favorite image of Clovis.
He sits in the window and longs to go outside and of course we let him outside for a while.

Linking with the magical Debbie of Debbidoos for Lucy's Pet Partay.

grace surrounds us

Olive

Mama Bird

A mama bird feeding her babies a worm {or a grub}.

It is a bit of a challenge for my camera to capture birds but I snapped her as she sneaked into that house.

We have respected her privacy and not looked at the baby birds.

I planted a wildflower garden, up there on the hill, beside that tree last week and I am anxious to see what is popping up. It is supposed to rain tonight which is good because I cannot water the garden because we are at the old house.

Are you fascinated by birds like we are?

grace surrounds us

Olive

~a weekend, a path, a garden~

Our weekend was a whirl of activity. 

 

We had our neighborhood garage sale. It was fabulous fun minus the getting up in the dark. We have wonderful friends and neighbors and would not have a sale if not for them. They are almost more fun than we can stand at six o' clock in the morning. 

 

Joe and I sold almost everything and donated the rest. This image above is our neighbor's brick path where we had the sale. It had to be photographed.

 

Yesterday was our daughter's, CC's, college piano recital. She played beautifully, a peppy song, Hava Nagila. She woke up the audience!

We are back at the old house and I am resting from working in the flower garden and mowing the grass at the yellow house last week. Here are some flowers from our yellow house.

This little pink climbing rose is trailing all over the place.

Stonecrop with it's slight touch of pink.

We love flowers against hard surfaces like the landscape timbers.

What did you do this past weekend?

grace surrounds us

Olive