HAPPY # 67 TO ME

 Up to another hot day. I got chores done and was very thankful that my sore back is better this morning. I had a leisurely breakfast then made a cake and egg delivery. On the way home we stopped at the corn field and picked enough corn for tomorrow's lunch . We came home and I washed out all the bowls and pots we used yesterday for the corn and cleaned up the covered patio. I decided to let the sun help dry the bowls and pots.

I watered all my inside plants and the plants in the backyard. These last few 90 degree days have certainly dried things out. I put away laundry and then had a BLT for lunch.  After lunch I pulled grass and weeds out of the back steps. Daughter brought the girls over mid afternoon when it got a little cloudy to help pick green beans. I am picking the second picking of these half runners to can on Monday. IR was a big help picking but got too hot today.

She had to take a couple popsicle breaks today but was still a great helper.  I am glad she loves gardening.  We finished with 1 and 1/2 bushels this time which was a bushel less than the first picking which is pretty normal. After we finished picking hubbie sprayed them so they will continue to at least give us fresh beans to eat.

#1 son's family stopped by after their tubing trip today down Green River. RL went along this time and did very well for her first time. After everyone left hubbie and I  had to run to get the bowls and pots off the lawn chairs as a surprise shower came through out area. We waited until the short shower was over and got chores done. 

After chores we sat out in the covered patio and broke beans. I put the broken beans in the frig to wait until Monday for canning. 

As I shut up the hens tonight I saw this guy who is always watching me when I pass his way. He is a huge black spider and is always in his web hole so maybe he is smart enough to know it wouldn't be good for him to surprise me !!!

And before the day ends I have to wish myself a happy birthday as I turn a year older today. All the grand girls sang to me today and that was the greatest gift I could have received .

Thankful for a wonderfully blessed birthday 

God Bless and Good Night

CORN FRIDAY

 Up early to get chores done and have breakfast with IR and CA who are here while their mom meets with her insurance agent. I left at 9:45 to drive to Asheville for my annual OBGYN appointment. I really like my doctor but still got almost sick driving over there. I have such bad cases of "white coat syndrone" even with this doctor who is like an old friend. I figured my blood pressure would be out the roof but surprisingly it was 124/78 which is about normal for me.  The exam went well and I was on my way home in about an hour . I got home just in time for lunch with daughter and the girls.  After we ate we headed over to the corn field to gather our season's corn. IR loved gathering corn.

CA helped by filling the bags for us.

Farming is lots more fun with helpers like these two.

We came home and parked the truck in the shade of the barn  to shuck the corn. I had to make a cake delivery before I could help with the corn shucking. As I waited on my customer the Ring camera went off and I looked to find these two 4-wheeling around the driveway in their jeep.

When I got home we all shucked corn with sweat dripping off our chins in another 90 degree afternoon even in the shade but IR hung in there until all the corn was shucked.

                                        

Daughter took the girls home for naps and hubbie and I sat up our corn fixin stages.

It is shady and a cool breeze is blowing this afternoon so we decided to get at least some of it put in the freezer.  We are putting up on the cob corn this year only because we have cut off corn left from last year.  We took breaks for chores and then had to run to Walmart for more food vacuum bags but we ended up finishing around 7:30 and had it all in the freezer. I didn't get a picture and I lost count of the bags but we think we put up about 55 bags of 5 ears each for our winter meals. The kids all love corn on the cob and we ran out of it last year but I don't remember how many bags we put up.

Thankful for the garden bounty we are experiencing this year and thankful for the ability to put away food for later that I know exactly who has handled it.

I am very tired tonight and my back muscles are screaming loudly but I still had to ice 2 chocolate cakes and get them ready to be delivered tomorrow.  I finished the evening with a heating pad on my back for a while before bed time.

Thankful for the wonderful blessings of this day and praying for family and friends with the covid virus.

God Bless and Good Night

SWIMMING DAY

 Up to a bright sunny hot morning. I got chores done and then I had breakfast before loading the cake orders in the Honda and heading out to the Curb Market.  I met 3 customers there today and checked inside to see if any of my money plant had sold but it was still all there. One of the neighbor vendors said there has been little traffic through the hot market on the past week's market days.  We left there and made stops at the PO to buy stamps and mail my last regular car payment on my Honda Pilot. Then we stopped at the bank and checked out the Amazon sale place because we were the only customers there this morning. Hubbie found a couple things and I picked up a couple things for daughter but didn't find anything for myself. We headed home to have lunch then go swimming with the kids. Daughter's neighbors are so nice to let us use their pool. IR is getting braver and was getting her face in the water today. I got in with them for a while then turned them over to Aunt A. 

RL is getting better and better swimming and diving. There was a couple neighbor young boys there today also and they were teaching her to somersault into the water.

CA loves the water but didn't like being the only one that had to wear her swimmies today.

We brought CA home with us so IR and RL could get ready to go to gymnastics for the last time this summer. CA went to sleep on the way home and slept until her mom and dad came to pick her up. D-in-love-A brought RL up to visit and tell us all about the gymnastics class.  After they all left hubbie and I got chores done and then while hubbie sprayed in the garden I picked blackberries and blueberries.

It has been another 90 degree day and it is very humid this evening.  I watered some plants and then we came inside.  I baked a couple chocolate cakes tonight and iced 6 caramel cakes. I am tired tonight after a full day of activity.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and praying for the covid affected family and friends.

God Bless and Good Night

HOT SUMMER DAY BEAUTY

 Up to a sunny hot morning to get chores done. I had a quick breakfast with RL before loading up and going over to pick up IR and CA to go with us on our weekly errand run today. We are going to the dump / recycle center today and to meet an egg customer and pick up a few things at Sav Mor so that tomorrow I can drive my Honda to take some more things to the market and finish our errands.  It didn't take long to get things done today and we picked up lunch on the way home. The girls were hungry and enjoyed their lunches of corn dogs and fries today.  After lunch daughter came over and we took the older girls outside to play while CA napped. These girls don't mind the 90 degree heat today as they  drank cold drinks and explored.

After the girls left I walked around the yard admiring the color still braving this heat wave. This very large Crepe Myrtle is full of blooms.

The Butterfly bushes are still providing multiple blooms for all the butterflys and bees.

I have some late blooming Hosta's that have white blossoms instead of the typical purple.

These Rose of Sharon bushes are starting to show their pretty color . This was is the late afternoon and this little bee was doing his job keeping these pollinated.

This is the same blooms later this evening as I finished chores. I didn't realize Rose of Sharon blooms closed in the evening.

Also I discovered these little cuties during chore time today. This Silkie mama has several guinea eggs and a couple silkie eggs under her and these 2 little cuties were sticking the heads out from under mama as I peeked in to check on mama. I wasn't expecting any hatching until the weekend but the warmer weather probably speeded up hatching.

Our garden harvest each day is getting bigger these days and we are so thankful we did get over an inch of rain before these 90 degree days got here.

I pulled up the Red Swan bush bean plants this evening and gave them to the chickens. I have picked beans from them 4 times so they were pretty spent and the chickens got to enjoy the few beans they put back on.  We are really competing with all kinds of insect pest this year, seems hubbie is spraying something everyday and we are still finding holes in tomatoes and cucumber vines are still wilting away. We try to spray only organic but have had to get some liquid sevin to help with the onslot of bugs this season.

I watered all the potted plants in the front yard and then came inside to figure the weekly bills and then iced coconut cakes and baked more caramel cakes.

Thankful for another blessed beyond belief day and praying hard tonight for family members and friends that have contracted the dreaded covid virus.

God Bless and Good Night

BORING DAY

 Up to a cloudy morning. It is still very humid and already hot outside this morning as I headed out to get chores done.  I had breakfast then daughter came to go to the laundry out the road with me . She has a lot of baby pillows and covers for things that need to be washed and ready for the new baby so was taking all of it to the laundry to get it done at one time. We got there and were all alone for a while in the laundry. She went to deliver some bread while I got the first loads in the dryer and when she came back we got all the things in the dryers. I dried my things also as the rain is supposed to come back this afternoon. I did bring the rugs home to hang on the line because of their rubber backs. It only took us about an hour to get it all done and we picked up lunches on the way home. The girls had all been at d-in-love-A's house and she brought them up to meet us for lunch. We all ate then they took all three girls over to Markeeta's for haircuts.  I iced caramel cakes while they were gone and then when they all got back we played and watched TV while a storm came through the area out barely skimmed us with only a short rain shower.       After everyone left hubbie and I got chores done and then had a fresh corn and cucumber supper. #1 son's family came by for some cucumbers and squash.  I baked 5 more cakes tonight. This has been one of those days that I wonder why I even bother to write anything on here.   

I am very thankful for the blessings of the days and am sending up some special prayers for some family members tonight.

God Bless and Good Night

BUSY MONDAY

 The girls slept in until around 8:30 this morning which was nice. I found this for my morning devotions and thought it was really perfect for today.

Hubbie fixed them breakfast while I got chores done. It is already hot early this morning and very humid so I expect storms this afternoon.  I came inside and grabbed a cup of coffee and a breakfast bar before loading up a couple cakes and heading out for a delivery. I picked up my Aldi curbside order and stopped at Petco to pick up some ear mite medicine for Meow Meow on the way home.  The girls helped unload the groceries and get things put away. They played outside for a little while I picked blueberries. Sweat was dripping off me just standing and picking berries it is so humid. We all came inside and I put the blueberries in the freezer .

Daughter brought lunch and we all ate together. Daughter picked up g-son to go home with her and help transplant some Hosta plants at her house and we took all three of the girls over to the elementary school playground while it was cloudy and it wasn't so hot.

RL was with us also but took a pretty bad fall from the monkey bars as soon as we got there and was sitting out playing today. The sun came out and we were getting ready to leave when d-in-love-A cam out of the school and let us play in the gym for a while.

We came home just in time before the storms rolled into our area.  We had very close thunder and lightening and got 1.25 inches of rain in a short period of time. Thankfully we didn't have any damage like some of the close areas did with wind and heavier rain. 

Daughter picked IR and CA up and then RL took a nap before her mom got here. 

I got 3 loads of weekly laundry done today between all our other activities . We got chores done in a still light rain this evening. Our Sam's order was ready tonight so we picked it up and then  I baked 6 caramel cakes tonight.  

Thankful for all the blessings of this day.

God Bless and Good Night