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.
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