A Little Bit of Everything

We've had several days with rain and a few

hazy and foggy mornings...a little bit of everything...

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so I 'm not surprised to find

tiny white mushrooms springing up in the dampness...
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...but I was surprised to find this little guy on the

gazebo...


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I think with the bright morning sun...he wanted down...




so I very gently tugged, pried him off the railing...
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...placed him on a rock so he could find his way home.




Most mornings when I work outside...I go out

the back door...which is actually a side door...to

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the back porch...which is actually a side porch...

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I turn right and...

go down these narrow steps to the front yard...

then I turn left and go down these stone steps

which I made myself when younger...

I would not attempt it now!

After getting the tools from the shed yesterday...

I headed for the flower garden.

The flowerbeds needed my attention badly.

The Poppies have gone into their dormant stage...

and their yellowing plants had to be removed...

and some flowers just needed to be dead headed....

like these cheerful yellow Coreopsis.....

...the Speedwell was doing fine...no attention needed...

later...by the time I finished pruning and weeding...

I had a wheelbarrow full of "a little bit of everything"...

...something like the homemade soup

I had made the day before...
which we had for lunch after working outside...

After lunch.....
Herhusband returned to the field to cut the grass.

Our son Steve had brought his mower over yesterday...

and cut most of the yard...so I need to thank him...

Here I caught both of them mowing out front...

in the same area where the day before I caught...

this fawn approaching me...coming out of the woods....

I think I startled him...he leaped...

I thought he was running off...

but he paused a few feet away...

eating some greens....

while keeping an eye on me....

He grew less cautious.....

even comfortable...I think...

approaching me even closer.....

He stayed for quite awhile.....

...before leaping...and then running off!

So Day By Day

No! It does not look like this yet...just wish it did.

The weather goes back and forth...warm to cold.

I want to sit outside everyday and not have to be busy

to stay warm...I want to sit in the swing and read!

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I'm being a little impatient...but I want to see the

orange of the poppies and the purple of the iris.

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Although I admit...Saturday's sunrise was beautiful

with it's own shades of orange and purple.

At least there are the golden daffodils...but they look lonely!

Even the green of the Naked Ladies behind them will fade

before actually blooming...they flower later in the season!

All of the lillies have a lot of growing to do before they bloom...

Below are some that were a gift from my Mother.

They need to be sprayed with this 'vile concoction'

to keep from being eaten by deer.

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That's what I have been doing very carefully...

you don't want to get any on you...not a drop!

I finally managed to pot the gift of pansy flowers also.

This is the wicked plant spray...it isn't harmful...
has garlic and eggs listed as the ingredients...smells like
rotten potatoes are in there too...no lasting odor
to the area...but deer must pick up the smell.



Before we used this vile spray...the deer would even eat
the very tough and sharp Yucca plants. The fibrous
leaves were left very ugly after their snack!




Around noon I picked up Alivia for a small visit.
Alivia is son Rick's youngest daughter.
She was going to help me cook lunch.



She has this thing for olives...just wanted a few first...



So she ate green olives...while I added black olives to
the bulgar wheat.



Then she did some taste testing before we plated the food.



She also sampled the frozen peas before they were cooked.

Lunch is the main meal of the day for us!

On Sunday...when I went outside...I noticed the sky

was already busy with heavy traffic...

and in the field...and later the front yard

was our son Steve...with his metal detector.

Within the hour...

Grant and Andrew came over to ride their dirt bikes.

Grant is daughter Annette's youngest son...

and Andrew is son Steve's oldest son.

Grant on left...Andrew on right.

We feed the birds sunflower seeds...year round.

I had 6 feeders to fill...

The Red-Bellied and the Downey Woodpeckers take

their seeds to a nearby tree to eat.

while the Chickadees and Cardinals stay put...

until the upside down Nut-hatch and Goldfinch take over.

So while the birds ate their sunflower seeds...

we ate a lunch of cheesy tuna macaroni.

So day by day...
...I check on the flowers...feed the birds ...and spray

twice a week with that vile concoction that seems to work.

The flowers are just growing too slow for me...

...but they are growing!

Forgot to mention I finally saw the movie "Twilight"

Annette gave me one to watch!