FULL day part 2!!

On the way home we headed to an estate sale near Hawkinsville. I found a nice walker for dad. It was perfect timing as this would save him from having to go to the doctor to get a prescription for a new walker. Yay for dad!

Afterwards we headed into Hawkinsville proper to get some breakfast at Huddle House. Think Waffle House but more County :) if that’s even really possible.

Since we were in Hawkinsville we decide to go ahead and go to another estate sale in a warehouse there in town. I found a bread pan cast iron and a cute brass fish ashtray to go with my brass crabs.


Butch is gonna clean up the pan and I’ll sell it :)

From there we headed to Mom and Dads house and decided to stop off at the nursery in Perry to see if they had Hydrangeas. They did and a few other plants as well!!

We ended up with three Hydrangeas, three Hostas and two “Lucifer” canna lilies - the name cracked me up!

Then we headed over to the folks to drop off the walker then headed home. It was then about 1pm and WAY too hot to plant anything so we have settled down in the house to cool off for a bit.

But we did drop the plants on their rough spots before going in:








These are multi colored ones! I’m so excited to see what these are going to look like as they grow up!!

About three I tossed on a swim suit and headed out to plant some canna lilies. I shoved my volunteer snapdragons to the side and plopped the lilies in. They’re going to be pretty!!











Tomatoes are coming in. Not quite as well as I hoped, but they’re coming in. I will just keep fertilizing and hope for the best!


This one is for mom. This is her plant she gave me as a rescue. I had to deadhead it and cut off the dead stuff. It’s coming back great. Should be happy here for the long term!!

At about 7pm we finally went out front and planter the hostas and Hydrangeas.

FULL day!

Today Butch and I headed to Eastman to visit with my prior boss and visit her sunflower field.

I am so glad we did.

Butch wanted to BE there at 6:30am. I said no way!! I also didn’t want to go at 8pm as it would be too hot and buggy.

We compromised with us showing up at 7:30 A.M. what does that mean? It means we had to get up at 5:00 (Butch) 5:30 (me). We headed out at 6:30 so we could there at 7:30. I felt bad because she was still in her jammies! She was a good sport about it. :)





One super tall little guy right out in the middle :)














Yep he is standing on the topper in the back of his truck. Fun stuff!! I was the lens handler for him. I would wander away and take pictures on my own and he would concentrate on doing his own thing.





There has always got to be one in the crowd! Backwards and awkward but still happy and cheerful :)









I was taking pictures of bees but had to capture this picture of Butch. Yep, he’s still standing on his truck still ;)


Selfie in the flowers!!





There were so many “hit and runs” with bees flying everywhere being as busy as, well bees!! No stings and no close calls. Just lots of buzzing around!


One final parting shot before we go! We had a great time!!

Doug and Wendy’s visit

We have known Doug and Wendy since 1994 when we were all stationed in Italy. They came to Georgia to pick up a purchase and we are SO glad they included us in those plans!

They came in on Friday and Liz had a pool party. So they got to witness a bit of the set up in Friday evening when they came in. We adults opted to escape to dinner instead of staying home with the kiddos!


Saturday Butch and Doug headed to ATL to pick up their item and Wendy and I hung out at home. Floated in the pool and chatted, then napped and hung out until the boys came home. We grilled sausage for dinner and played games that night!

A rousing game of 5 crowns



Where Liz played with us.
And an even funnier game of Push the Dummy.


Made a little more challenging as we did a taste test of Irish Whiskeys between games! *Note I went from rocking the score to loosing in the LAST hand! Fun game!



SO glad they came down and saw us!

Projects

Productive morning all before 8am. Walked out to deadhead the lilies..wandered, picked a few weeds..discovered there was enough rain to loosen up the nut grass balls...pulled a few handfuls in the backyard and they came up so easy I decided to head to the front and pull the HUGE forest of them in the front flowerbed. Mission accomplished. 1/2 a black garbage bag of nutgrass pulled. Noticed lots of little weeds...decided to poison. Grabbed the Roundup and headed out. Poisoned along the front of the house, down the driveway and ALL the way around the property in the front in the road (where road meets the curbed always get clumps of grass and weeds) AND the fence line (just the outside front). Feeling pretty sweaty, but well accomplished. Sitting here debating if I want to hit the inside fence line while I’m sweaty and it’s not too awfully hot...

Ok so renewed energy levels are a GREAT thing!! I opted to NOT do the inside fence but did decide to do some lunch bag overdue painting.


Before


1/2 way after. I will do a blog post with the true before and after when I get there.


After. I need to FIND my before as it was at least a year and a half ago when I bought the lamp to put in the little house. Well it didn’t end up staying in the little house and with kids moving out I find myself wanting a new lamp in one of the guest rooms. So, here we go!!

And some trimming. The wisteria has gone wild!!


May 26th


April 23


Today. After it’s haircut.


Now to clean the leaves!! Sigh. Never done... sitting for a minute before going in to fold three loads of towels and put my laundry in the dryer. Time to move inside for the rest of the day and clean the first room for company next week. And a NAP. Yes, a nap IS in the plans today too :)

Another run to Kennesaw and yuckies

Today was another run to Kennesaw....and a bit of grossness.
So Liz was going through stuff in the garage in prep to move and found an almost FULL pack of cookies. How LONG have those cookies been out there? A YEAR and the are not buggy OR moldy. Does that tell you we should t be eating them or what? Talk about a TON of preservatives in those things. YUCK...but they taste sooo good. 😜


The other thing was a package of Hillshire farms sausages.


The only thing really gross in there was the sausage....the rest was scarily intact. Even the cheese is without mold. Again scary!!


Moldy spots!! Yuckie!!

Then off to Kennesaw!


Angela’s roommate Chuck picked up a washer and a dryer in our town so having a truck we nicely drove them north for them.





I got the easy part and supervised and was only talked into lifting the dryer off the truck. They are super light and I kept screaming in my head “lift with legs ONLY”. Success. Thank goodness Chuck and Butch lifted the washer out!! I was NOT going to try that. Nope, nope, nope!

We then went to get a new plug for it with them at Home Depot then took them out for a great lunch at Tin Lizzys. Great tacos and even better guacamole! We went back to the apartment and Butch helped Chuck out the new plug onto the dryer, then we headed out.

In the way home we HAD to stop and grab pizza from Antico’s on the way home. Of course. We hit a few rainy spots on the way home but made decent time all in all. That trip and odds and ends takes a WHOLE day. But that’s OK the kids have a washer and dryer in the apartment - yay for them.

Flower updates

My poor avocado. Not doing so hot but it’s still alive...and the next one that is just now sprouting so I put him outside to make sure it’s acklimated to the hot weather so it won’t die like this one did!  Maybe it will work and the “dead” twig isn’t really totally dead, so I keep hoping he will come back...but maybe not...

 The lemon is doing well. Lots of new leaves and blooms came and went...I have hope for a lemon this year. I had two last year!

 Sneaky late blooming amaryllis hiding in there!

 Wisteria is coming back well after overzealous trimming last year and cutting the wrong lower limb. Whoops!

 Note the pop of red in the corner ..those are my dollar tree gladiolus!

 The daylilies are blooming nicely now as well.  

 Volunteer snapdragons

 There are some of my Dahlias are sprouting, but not enough to zoom in on them. They are only 3” tall.

Close up of my pansies and purple lilies. They’re doing so well with all the rain we’ve gotten and I swapped away from the natural grass liners as the birds kept stealing it all for nests.