Pics~~~Flowers~~~Heat~~~Question~~~Etc.

Nasturtiums, planted at edge of garden, to ward off some *bug-critters.*  They are finally blooming! 

 

Our own Tiki Torches!  Another of my "marked-down-after-season" buys.  -grinnnn-  At least, I thought they were marked down.  Perhaps they never cost more.  :-))))

My next-door son/daughter-in-law have a lovely grouping of Daisies and ......  Oh, the name of the red ones, escapes me!  -pout-  But Dear Readers will know.

Every summer, they make a great Photo Opp!  They even made my Header pic. 

Just another silly pic.  :-)  I added the tiny bit of left-over Pomagranite Liquid, to the bottle...  And the Pink stayed at the top.  It must weigh less, than the more clear one.

This hot/humid weather is getting to me.  Don't feel like really doing much.  Hate to have to be cooped up, inside, in A/C.  Oh I am grateful that we have it.  But it's simply the idea that I *have to* stay inside.  What we can't do, we want to do.  Blahhhhh....  :-)

I think, I hope, I am "getting-a-handle" on posted picture size.....   The picture size, in this blog entry, looks big enough but not toooooo big, to me.  Hope, hope, hope they do to you too, Dear Reader.  If not.....  Tellllllllllllll....   :-)

Looking back~~~And wishing~~~

(Pic from my blog, in July, 2009~~~See  how beautiful our Hydrangeas were, way-back-when...)

Guess I'd better ask....  Does my blog, show up too wide, on your screen?  If so, when did it begin doing this?  Please...

I was just told that mine, is too wide, on one Dear Reader's screen.  Any others????

A while ago, one of my Dear Reader's blogs, began to be too wide, on my computer.  I mentioned it to her, but guess I'm the only one......

So, I ask here.  You are reading my blog.  Does it fit your screen, or is it too wide?  Please and thank you.

You who are fans of Elizabeth Goudge...  Have you ever read "The Little White Horse"?  I just saw it here, and it sounds delightful.  So I'm getting it, from the library.

Looking out, at our back yard, and beyond...  TREES...

Again, looking from Patio, across our little back yard, and  across half of my son's back yard, next door.  TREES...
 Too damn many TREES...

When
we built here, nearly 50 years ago, we could see across a number of back yards, to the next street over.  Yes, trees were planted, here and there, over the years.  Nice ambiance plantings.

Then!  The woman next door, got herself a boyfriend, who "had a thing" for grabbing any old tree he could find, and planting it in her back yard.  With never any shaping of them!  Just a bunch of scrub trees, which he let grow and grow and grow.

The BF is gone, but his damn trees remain, and get bigger every year.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...  I so want my nice, normal view back.  -pout-
    

Found a cute, new-to-me, book blog.  Very interesting concept.  It's written "by" the characters, in some favorite cozy mysteries.   Isn't that a cute and novel idea, for a book blog????? 

 

The blog name is (click)   "Killer Characters"....

More pictures, from my blog, in summer of 2009.

Silly me, I was complaining about a lot of rain.  Hehhhh.....  Little did I know, what a lot of rain, could do to my husband's lovely flowers.  -sigh-

Do you ever choose to be still?  Even for a moment, at a time?  I came across a lovely writing, titled "Be Still."
Please take a minute and click here, and enjoy this relaxing post.....  Please....

Lace~~~Breeze~~~Wreath~~~"Tour" fun~~~A "Rita"

Look!  That lace curtain is blowing in the breeze!!!

 Open window...  No breeze, at present...  But...  Window is open!  :-)

Again!

Another of blowing curtain...

And patio door open!

What's so unusual is...  We've been keeping the house closed up, with A/C on, because of the heat/humidity.  And as I have said, I get tired of the house being closed up.  So on Mon., I took the chance, and opened up, early in the morning.

And it was still open, with breeze blowing even, into the afternoon.  Hooray!  Summer, the old fashioned way!  Summer, the way it should be!  :-)

 Needed a wreath, to replace the Spring themed one, on the front door.  Was going to get a "summer" one.  Then thought, why not a Patriotic Wreath, for the whole summer?  So I got one, marked down after the 4th of July.  -grinnnnn- 

But!!!!!!  Is it hung properly?

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Do you love to look into houses?  If you go to a site called Homes dot com, you can type in your city, or area, and find homes for sale.  With lots of inside pics.  :-))))

Not exactly like a right-there-house-tour.  But.....  A pretty good facsimile.  :-)  I found one listed, which is not too far from where we live.  And I *took a tour* of it.  I'd never be able to do that, otherwise.  ,-)))))))

Ever have one of these?

I've been wanting to try a Margarita.  Never had one, but I think a regular one, would be too tart for me.  Then I saw these advertised.  So, I got a package of cans.  Hope I like them, since I couldn't just get one.  :-)

Report, on following morning...

Nope, I don't like them that much.  As is, they are still too tart for me.  ~~~  Now I have to get rid of these 3 cans.  -chuckle-   I'm sure we can find someone, who will happily take them.  ,-)   

July 1st.... All we all, still here...?????????

First of all, I have my Dear Readers, on "Bloglovin."  But hope that my private "My Little Posse" blog, will still work, for me.    

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We will know, at the stroke of midnight!  -gigggles-  Geee, that should sound like fun.  But it doesn't, in this instance.  -pout-

In looking for an illustration, for "The Stroke Of Midnight," I came across some delightful blogs.  Mostly devoted to reading.  :-)  Which was VERY delightful for me.  I'm always looking for more suggestions, for books to read.  :-)

It's almost overwhelming, how many lovely blogs there are "out there."  And all of us, are pressed for time, in one way or the other.  -sigh-  So many Book Blogs...  So little Real Reading Time, to find them all, and follow them.  -repeat sigh-

HAPPY JULY!
Hope we all, are *still here*...

"Look Changes"~~~City~~~Repairs~~~Etc.

(Urns, in the Park...)

As you can see, I did "Blog Look Work"!  :-)  I didn't intend to do all this.  But I messed up, some how...  And had to "fix" many things...

(Interesting tree roots, in the Park...)

So I figured, as long as I got started, I might as well continue.

(Ballet Slipper, in front of Drink Hall)

This summer, our city has quite a few of these Ballet Slipper sculptures, here and there...  This one, is on the lawn, in front of the old Drink Hall.  (The drinking referred to, is that of various Mineral Waters, of the area.)  :-)

 

(Closer look at Ballet Slipper, in front of Drink Hall)

And here is a cropped look, at it.  Needless to say, you'll be seeing more pics of these...  :-) 

In summer, we have wildly painted Horse sculptures, here and there.  And this year, the addition of the Ballet Slipper sculptures. 

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This year is the Celebration of 150 Years of Thoroughbred Racing, in this city.  Lots of special events are planned. 

We've been unable to get a local channel, on our tv.  So we called, and they tried to fix it, by whatever "magic" they use.  This time, it didn't work.  So they sent a repair man over, this morning. 

Not only do we have our local channel back....  He fixed old cable, inside and outside.  He showed us the way squirrels had chewed on the outside cable.  Yikes!  And this messes with reception.

And really, we could see clearer colors on the TV!   We have the phone, tv and Internet connection Package.  He said my computer, may work faster also.

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Did anyone ever think to request that their outside cable connection wires be checked, for stuff like squirrels chewing on them?  

Where could we...? Where? Where? Where?

I am not saying this, in a complaining way...  Just, that it is interesting...  With the approach of warmer weather, Blogging Visits go down.  :-)  Using "Site Meter," my recent Visits were:

March, '13 --------  2,013
April, '13 ----------  1,846
May, '13 ------------- 1,620
So far in June, '13 -- 1,253

Interesting dropping trend.  Do you find this happening, with your Blog Statistics, too?  Again, NOT COMPLAINING!  Just noticing a trend.  :-)

Hot summer weather has arrived, in my neck of the woods.  As I compose this, we have a really hot day, forecast today/Mon.  90 degrees with T-storms.  Yes, I am glad we have the wall A/C units.  No, I am not happy, with having to live, closed up in the house.

Do I hear whispers of; "Never satisfied..."  -grin-  Yes, it's so true.  So true. 

This hot summer weather could make one wish to have a place to travel to...  To escape to, actually.  Well, I don't have any.  We just don't drive far, anymore, due to his eye sight. 

But!!!!

I live in "Pretty Blog Land"!  And Dear Bloggers have lovely ways of looking at many things.

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"Older But Better" blog has a delightful "place" to visit.  It's a wonderful Virtual Reality place!  Doesn't that sound interesting?  Please click on her blog name above, and go find out about her "Bailey's Cove"...  Betcha' it might inspire some of us, to make one, of our own.  :-)

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And then, there is "The House In The Roses" blog, where she often shares her delightful imagination, with us.  Taking us places, we'd probably never go, on our own.

Like her "Gitanos" posting.  Which you can visit....  By clicking here......  And by clicking here................  And by clicking here...........  ....Delightful, yes???

Soooooo, where could we go????

Where could you Dear Reader, use your imagination, to travel to?

Either using just imagination, like the Virtual Reality escape?

Or actually making delightful imagination, into reality?

Where?

Where?

Where?

:-)

I'm getting behind, in leaving links here, to the books I've been reading.  By clicking here.....  You can read more about the last "Cozy," which I had fun reading.

Saturday~~~Saturday~~~Saturday

"Pop" and "Gabe," finishing the day (Sat.) by checking out the Old Roses...

Little after mid-day...  Beautiful "Grand"...  Ready to go to new boyfriend's brother's Graduation Party.

Sat. afternoon...  "Grand's" father...  In his FAVORITE  JEANS.  Eeeeek!  Do men in your family, have such totally-gone-but-dearly-loved-clothes???

Sat. afternoon project...  Making workbench for son's garage, next door.   

Getting the wood, in old Truck, came first.  Taking middle Grandson along.  Also having lunch at a road-side stand, where lady sells the BEST  HOT  DOGS.  

Nope, not Healthy Eating.  But, it's part of summer...

:-) 

 The big tools, are in "Dad's" garage work shop. 

See the old sign, to the top left of pic?  That was from one summer, when 2 oldest Granddaughter's were running "The Compound Swimming Day Care."  Complete with RULES!  ,-)

Lots of boards, cut to certain size...

More cutting..........

Checking the plans, on 'Dad's' laptop, which they brought out into the work shop.  Grrrrreat idea!

This is what it's supposed to look like, when complete.  That part, they plan on doing this afternoon.