She's about to... 66... It's summer time!

Think I will take some pics just to see what comes back. Now they are saying 90's next week which is better but desperately need rain. I saw lightening last that does that count...rofl.
Glad your father is doing better Susie and that you have some help.

Greetings everybody - thanks for looking for me Faye - my schedule is getting fuller - working more hours. Glad for the paycheck, but stuff at home is suffering some. ;) soon.

All's well here. Just crazy and hopefully things'll level out.

xox

Miss you Amanda. I hope u r loving your new job.

Hi all, hope you have found a way to stay cool..I have! Stay inside.
Mandy hope you like your new job and hope you can get on a schedule to keep everything going, yeah. good luck. Soon we hope!

Heard Wichita got to 110. Hope you stayed cool debra.
106 here so far. I worked on the potting bench for awhile this morning and picked tomatoes and peppers.
whose got a good salse recipe?

i make salsa like this... 3 cups all kinds of tomatoes, seeds squeezd out in a jar, all peppers about a cup full, half an onion, two teaspoons sugar, salt, pepper.. blend in blender, store in tight lidded jar, eat it. LOL we don;t use cilantro much.....

I spent the am putting more umbrellas up, and then de-miting the tomatoes and moon flowers in the bean patch.. used the last of my forbid mixed with windex and soap and water. now I need more forbid.
works miracles on the brugs and hibs. joe bbq'd lamb burgers and hot dogs, I made guacamole, he made coleslaw, i made baked beans, I also made cabbage and ekerdige beef sausage links, and a dish of shrimp fettichini, so we are set for the week for food.

Susie, I have a lot in pink and purple. say the word and this fall I will send you some root balls. they are not cold hardy. I bring mine in every fall.

Message from another thread...

Hi Everyone!
I just spoke to Deejay(Susie) her dad passed this morning. She asked me to let everyone know, and she wanted me to tell everyone she will be on when she can! I told her NO worries and that we would all be thinking and praying for her, and she (like she would) said she is thinking of all of us too!
Thanks everyone!
Ahoogstra

Look who is here for a few days!

awww poor Susie.


Love your family, LK, I know u are having a blast.

Happy days LK, enjoy your pretty family.

Oh happy day from what I can tell it is raining at my house, finally. YES!

I thought I posted these and maybe I did somewhere else, heavens who knows, but I wanted to show you all the progress of the taj macoop, the first pic is from the east side I know it looks like a fortress but actually when you look from the south and north you will see they have good air flow (before winter there will be a panel that can be raised and lowered depending on the weather and the fence will go all around the pen, and the last pic is of my solar chandelier hanging from the pergola it just cracks me up. I cut off solar lights and stuck them in the sockets. Probably should of used white because it would of given more light.

That is awesome! Better than some homes down here!

We got our new truck yesterday! 2012 GMC Sierra!

Linda Kay, I love the pictures of the family, what cuties they are! Are they still with you? I am guessing they live out of state since they are visiting for a few days. We only have one and lives about an hour and 20 minutes away. Sort of too far just to run over for a minute or two since I am still working but not terrible far.

that truck is beautiful. Wish we would of bought an extended cab when we bought ours 4 years back, but couldn't decide if we needed it, well now I can see it would of been worth it. Do you have to buy 4 wheel drive down there?

A few years back we bought a bunch of random cedar boards and stuff that was all piled together at a lumber yard they wanted rid of and was really really cheap and part of it was cedar siding and it has been in one of the out buildings forever so now we have a use for it on taj macoop....rofl. So it is a little nicer than it would of been if we would of had to buy all the wood now, DH needs to get the sides done, my sister said she was moving in heck with the chickens. Lest there will be no maintenance and if we decide one day we have had enough of chickens it will make a good storage shed.

My son lives in San Antonio, 170 miles from here. They are gone now, but I am driving to Uvalde, (70) miles to meet my ex DIl, to get the two Grandsons for a week. I get to drive the new truck! ^_^
No 4 wheel drive is needed here, but if we owned a ranch, a lot of ranchers have them as some of the terrain around here can get pretty steep. Our first Silverado was a 4 door, but we had to open the front doors first, and the back doors were suicide doors, and I hated it, because if your in a parking lot trying to load groceries, it was a pain in the butt. I love the crew cab!

Niceeeeeeeee Truck. That's what I need. You wouldn't believe what I haul in Ray's car. LOL, it's his idea that I need a truck. The below pictures will show part of the cruel things I do to cars.
Wow on that Chicken Mansion too. Your DH may not mind being in the "Dog House" there.

Car Abuse:

Made 4 trips to Lowe's bought 65 blocks, (already had extras) 15 bags of soil (still not enough) and it was all hauled with Ray's Lincoln. And he thinks I need a truck, wonder why? Still have to get another load of Garden Soil to finish the job. Boy, it's to hot to have this much fun!

OHHHHHHHH forgot to tell you my disappointment in the above project. Well it was hot as blazes here and all the time I'm sweating bullets I'm thinking, o boy, I'm sweating and working my a.. off. Would you believe when I got done, looked in the mirror, I still have every bit of IT. Guess I'll have to try something else!

Hugs every body.

Nice job! I agree, you need a truck! When your finished, you can come this way, we can use my truck to haul all that stuff!

rofl.....ok DH thought I was bad with my hatch back ford, that is some classy hauling in a Lincoln...wowzer.. ;). The salesman tried to sell me a 4 door instead of a hatchback, I told him ok if the trunk was big enough, he opened the trunk and DH looked at the salesman and told him that would NEVER work for me....rofl. My hatch back the back seats fold down and I don't think they are ever up and the back is always full of garden stuff. It is like a mini truck. Oh that will be a fun trip in the new truck. I like driving a truck just can't do it with gas the way it is, too far to work.

Love the project you have going on there, it is going to be beautiful when you get done and I agree completely it is not fair we work so hard, and sweat so hard, and body wise I see very little results, usually just tried muscles. When someone around my Dad would say I lost 10 lbs or something along those lines, he would say "Have you looked behind you", now that is not very nice.

Hey Faye, somebody put bags of potting soil in my seat...LOL Seriously love what you've done on the side of your home and don't know how you managed to finish in the heat. Lifting and laying all those blocks for raised beds isn't child's play either.

Great looking truck, LK. Our neighbor has a Jimmy that's a couple of years old and his has a pneumatic metal tonneau cover that looks similar to yours. Does the TE*AS on the side mean it came with a package exclusive to Texas, or am I seeing something different? My Explorer IS my truck and wouldn't be able to get in it without running boards. Hi Ho, or in my case, Heave Ho. Hubby teases all the time I should sue the Commonwealth of Virginia for making my a** too close to the ground. Then I tease back saying I'm only a Virginian by marriage. At 5' 6" tall with a body heading South, there wouldn't be much of a defense...lol

Darn, happ, your solar light chandelier and that great looking taj macoop both give a whole new meaning to 'trash to treasure'. Great recycling efforts and that Cedar structure will last almost forever. Farmers around here use a lot of Cedar fence posts for that very reason and they're free in their woods. Those adopted chicks are lucky ducks living in the country with ya'll.

Zinnias in the new L-shaped bed are starting to bloom. Really embarrassed it has so much grass starting to take over no matter how much I weed, so all I'm showing for the moment are just blooms. My Mother would have loved the Pink one.

Isn't it amazing how much you can see in a simple bloom close-up?

Beautiful blooms Fruity!
It is a Texas edition, it has a lot of extra buttons in the cab for dual side air conditioners, also on the dash, you can push buttons and have a digital speedometer, compass, miles left till you need gas... Also the running boards, and mud flaps are in the Texas edition! Just more stuff they can charge you for!

love your truck, LK.
Faye, I have no clue how u can do all that heavy lifting and stuff in such hot weather, compared to you, I am a wimp.
Fruity, I just cut down most of the zinnias, the sun and heat was frying them. I still have two bunches growing tho.
Joyce, I need a lot of cedar for the repair on the cedar house boards north side when we take down the house eating 60 yr old blooming english ivy. How do you manage to do all that you do? I managed to re-pot the philos and polys tonight on the front porch to bring in.. it is just too hot with no rain, and now my basement is really starting to get filled up. Better inside in case I have to zoom down to Arkansas for a few weeks or so.

Beautiful blooms Debra! Sure hope the treatments help your Sister!

Gorgeous blooms, I've got pretty Zinnia blooms too. What a rewarding flower, just toss the seeds, and bloom she will. Don't know who sent me the seeds but you can bet I'll be collecting seeds from these beauties. Don't think I've ever seen 3 colors on one bloom before.
Stay cool if you can.
Hugs

Do they grow in sun or shade? They sure are pretty!

Susie and I sent out seeds,,, and I sure love the ones you posted. Sister is on oxygen now.. breathing isn't any better/improved. If she doesn't feel bettter by this afernoon, I am going down there.
My zinnias are in both sun and shade. seems they like something around their feet. no watering at night, they get mold easily.

Sorry to hear that Debra. Give her hugs from us when you see her!

zinnas love sun sun and sun....rofl. They do wonderful in heat of course that is to a point, they are really tough but mine are not doing well with so much heat and no rain what so ever. Your guys blooms are amazing, zinnas are just so happy looking to me, you just have to smile. Hard to pick which would be my favortie, all so pretty. Guess good thing about a drought is not even the grass is growing in the flower beds...rofl, got to look on the bright side. I was thinking about the hummers and butterflys cause I just don't have anything blooming except for a very few tropicals, there aren't even any weeds blooming.

Faye we need pictures on your progress, that is really pretty.

Debra you are a smart woman and getting the plants under control will help with the stress of everything else. What is that saying control what you can.

Thanks fruity, we bought that cedar many years ago, I knew I wanted the potting bench but other than that it was just waiting for the pergola and I guess a taj macoop. Speaking of the potting bench, the sink is now finally on one of the benches, and I figured out how to move it all by myself, I use the loader on the tractor....rofl.. The bottom of the sink was one depth and the other side where the drain board is was not as deep so it took me alot of sitting and unsitting it til I got it how I wanted it, dh even complimented me on it, when in reality he was thinking I don't know how she did it but thank goodness I wasn't involved...rofl.

Oh Debra I am so sorry to hear about your sister, I would be like you and head out this weekend. We are all here for you all.

Thanks, Joyce.. She keeps telling me not to come yet.. I couldn't sleep all night for fear I would lose her two states away and Alex all by herself. Heck, I even have to ask her what arrangements she has made incase we need to go ahead and make some. I am the only family she has to take care of her and hers.

Faye, I see dried blooms, you can scatter them now and they will still bloom by freeze time. My sis in law, Dana, just lets hers fall in same spot it is a huge zinia and marigold area now.

looks like one of your zinnias is a tropical sunset. ( name) I love that one.

110 today ugh

I am sure you are torn on what to do, to be so far away would be heart breaking and maddening all at the same time.

sister called. they took her off the oxygen, and took xrays and now they took the drain tube out, they want to see if and where the fluid comes back to. She told me she isn't ready to die, doesn't plan on dying and is going to fight this thing until it is gone. God Bless her fighting heart. I told her to eat alot of yellow mustard. ( she hates that stuff, but I have been told it makes tumors go away) I eat yellow mustard on everything if I can. I love it.

Hope they can figure it out and get it fixed soon!

Great news Debra, those are all good signs. I agree with your sister I hate mustard...yuck, but would try anything.

Suppose to cool off Sunday down into the 80's, I will need a coat...rofl. Course it is not here yet so who knows, over 100 today. Food prices are going to get horrible with all this corn damage even tho they will get tons of money.

Tax free holiday here today, I may go out for awhile and mass the crowds.