She's about to... Almost summer!

Great grand Payton just caught his first bass this summer. See behind him....that's my yard.

I would love to have your yard!

It's nice here in the woods, but I would love to have some sunny areas to grow flowers.

Karen come on down to the PLANT SWAP SATURDAY IN FREEPORT Your only 3 Hrs from us Going to be a blowout of a time & You will find many shade loving Plants .
Lots To EAT :) LOTS OF Chatter Your hubby would have a great time so would your GS .
My GM Lived in Traverse for many many years started the 1st BOARDING House in Interlocking Mi My Aunte owned the Post office for yrs in carlin well the post office was in her home :)

Jo Love your red Coneflowers if & when you might like to share I will send Postage :))))
time to get super BBL

We almost bought a store in Carlin, Spent much time with the owner and finally realized he didn't really want to sell. That was over 25 years ago and he still has the store.

I would love to come down but just can't get away this week-end. We got home last night after being in TN for over 3 weeks. Tons to do including getting this place re-listed.

Problem isn't just the shade it's the sand, I talked to one neighbor who has a lovely yard. More sun than we have but also spent 4 years improving the soil and laying in a watering system.

Susie, remind me in the fall.

OK Jo :) Will try not to forget :)))).

Hope all are doing good. We went to a parade today. Our daughter who is pregnant came also. She is almost 7 mos now. Can not wait to hold that little grand daughter....

rouxcrew has the OLD, NEW, BORROWED AND BLUE SWAP SIGN UP come and check it out.


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Won't be long until that new little princess will make her appearance. Are you going to be there for her birth? I've made most of the grands and greats too.

I sure do hope so. She lives an hour away and the hospital is an hour and a half away. I am going to try and be on time. We are planning a baby shower now. We are going to do a rubber duckie theme, so excited. I ordered her a really cute duckie coursage that says mom to be. From etsy. So cute. Now have to find a super cute cake....

Too bad not closer, my daughter make awesome special order cakes.

Etsy is a wonderful place to shop and so many ideas. I have bought a lot of presents there.

My nieces we had a ice cream cake and it was so good, been a million years since I had one of those. They decorated it to match the invitation.

Oh darn Karen that would be wonderful. But I ordered a cute duckie cake from walmart. They have that really good fluffy frosting. I want it to be tomorrow... haha.

DJ'S JULY IRIS SWAP

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ty lk

No problem!

I wanted to share with you a couple of presents I got from a couple of friends. First is the miniature in this broken pot, her and her boyfriend made it for me. With all this talk of miniatures I just needed to share it. The other is a hoya plant and it is in bloom I am so happy I have wanted one for a long time. Had one when I lived in Texas a million years ago. Here is my plant rack and on the very top is the coolest pot, I included a close up of the pot, you can see a little frog. I need to find something to put in it now. The hoya would cover the pot up so I don't want to use that.

Anyway just wanted to share the miniature with you all, he used a saw that has that like a metal string for a blade, geehz can't think of the name of it...the bottom he cut like big teeth to help hold the plants and dirt in.

Wonderful gifts Joyce. Miniature garden is so cute, looks like it just happened. Love the Hoya, I have one that was my dads from when he had his cancer surgery, love when it blooms, the flowers look like they are molded of wax. A most unusual pot, you'll have to find just the right resident for it so it doesn't hide the pot.

Very niceJoyce. Love the flower pot minis. So nice. Had a good day we went to island fest. Downtown Kalamazoo. Lots of regge music and some pretty good food too. Nice weather also.

Joyce that is so cool! Love that last pot too!

Morning I actually have the whole weekend off and maybe monday too! We are low on patients now. So getting low needed. Yippie. Have really enjoyed the weekend so far.

Beautiful pic GL, love the hostas, heck I love them all...LOL Enjoy your time off.

Thanks for all the nice comments. I thought she did a really good job making the pot.

Ronna, I love your gardens!

Thanks happ and LK. I enjoy working outside.

We went to a car show this morning and then came back and took a nap...LOL Woke up to thunder and then short down pour. Suppose to keep raining hope so, things are really getting dry again.

my first gloriosa lily, and white day lily opened yesterday. here they are with some ohers

Oh very pretty lilies. Never had a gloriosa lily so cool.

Oh beautiful, jordan.

Kathy those are beautiful!

Julie has the interest thread open for a fairy/miniature garden swap open.
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Walked around the garden and took a few pics of the daylilies that are finally starting to open up. I really like the spider daylilies, have a few, and really like the daylilies with teeth I think they call them. Oh heck I just like them. I even manage to have a few with names, around here it is hard cause during the winter the dogs are running across the flowers chasing whatever out of the yard.

Hope I haven't already posted some of these earlier, but they are still in bloom and doing good.

A few more.
Just wanted to share a few pics, I still have bunches that haven't opened up yet they seem late this year.

Joyce, those are all beautiful, lovely variety.

OH MY! Those are beautiful!

It is strange how daylilies can nbe so different.

Happy Birthday Joyce! Hope you have a great day!

Happ those daylilies are so beautiful. Happy birthday Joyce.

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes.
Linda Kaye what I would give for the chocolate cake right now...rofl. Can't sleep and cake and milk would be WONDERFUL...LOL

Hope you get some sleep!