I’m not big on fake flowers (I really didn’t even need to add this!), but I do have this fake yellow orchid in my family room window (pictured in dining room window) to give that area a little sunny color.
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My mom loves her fake flowers and buys them almost every time we go to JoAnns.
My mom did call this morning. I would have called her if she hadn’t called me by 11. Her charades are so silly. She opened with ‘I’m headed for Riddle (the hospital) because my diabetes is out of whack’. Pure shock value. She was going mainly to get her prescription. Seems her 4th of July wasn’t that great, she ended up in a diner with her boarder and then they went to the movies in the pouring rain and at 10 at night to see ‘Evan Almighty’ which she liked. We did not discuss when she will come here again. I made Sean apologize for the hassle of Tuesday. She said she had everything on her patio. She could have tested herself to drive at least half the way and someone could have met her and followed her too.
Brian took off today and we may go up to the next town for their Friday night art stroll. Or we could go to Booth’s Corner Farmer Market. Sean is working tonight.
Anyway, here is a Stargazer lily that the rain broke off. The entire house smells so delightful.
That vase is skinny and tall, rather neat. It was from a special Pier One buy out Big Lots had.
Also-I’m very close to a big cross stitch finish! Can’t wait to share.
Thanks to Su over on my side bar (Contemplating my needle and thread blog) for this neat idea. First I had to save every word separately and then tweak them in PSP7. Flickr is responsible for this idea. I really like Flickr a bunch!
In about 6 weeks, I’ll miss my shopping companion when he heads off to State College. I have taught him so well in these last 20.5 year that he is a good bargain shopper like the old lady. Really he is! So I suggested we head down to Delaware as I wanted to see if Kmart had any good floral buys. We decided to hit Value City first. They were having a buy one at the blue/red ticket price and the second item was 99¢! I got Bri a few Pierre Cardin polo shirts-a total of about $14.99. I also got some 1928 jewelry and half off garden stuff-two little oval tables-two tone peach and blue, a mushroom that looks real-all mossy (that got a piece out of it somewhere in transit, but I can just turn it so it doesn’t show) and what I have wanted for a while, a two-tier planter! It has a smaller bowl on the top that connects to the bigger one in the bottom. We did eventually hit Kmart and I found some plants for it and it’s planted already! We’re having a downpour right now or I’d take a few photos of the goodies.
We decided to go to Pizza Hut-it was warm in there and there was no server! People came in and left, but we stuck it out. We were kinda waited on. I enjoy this particular restaurant as the one near Brian’s work just can’t make a decent pizza.
I didn’t call my mom today and she didn’t call me. I did call my sister-in-law and she had spoken to my mom and said she didn’t mention me. Oh well, I’ve talked about our little spats in the past. Maybe it’s healthy once in a while to take a break from one another. I wanted to take her to Longwood Gardens and Shady Maple (a place in Lancaster). She is always worried about her house and buying storage boxes instead of downsizing as she should come to the realization that she’ll be 77 in a few months and can’t keep a 4 bedroom place in shape.
And Happy Birthday to Dave!
We’re planning on grilling ‘something’. My mom was suppose to come here yet again but it fell through (and she was bringing steaks!!). Sean went to get the oil changed in his car and sat and sat waiting. He never did get it changed and by the time he left it was 4:45 and Mom was a bit peeved about it and said to forget about him picking her up. I hope Sean will be making better decisions at the main campus as he should have left after an hour of waiting, especially if some sale was going on. Not sure if Mom will come out tomorrow or if someone, probably me will have to get her. Sean is working all day. I am making the food. I doubt Brian will go down for her as he drives so much during the week. She wants to drive herself, but that makes me nervous as she is wearing old glasses as she never found her newer ones.
I fiddled around here, cut down weeds, planted some yard long beans, zinnias and teddy bear sunflowers (seeds from last year) and realized I needed to get a few picnic necessities at the market. My father-in-law is coming over and he hasn’t been here since Easter. He usually eats and leaves. Right now the yard with the shade is a mess because of the chestnut tree fuzzies called catkins (I finally looked it up and they are the male part of the chestnut). We do have a nice table with an umbrella on the back patio.
I hope everyone has a nice day-and try to relax!
Check out this cool night blooming waterlily video
Red Flare from konapete and Vimeo.
Taken minutes ago right before the rain hit. It’s been a rainy evening here in Philly. You should see the people on the Parkway in the city!
It was so nice today I decided to get out the weed whacker and get down to business. One of these days we’ll get a new one. This one is really broken as the string part won’t advance anymore when you tap it on the ground. I think I’ve had this one almost as long as we lived here and my mom has had about 3-4 since then. I have much more to clear away than she does.
I tend to overdo it and plugged in the heating pad for my sore back tonight. I did make a nice dinner with ham steak, red potatoes with Italian parsley and dill from my herb bed and green beans and peaches.
Zoey asked me if I had any King coleus-that’s the one I just purchased yesterday! Today I took off some of the bottom leaves plus the flower stalks. You don’t want coleus to flower-similar to basil. I don’t think it needs repotting. I think I have about 5 varieties now.
This is the time of year I start moving things around, even flowers that are coming up from seed. I dug up a few Mexican sunflowers and added them to the lily bed as the lilies will be gone before I know it and Mexican sunflowers are a gorgeous orange.
I have not seen one hummingbird this year! I have red salvia and other flowers I thought would attract them. In fact, I mainly see cat birds and a few cardinals.
I’m pretty sure my mom is coming tomorrow. Either Sean will get her if he goes to school to sell back his text book or she’ll drive herself. He is finished now at that branch of PSU. He’s almost a junior. He is short about 5 credits as he had dropped the Trig last semester and didn’t carry a full load one semester. We are going up to the main campus in a few weeks-it’s about 3 hours away. I can’t believe two years has gone by.
I love coleus for their watercolor-like ruffly leaves in a rainbow of colors. This year they are doing exceptionally well. I just pulled out the Sevin to combat the Japanese beetles that are munching on them and some of the other tender plants. So what’s this experiment? I am breaking off small pieces of my different plants and sticking them in a pot of wet soil. I did the first one by accident as some leaves had broken off when I was repotting the plant. It took root! I found a few baby coleus under the chestnut tree in old potting soil, so I potted them up too. I am hoping to start a bunch of them so I have them for the wintertime and next season-hopefully.
I did 3 hours of gardening yesterday-Bri trimmed the forsythia out front which were way overgrown and I raked up one side of the cut branches. The township also had just come along and ‘trimmed’ about 2 feet of our yard along the road away. They did this all over the place. I guess it makes it easier for the mail people to get to the boxes. I also tied up tomatoes and hoed around some of my gardens. Since I took an interest in the veggie patch, Bri has been more involved too. I had left it up to him the last few years as I was fed up with putting so much work in it and not getting much out of it anymore. He bought 5 more huge pepper varieties today at Walmart. I did buy more plants. I was hoping for better prices though. The plants that were discounted were clinging to life by a hair. Why do they wait so long to put them on sale? I bought a Paradise rose bush and a few plants for around the pond area and another coleus!
Our main reason for going to Walmart was to exchange my under the counter radio/CD player that was in the kitchen. The one we bought last year (thank goodness we saved the box!) had melted underneath in one spot. I do remember smelling plastic burning at one time. I was afraid to use it! They did give us another one-the same one, that’s all they sell.
We watched the concert for Diana tonight put on by her sons in honor of what would have been her 46th birthday (I am 18 months older). I was surprised it was only broadcast for an hour. I like Elton John and Rod Stewart’s ok, but they sing the same old songs all the time. It would have been nice to hear something new from Elton. The most enjoyable parts, seeing Princes William and Harry and seeing film footage from when Diana was a girl. She certainly looked like she lived a privilege life. I had read that she complained about being the third daughter of a mother and father who wanted a son. Also, her mother and father separated when she was 10 or so.
Anyway, it was a gorgeous day-no heat. I was trying to sit under the chestnut trees but they are dropping their ‘flowers’ for a better name of those messy things. At this stage, fireflies mate all around these trees. Nature overload!
I hope to get mom one day this week. And Sean got a A- in his night school class.
Collages & Creative Goodness 