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Happy Father's Day !

Happy Father's Day James!

What Sunny said !!

Happy Father's Day, James. !!

I spent the day trying to finish the staining of the shed....of course I ran out of stain with just a couple rows of cedar shingles left to cover. Why is there never any left over??

About the only time I ever had any paint/stain left over was if I would not be able to keep it.

I don't suppose you could buy less than a gallon ? Or better yet got any other stain or paint left. If it is just a few shingles left to cover, then you could just cover them, and call it done.

Good Morning !

Happy Monday. I hope everyone had a Happy Father's Day !

Good morning. It was a quiet Father's Day here but there was plenty of cake.

We are under heat/storm warnings all this week...ugh.

Yay for cake !!

Good Morning !

Good morning.

We are under an extreme heat spell here....it is supposed to hit 115*F with the humidity today, that is just so wrong. Of course that is with a severe thunderstorm warning for the afternoon as well. Mother Nature must think it is August already.

I gave my garden an extra good soaking last night, I might have to shade a few things as well later.

Oh my 115*F. That is SO bad...I am so sorry. Heat us good, but that is too much !! Glad you are taking care of your garden.

My blackberries are starting to come in.

MMM blackberries.

It hit 117* at the hottest point of the day, they closed all places without air conditioning. Of course, the garage where my truck is had NO air conditioning.

Oh my, SO SORRY about the garage closing.

It is not that hot here...mind you it is hot (90's). But not that hot. Please stay cool.

It was a crazy two day heat wave....things have normalized now.

I don't think the weather is "normal" here...I think it is unbearably hot, but I am pretty sure all this heat and humidity we have had of late IS the norm here. Sad, right ??

Sad for sure, extreme heat does me in. Today I will do the first 'hilling' of my potatoes.

Yay for hilling potatoes. Mine did not get hilled this year.
It was raining so much that when it finally wasn't raining, my potatoes were far too tall to hill. I will turn this into an experiment so I can learn how large my harvest is w,o hilling them. Gotta make the best of a bad situation, right ?

Good Morning

Honestly I think hilling only helps the potatoes from turning green. My Uncle left a row unhilled one year to experiment...the only difference was less tiny potatoes at the top of the plant. The amount of larger ones were the same.

My gosh the 'deer flies' are terrible.

Thanks for the information. On another subject..we have 2 bunnies in our yard. One, or both ate off all the blooms from my potato plants ( the plants were hanging over the sides of my raised beds....I guess I should have tied them up, huh ?

Bunnies? You are lucky that you have anything left in your yard...at all.

Well, with the raised beds, I usually have no problem.. BUT with the rain my potatoes really grew, and so they hung over the side of the beds. and so all it took for the bunnies were to stretch up a bit. The bunnies must not like coreopsis or coneflowers. Although I will say that the cone flowers, have bites out of the ends of about half the petals. And hoave I saud ?? A squirrel thought to pull out my sweet potato vines from a large pot on my front porch. I managed to save a few cuttings that was left ob the porch. And guess what ?? They are growing roots ! I will plant them in pots in the back yard..here's hoping.

You have your hands full with Mother Nature's wildlife don't you?? I wonder if a wind chime hanging near your plants would help.

Apparently not ! I have a large one about 3-4 feet above where the squirrel destroyed my sweet potato vine plants on the front porch...It did not bother the squirrel one bit. BUT I guess I could try one in my back yard by the plants there.....I even have a bird seed pole I could put one on.

It's scorching hot here too with no rain in sight for at least 10 days. It hasn't rained since the beginning of the month. I'm not a fan of hot weather and this is the worst. I guess I won't get more tomatoes because they won't set buds in this type of heat and the squash is pretty much burned up because I planted early. I've gotten plenty of both but I've never been finished so early.

I have bunnies in the yard too but so far I haven't seen any damage BUT I suppose it was the deer that ate the blooms off some impatients.

I am so sorry for your Deer, Sheri. But more sorry for your heat. I am glad you did at least get to get some home grown veggies. Yay for you !!

I hope you get some rain Bestofour, it is feast or famine it seems.

Everything here is beyond soaked with yesterdays storms so today will be a clean and mop day. We even lost power last night for awhile from a lightning strike.

Sorry for the power loss Sunny. Glad it is back on.

Another hot day here today but from the forecast, we will have higher temps ( triple digits) tomorrow, so I guess I should be thankful for today's temps.

Good Morning!

Still no rain in sight.

You guys are not going to believe this.

Last week:
My youngest daughter is the CEO of the YMCA in her little town. She campaigned and the Y received a $5,000.00 donation so that a summertime camp at one of the lower economic schools could take swimming lessons at the Y pool. She happened to be passing by the pool area when the bus was unloading and noticed a boy, around 6 years old, standing with his bathing trucks and flip flops on and his beach towel over his arm. It looked to her as if he had a tracheostomy, so she mentioned it to one of the 3 adults with the children, who she later found out are the camp "teachers", and this person answered "I don't know anything about that. He has a consent from his mom." My daughter explained to her that the lessons include getting in the water (duh) and having your neck and head under the water (duh again) and she needed to be calling someone right away. Said teacher went to her folder and got moms phone number off the consent but mom didn't answer. So my daughter went inside and called the superintendent of the school district, told the person answering the phones the situation, and the superintendent called her back within a matter of minutes (which I think is impressive) and said it's being taken care of as we speak. My daughter is still thinking about whether she needs to inform DSS, not as a punitive measure, but as a safety measure because mother may decide to send this child with uncle joe to the lake for the day. The Y lawyer is deciding the next step.

Yesterday:
To swim at the Y, you either have to be a member and use a key fob to get to the pool area or you can pay $10.00 a day to swim and are given a generic key fob. For a child to left at the pool unattended, family has to be a member, said child must be at least 12 years old and go through a battery of tests proving he/she can swim well enough to be left alone, and if there is one behavioral infraction they can no longer come unattended. Parents sign a consent to emergency treat if needed and a liability waiver.

Yesterday, one of the lifeguards noticed a little boy dressed in shorts rather than swim trunks. Not wanting to upset the child about the dress code, the lifeguard watched him for a while to see which person was his parent or responsible adult. He never went towards anyone or played with any specific children in the pool. He joined a few groups of little kids but didn't seem part of any of the groups. The lifeguard eventually asked which person was his parent and he was pointed to a man, but when the lifeguard went to the man, he said he didn't know the child. End of story is the little boy was there with no shirt, no shoes, no drinking water, no towel. He knew he age, 7, his name and his mother's phone number ( amazing). None of the staff members recognized the little boys last name but the number was called, the person answering said she was his mother and that she had driven up in the circle and asked a man who was going into the Y with children if he would "watch" him for a while because she had to go somewhere and the man had said yes. Whether she really asked anyone remains to be seen. She came back to pick him up, refused to come into the Y to talk to anyone, and drove away when the little boy was brought to the car. Having only the phone number and the boys name my daughter called the police and DSS. Not sure we'll ever know the end result.

What is wrong with people?

Jeepers, it is a sad way of living but is becoming more of the 'norm' these days. I feel so bad for the kids growing up in situations where they are fending for themselves. It terrifies me to leave my 13 yr old daughter out of site in our small grocery store.

People are just selfish...and uncaring.

I agree with what Sunny said.

I do not hear those words very often.

Another rainy day here.

Yes, that "agreeing with what I said" does not happen here very often either. :?:

A rainy day here as well.

Good morning all, it has been raining here for days. The biting flies are having a field day.

Good morning! Sorry for the flies, Sunny.

It's flies or flurries....I get to complain all year.

Gotta look at the bright side, right ?

Good night

Good morning, it is a holiday here..Canada Day. We got some thunderstorms last night, everything is waterlogged outdoors....the poor plants need some dry weather for a few days.

Good morning all !!

Happy Canada Day, Sunny !!!

Finally got 1/2 inch of rain yesterday afternoon and that's the entire total for June.

Waiting to fly out to Ginger's in MS for the week. Flying always makes me nervous.

Well, I say, 1/2 inch of rain is better than no rain, so good for you !!!!

Oh wonderful !!! You are going out to see Ginger and family !! Have a great time !!!

I'm sending some rain to Bestofour....and some flies.

It is supposed to be a dry day today, I'll be outdoors mowing the lawn.