Lovely evening

We had a great time  with our family BBQ.
Everyone arrived ON TIME(a FIRST!) and were happy to discover our table placed in the shady part of the deck (as it was  blistering hot day) complete with gorgeous roses(these are called, Sheila’s Perfume and are SO fragrant) from the garden .
It looked very Swedish(or an Ikea [...]

having spectacular weather

Gorgeously hot here today and has been for the past few days.
They are even talking about the danger of forest fires (unusually early to worry about that) which is one of the things that go hand in hand with good weather.
Another is water restrictions but we reconciled ourselves years ago to be very conservative with [...]

Happy holidays!

We MIGHT be getting more snow for Christmas, but by next week will be back to milder and more normal temps. (That means rain)
Here are some pics that I promised, of the huge snowfalls we had over the past two weeks!
I hope that everyone is getting ready to feast, enjoy, and celebrate!
Take care!
((hugs))

This is me, [...]

Fall walk

We got up EARLY this morning and, as it was VERY clear but the sun was not up (just starting) we decided to go for a walk(all bundled up as it was also VERY cold)
When we stepped out the door, we could see that the impatiens had  all succumbed to the frost which had come [...]

Lettuces (and other things)

Yes the garden is now producing apace to the point where we ALMOST cannot keep up with it! I am valiantly eating salads every day in my work lunches and some(most) days we have salads for dinner too. We are not yet growing long ears and little puffball tails but it feel like it will [...]