It's that time of the year....

It's that time of the year....
Showing posts with label Concrete Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concrete Garden. Show all posts

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Thursday…

and another busy day of cleaning.  My daughter came over and with her help we took everything from the cabinets in the kitchen.  Marcia cleaned inside the cupboards.  Then we washed dishes, pots and pans etc.  Next was cleaning underneath the sink and lining it with fresh paper.  I ended up with 2 boxes and 3 bags of stuff that we dropped off at Goodwill.  I have taken enough stuff to Goodwill this week to have had a magnificent garage sale.  Sadly there is no place here for me to have a garage sale.

Then it was another day of fast food at Arby’s.  Tomorrow I will really have to be on my good behavior and cook something.  I love Arby’s Beef ‘n cheddar though!

I  am exhausted again today.  I woke up before 5 this morning so I just got up.  Then we worked non stop for about 3 hours plus I had already done a load of laundry before we started.  It is really good that I weeded through all of that stuff.  Does one person need 50 different coffee mugs??  Or two complete sets of cookware?  Or 2 complete sets of dinnerware?  Not me.  I am a paper plate person since Jim is gone.  I have my favorite cup I use for tea, etc.

So now I am going to try and get around to visit you all, then I have Y&R recorded on the DVR to watch.  I also need to go out to the concrete garden and water my tomato plants and loosen up the dirt around them.  Whew!!  this tending a big garden wears me out too.  LOL  OOPS!!  I about forgot the marigolds planted around the lamp post.  I think I will go out now and take a pic of them so you can see how much they have grown.  I sprinkled some seed in there too and it is sprouting.

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The shadow is from the lamp.  The shrubs that were planted around front.  I thought they looked half dead when they were planted.

Remember to stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The Concrete Garden..

I love flowers!  Jim did too.  He had great luck with flowers and had built a rocked in flower garden all of the way around our back porch.  My flowers and my garden are two of the things I miss the most from my old home.  Although I would be remiss if I didn’t state again how much I miss the two car garage, the washer and dryer and the water softener.  OOPS!  I about forgot the second bathroom which was huge that we had built on to our house at the same time we added the back porch.
Here I have what I call a Concrete Garden.  I have 2 tomato plants on the concrete slab next door to me.  My neighbors (we all had homes and gardens in the past) have tried to make it cheery for us.   The rain stopped a little bit ago and I went out and took pictures. 

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My tomato plant has several green tomatoes on it which you obviously can’t see from the picture.  The second pic is of some plants that my next door neighbors planted.
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Two doors down from me my neighbors are an older couple who moved here from Iowa to be close to their daughter who lives here.  We have something in common because that is exactly why I sold my home and moved here two years ago.
It is Monday afternoon now and I did do a bit of cleaning today.  I will finish this tomorrow morning.

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Some pics from home.

It is Tuesday morning now and I have been up since 6 AM.  I have laundry going with another load to go.
 
I have a doctor appointment this afternoon so I will close this off with a note to my bro in Boston.  Take care of your leg and be good!!  All of you, stay safe and be happy!!

Beth