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Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Friday, September 7, 2012
5 Fact Friday
kevin & amanda have a fun selection of free fonts like the one I used, Pea Amy Sue. Check them out!
Thursday, July 5, 2012
In a Garden too Hot
Moving last year was a wonderful decision. I love the yard, the trees, and the possibilities. A vegetable garden was planted and the cottage garden behind the house is in its infancy, but the too early spring and the too hot summer with too little rain heightens the challenges.
Watering every other day keeps plants moving along, but it's certainly not going to be a banner year.
Each day patrolling the garden for striped cucumber beetles and sap-sucking stink bugs requires a jar with a bit of gasoline in the bottom and using the lid to scrape the nasty pests into the jar.
Next year marigolds will play a bigger role in companion planting in an attempt to never use chemicals in the vegetable garden.
If there's an upside to drought conditions it's the lack of mosquitoes, but then not many folks want to sit outside when the thermometer reaches triple digits. How's the weather where you are? Too dry, too hot, or just right?
To all the good souls affected by the drought, fires, and dangerous storms that have been forcing many to live without power and evacuate their homes...my thoughts are with you.
I'm linking with Rural Thursday today. Mosey on over to A Rural Journal and see what's going on down country roads.
Each day patrolling the garden for striped cucumber beetles and sap-sucking stink bugs requires a jar with a bit of gasoline in the bottom and using the lid to scrape the nasty pests into the jar.
Next year marigolds will play a bigger role in companion planting in an attempt to never use chemicals in the vegetable garden.
If there's an upside to drought conditions it's the lack of mosquitoes, but then not many folks want to sit outside when the thermometer reaches triple digits. How's the weather where you are? Too dry, too hot, or just right?
To all the good souls affected by the drought, fires, and dangerous storms that have been forcing many to live without power and evacuate their homes...my thoughts are with you.
I'm linking with Rural Thursday today. Mosey on over to A Rural Journal and see what's going on down country roads.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Thursday, July 1, 2010
July
Hot days of heat followed by sultry nights
A yellow sun hiding behind mounding white clouds
Heavy diamond dew clinging to webs
Cookouts, barbeques, and grillin’
Red checked, July 4th picnics
Independence and a firecracker sister’s birthday
Spiders sparkling in a navy blue night sky
The first come-on of red tomatoes
Moths, Mantises and Monarchs
In the sun and under the stars
Ditch lilies and Queen Anne’s lace gracing the roadside
Marigolds, cosmos, and zinnias colorful in the garden
Juicy to the elbow watermelon, blueberries and peaches
Buttered corn on the cob dripping down smiling faces
Plodding through sand and races to the ocean
Lakeside views from inside canoes
Cracking bats, flying legs, and home again
Ice cream evenings, sticky and sweet
Slumbering to a lullaby of cicadas and peepers
H a p p y J u l y !
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