Post from the Past - Mother's Day 2021

These always come out the other way in which I choose them. Oh well, start at the bottom and work your way up!

Here are my cards...

This is from Bren and Lyndie. 

I should have written down who gave me what, but I didn't think it would take me this long to post! I think the balloons were from Terry. 

This is from Tim, Ashley, and Topher 

 

Tigertail Butterfly

On Sunday a HUGE Tigertail butterfly gave me a visit. It wasn't scared of me at ALL. I've never been that close. It was so pretty!

 

Post from the Past - BIG Snowfall February 2023

These pictures don't even do it justice.The snow was so deep!

The door to the back yard..

Post from the Past - My First Monarch!

 I have had milkweed in my flower garden for about five years, and I FINALLY got my first Monarch butterfly! Hopefully he/she brings friends! 

Mother's Day 2024

Happy Mother's Day to all! It was a lovely day. I got biscuits and gravy for breakfast from Terry, then most of my kids came over for a pizza party (We missed Alex with a sick Bodhi, but he later had Crumbl sent for Mother's Day and Terry's birthday. Emily was working) Tim and Toph detailed the inside of my car and gave me a pretty kalancho. Tim also washed my car. Brendon and Lyndie came and I got my tablet cover (picture later) and Ashley came too. The weather was perfect as icing on the cake! Speaking of cake, Terry made an AWESOME marble cake with whipped cream frosting and your choice of Ghirardelli drizzle. Wonderful day!

CCI Garden 2023

I did a garden at CCI again this year. This time, I was the only one who planted stuff. Here is a progression. (Continued after the pictures of the flowers)

Here are close ups of all of the flowers I planted.

This is box 1, the Red Box. I also added Sun Gold tomatoes next to this one

This is box 2, the Blue Box. I added Sugar Sweet tomatoes next to this box

This is box 3, the Yellow Box. I added Jet Star tomatoes next to this one.

Here are all three....

This is the lemon cucumber I planted. When I started out, it was smaller than everything else. It quickly became BIGGER. I ended up getting over 150 cucumbers off this plant. 

Here are my spinach, radishes, and green leaf lettuce starting up!

Here is the first box with the kale and butter leaf too. 

Here's a closer look at the spinach, radishes, and greenleaf

Here is my middle box. It had: Upper left corner - Butternut, Middle bell peppers, banana peppers, and jalepenos. Upper right corner - lemon cucumbers. Lower left - English cucumbers, Lower right - Japanese eggplant, 

My peppers...

Third box had Aphrodite melon, cantaloupe, rosemary, basil, cilantro, marjoram and thyme surrounded by marigolds

The herbs....

This is the red box a couple of weeks later. Everything is growing!

This is the blue box with the butternut squash and the English cucumber

The red box a couple of weeks later

The blue box

The yellow box

All three boxes in the first third of the summer

I submitted this photo to EMCOR for their contest. I don't think it went in, because I could never find it. I didn't win.....

These photos are about midsummer...

My first cucumber! 

This shot is from the 2nd floor stairwell. The glass is tinted so that's why it looks dark.

This is one of my harvests. Japanese eggplant, lemon cucumber and an Aphrodite melon. 

It got pretty out of control by the end. I got so much produce, it was awesome! The marjoram and the rosemary survived the winter and greened up the next year. The cilantro and basil had gone to seed, so more plants came up for those too.  Can't wait to post about that because I'm already planting this year's garden!