Been mighty busy here

Hey friends,

Thank you for the nice comments on my last post. I've simply got to do better at replying. I really do appreciate your friendship. 

Let's see! Since my last visit with you all...

I've been prescribed glasses, bifocals even, which are only a nuisance. Why, I can see better without them...

had a hurricane hit... (actually, we had only  an inch and a half of rain and a little wind), thankfully!

spent two full days in Raleigh for doctor appointments...

attended a birthday dinner for Andee, at Lynn and Jason's home...

picked all the beans in the garden and pulled up the vines. Wish you could see the pot of beans cooking on the stove...

completely wore out my little yellow mower. The front right wheel is about to fall off. :( whatever will I do?? Poppy has been asking what I want for my birthday this Saturday and I've been telling him 'pizza', but after mowing this morning, what I want is a new mower...and soon! 

Meanwhile...

The newly planted knockout roses are blooming a little...I'm so tickled!

The chives are blooming too so I've put a few pots around the new bed.

and the newly planted grape vines are doing well...

I've replaced the dryer sheets with a couple of bandannas...

the dryer sheets filled the air with such a nice sweet smell, Poppy was afraid it would drive all the deer from the area, and deer season comes in soon.

You see, he has a tree stand awfully close to the new grape arbor...

From way up high in the stand, he can see to the end of the dam and into the woods beyond. He has never shot a deer from the stand, in fact, I don't think he has ever used it.

and while on the subject of Poppy...

here's a little story he told me when he got home from work today. You know he works part time in a grocery store. Well he was straightening up the luncheon meats and happened to look down at the floor and there sat a tiny little frog. Inside the store! In the meat department! He picked it up and said it looked fine except one leg was injured. Poppy carried the frog through the meat department and out the back door and down the steps from the loading dock, crossed the road into a wooded area and put the little frog in a safe place. This man has a big heart.

Oh, let me tell you about a rose bush I dug out of the ground.

It's a pink fairy rose. I've never posted a picture, even though this little rose has tried desperately to bloom every year since it was planted fifteen years ago. After mowing, I began pulling the bamboo grass from around the roots, then it hit me...DID THE POOR THING UP! So I did and all this was tangled in with its roots...

seven more fairy rose bushes, each with it's own root ball, enough ivy for three pots, a pile of monkey grass, and one pink spirea...all healthy and with good root systems. Don't know how that fairy rose ever bloomed at all. Finally got all these into pots and carried up to the greenhouse/garden.

I sure can go on and on about any thing, can't I? But I'm done  now, talking about the grapevines, for a while. :)

Love,
Henny