A bit about the kitty cats

Hey friends,

Well, I'm still wanting to do better at posting, visiting you, and replying to your comments...I have good intentions. :)  Poppy tells me I have too many things going on at once.  Oh, the other day he said to me, "that's why you never get anything done"!  "NEVER GET ANYTHING DONE!", I asked! 

Anyhow, Poppy brought me these lilies when he came home from turkey hunting a day or so ago...

Turkey lilies, he calls them.  Googled them and these are wild Easter lilies. Now I'm wondering if the wild Easter lilies we used to pick at Aunt Berlies were white instead of blue or purple like pictured in my mind. That was a long long time ago.

Poppy says there is a field of these lilies where he hunts. I added a sprig or two of Rosemary, apple mint, and liriope to the vase.

Oh, before I forget! Poppy killed a big tom turkey! First one in two years. He was tickled to death. Me, not so much. :)

Kitty cats, kitty cats, kitty cats! Had a request for more about the cats (think that was you, Willie. Thank you). :)

Smokey and Dumperoo stay up and off the floor as much as possible these days; you know, with a big overgrown puppy in the house. 

some days Smokey says he has had enough!

and Dumper finds a little peace and quiet on the back porch behind the plastic tablecloth. Pardon the mess, I'm painting an old rocking chair.

Actually, our little Ellie girl has been sweet to both kitties. She just wants to play and doesn't realize how big and clumsy she is. 

It is a nice break for me and the cats when Ellie and Eli take a nap. That's when I vacuum the floors or slip up to the garden...

Not much to see here but I've got a start; six cauliflower plants, three pepper plants, one row of green beans, half row of kale, half row of potatoes, four tomato plants, oh and Arkansas little leaf cucumber in the half barrel. 

Like I said, not much. After all, it is the teeny tiny garden. Don't know why it is so hard to find plants this year. I've always bought vegetable plants in the little six pack but not this year. Can't find any. 

How dumb of me not to start seeds early in the greenhouse. Two pepper plants at Tractor Supply cost me over eight dollars! Poppy says we would be better off buying the peppers at the grocery store. But that's no fun!

Here's a little something I put together this week...

These two plum trees have been slow growing...the larger one bloomed for the first time this spring. Anyhow, the rich soil, top soil, kept washing down the hill so I buried these edging bricks along the edge and filled in around the little trees with compost and mulch. The Guineas came right behind me and wallowed holes in all my hard work. That's why there are now three flowers pots in the bed. :)

and up at the garden...

the four Dutch Iris I dug from amongst the weeds are beginning to bloom. Aren't they beautiful. 

One more picture and I will end this boring post..

Don't know who was more tired, Ellie or me...

Eli, in the background curled up in his chair looks pretty tired too.

Thank you friends. Hope to be back here soon.

Love,

Henny