It is so terribly hot and humid today. Now, in September, we are having that North Carolina August weather! There's work I want to do outside but good grief! The heat and humidity simply wears me out!
This Chocolate vine needs trimming. It is actually causing the arbor to lean toward the goat lot. I need to root some cuttings. I've set out a small cutting on the left side to even things out. If it grows like the vine on the right side we may need a new arbor...
The little greenhouse needs washing. I want to fill in the open space under the shed with bricks to keep the ducks out. The grass in the garden needs to be pulled so that I can make a row or two for collards and turnips. Not that I can grow collards and turnips but I want to try again.
The weeds and that crazy bamboo grass seem to be taking over everything. That old chair that Cousin Pat gave me...I never did get anything to grow there. Where did spring go anyway? There were so many thing I wanted to do in the yard. Oh well, maybe I'll be around to enjoy another spring.
My list of things to do outside goes on and on. But the heat! Beginning Sunday, according to the weather report, we are supposed to have a few cooler days. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Bun Bun is still hitching a ride to the dog lot these hot days. It is much cooler there than in his bunny cage. He's a funny bunny!
Eli was proud of this stick he picked up in the yard. What a mess he had...bark peeled off on the floor and see his dirty legs...
Need to get busy. Poppy is home from work and will probably want to get on the computer. He has started selling his big collection of racing memorabilia on Ebay. Thank you for stopping by.
Love,
Henny
We really need rain now. Again last night we had lots of lightening and thunder but no rain. Now at 2:45 in the afternoon the sky is getting dark and I can hear thunder...maybe rain will come with this storm.
It won't be long before the humming birds will be moving on. It's a job keeping fresh sugar water in their feeder but worth the trouble. These little birds are fun to watch...
How boring life would be without animals. Look who's sleeping side by side now, and getting this white bedspread really dirty. Looks like Eli had just come in from playing with the goats. This bedspread got washed again yesterday...
And who's sharing a bowl of Puppy Chow...
As Poppy always says, "don't start anything and there won't be anything"...
Maybe I'll just play in the water...
Some days there is just not a lot to post. Thank you for visiting. Hope to be back soon.
Love,
Henny Penny
Know why my apron pockets are bulging? It's another sign of fall. Acorns. I love acorns.
I never could resist picking up acorns. These are mostly green but sometimes the acorns are fall colored with orange, brown, and yellow. One fall I filled a small basket with big colorful acorns and put the basket in the living room. After a few days I was shocked to find tiny white worms all in the basket and on the floor. I tossed everything out the door.
These are the first acorns I've noticed on the ground. Late yesterday the wind got up, blowing like there was a storm coming. The clouds got dark and there was a sprinkle of rain across the pond, but never a storm. The winds must have caused these acorns to fall.
Did you know that a guinea will kill a frog? Neither did I. Well my day is ruined! I had just put Bun Bun in the dog lot and was on my way to the teeny tiny garden to pick a handful of grape tomatoes for my salad when I spotted it. One of the guineas holding onto a big frog. My first instinct was to tackle the guinea and save the frog. I stood still for a second peeping through a crack in my fingers that were covering my eyes. The frog was limp. Suppose I did get the frog away from the guinea and the frog was not quite dead but was badly injured. If only I had gone out there sooner. I love frogs. I realize that this is simply nature's way. I can't save everything. Poor frog. I went on to the garden and got that handful of grape tomatoes but somehow the salad doesn't sound too good now.
Here they are acting all innocent. Probably searching out another frog...
I went out to look for the dead frog but it was not there.
Better get busy. The living room floor needs to be vacuumed again, thanks to Eli, and I am the vacuum cleaner person around here.
Thank you for visiting.
Love,
Henny Penny
Last Saturday when I gathered everything in the teeny tiny garden, I also picked all the red peppers. Only two pepper plants but both were hanging full of peppers. Anyhow, yesterday I borrowed some fishing line from Poppy's shop and began stringing up the red peppers. These dried peppers should be good this winter. Todd, I plan to send a string of peppers to you...just in case you enter another chili making contest. This just might do the trick! :)
Dumperoo was most interested in helping.
Sorry about the gun in this picture. Poppy was in the woods earlier working on his deer stand. He carries a gun in case he sees a Copperhead...
After all the peppers were strung Poppy helped me hang them...
Oh, the peppers are hung over the refrigerator so when I took the picture I also got this picture. One day I will have a baby donkey. This picture hangs here to remind me...
Once again, thank you for visiting.
Love,
Henny Penny
I've finished one more altered skirt. This one is my favorite. Now if only I can muster up the nerve to wear it. Lynn says, "mom, wear what you love"! I love the pink linen with the cut work bottom...
The sewing room makes me happy. Old things make me happy. Once at a yard sale I found a very old cigar box filled with sewing notions. Who could resist buying something like that for a dollar or two?
Quart jars of old buttons make me happy. Do you reckon there could be any buttons here worth anything? Poppy might could quit work and I could buy a donkey... :)
There are some really old buttons here. Take a closer look...
I would never be lucky enough to happen upon something worth a lot of money.
Looking at these buttons sometimes I see one that brings back memories...like remembering seeing the same button on one of Aunt Berlie's simple cotton dresses. She used to order her dresses from the Sears Roebuck catalog. Once when I was spending a few days with her, she ordered a dress for me too. A simple little cotton dress.
Maybe it's the old glass buttons that are worth something and some of these look like glass...
Oh well, enough about becoming rich off old buttons.
Oil lamps make me happy. Once upon a time, back before we invested in a generator, Poppy and I used all these oil lamps. During every storm seems like we lost our electricity. It was fun lighting the oil lamps. I will never understand though how people read or for that matter did anything by the light of an oil lamp. Mama used to say that her daddy read the Bible every night. I'm sure it was by the light of an oil lamp and maybe the flickering light from the fire in the fireplace. That reminds me...Mama had two brothers, Henry and Charlie. Mama said her daddy would get a fire going in the fireplace and Charlie would start messing with the fire. Grandpa would say, Charlie if you'll leave the fire alone it will burn! That was many years ago. Mama was born in 1917 and she was just a girl back when Charlie would play with the fire.
Some of the oil lamps scattered throughout our little house...
The lady in the picture is Lynn, my daughter. This is a copy of a painting done by Jeffrey Mims, an artist in Southern Pines...
Whew! Sometimes I get carried away. Thank you for visiting!
Love,
Henny Penny
I was up at the garden at 9:00 this morning picking anything worth bringing in. There are still enough beans to pick and cook. Lots of okra and peppers still coming, and tomatoes but the tomatoes are not so pretty and they don't keep very well. Seems okra really comes out when everything else is dying down. Okra has a pretty bloom...
This just may be our last colorful pot of garden vegetables. Okra is on the bottom...
I am reading the most interesting book called "More Than a Ticket" by Argie Ella Hoskins. A few weeks back I did a post about my Mother and Daddy flying to New York in the 1950's. Daddy often flew from North Carolina to New York on business. Well for my post I searched on line for a picture of commercial airlines and stewardesses from the 1950's. Fortunately, I happened upon a blog called americanairlinesstewardess.blogspot.com and wasted no time ordering her book. I am loving it. The book is loaded with pictures from the 1950's and her story just touches my heart. Argie Hoskins is adorable in her American Airlines uniform.
Anybody who reads my blog knows how much I love the 1950's. When I was a teenager, becoming an airline stewardess was my dream. Daddy went so far as to ask a stewardess during a flight to please write to me and she did. Wish I had that letter now.
Back to plants...the tiniest sweetest little vine has come up in the yard and wound itself around a lemon balm plant. This is a weed with heart shaped leaves, but just too cute to pull up and toss away...
Thank you for visiting.
Love,
Henny Penny
Something interesting was going on that woke Dumperoo from his nap in the chair. Could it have been a mouse...
Believe me, in no way is this becoming a fashion blog. Me? Fashion? I could probably start a blog on my fashion blunders! There are just a couple, well three skirts I want to show you. Altered skirts. Long skirts are my favorite thing to wear and are hard to find...at least skirts that I like.
Lynn got me interested in "altered couture" but I just never could do it...except for putting skirts together. My altered skirts...
The skirts are a little larger than this shapely mannequin...these skirts fit me. :) Anyhow, that's my altered couture for the day.
I enjoy bluegrass music and had it playing last night while I was in the sewing room. Anyway the station played a really really old song, one that I haven't heard in years called, "Why don't you haul off and love me one more time". It made me laugh and reminded me of when people used to use that phrase. "I'm gonna haul off"...like "I'm gonna haul off and hit you"! Of course, now the song is stuck in my mind and I've been singing it all day.
Need to get busy. My thirty minutes at the computer has just turned into one hour!
Thank you for stopping by.
Love,
Henny
