Did I tell you about the four guineas who walked off? Can't say that I blame them.
Beans hanging on the teeny tiny waddle fence, ready for picking up at the teeny tiny garden...
had to zoom in pretty close. Yep, I spotted these yesterday on our walk and thought to myself, "early Monday morning I'll pick these", and early it was! Rain and thunderstorms predicted "north of the Triangle", and that would be us, friends, first thing this morning! These beans were in my bucket at 6:30 a.m.
It's dark as night here at 8:00 am! Poppy will be home at noon. Maybe the storms will hold off.
Later, I'll snap and cook our first pot of mountain half runner beans. No, these won't be sauteed and eaten crunchy...these will be seasoned with a little fat back grease and simmered slowly in a cast iron pot and served with some cornbread and fried squash.
No cucumbers yet but what a vine! I expected to see Jack, oh wait, that was a beanstalk that Jack climbed. That little pepper plant is about to be swallowed up, and I fear, the tomato vine too!
we are getting lots of zucchini...to the left of the cucumber, about to be swallowed up too. Could it be someone planted these three too close?
inserting a little orange here to break up all the green. Aren't these wild lilies simply beautiful?
a volunteer stepped in to add some color too. It was he who told me about the guineas. "Pardon me sir, but you have dirty mouth. Have you been in the compost bin again?"
"Smoke" said he had nothing to do with the guineas packing up. "Are you sure about that, Smokey?"
and now more green. A persimmon tree! I bought this one at Walmart, reduced to half price. Now to find a spot for yet another tree! But a persimmon tree, friends! I really really want a persimmon tree. "want, want, want," Poppy says!
Sure wish there were some red ripe tomatoes in the teeny tiny garden to brag about. Maybe soon.
Glad the beans are picked, it's raining here now. I might as well drag out the vacuum cleaner and the mop and get busy. Poppy called me in the laundry room yesterday and asked, "how long has it been since you looked behind the freezer"? Well, it flew all over me! I knew there was some dirt he wanted to point out, something else that needed cleaning. Leaning over the chest freezer as far as I could, sure enough, there were hundreds of little pellets of kitty cat food amongst the cob webs and dust. I'll have you to know, about a year ago, I cleaned and scrubbed behind this freezer!! "Get everything together that I will need to clean with and I will clean back there", Poppy said. No, I had just soon do it myself!
By the way, the guineas decided to come back. Anyways, where would they go?
Love,
Henny :)
How do you like this mess? Last Monday Poppy put the yard sale signs up on the highway.
We have actually had a few customers, made a little money, and got rid of some things. Kind of enjoyable too. I told Poppy just today that is was nice to sit out in the yard and talk without the TV blaring between us. It felt good to say something without being shushed! Maybe we should do this more often.
Some rather matronly looking frocks hanging on our makeshift clothes rack. I'm known for bringing home clothes from the thrift store and never wearing them.
Eli said he's not used to so many people coming and going out here in the woods...
Feels good to get things cleaned up and put away. Yard sales can be work!
Hope you all are having a good weekend!
Love,
Henny
Spider flower, one of my favorites.
Don't know where the hours have gone today! I haven't slowed down since my feet hit the floor at 5:15 this morning. Of course, going to the grocery store used up the best part of the day.
Poppy got off work at 12:00 and pulled into the driveway just as I was bringing in the last heavy bag of groceries, in the pouring rain, I might add.
Ducky Lucky waddled up from the pond to bath in the drinking water. Now why would she choose a bowl over the pond?
We did get quite a bit of rain today. Don't you love the sound of rain? I do.
Our little makeshift grooming table is working out fine. Had no idea how much I would enjoy caring for rabbits. Maybe it's just that Bun Bun is such a cutie pie.
and speaking of cutie pies, Dumperoo is pretty cute too.
Appreciate your stopping by. Hopefully, I will be back here tomorrow.
Love,
Henny
Now that Poppy has retired from his full time job, and working part time, and off every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, well, I am finding less time to blog, but more time to get some big jobs done around the house.
Jobs like cleaning out the shop! What a mess, and you should have seen it last week! Poppy said to me, "I wish you would start cleaning out the shop, maybe that would get me in the mood to get in there and clean too". So, after squeezing my way through the shop door, I carried out five big barrel deer feeders and three deer tree stands and made room for them under the shed...where those things should have been stored in the first place! Now we can at least walk in the shop! It worked! When Friday got here, Poppy could hardly wait to get started.
That's Dale Earnhardt, Jr. standing in front of a dozen more Nascar driver stand-ups. There must be ten or more large chests of Nascar, along with baseball and basketball collectibles packed away in here that Poppy is putting up for sale, plus we are planning to have a big yard sale, soon!
a tangled mess of fishing rods,
but we are getting there...
Okay, I'm sure you have seen enough shop pictures, but one more...
Remember Poppy's brother Joe who passed away about three years ago? Joe was a carpet designer. A few years before Joe died, he designed and made this rug using a picture he had drawn himself of a buffalo in snow. He gave the rug to Poppy for Christmas that year.
Okay, I will be surprised if you are still reading. :) Maybe my next post will be beautiful! Time to get busy.
One more thing...thank you for the comments about taking osteoporosis bone building medications. I have decided to stay away from them all, at least for now. Once that injection is in my body, there is no changing my mind. I'm taking vitamin D3 and Calcium Citrate with magnesium, drinking whole milk, and trying to eat healthy. :)
Hope to be back here soon.
Love,
Henny
Yesterday was my scheduled appointment with, not the orthopedic specialist, but this time the osteoporosis specialist.
My back is much better, thanks to the the steroid injection some weeks ago. Sure wish that injection could have cured my osteoporosis too.
This new doctor has suggested I take the Prolia injection twice a year for Osteoporosis. Like all the Osteoporosis bone building drugs, the side effects are horrible. I just hate having to make these decisions.
Thanks to a little squirrel who buried a seed in this potted white beauty berry bush, we have a sunflower.
Wondering too if anybody knows what this is. It has a pretty white bloom that looks a lot like bridal's wreath spirea, but smells absolutely horrible. It has lots of berries this year for the first time. The berries turn almost black when ripe.
It's been a while since I've posted anything about the old cupboard my cousin Patty gave me a few years ago. I love this old cupboard, more than any piece of furniture we have.
Since Patty gave me the old cupboard, I've cleaned and dusted and polished it many times, thinking it was getting the best of care. Well, guess what? Those teeny tiny bee-like bugs have been drilling and eating away at the old wood.
Something had to be done, and quick. We searched on line, then Poppy ordered a product called Tim-bor. I mixed a 1.5 pound bag of this Tim-bor powder to one gallon of water and with a paint brush saturated the entire cupboard. This product soaks into the wood and kills those tiny insects and protects the old wood from insects for several years.
Yikes, when the cupboard dried, it looked and felt like chalk. Then I opened the can of Tung oil, and wow!
It looks more beautiful than before and this is only the first coat. In 24 hours another coat can be applied. I was seriously worried sick about the cupboard.
and now, my kitty cat picture of the day...
This Bickett makes me laugh. He gets is some of the strangest positions to sleep. Looks like he needs his face washed.
Better go put all the animals to bed for the night. Thank you for visiting. Don't know why I've had such a hard time posting lately. Hope to be right back with something more interesting.
Love,
Henny
A quick stop to let you know I'm still here. Good grief! where do the days go!
We were in Yorktown Virginia last weekend to see this little sweetie pie graduate from high school. Yes, our granddaughter Madison. Why it seems like just yesterday that she was the cutest thing around. We were out by the pond cooking hot dogs when she posed for this picture.
and look at her now.
I am not the best picture taker...was Andee sitting down or getting up? Sweet old Bell knew something was going on.
Graduation was held at Busch Gardens. Todd, Madison, and Andee.
just before all of them threw their caps into the air,, darn it, I missed it!
is this a happy face or what!
Poppy and I were so glad to be at her graduation. Proud as we were, that trip to Yorktown meant, waaay up ahead at the end of this long bridge...
we would reach the tunnel and travel under water for a few miles, not my favorite thing to do.
Here we go...scary stuff!
and can you imagine...
This is how it really looks! The Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel.
Hope you haven't completely crossed me off your list. I'll be back to visit and catch up. Didn't mean to stay away so long.
Love,
Henny
I can't possibly begin this post with a picture of what I want to talk about. It is way too filthy!
I should be ashamed to post something this dirty.
It's the ceiling fan on that high ceiling in the living room. I'm fixing to climb a ladder and clean it.
Filthy! and this is the very ceiling fan that Poppy looks at and says, "I don't see any dust". Well, he IS waiting for a call from the eye place saying his new glasses are ready.
Tell me how this much dirt and dust collects on an object that spins. This fan runs almost non-stop.
Mama would have disowned me.
a late afternoon picture taken when the sun was low and shining through the trees onto this pink rose bush. It was so bright, you can hardly tell the roses are pink.
Thank you for looking in. Oh, and here's how that ceiling fan looks now...
and I didn't get dizzy or fall off the ladder or any of that stuff. Think Poppy will notice?
Love,
Henny
