Roy Rogers.....

 The day started off warm nd the haze from the smoke is out there. I worked outside for the morning but did notice that the air quality was bad when I sat down for a break. We did heat up to the higher 80s. 

I put up my fence guards today after the rabbit ate the tops off of some of the sunflowers. I needed to thin out some of the sunflowers so the rabbit just helped me decide which ones should go. The tomatoes were untouched. I had to get out my staple gun and reattach some wire mesh to the frame. The former owner built these and the way they were attached just didn't really work very well. 

 

The William Baffin rose is really showing off. It is amazing what normal rainfall has done to make this bush put out the blooms. I have never seen it with this many blooms since I planted it many years ago.

It looks great up against my new fence in the northeast property line. It does also mean that I have a lot of dead heading to do in the future with all these blooms. 

I worked in the backyard this morning until it just got to be too hot. I cut flowers that were laying on the ground and stuck them in my old mayonnaise jar. With the heat going on I decided to just keep moving flowers inside to see them.  I moved an iris to a new location this morning as the fence had crowded it out. I ended up splitting it up and planted it in three different locations. It was one of my historic, cemetery iris and is very hardy. 

This is what it looked like when it was in bloom. Because of the fence I need to reevaluate the plants next to it.  I may have to move a lot of the flowers there to another location as they are crowded behind all my peony bushes and can't really be seen. I have a couple of day lilies there as well as another iris. The sedum back there may have to just stay there for now as I assess things. 

I needed a hat today as the sun did finally come out and beat down on me.  I wanted to buy an Amish styled hat with the mandatory three inch brim but this was on sale at my neighbor's garage sale. I was suppose to pay a dollar for it but since I helped her out so much with things she said it was free. When I was a farm kid we got to buy a new straw hat for the summer. They were needed when you rode behind the baler on the wagon loading bails of hay. Haymaking always had to be done on the hottest days. When I was a kid I got the red straw hats with Roy Rogers on them. They had strings on them so you could keep them from falling off in the wind.

Thanks for stopping by today.       Man, I am old.