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 I worked in the yard again today finding iris that needed to be rescued. Some were planted in wet zones and the rhizomes were starting to rot. Others were hiding in the weeds and needed to be moved from the area. I have some now to replant but I am not sure where that will be. The weather was pleasant today and we are headed for hotter weather soon. Thanks for stopping in today. 

 

Monday

 The sprinkles causes water droplets on the morning glory. The rains kind of wilt the flower but yet the collection of the water makes a good look.

 The vinning honeysuckle is reviving one more time. We had a dry spell but it seems to be doing well for the summer. We visited a friend's home yesterday and there vine was blooming just like outs. 

 

Even though I am pulling the vines out from the sunflower, tomato patch area, they are still doing great. It is a striking deep color and it will reseed itself every season no mater what. 

 

 I spent the morning digging up iris that was sitting in too wet of soil, clay soil, and also had over crowded rhizomes. I worked too long but I did dig out everything and moved them to my new flower bed. They are going to be happy in the new soil and the raised bed conditions. I will be treating for grubs as I did get into some infested iris. I haven't treated for them yet and I should have done it sooner.  I got too hot again today and had to rest for a long time afterwards. I have a few iris left to do but my two new flower beds are full and I will have to find a different place to move them. 

The weather was lest hot today and yet we are in the upper 89s. It was the last day of the State Fair yesterday and the first day of school today. Most schools are air conditoned now so they survive all seasons now.  Our kids did get out early for the first day which I am sure was planned. They will get back to a normal routine after this first week. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  

Sunshines and its Great

 

 

 

We started off with cool temperatures but we did warm up. It is summer and maybe moving into fall. It was nice to be outside with a gentle breeze. I am already thinking of things that I want to get done in the garden tomorrow. I know rain was forecast at one time but those things sometimes just don't happen. Schools start tomorrow for most schools and the kids will be gone from the yards again until next weekend. The State Fair is done and all the people are going home. The year seems to be passing by quickly.     Thanks for stopping by today.

Saturday's Stuff

 We had our first batch of sweetcorn for supper. We cooking it in the microwave with plastic wrap sealing it . It was very good. I can't eat much of it with the diabetic diet but I do have an ability to shoot some more insulin if I shoot up too high. The corn was very good. There are so many farmers who grow it in our area and I bought mine at the store rather than at one of the parking lot corners. 

 My wife got a family piece given to her yesterday. It is made by a company that I have never heard of before now. Crooksville China is on the bottom and it was a company in Ohio. I looked up the company and this would have had a lid on it. It would be used to hold hot soup before serving. The gold band is all still intack with it having a little leaf pattern on the handles. 

 The morning glories responded to me giving it more water. There were a lot of blooms on the vines this morning. 

 I had a couple of monarchs out today while I finished mowing the yard. The hummingbirds do love the zinnias too.  I could see them zooming in and out to the flower garden to go where ever they have to be. I asssume that some of them must be feeding baby hummers. 

 I had to buy some more dirt for my second flower bed. I ended up buying five bags of dirt of this and also bought a potting soil bag for me to use with houseplants. The lugging and tugging took place at the store to load the bags and then I use the wheel barrow to get them down the back hill, two sacks at a time. I was too tired to start planting my iris that are awaiting to be put back into the ground.  It will be nice to have a good bed to grow them in where they don't get to wet nor grass to invade them. I have more iris that I do plan on digging to put in here as things progress. I have lost a few of my treadured one that I moved down here so I will try to save all that I can that I still have. 

Saturday's Coming

 It still blooms in all of the heat. Full sun all day gave us a high temp of 88 degrees F.

 The butterfly is not really bothered by the heat. I saw them flying around all morning while I was mowing in the back yard. 

 

The morning glories closed down early today. I need to go water them as I as walking by this afternoon they were all wilted. The hose is right there and I do need to return and shut a gate on the fence. That will happen after supper.

 

My new butterfly bush is doing good. It did look a little beat up when I bought it but I know that it will turn around and look great.I sure have the butterflies this year of all kinds. It is kind of out of the way so I don't see any on the bush so far. 

We had a busy day and ended up with pizza and chicken strips for supper. It was nice to relax for the evening and we both have projects going on for Saturday. Thanks for stopping by today. 

 

 

 

The Things for Today

 

 

I worked in the backyard this morning until it got too hot. Itook shots of monarchs with my iPhone and then decided to go get the big camera. I had three monarchs, one painted lady, and a eastern tiger swallowtail in the zinnia patch. I did not get the swallowtails picture but the others I did manage. 

I snapped the painted lady quickly not knowing really what it was, I did see that it was out there as I came to my senses. 

 My red canna is showing off now. It had bloomed earlier and I thought that it was done, It kept developing more buds and now it looks grea, It has the dark leaves,

 

Earlier in the morning the morning glories were all in bloom. At the later time when I took the shot in the day when it was warming up, they were starting to close down. 

The yellow rose died back from the winter cold but it sure has shown itself to have great blooms again this season.

 I built another one on the opposite side of the lot. I am trying to rescue my iris as they are wet, rotted and some have grubs. The move will bring them back to life. I have cardboard on top of the mowed grass and I will put four or five inches of soil on top of it. I will plant on the raised soil area and by then time when they need to root down the cardboard should be crumbling.  Some of the iris had been there six years or more and they needed to be dug and separated. This side of the yard the new area will have full sun all afternoon. It should work for iris. 

I have the yard to mow again. It will be a little bit easier with the rains slowing down now. I had my neighbor mow next to me in the heat of the day today.  I will wait for morning tomorrow up to his lot when I it is cooler.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Middle of the Week

 The clouds were few in number so the sky looked pretty plain.  Les clouds mean a less dramatic batch of color.

 

 

The beginning of a bouquet lays on the chair waiting for a vase. I cut all the dangling flowers that were sticking out from the core bunch.

It isn't an outstanding grouping but we do get to be a lot closer to the flower garden. 

 

 

 We had a nice day today with the temps are at the low 80's. We were out and about visiting a bookstore and also Hobby Lobby. We needed to get out for a while and it was a good day. Thanks for stopping by today.