Tuesday’s Things.......

It is so great to be greeted by these flowers every morning.  The idea of having vines on a second story deck is sort of impossible but the longer the fall season last the more these vines will grow.

I had to move the begonia to the deck as it was getting too hot for them in the afternoon. Notice how well the miniature  roses are doing behind the begonia.  The roses really are small ones compared to the normal sized flower.

Our sunrise was great but the clouds were only in the area of the sun.  The rest of the sky has no clouds.

To my surprise in the afternoon the moon was already in view.  I still don’t understand all the movement of the earth and moon but this was not expected.

Easy evening it looked more like this and it was in clear view.  As the earth tilts back the moon is easier to see. I think I had to tilt the camera a little making the dark side of a moon looking to be at the wrong angle.

My sedum from the old place are blooming.  They are short this year but next year they will be tall.  The volunteer cockscomb looks nice contrasting with the pale pink.  All is going to get a watering this morning. I should have stayed on the watering on this garden but I guess I just got worn out from doing it.  Water is not going to save the petunias in that area.

One really can find lots of answers on the internet if you ask for it.  My old kitchen cabinets did not look good with my white semigloss  enamel paint.  It didn’t cover good and now once it is covered, I don’t like it.

I found on the internet that enamel that shines shows the uneven surface of things. The kitchen cupboards were originally plywood, shellac painted, home made cabinets.  I met the carpenter once when he worked for the phone company. They were painted a coat of a gosh awful mixed color of green before I bought it.  I have painted them two different colors in 30 years.  The white shows the uneven levels of so many coats of paint.  The net says that I can paint a satin kind of paint on top of it as long as the paint brand is the same.  The satin paint will not show any shine.

The history of this kitchen was one of a large cast iron sink and drain board.  The stove was apparently a wood burning cast iron, woodturning one.  The chimney marks still show on the cedar siding on the outside of that wall of the brick chimney. New cabinets must have been put in when city water was installed. The old sink in now in the basement and the plywood was a dated product of the 60s. When I sell this 1904 house, it will have an all white kitchen.  It will look good before I sell it.  Taking a day off from than and will do easy things today.  Thanks for checking in today.

Good Morning.....

The morning view was made up of a lot of broken up clouds.  There was a time that it had all cleared off but now we have bigger clouds that are not so scattered.

I shared this as a photo of a day.  The multiple vines are all blooming at the very same time. I had to shoot this through one of the living room windows.

The railing is a great place for them to vine and it will be easy to remove them after a couple of hard freezes.

Another batch of hummingbirds have moved into the area.  I think there are four or five of them in this group.

It is Monday and I have been out and about working at the old place.  We are going to warm up again today so that it will be uncomfortable outside. It is Monday and I hope your start of the week is going well.

Saturday’s and Sunday’s in One.......

The earth is tilting back. The sun is now back behind the tree that is way down the street.  The dead branch still is there and the one major cloud is casting a shadow in the sky. Yep, somehow I forgot to blog yesterday.  I don’t think blog is a verb but us bloggers have turned it into a verb.

If I had blogged yesterday you would see that I made sun tea in 90 degree weather. It is better tasting when it gets over brewed.

The other vines are creeping up onto the deck. They are a refreshing change of color.  The purple color is great but that is all that I had most of the blooming season. The purple ones bloom over in the corner of the deck.

Six days until it is officially fall. The season does usually blend back and forth for awhile before you can tell it is actually fall.  Right now we are having a hot summer. The grass has come back so I have to dodge the heat when I mow the grass. I now mow my westerly section of grass and the back yard when the neighbor on that side mows.  I now mow the easterly side of my yard, which is the front yard, when the neighbor of the east mows.  They are at different times up to a four day difference. It works for me so I don’t have to mow everything on the same day.  My woman who mows the yard at the old place mows every week no matter what, so she can keep some spending money coming her way.  That is such a luxury to have someone else mow that yard.

People don’t tip their hat anymore because men don’t wear the right kind of hat anymore.  I see hat tipping on PBS shows and it does look natural.  Hats come off for coffin viewing or people losing their lives.  The sunflowers are all now tipping down as the all are developing seeds causing them to all tip down.

We are living in the city now and it is official when some one gets shot and killed in our neighborhood.  A guy was stealing money from our grocery store’s filling station, a half mile away from us.  When he fled with the money, he ran towards our direction. a few blocks east of us and he pointed a gun.  Unfortunately his pointing a gun toward the police department gave them a reason to shoot back. We have cars stolen from people’s property a couple of blocks over also.  If you saw that neighborhood or street you would  understand that it is a tougher population than our friendly neighborhood.  We do have a foul mouthed guy and his wife who yell profanities up the street. a few house at each other.  I can learn some new old profane words from her when she is yelling at her husband’s latest bad move. The man just cusses out his garden hoses while he waters the grass.

Down the street we have different ages of adults.  Some have young kids and dogs. A couple of houses have college aged kids with dogs.  It is quiet down the street as you wander down the road to the true east and west road.  I think their is a minister that lives along that street and also I know at least one teacher puts out signs for pro education things. There is a large standard poodle living at the corner and just recently we saw this very large Saint Bernard dog that really could just jump his fence if he wanted to. I think our neighbors across the street are going to move away soon.

There is one house on the street where a guy who has too many old things. These three haven’t made it to the storeroom in the basement. I still like where we live and our little nook in the row of houses seems to be working for us.  I have caught up on my blogging now and I hope everyone is doing well.  Thanks for checking in today.

Friday's a Final Finish for the Week.

I have limited time to take photos so I have mostly only flower shots again. I will work on that as tomorrow I should be able to find something new to post.

The clouds are strange today.  They usually react to hurricanes on the east coast but this is allow have because of the heat coming from the south. It was a hot day with the southern winds blowing most of the day.

The morning skies did look like this.

I bought some miniature roses at a sale after a major flower giving event.  They wanted them out of the store so I got a good deal.  Once I planted them in this planter they started sprouting and growing like big flowers. They are so grateful not to be crowded  and look really good with many blooms ready to open.

The petunias started blooming again but they are never going to look as good as they once did.  We are seeing farmers picking corn now so I  guess the fall weather is upon us and it will be time to start clearing the flower gardens.

I spent time at the old place today painting in the kitchen. I am grumbling about paint and how it never wants to cover anything.  I can see three coats to really get a good looking paint job.  I can now see a job I was going to do in a day and a half will be twice as long. Things are looking better at the old place but I am getting impatient with all the nit picking jobs that I would like to do.

I wish you all to have a great rest of the day. Thanks for stoping by.

Cloudy Start to the Day.....

When the hurricanes hit the gulf or coastline, we do get different kinds of cloud formations.  This seem to be pretty normal though so I can call them anything but just clouds.

We did instantly head into high heat and humidity.  I had to water my zinnias today as they looked like they were almost dead.  I haven’t been watering because we had rain but it hasn’t rained for a while.

I did mow the back yard area today as the grass is all growing again. My neighbor had mowed yesterday so I needed to get rid of the ledge between our two yards.

It is really hard to find new material so I am not so boring.  I am working on that but here you go a strange show of my oldest sunflower. I have a couple of hummers that like to land on the top of it before they zoom in to the feeders.

Blurry photos of my gold fish seems to be a change of theme for me.  I bought a algae eater for this tank and he apparently died.  I bought a new one recently and I never see him.  The only clue that I know he is there as the glass is cleaned clear everywhere. I think he must live inside of the sunken ship decoration as some of them do go inside during the day.

The blurry shot of the koi shows that he is growing a lot from when I first bought him.  I had a koi once that grew to be ten inches long. This koi grows bigger mean I will have to buy a big tank again. I gave the last one away to a neighbor.

The foliage that I bought as a rescue is doing well down under the deck.  It is not an outstanding foliage but I like watching it grow.  There was a popular kind of plants out there years ago that were wide multicolored leafed, but this one is not one of them.

We are having now a very sunny day and the clouds are all gone. It will be a few hot days now which will be closer to our normal temperatures.

I thank you for your interest in my post today.

Middle......Stuff.

The rains are causing a mildew growth on the leaves of the zinnias and most of the flowers don’t look as good as these.

This summer’s weather has been wrong for the vining honey suckle.  It seem to go dormant and then after a few rains it did revive for some small spurts of blooms. The asparagus plant has spread out little as it gets ready for its first freeze.

The seeds are filling in making the heads of them get very large. I have some bird eating the seeds on the one side of a seed head. I have not seen anything that is eating on it but it taking seeds quickly. Last year it was a squirrel that devoured a half of head of seed.

My plant seems to look very natural in its new pot. It such a small sprout of three or four leaves on a stem when I first bought it a few years ago.

One of the boys made the plant stand base while they were in junior high shop. I have both of them and they get used a lot when I have an Asian looking pot.

I am late in my blogging post today so I will stop with a photo of color. The zinnia and marigolds have revived after a week of rain.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Tuesday’s Things.......

Even though the majority moved out on Sunday I do still have a couple of fighters hanging around fighting over two feeders. Two birds with two feeders seems like a good situation but they still fight. I am waiting to see if I get any more migrating through.  My wife has an artist friend in Missouri that puts out a dozen feeders each year and the movie showed hundreds of birds swarming their porch.

My three amigos have become five as the younger ones are filling in seed heads. This variety has been good at staying pretty straight and strong.  I guess that is why they are called mammoth sunflower.

The fungus comes and goes from the old tree stump.  I wonder what kind of tree that it was.  I do know the it must have been overpowering the blue spruce. I had a batch of these that sprouted up and then just went away.  After I mowed in this area the new batch popped up overnight. I have a cousin who would turn this into a fairy village with figurines and houses. Did you know that Hobby Lobby now sells all the accessories for people who like to make fairy villages.

I had picked a lot of tomatoes yesterday.  When I returned with a camera I noticed that I forgot to pick the harvest from the hanging garden on the edge of raised bed.

Yes, the tomato patch is coming to an end. A lot of the tomatoes split open as the generous rains was just too much for them. I don’t think I have had that problem before with growing tomatoes.

My volunteer yellow pear tomato has been such a great producer of tomatoes.

I have to send a photo of these to my brother in Arizona as we do compare how our tomatoes are doing.  His season is different than our as he has to grow them before the hot heat of summer hits them in the desert.

My peperomia had out grown its six inch plastic pot.  I bought a new one for it to be moved with more soil.  I will show more photos in the future. If you remember the terrarium era the peperomia was place in glass jars.  The one that I bought in a three inch pot now is in this large pot as it was allowed to grow big.

The basil that I had  forgotten that I had planted is a very nice herb for us to use. It grows and is crowded among the tomato plants.

I am staying home one more day before I head to the old place. I am tired again to day and have done something to one of my toes making it difficult for a while.  I will work tomorrow regardless what my body is telling me.

I watched a review of the 9/11 attacks this morning.  That day was such a sad day and still today there are things that still have not been answered. I will never forget. Thanks for stopping by today.