Hi Everyone! I hope this blog post finds you all well. I cannot believe the end of May will be here tomorrow! Where did the time go. There has been alot of things going on here.
Scott and I have been busy! We went up to his property and planted 3 apple trees and 1 peach tree.
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Here is one of the apple trees we planted. |
I was so excited because the mountain laurel was blooming. I love mountain laurel. It was everywhere! Here are a few photos of the mountain laurel and a few photos of the property.
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This is an old tobacco barn on the property. |
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Scott driving the Massey Ferguson down to where we were going to plant the trees. I'm following in the Ranger Polaris. |
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Beautiful Mountain Laurel blooming. |
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Mountain Laurel from another spot. |
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A lovely path through the woods up on the property. |
Scott and I then went to NJ to visit my Mom, sister, Sue, her husband, Chuck, my nephew, Troy and his Fiancee, Ashe. We spent 4 days up there (well really 3 because we left to come home on the 4th day). We had a wonderful time with all of them. They loved Scott also. I showed Scott all around where I grew up. We went out to dinner with my Mom and Sue to The Green Olive. We also went through Stokes State Forest for a lovely drive and saw a bear (missed it with the camera-darn!). We went passed all the houses I have lived in and got some yummy bagels, hard rolls and hoagie rolls to take back with us! It was such a wonderful time!
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This is the brook by our old farm John and I owned. It is an abandoned railroad bed. Scott and I took a lovely walk by here. |
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Dame's Rockets growing along the abandoned rr bed. So sweet smelling-just wonderful! |
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We had a visitor while we were walking. She didn't even seemed bothered by us! |
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Mysel and sister, Sue (standing) my Mom sitting. We were having dinner at The Green Olive. |
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Scott and I at The Green Olive for dinner with Mom and Sue. |
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Sunrise Mountain-Stokes State Forest. |
This past Saturday all 3 of Scott's kids graduated from High School. We are so proud of them. The boys (Ben and Mason) are fraternal twins and Katelyn did an excelerated program and graduated a year early.
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Ben, Katelyn, Scott and Mason at their high school graduation. |
Scott and I also walked one morning earlier in the month at a beautiful park in Salisbury.
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Lake at the Salisbury Park. |
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A gorgeous view of a field at the Salisbury Park. |
I made one of my favorite cakes yesterday. It is a chocolate wafer cake. So good. I have also attached a few other photos of things for this month.
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Chocolate Wafer Cake |
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Closeup of a roses I bought at Harris Teeter. |
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This is the full bouquet of roses. They are gorgeous in person! |
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Mother's Day, Mason and I created a veggie garden for him. He is into 18th century ways, so he is planting this garden the 18th century way. So far his 3 black peanut plants are doing really well and 1 strawberry plant. The corn hasn't come up yet. |
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My strawberries are blooming again and have some strawberries set again. The last ones were so good! |
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When I was down in SC at my house, I snipped these roses. They were so pretty. I also got 2 strawberries out of my garden there.
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Well I hope June is going to be a good month. I hope my house in Lake City sells really soon. Everyone have a lovely day!
Sherri
Wonderful pics, Sherri. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteMary
Thanks Mary!
DeleteWonderful walks, flowers and pics, and all the family is SO cute. Wow! 3 kids graduating at the same time. Sounds potentially painful to send them off to college, at least tuition-wise. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteYes, it is alot with the 3 kids graduating all at once. Scott had already put aside the money for their college, so that helps. Ben, basically has a free ride being in the Army National Guard. He has been saving $ too. Mason will be going to community for 2 years and then going to a different college to finish, which is less costly. Katelyn will be getting a Veteran scholarship and possibly another one. It is still alot to deal with for the next 4 years though for sure!
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