Another Month drawing to a close!

Hi Everyone!  I cannot believe today is the last day of August!  This year is just speeding by!  I hate to say this but I am so ready for Fall.  It has been so hot and humid here this summer.  There are also a million bugs that go along with that type of weather.  I have been eaten alive this year it seems!

Well alot of things have happened since my last post in the beginning of August.  I have started dating someone.  I know, I know after Scott I didn't think I would date again.  That was such a bad experience.  I met Michael the second week of this month.  We had lunch and everything went really well.  Then he couldn't believe I never bowled before, so we had lunch and went bowling.  We had a picnic in the Park with our dogs so they could meet.  It went really well with Riley and Ivan.  Ivan is a 1/2 yellow lab and 1/2 Golden Retriever.  They got along really well.  Then Michael and Ivan came to dinner at my house.  The other day Michael and I went to lunch and then bowled again.  Monday we are having a picnic at his house and I am bringing Riley.  So things are going really well.  We are taking everything slow though.  He is divorced (5 years) and it wasn't pretty.  I am really glad I met him and it is working out so far.

Riley and Ivan walking in the Park

Fountain in the Park

I cannot believe Riley turned 11 months on the 16th of this month!  Where did that time go.  He is usually such a good boy, but he does still have that puppy wild streak in him every once in a while (which is to be expected).

Riley 11 months

Even with all of this heat, my garden produced some really beautiful flowers.  Some of my dahlias were smaller than normal but I still had a really huge dahlia.

Dahlia-Large Dinnerplate

Clematis

Another Dinnerplate dahlia

Mr. Lincoln rose out of my garden.  This rose has a beautiful fragrance.  I just love it.  I planted it for Owen, my grandson who just loves Abraham Lincoln.

This rose, My First Love just keep on giving and giving.

I made some Fall wreaths for the doors of our church.  I took the summer ones down today and put these up.  I think they turned out really nice!

I have been working on another 18th century shirt for a customer.  It turned out really well.  It took about 1.5 weeks.  I shipped it to the customer today.  Here it is!

I have been knitting a little also in the evenings.  I am making a table runner designed by Margaret at Heidi and Lana.  It is called picnic.  I made it 17 stitches bigger than it called for.  I like a wider runner on my table.  The yarn is called Sky and that is by Heidi and Lana also.  It is an easier project and I like the way it is turning out.

We have had alot of thunderstorms with rain but no lightning lately.  This picture is from yesterday late in the day.  It got all dark and windy and then very loud thunder.  The rains came down in buckets.  It last for about 1.5 hours or so.  We did need the rain, it was so dry here again.

Well that about wraps it up for this post.  I hope everyone is having a good summer and that you all have a wonderful Labor Day!

Take care,

Sherri

I Can't Believe it is August already!!

I hope everyone is having a great summer!  Happy August!  I cannot believe it is August already-how time flies!!

It has been a hot and humid one! First it was really dry and drought like conditions but then the rains came.  It is drying out now.  My gardens are thriving and I am thankful for that!!

Here are some photos of my gardens:

One of my favorite daylilies.

Here is a bouquet of my glads.

I picked the last glad for the year.  

My miniature pink rose has been going strong all summer!

One of my beautiful dahlias.

This red dahlia is so pretty.  The color is just so beautiful!

My veggies have been growing also!  Here are some things I have harvested.  The tomatoes are having a hard time with the ground being so dry and then wet.

Several tomatoes, a cucumber and chives from my garden.

The bugs have been really bad this year.  Every time I go out into the garden just for a little bit, those mosquitoes and flies bite the heck out of me!!  Here is a little (well not so little) visitor I had the other day!

Huge grasshopper on my dahlia!

Riley has been growing also over this summer.  I think he must be done growing now, well he might grow a little bit more.  He has developed quite the personality!  He is so strong, much stronger than any of the other Goldens I have owned.  He actually went to go see my neighbors little boy, forgot I was attached to the leash and got it all tangled around my finger and my finger got broken!  Very painful but all healed now!

I'm sorry to say I had been really sick for over 2 weeks.  I actually thought I had COVID.  I have never had COVID but it felt like what everyone was describing.  I didn't have COVID but I did have a very stubborn upper respiratory infection.  I ended up having to go to the Dr. twice and the second time she gave me a steriod and that cleared it up!  I cough every once in a while now but not too bad.  Don't ever want to go through that again!

I also celebrated my 65th birthday on the 23rd of July.  I was sick, so it was a quiet day.  Glad I made it around the sun again!!

Everyone have a lovely rest of your summer because before you know it Fall will be here!

Sherri