A Hot Summer is on the Way!

 Well I am pretty sure another hot summer is on its way!  Yesterday when I was leaving work my car said it was 100 degrees and boy was it humid!!  Atleast we didn't have rain yesterday and I don't think we are supposed to today either.  The blue skies are here and there was actually a nice breeze when I took Riley out this morning.  I should get outside and deadhead my daylilies before the heat gets here.  The daylilies have been loving this rain and a few other flowers too.  I have to make sure I watch the new plants I planted last week.  I don't want them to burn up.  Here are just a few things blooming now.

Bumble on my cone flower.

Butterfly Bush in full bloom.

Casa Blanca Lilies.

Red Desert Coneflower

Dahlia

Daylily

Daylily

Daylily

Perfect Peach Pie Daylily

Miniature Roses I bought at work.  I put them in the front flower pot on my porch.  I had pansies in here but they are all done.

My glads.  Love them this year, they are so beautiful!

I have 3 glad arrangements around the house now.  This one is on the kitchen counter.

This one is on the dining room table.  I also have one in the front window on the sofa table .  They are so pretty.

I have been knitting, listening to audiobooks, gardening a little, keep the house clean and that is about it this summer.  Besides work and doing laundry.  I am having a relaxing summer.  I am a little bored without any projects going on, but my Dr. told me I needed to slow down and rest more so that is what I'm doing.

It is hard to see but on top of the armillary that is my little female hummingbird that has been visiting me.  She is teeny tiny!  There are 2 males here also.  I see them fighting for the food I have put on the porch.  They all buzz around that feeder but the little female has ever sat on the feeder drinking for 30 minutes!!  I love watching them.  They are also loving the salvia, canna lilies and bee balm in my garden.

Some of the books I have been reading (which are at 2 different ends of the spectrum) is:

Freida McFadden's, The Tenant

Jan Moran's-Beach View Lane, Sunset Avenue and Orange Blossom Way.  I love this series.

I love to listen to these stories while I'm knitting.  Keeps me entertained!

Well I hope you all have a wonderful summer and it isn't too hot where you live.  I'll be back from time to time!

Sherri

I can't believe it is June 11th already!

Hi Everyone!  June is just whizzing by us!  Where did May go!  We have had an abundance of rain.  I am over that for sure.  I hope our drought is over here in NC.  The gardens sure have loved all this rain though except the roses.  I lost a rose bush and I'm not sure about another one.  I'm watching it.

Here are some photos of all my flowers:

 

Red Dahlia

Nasturtiums

Mr. Lincoln Rose

Lake Norman Sunset Daylily

Hosta

Gentle Gardener David Austin Rose

Eglantyne David Austin Rose

Desert Echinecea

Daring Deception Daylily

Voyager Daylily

Harmony Ruffles Daylily

Remembering Grace Daylily

Inwood Daylily

Picking Berries Day Lily

Whole Peach Pie Daylily

Two types of Coleus

Canna Lily

Riley and I have been sitting on the patio after dinner when it isn't raining and he loves it!

Banana tree on the patio

Little birds fountain I have on the patio.  I love to hear the water bubbling.

Patio

Riley enjoying the patio after dinner the other night.

I completed the knitting project bag I was making.  It is lined with linen and has pockets for scissors, stitch markers, knitting needles, etc. The brown leather handle is there in case you want to hang it up! I love how it turned out

Bumblebee happy on the Butterfly Bush!

I have 2 gardenia plants in the house.  They are both loaded with buds!  My Nana always had a gardenia in the house and it smelled wonderful.  Everytime I smell Gardenia in the air, I think of her.

These glads are from my garden.  I now have some light purple ones blooming.  I'll have to cut them and bring them in too!

This little mourning dove was following me around the garden the other morning.  She went to this little bird bath for a drink of water and then she went to eat some seeds that were scattered from the feeder (below)

I put together this little black table for in between my rocking chairs on the front porch.  The rocking chairs were my parents on their farm.  I like to sit out there and knit or have a cup of iced tea and I always said I needed a little table.  I bought this one on Amazon and put it together when it came.  It is weatherproof and bug proof.

This double begonia is doing so well on the porch.  I love this color against the black rockers and table.

This is a view of my garden the other day from my patio.  I love all the colors and it will just fill in year after year.

The first pumpkin of the season!  I planted from seed milk pumpkin in my raised bed on legs on my patio.

First tomato of the year!!  I have 2 tomatoes in pots.  This is an heirloom one and the other is a Big Boy Tomato plant.  I hope I get alot of them!

Alot of garden things going on but I am taking it easy.  My cancer is back but not enough for chemo right now.  We are watching it.  Pray that it doesn't get any worse and that it just stays like this the rest of my life!  I have cut my hours at work down to 3 days and to 8 hours.  I am doing so much better with being tired now that I have done that.  I appreciate all your prayers you sent me and thoughts, you are all the best!  

That is about all I have for today!  I hope everyone has a great start to their summer and vacations if they are going on one. Take care!

Sherri