A Small Glimpse Of My Garden

It has been a quiet day on the old homestead.

Harvey took a day off from yard work and spent a few hours fishing. He didn't catch anything, but enjoyed his time off immensely. I got the house to myself so had a bit of quiet time with no hammering, cutting or having to hold something.

Thought I would share a few pictures of my flowers and the zucchini (I might actually have some to pick this year).

My delphinium are coming along nicely. The Blue Knight is already blooming.

It looks almost purple here, but it is a lovely tinge of blue.

Here is a closeup of one of the sprays.

The Gerbera Daisies are coming along nicely.

I planted mostly red flowers this year. I am trying to attract humming birds but no such luck as of yet.

Begonias peeking through their green leaves. These aren't as big as they usually are, but the weather until the last week or so has been very poor for growing anything.

Zucchini is blossoming madly and if you look closely at the bottom middle of the picture you can see one almost ready to pick. I am giving it another day or two and then harvesting it.

My Moonflower are blooming like crazy!! Last year I missed seeing them bloom, I only got one or two blossoms. This year I am really enjoying the show they are putting on. Three blossoms at once and the vine isn't even full grown yet. Each of these flowers ended up being almost as big as my hand by the time they were fully opened. That is actually a bit small for this flower. The blooms only last for a day but since they bloom in the evening it is wonderful to sit and watch them open.

Tomorrow I will be drying some herbs. Mainly parsley and basil as those seem to have gotten very large and need to be cut back in order to get more growth. May as well dry the trimmings.

Hope to share more pictures of the garden with all of you tomorrow. Perhaps some lilies will be open by then.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Menu Plan Monday

I have been unable to blog the past few days. We have been busy working in the yard and Kurt kind of sort of took over the computer for awhile.

He is leaving today so things should be back to normal for awhile. Kris is coming home on Friday for a few days, so who knows what the computer situation will be at at that time.

Here are my menus for the coming week.

Monday

Leftover chicken from the fridge freezer (needs to be used), salad (I will pick some lettuce from the garden).

Tuesday

Strip loin steak, tin foil potatoes and carrots. We will also have any remaining salad.

Wednesday

I have some leftover ham that I will cut up and make Scalloped potatoes and ham. Perhaps served with peas.

Thursday

Hot dogs and all the trimmings. I hope I have some canned baked beans to go with.

Friday

Glace (German noodles) and eggs.

Saturday

Grilled Chicken Breasts, tin foil potatoes and carrots, and a salad.

Sunday

Beef Roast, roast potatoes, peas and the remaining salad.

There we go, back on track. Kurt being home changed the menu somewhat and I don't have as many leftovers to use up. Which could be a good thing overall.

Everybody have a wonderful day.

God bless.

Thursday Tid Bits

Almost the end of the week and things are being completed in the yard.

Yesterday and today Harvey and Kurt worked at putting up the second shed.

The base was made yesterday so today they just had to get the structure put together. Harvey spent most of the morning putting together pieces like the doors, and roof struts. Then once Kurt got up they set to work.

One man on the inside and one on the outside and boom, the shed was up in a few hours. Guess the finishing touches and clean up of the side yard will be completed over the next few days. I can hardly wait for Harvey to build me the gate to block this side off.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Monthly Goals An Update and A New List For July

First a wrap up on my goals for last month.

1.     Continue with the rug project. Did work on this every night, and afternoons that were bright enough to sew the cord on.
2.     Continue with the Angel cross stitch I started oh so many years ago. Did work on this the afternoons that the sun shone, not as many as I would have liked however.
3.     Continue with my daily early morning walks and try oh so hard to add a block or two each week. When the sun shone I walked, when it didn't I couldn't so there were many more no walking days then walking days.
4.     Clean and organize the kitchen cupboards. I really do not know how they get so messed up with only two of us at home most of the time. Completely done and I am so happy.
5.     Sew the patterns I cut out last month and perhaps get that jacket sewn as well. This is completely done as well.

Do not know why I can not remove the highlight on the first one, but oh well Blogger sometimes has a mind of it's own.

I have 6 more goals for this month.

1. Continue with my cross stitch project.
2. Copy recipes as I have way too many written in various notebooks and stuck into binders.
3. Start Christmas gifts.
4. Cut out and sew 5 items.
5. Do more decluttering.
6. Work on my own rug when Kris is home (have to hid his Christmas present).

I think I can handle all of these. It is after all the summer holidays up here in Canada and no subbing will be on the horizon until the fall.

One more thing. Wishing all my Canadian readers,

Happy Canada Day

We live in an awesome country!!!!

Everybody have a wonderful day.

God bless.
 

Menu Monday

Another cold, rainy, windy day here. The rain seems to be moving into the area in waves. To think I have to venture out today.....

Anyway here are the menus for this week. As usual they are subject to change as long as I stick to the menus in the month.

Monday

Even though it is chilly out today we are going to have Chef's Salad. Kurt is coming home and will want healthy eating. Can't really get much healthier and I will be using up some leftovers as well.

Tuesday

Grilled Hamburgers and all the trimmings. I think I may make a macaroni salad to go with these. Hopefully the rain lets up long enough to grill.

Wednesday

Leftover Pork Roast.... This will be a stir fry, served over rice.

Thursday

Clean out the fridge. There will be lots to choose from.

Friday

Tuna Pasta Salad, served with French bread.

Saturday

Grilled Smoked Sausages, tin foil potatoes, and perhaps carrots.

Sunday

Roast Ham, mashed potatoes, corn

So there you have it our suppers for the week. Our lunches are either leftovers or sandwiches so there really isn't much use posting them.

Everyone have a wonderful day.

God bless.

Nasty Weather

While it seems like my city learned from the floods of the past, it seems like others could be on a steeper learning curve.

We have received over two inches of rain in the last 24 hours with more in the forecast. However many places got up to 8 inches of rain causing major problems.

Thought I would share some pictures with you from around the Southeast corner of Saskatchewan.

We are very lucky considering some of these pictures are only an hour away.

Major highways underwater, people cut off and waiting to be rescued, basements full of water and worse yet sewage as things just backed up.

This area is considered semi arid and to get a downpour of more than two inches causes major damage to roads, homes, and utilities. Here is hoping the province manages to get everything back to normal as soon as possible.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Something the Garden Needed

Today the rain arrived.

You can't really tell in this picture but for most of today the rain has been steadily falling. Up until now we have gotten an inch of the lovely wet stuff. The grass is getting green again, and Harvey's garden is getting a nice soaking, something it desperately needed. Not to mention my perennial bed is getting nicely soaked as well.

What to do on a day when you can't get out to do any work?

Well, I did enter a few items in the budget page for this month, even found a bill I forgot to pay!!! Yikes, hope they don't charge interest if I can get it paid on Monday. If they do it will teach me a lesson I won't soon forget.

I also got into the sewing room and started the dreaded jacket.

I did not get it finished, but another hour or so should see it done tomorrow. And this will see the end of another challenge for this month.

This is the simple red knit pullover dress I made a couple of weeks ago. It has been hanging for awhile in order to get some of the wrinkles out from sewing.

I need to clip a few threads and it will be ready to wear.

The cooler weather was perfect for a meal of soup and sandwiches tonight. I pulled some frozen stock out of the fridge freezer and got to work.

A lovely large pot of Chicken Vegetable Soup. Served with Grilled Cheese Sandwiches it was a lovely filling meal. We have enough left over for some lunches or another supper. Once it has cooled more I will divide it up and freeze a container for later on. Planning ahead with meals that can be put together in minutes is a time and money saver around this house.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.