Weekend Roundup

I have a busy busy week lined up. I had hoped to post last night, because I figured I wouldn't get a chance if I didn't do it then. I am popping in with a few weekend updates and things that I like and then you will not hear from me except to comment on yours until the end of the week.

On Friday, I worked in the yard half the day. I fertilized all my flowers, pruned lots of things, and even planted a new hydrangea. All of it should pay off this week with lots of blooming flowers as it has rained a bunch since then. Lots of rain off the Gulf should have everything growing and looking pretty.

Saturday found me a lazy girl. I guess a little too much work in the flowers made me sit a spell. I used it to do quite a bit of stitching. I made some progress on one of my works in progress. I enjoyed it immensely.

Sunday evening we went out to 30A with Lindsay and Tyler. Tyler is a project manager with a construction company that is building a big condo out on 30A. He is literally on the Gulf if he is onsite or a block away with a view from his desk window of the Gulf. I mean really...how fun is that to be working there. Should be there for quite a while on this job site. We went out to see the job site and eat. Surprisingly Sunday evening was not quite as tourist filled as a Saturday probably. It was a nice outing.

Paul Allen and Katie went to Tallahassee on Saturday. Katie is a 4th grade teacher and just recently went on the 4th grade trip to Tallahassee. I could plan that field trip in my sleep still as I did that trip for many years. I always loved it. She had gone to the same spots I always took my students. She had enjoyed it herself so much that she and Paul Allen went to both of the museums (one an indoor and one an outdoor) on Saturday. They coincided with a baseball tournament that Auburn was in held at Florida State. He sent a cute picture of them.
They cheered on the Tigers at the baseball game. I noticed Katie has on orange and blue. Yippie!

I read a good book this past week. The book was Lighthouse Faith: God as a Living Reality in a World Immersed in Fog, by Lauren Green. I never like recommending books. This one was deep, but I really enjoyed it. I have a fiction book I am starting tonight. I think it is going to be a winner. I will let you know.

I have quite a few things to do this week that will take me away from the house, so I will be popping in late evenings to read my blogs, but I am going to leave you with two Instagram photos that I loved, but I am on a self imposed no spending rule, so I can only window shop😊

This table is so cute from twoofakindart.

Then there is these adorable shorts and blue gingham top from nineandsixteen.

Well, that is it for me today. See y'all at the end of the week.

Sandy

Lemony Meets the Cows

We are going to the farm on Wednesday evenings for June and July. Our small group takes a break during those months for vacations and we meet just once a month. We are tending the garden and trying to make sure the fruit trees get going. We didn't do what we were supposed to with the fruit trees last summer and they barely grew at all.

Here is one of the peach trees.

The cows came this weekend and I didn't go. They are low line cows, so Lemony, the Golden is not much shorter than the girls. There are four girls and one bull named Captain Morgan. The guy that owns them says he has no plans to kill these for meat as I once thought. If he gets a boy from the pregnant cow he will sell her. Apparently these cows have papers and bring a great price. Who KNEW??!!

When Lemony first got out, she wasn't sure what they were and tentatively walked up. She is such a city dog. They actually seemed more interested in her.

After we had worked in the garden gathering our squash and cucumbers and then planting pumpkin seeds, we went back to visit them. More on that in a bit.

I am beyond excited about pumpkins. We learn as we go. We have learned so much both gardening years. We might actually figure all this out in a decade. Yikes. Lindsay has been after us to plant pumpkins. I planted one packet of seeds. I have no idea how many this will produce. I followed the directions on the packet for number and spacing. We will see. I would love to one day have enough to let future grandchildren have fun in the "pumpkin patch."

We plan to do some peas and okra a little later.

I am also working on 10 pecan trees to see if I can get them to produce. I decided to only fertilize 10 this year. Some are newer and some are older. I am experimenting. I don't need all 100 of them to produce at one time. I will keep you posted.

Lemony loves riding in the mule. She and I were in it and she just lays down on the front seat next to me and looks out the side like she is a queen. We still miss our Lucy, but we are moving into a good routine.

While Jeff was watering the fruit trees, she and I wandered back over to the cows. She decided to take off full steam running towards them and under the fence she went. I think she had decided they were big dogs and could play. Everything was fine until the bull didn't seem to like that running with his girls. He comes running over. I nearly died! No pictures because my heart stopped beating for a minute.

Lemony is a roll over on her back submissive girl if trouble looms. She plopped down and he is throwing his neck around. I finally managed to get her to understand to get out of there. I remained calm while doing this. AMAZED at my own calm voice. I think she knew he didn't like it, and she was confused. I will have to watch her with them until she learns her way.

These are my two stitching projects that I am working on. I want to finish them soon, because I plan to devote July for Christmas projects. I am not prioritizing my fall stitching this year. I may do some in August. We will see. I really want to get the samplers and the Christmas things done first.

I got off to a very slow start this morning, so I have to leave this computer and get busy.

Off to work I need to go,
Sandy