welcome to this week's list of likes starting with other people's flowers!
We walk a lot and I enjoy seeing lawn ornaments and pretty flower displays. Our rose bush is adjusting to life in our yard, no blooms yet but they might be these colors...
this yard had 5 of them, orange, yellow, coral, sunset, pink
what are these? red violet colored TINY bells on stalks
how pretty this porch box is! Pink/yellow, white and lush!
mighty clouds filled the brilliant blue sky this week, as a storm blew in to put a stop to over 100 F temps
It is a pure relief to see merely 80's (I do not like it that hot)
we had a big leak from our dishwasher which meant we had to get a degree in dishwasher comparisons and fork out a LOT of money for this
Our plumber came out to install it. Midway he whistled, "are you kidding me?"
the builder put in the island and dishwasher, then installed the wood floor around it so it was super difficult to get the old one out, and this new one in, requiring some pounding. Our plumber said Lowe's would not have done all he did to get this one in,
having had poor quality from them before installing our Washer we automatically called our guy.
He goes by "mad mike" and he also replaced our water pressure regulator
When the temps dropped this week we hurried to bake a loaf of bread, a set of hamburger buns, banana muffins, a pizza, and some chicken. Oy vey.
Our flowers are not blooming, the lettuce was nearly killed by the heat, the tomatoes are behind not even making little tomato balls in flowers yet the wildflowers are green seedlings, but the parsley is alive.
A friend sent a pic of our old house in Maryland after the storm, condemned from tree falling damage!
We talked about Milo, and her dog Piglet... and I went looking for a video to show you of Milo's early childhood
Missing Milo
here's a video of Milo as a puppy enjoying his magazine hobby
for anyone who lost a button
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| gratuitous painting |
Mission Impaw-sible with cats, hilarious to me
The conversation starter this week:
Do you play summer sports? Tennis, or golf, or pickleball, etc? Do you
have a special outfit for them, or equipment?
I'm not sporty, me and "ball" sports have little in common
I tried as a young university student to learn to really play tennis, my boyfriend at the time was all around sporty guy, ice hockey, tennis, marathon runs, hiking, camping, well many things.
He would hit the ball right to me, I'd swing, hear the air rushing through the empty strings, and the thonk of the ball wedging itself into the fence.
then I tried racquetball but again, not great.
I tried running, even did a 5K race where I came in next to last but counted it a win since I never stopped to walk.
walking long distances is my thing, and dance. Swing, tap, ballet, Cajun, jive, contra.... anything dance.
Our neighborhood now has a tennis court where pickleball people take over all the time.
I walk on by.....
oh yes, before marriage, I met a guy when I did the Renaissance Festival, who invited me to go to the yacht races on his sail boat yacht...
I may have been more for ballast lol but I still learned to be more of a help than a hindrance. Davis Island Yacht races I think, it was in Tampa.
Not even good at that sport, I went where told, ducked when the beam came across, pulled on ropes, and had a great time. He had a fairly small vintage beautiful wooden sailing ship, with lots of nice people there to help move me from side to side.
I remember it heeling over so far I missed having seat belts, and thinking, are there sharks just below my head?
I went out with him on the yacht a few times but it wasn't meant to be forever, just one of those truly interesting experiences.
I think that counts for a summer sport?
now please visit these fine folks to see what they liked this week!
