Much has been going on around the homeplace. We are still staying home mostly. We did make a trip to Hot Springs to Walmarts and Sams. I guess we are turning into preppers though we aren't hoarding and buying food in bulk like MRE, etc. But we do plan to buy what we can in bulk at Sams. With hints coming from the media that we may be facing another round of this plague, we decided we wanted to be more ready. Thankfully the week before the quarantine in March, we had bought paper goods at Sams. We found out then there was a shortage of alcohol and bleach but we found both cheaper at Atwoods and the Dollar store. Now it seems there is going to be a shortage of meats. They are limiting purchase of meat to 1 package per shopper and to tell you that shopping at both stores was an experience. But it must be done.
Well enough of that...on to the photos.
I've made 14 aprons since March. These will be Christmas presents. I've also made almost 1000 face masks and given away most. Elastic is not available anywhere...even online. so most I've made have ties.
I made 4 of the cow print fabric. This yellow one has birdhouses on and think I placed the pockets too high.
Egg print
Grape vine and chickens
tomatoes and fall leaves
chickens and fall leaves
birdhouses and scissors
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Both of the younger sons finally got to leave for their hitches on their ships. One is off coast of Mexico and other is in Alaska. The one in Alaska won't be home until autumn. But they came out for a visit. We ate our first outside meal under the patio area.
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Our hawk babies have hatched. I've been trying to get a good photo and so far this is all I've gotten. They are the fuzzy blobs in the center top of the nest.
This shows the momma hawk
There are 2 babies.
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Our garden is finally growing. We have had very cool mornings so it has been slow growing.
Our semi-raised lettuce, spinach and onion bed. The fuzzy plant at the bottom left corner is mint and it never dies but will spread so we try to keep it contained. We have garlic planted with the mint.
Hubby and the tomato and pepper plants in pots.
Our green peas and corn. The asparagus bed is in bottom right corner of photo. We are going to replant it next spring as it is over 20 years old and not producing like it should.
This is 2 rosemary bushes. I even cut it back early spring.
The herb bed. The middle plants are oregano and bottom 2 are sage. The rosemary is on the right. They are all perennials so will
continue to grow year round. The spots between them have basil and Italian parley which are annuals. I hope to expand this bed later.
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Since we dug up our iris bed, the only ones I have now are planted beside the driveway. The big bed was just too hard to keep up with us again. I gave all the tubers away to friends and neighbors. But these are the few that bloomed this year.
I was pleased to see the pink one.
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Our clematis have begun blooming. This first photo is our oldest vine.
This one grows beside our porch
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These bottom 2 photos are from our newer ones and grow on a round trellis in the yard.
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We have had so much trouble growing this rose. I have cut it back every year almost to the ground. It seems to get a type of rose blight. But this year it came back healthy and has bloomed and bloomed.
O and we did get rid of our comode planters. The weather took a tole on them and they had cracked and broken. We also removed the old washing machine barrels we always planted with faux sweet potato vines. They are just so much trouble to work up each year.
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We finally did a little pressure washing.
It looks so much cleaner and nicer.
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Our baby dog Kinzey is now 3 years old. Here are 2 photos...one about a month after we got her and now. She now weighs in at 100 lbs.
She does not like to have her picture taken.
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Well that's all folks.
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