Baby it's cold outside

Sounds so fun.  Can you share the name of the winery Meece?   I'd love to see if they sell the wine here in Michigan and buy a bottle and toast you and your DH on the 4th!

Our warmth begins today - supposed to be in the upper 70s with sunshine this afternoon.  Will be on the beach along with the wineries this weekend.  I'll be on Grand Traverse Bay which leads to Lake Michigan.  Beautiful country!

Suzette, Have a wonderful weekend on the beach.  Sounds beautiful.  It is unbelievably hot for us.  Temps in record 90s and humidty @ 100%.  My hair is one big curl.  I'm having a house full this weekend also.  I plan to pressure wash my pool deck this evening- in the pool, wash down, back in the pool, wash down--in and out til we get it done. 

Smith, I can understand why your daughter would think it is freezing.  I get cold in the air conditioning because it is so hot.

Last night, when I took the dogs out, I saw a pygmy rattler crossing my sidewalk.  I will NOT be putting my hands in my flower beds to pick weeds like I've been doing.

Hi everyone.  Yes, we too have had an unusually hot spring and now starting summer.  Up in the 90's again today.  I continued to rain on into the night last night.  The power went on and off all night long. 

As we spoke of snakes last week, wouldn't you know.  My pool guy told us when we got home yestereday that there is a 4-5' rat snake living in my pool heater.  I was all around that thing all weekend and never saw it (thank God).  Sure enough, before the rain yesterday, we sat out on the deck and there it sat on top of the heater.  I'm very much in the live, let live thing for anything that is not poisonous and could hurt us.  I just wish it would eat the squirrels.  I hate squirrels--rats with bushy tails.  Have a great day today.  Meece, stay cool.

Talking about renovation, my niece thinks that renovation is contagious. I started it in March with my new roof. My mom is in the middle of updating her kitchen. She started about 2 weeks ago going through cabinets. They moved her refrigerator and microwave into her sewing room and the kitchen table. most other stuff went in the living room or den. Last week they got the flooring down, yesterday and today they are getting the new cabinets installed. later this week the countertop guys will come in to measure the installed cabinets and come back to install the countertop and back splash. My sister is getting a new porch built on her house and a new roof as well and my niece pulled the carpet up in her living room, and is ready to put new carpet back down. I am planning on pulling the carpet up in my living room this summer after I am laid off.

It is hot again today with a small chance of showers later this evening and the same forecast all week long.  I need to water my crepe myrtle tonight so it will survive. I have the 'put it in the ground and if it lives good for it' garden.

Sheila

I almost forgot - Meece, I love your new picture.

Suzette, my grandmother was and uncle is a master gardener, my dad is a so-so gardener and I didn't get that particular gene from them. I have a brown thumb although I do have some house plants I received at the time of my surgery that are thriving (3 yrs). My sister called me last week to tell me that they were starting on her porch and if I wanted any of her curly ivy, that grows up the side of her house, to go on my bank, come and get it that night. I got a box full of ivy she was cutting back and stuck some of it in the ground, some in potting soil on my porch, and some in a jar of water on the porch to try and root. Hopefully one of the three ways will get some roots going and I can try starting the Ivy on my bank where I can't get much of anything to grow. I take whatever people don't want and try putting it on the bank. I don't want to waste money on something that may not make it. In the past 5 yrs I have tried transplanting creeping phlox and grape hyscenths from one part of my yard to the bank somewhat successfully, monkey grass from the church flower beds (haven't spread like promised), Iris from my uncle (too shady for them to bloom). I still have plenty of bare spots on the bank. My mom has promised me some of her daffidils when she separates them this fall.  My neighbors have their bank covered in rocks and ivy spilling down across the rocks. That is my inspiration.

I have pets so I don't want to use any chemicals in my back yard but I have a feeling soon my beautiful basil plants will be the first to be devoured by insects.