Summer time and home.

August will be gone before we know it.  Lots of watering to keep things green and flowering.  Yes, it's been hot.  August always is.  

This planter with Portulaca or moss rose as I call it and creeping Jenny has gone wild 

Our vegetables especially the tomatoes did not do well at all this year. 

 Pulled them up already, not sure what went wrong.  Was not because of no water because I watered every day. The peppers did well and green beans are making now but the rest, a lost cause.

Lemon basil and other herbs love the heat.

Always grass to cut and girls helped rake up the sticks and other stuff before cutting.  Raking this far yard behind the garage is much cooler in the shady area this time of day for us.  

Curious, I looked up the temps on record for Va. and the hottest I find is in 1918 at 107 degrees. Fluctuates back and forth years after that with the hottest being in 1918.

Some summer food for us.

Sauteed Mushrooms, oven roasted tomatoes, sesame seeds and splash of sesame seed oil.

I sprinkle feta cheese on top of mine. Good hot or cold.

Home made rolls

Can't wait til the people get here to re do our shower.  They said it would be about three months, already been one. things are taking longer to get done now. 

Waiting for kitchen work now too.

We are having Shelf genie do a few of kitchen cabinets as far as lazy susan in corner cabinet(above) and some pull outs in others.  Another wait in store for that.  Watch and see if all is done around the same time and it being as late as November.  Sure hope not.

 

Some sconces I found at a thrift store a while back. Not really liking them with this mirror in entry but it's a change. 

Dragon flies still going strong in our area.  I used to be fascinated by them as a child, still am really.  They seem to almost be looking back at me when I see them land on the fence or chairs.  Magical they seem. 

My grand daughter had three land on her fishing pole and then she caught three fish. She still talks about that.

Change, transformation and self-awareness associated with the dragonfly. Three stages of life cycle- egg, nymph and adult. Most of their life cycle lived out in the nymph stage.  Unless you swim under water, you won't see them.  

 An article in local paper with Adalyn in top left and Genevieve in top right corner of paper. Huck Finn style fishing.

A drive out this afternoon to Tappahannock Va. Passed some pretty corn fields and I leave with that. 

 Happy Saturday.