Hello Saturday

 Back to posting again finally.   Been awhile. 

It has been so hot and humid around our neck of the woods.  A welcoming rain has cooled it down wonderfully.  

My garden has grown so much since the rain.  Some cukes and tomatoes. 

Parisienne cucumbers and some peppers

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We ordered our furniture. We finally made a choice as to what to get for our lounge area downstairs. It will be the middle of August before it gets here. 

A few pictures from Havertys furniture store are of a coffee table we purchased.   Will work well since we do eat lunch or dinner sometimes there. 

I like how it lifts and has storage. 

Good for playing board games too.

A three light lamp post will work really well in the corner next to our table along with the two potted grasses shown next to lamp. I took this picture in the showroom. 

Below, the blue glass lamp will look nice on an end table

I copied this sectional we purchased from Havertys website.

Something different for us is the semi aniline leather, in the color - blue ocean.

The recliners at both ends have powered head and footrest with two positions recline.  We ordered a battery pack also, so we don't have to plug to wall, good to have on hand anyway. 

The sofa shown is with white end tables, we went with brown ones like the coffee table with metal corners.  Carpet has swirling colors of blues and Greens along with other light colors.  Reminds me of the ocean.   

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 Took a while to make decision but we wanted to be sure of what we wanted.  

One cup holder and utility drawer that fits in with the sofa I thought a good idea to have also. 

I like Havertys and the service they offered of a designer to come to our house to measure and see what we liked as far as the fit for furniture we were interested in and accessories, so helpful.   Back at the store it was all put in a program arranged in our room so we could see how it would look.  

Can't wait to get the room together and marked off of our to do list. 

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Lavender has dried and I have been making sachets.  I like lavender lemonade too.

This is hanging in kitchenette area window downstairs. 

The room had a strong lavender scent while pulling the dried lavender from the stems.

More stems to strip of lavender tomorrow.  

Teddy Bear sunflower seeds I sowed in the spring have come up really well and I love the pom pom like flowers on this type of sunflower. 

Crepe Myrtles are getting so tall, and I guess I won't be trimming a little off the top anymore.

Their color looks so much prettier than last year.  

Iced tea with orange slice and some fried tomatoes.  I like my fried tomatoes more on the red side and not green.  The red has more flavor.   I fried mine in spray pam and cooked for a while with lid on. They browned nicely and not as many calories like it would be frying in oil.  I usually like mine dipped in corn starch and sometimes a mixture of cornstarch and flour which makes more of a crisp coating.  These are floured.  I need to put cornstarch on my grocery list. 

Later, Betsy

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