Ahhhh Summer

Wow...I can see it's been awhile since my last post. Being a little lazy these days. So I've been doing a little sewing and getting ready for some Halloween items that I will be listing on Early Work Mercantile next week!!! Halloween is my most favorite holiday to create for! Here is a little something that I just listed in my Etsy Shop a little bit ago.

My gardens are doing so well this year! My only problem right now are the Japanese beetles and the deer. I read online that the best way to get rid of those pesky beetles is to pick them off by hand and throw them in a bucket of soapy water. Do not get those beetle traps you see at your home improvement stores. They make things worse by attracting the beetles.

Here is one feasting on one of my Zinnias

Cone flowers are blooming!

I wasn't to sure when I took this picture what it was, then when I loaded the picture on my computer I discovered it was a baby katydid!!!! It was so tiny, just about a inch in length. Please click on the picture to see a bigger view.

One of my new daylilies! I just love this one!

My Hydrangea is blooming! I almost killed this poor thing a couple of years ago with fertilizer. I was trying to change the color to blue with Miracid. I'm so happy that it decided to bloom this year after it's close call. It's a small plant with one bloom but it's doing just fine now. I'm certainly babying this plant now.

And these are very tiny flowers that are blooming on my sedum that I have planted in the cracks of my garden edging. So pretty.

My first green pepper!!! woo hoo!

And my little wren just singing away this morning. He's been very busy building a nest.

And yesterday My daughter, her boyfriend and I went to see the Oscar Meyer Wienermoblie at our local grocery store!! I always wanted to see this when I was a little girl and I finally got to! I got a wiener whistle and a sticker which I will be giving to my granddaughter when I see her in a few weeks. I wish that she lived here so I could have taken her to see the wienermoble.

My daughter sent me this picture the other day of my granddaughter after she opened a package I mailed to her with her pink bird that she requested, that I sent her. The blue one I made and sent to her about a year ago. Now she wants a purple one! hehe I think she loves her birds! I can hardly believe she will be 3 years old in a couple of weeks!

Well that's about all for now I would think! LOL Enjoy the pics!

Summer?

The calendar says it's Summer but it sure don't feel like it. It was another day of only being in the 60's!!! Tomorrow will be sunny and in the 70's. All of my flower gardens and potted plants are growing like crazy!!! We've been having plenty of rain too!

Zinnia

Teeny Tiny Cucumber!

Chocolate Cosmos

Copper Dahlia Pinwheel in my garden

Someone is building a nest in my apple gourd!

This is a petunia that reseeded it's self in the crack of our driveway. I have a big clump of petunias that are growing from the seeds from last year. I don't remember having a petunia that looked like this last year. I think it might have mutated or something.

And lookie here! This little wren is building a nest in the bird house that my daughter gave me for Christmas! I'm so excited!

That's all for now!! Have a wonderful weekend my blogger friends!! :)

Jam Packed Weekend!

I was a dragging today. So tired from going to the Air Show on Saturday to see the Blue Angels and then yesterday went out on my sister and brother in law's boat! What a full weekend! I not used to doing stuff both Saturday and Sunday. But have to say if was so darn fun both days!!!!! Had a blast.

                                        Here's a few pics from the Air Show!

Never get tired of seeing the Blue Angels!

Cool Biplane doing tricks!

Another kind of Jet. If you click on the picture you can see the one guy waving!

Blue Angels Plane called Fat Albert! I love watching this thing take off like a jet! It's huge! I think its cool the way it's painted like a eagle!

And Here's some pics from our day out on the Mississippi River!

My brother in law Eric on the left and Hubby on the right.

Zooming down the river!!!!

My sister Lisa. She loves being out on the river!

Love Clouds!!

Some Garden Shots that I took today!

Isn't this an amazing coleus!!! I think it's my favorite!

This is my most favorite hosta!! It is just full of blooms right now! Love the crinkle leaves.

Daylily

Tiny leaf hopper on my daylily. Click on the picture to see his amazing colors!

OK that's it for tonight!!! Have a wonderful week!

Early Work Mercantile

Time for a new update at Early Work Mercantile! I have a couple new items for sale starting today! I have my sweet little simple prim pig.

And one of my Primitive Crow Heart Make Do's

Be sure to check out the other artist there! There is some amazing work there. I'm proud to be among them.

The other day it was perfect weather so I decided to read the paper out on the deck. While out there I noticed a chickadee coming to one of my feeders continuously. It would get a seed fly up to a branch, crack it open and fly to a bird house that we have on our back fence by the lilac bush. Then fly back to the feeder. I then discovered that the chickadee's were nesting in there. I had no idea. This bird house is in such terrible shape. I'm very surprised that they are nesting in there. The roof has a big hole in it. When my hubby first put that bird house up around 12 years ago, all I got in it was sparrows for the first couple of years then nothing after that. I got my camera and got a few shots of one of the babies leaving the nest!!!!!!!

And also while out on the deck, I was able to capture a shot of a cute little chipmunk. My hubby hates these critters. They are all over the place.

And here are how my apple gourd seeds are doing. I planted 10 seeds and only 3 of them sprouted. Took them about 2 weeks to pop up through the ground after I planted them.

Here's a Tiger Swallowtail butterfly that landed on our hedges the other day. It was attracted to the tiny white flowers blooming. Why couldn't it have landed on one of my many beautiful flowers I have growing!??? It's poor wing (left) was pretty damaged. It didn't seem to have any trouble flying.

And here is a view of my side garden by our back door.

Click on picture to get a better view.

Well that's it for now. Need to get back to my sewing. Orders are awaiting!

Palette of Color!!

We have had nothing but rain the last couple of days and it's threating again for tonight. One good thing its been usually late at night or very early in the morning. Things are blooming in full force now with all the rain and the heat. Here are a few pics that I took today! It's nice when we do get rain I don't have to worry about getting out and watering. It usually takes me a good hour and a half to get the job done. That leaves me more time to work on orders that I need to get done, and build up my stock of primitive bird make do's. I have several made in wonderful Americana prints right now. Check out my ETSY SHOP to see them!

Daylilies

Petunia

Hosta

Lantana

Astilbe

My Backyard

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!