The Weather and Hodgepodge

 

Hello Friends,

No snow alert today. How about a humidity alert. Wisconsin is hot and humid. We have nasty storms in the forecast for the next few day.

Enough about the weather, it is time for the hodgepodge.

Joyce asks the questions.

We answer the questions.

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 1.  How would you define 'the good life'? 

I am living the good life. I have a beautiful home, garden, family, and friends.

I have my health.  

I have the freedoms that many do not have in our world.

I am thankful.

  2.  What's the most used app on your phone (and are you proud of that)? 

Weather App

I can look at the weather App, not believe what I just read. Open the App again in hopes it changed. I do this often during the winter when the temperature is -25 and the wind chill is -50!! I am in hopes the forecast will change in the matter of seconds I close and open the App.  The next few days we are going to have stormy weather, once again I will be checking often. 

3. 'Every rose has it's thorn', 'everything's coming up roses', 'looking through rose-colored glasses', 'it's no bed of roses' or 'stop and smell the roses'...which rose idiom best relates to something in your life currently. Explain.  

 

 I am going to say 'stop and smell the roses'. My husband and I are taking time each week to do something a bit different as a day date. We are going for one a week. So far we have done well, we have been creative. Some weeks the day date is very simple, with making dinner together. I will post soon on our progress. 

 4. How do you feel about floral flavorings in food or drink (rose, hibiscus, elderflower, lavender)? 

If we are talking tea, I love herbal teas and many have rose, hibiscus, elderflower and lavender in them. 

I have enjoyed different main course meals and desserts with lavender.  

5. Over the course of your life what have you probably spent more time pondering than anything else?  

 Pondering about my boys. Thinking about how they are doing in life now as grown men. And back when they were little, pondering on how well I was parenting them.

 6. Insert your own random thought here. 

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 Carl Buechner

This and That

 

Our lupines bloomed so well this season.

 

Happy June my friends,

The year is flying by for me. I am struggling to keep up with all the adventures I want to share with you here on the blog. Yes, we are still doing our 52 day dates, but I have not been able to keep up posting. One day I will dump it all on you. 

We went thrifting for one of our day dates. We had a great day and found a treasure. I will get around to sharing soon. 

In the meantime, let us go for a stroll in the garden. Meet our new kitty, pick out your favorite bouquet to take home and take a peek at a special gift.

 

 

Our son Sam needed help with one of his kitties, Benny. We adopted Benny. He is adjusting well to his new home.

 

 

We celebrated our wedding anniversary on May 31st. Our friend J made us this lovely pillow. Each rectangle is a piece of history. The cloth is from the 1930's.

(a rich history dating back to the 1930s when flour companies began printing colorful designs and sewing patterns on cotton bags to help struggling families make their own clothing during the Great Depression)

 

Flowers and more flowers. Photos of a few bouquets I have made.

 Our peony have done so well this season.

 

 

Decorating for the big birthday party. I created a red, white and blue theme of planters on the front deck. I will share more as they grow and fill in.

 

 

I also created a bed with red, white, blue flowers and plants that is at the front of our property that you can see from the street. Happy Birthday America!

 

 

Taking a peek at one more bouquet. Iris, peony and bees balm are used in this bouquet.

Do you have a favorite? 

 

♥

Carla 

Hello June and it is the Hodgepodge

 

Hello Friends,

The iris are blooming. The peonies have huge blossoms ready to pop open any day. The roses are forming buds. Welcome to June in Wisconsin.

 

 It is Wednesday and that means it is time for the Hodgepodge.

Joyce asks the questions.

We answer the questions.

 Click here to join the fun!

 1.What's something you find extremely difficult that most people would say is simple?

I struggle keeping up with technology.  Thankfully I have a "high tech" husband and both of our boys will help me.

 

2.  "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow fast in movies I  had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." 

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Does the season of summer make you feel this way? Elaborate. 

 

No, summer does not make me feel this way. I feel more of a restart in the spring.

 

 3. Pickles. Love 'em or no thank you? What's your favorite type of pickle? What's something you eat that definitely needs a pickle added?

  

I love pickles. We make a refrigerator pickle. We grow cucumbers for pickling. My mom also makes her own pickles and our entire family gobbles up my mom's pickles.

I love pickles on a hamburger. I also love to eat them right out of the jar. 

 

 4. Tis the season...do you know any June brides? Are there any weddings on your summer calendar? What's your favorite movie wedding? 

 

My sister is a June bride. 

No weddings for us this year.

The Sound of Music wedding is a favorite.

 

 5. June 1st is/was National Say Something Nice Day...say something nice here. 

 

"I love your smile." 

 

 6. Insert your own random thought here. 

 

There was an owl lived in a oak.

The more he heard, the less he spoke.

The less he spoke, the more he heard.

If men were all like that wise bird.