Tuesday4 Happy Tuesday Maxine Cracks Me up

 Tuesday4

Tuesday 4 is here once again. 

I was thinking about wild life that is all around us.  Summer brings us out of the house and we spend more time outdoors, weather permitting,  and have an opportunity to see animals and birds that live around us.

1. Do you see many animals where you live? Is your answer a good or bad thing? Yes, Hawks, Bunnies, Foxes, Coyotes, Geese.  Foxes are cute and playful but most of these are predators to small animals. The wild bunnies are just very annoying. 

2. What kind of animals and birds are around your area? Lots of domestic cats and dogs. Sparrows, Mourning doves. Robins and Squirrels. I wish I knew more names of the beautiful birds. Woodpeckers and Owls.

3. What kind of animals and birds could you do without and what kind would you love to see more  often? The wild bunnies and hawks could live elsewhere. where no small house pets live. 

4. Do you feed wild birds or animals ? No, a squirrel who got into a pumpkin at Halloween our daughter left on the patio. He made such a mess and when I tried to confront him, boy did he get mad and threw pulp and seeds at me and ran away quickly. After that he would root through the open trash cans we keep for patio parties. What a little terror.

Happy Tuesday

A blue door on a pink house. I love these colors together. I always wish I could peek inside even on these Pinterest finds. So happy and calm. Peaceful and quiet. As I get older I love all those things. But I still enjoy wild and crazy grand boys and girls too.

Ugh.....Maxine you hit this nail on the head! Nothing worse than mindless yammering over the latest greatest drugs all with more side affects than you'd need in a lifetime!  Most of the commercials today are mindless and plain annoying.

Tuesday4 Happy Tuesday Maxine Cracks Me Up

 

Sunday, September 10, 2023

Your Garden

Its Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 once again and I thought it might be nice to talk about our gardens or house plants.  After all, houseplants are indoor gardens and fish aquariums can be water gardens.

1. Do you have a garden indoors or outdoors?   Houseplants count I think.  If not, why don't you have them? We did have potatoes and tomatoes this year. Rebekah and Zach grew potatoes in containers. They did not grow as large as they did a few years ago but they were happy with the little bounty. My tomatoes did not do as well, could have been all the rain. But next year, God willing, I will try a few new tricks. I just pluck the cherry tomatoes off the vine since I don't use any herbicides, pesticides or sprays I also have lots of house plants. My sister-in-law Lucy recently gave Avery, her brother, a  cutting from her 30 year old philodendron. It took off  and looks lovely! 

2. Have you visited Longwood Gardens or any of the large gardens and horticultural sites around the world or your state? Tell us about it. We have visited the Denver Botanical Gardens.  When our oldest was a little girl, about 3 years old, I went there with a friend. some friend. she was! My little girl picked a Colorado Columbine. It is illegal to pick them! I was mortified, my friend laughed and laughed until I said if they saw that I will walk away and tell them she is your child! Then it suddenly wasn't so funny anymore. They are very beautiful and in Las Vegas, you can visit the gardens in the Bellagio Hotel. It is gorgeous too. All the detail and artful designs make a person feels so serene. It is always fun to find unusual plants and flowers too.  There is no cost to visit the gardens at the Bellagio. 

3.  Most people really enjoy a little garden but I think we sometimes make too many excuses not to do things we really would enjoy.  Too busy, not enough space, etc.   But if we put our minds to it, anything is possible  Do you believe that? Absolutely! We have a large yard and half of it is filled with weeds as we could not contain them this year with all the rain we had. But we also have a baby rototiller and a huge one so we have a nice area where we could plants at least 4 kinds of veggies and another area for a larger patch of potatoes. You can not plant potatoes in the same area every year they have to be moved. 

 4. Ideally, what flowers, shrubs and trees do you want in your little garden real or imagined? We have a lilac bush but it has not liked the rain everyday so it is struggling and we need to feed it more manure. The  smelly stuff is the best to help them flourish. We have a bridal bush which I always have loved as my grandmother had one in her front yard. we have a lone rosebush that is doing well but I would have more of all these things. I like tulips and daffodils in the Spring too. 

Happy Tuesday

A face that should make you smile!

This sloth looks like he is a good photographer!

Oh Maxine.......