May 14- 4th post of the month

Hello everyone 

I’m still here- just been busy with family things and Spring things.   

First I want to brag on this peony bush- it had 31 buds and some the flowers are huge! 

Sadly, peonies only bloom once a year but they really show off when they are blooming.  

2 of the grandsons are already out of school for the summer.  we visited the Botanic Gardens in our town and thought this driverless lawnmower was amusing.  

I think it works like a Roomba vacuum cleaner 

  

It was working and moving and apparently  it’s smart enough to just mow grass and not cut down plants.  

We also tried Geocache hunting for the first time.  

They’re are many hidden in our town but you do need an app to help find them.  

This tiny one was the first of 5 we found. 

See it? It was  a pill bottle hanging on a wire in a very full tree.  It just had a note and sheet of paper to sign when you find it, 

The last of 5 geocaches we found was the biggest and most interesting. 

It was filled with stickers and doo-dads.  It was on the edge of a pasture and had letters explaining the landowners animals.  

We didn’t take or put anything in the 5 geocaches we found but we did sign the logs in all of them.  

Anyone have any tips to find them?

I think this will be something I do with the grandchildren this summer.  

I’ve been reading and enjoyed this Kindle book 

The Teacup Conspiracy

And I’m in the middle of this series and really like it too 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08K94RWZ2?searchxofy=true&binding=kindle_edition&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1621028722&sr=8-2

I’m planning to go to a neighborhood yard sale tomorrow

Maybe I’ll get some treasures I can share here- but who knows? 

Bye for now 

❤️Rhonda 

May#3

Good evening 

I worked in our front flower beds this morning- it’s been on my to do list for weeks and today was perfect, the outside temperature was perfect. 

My tools 

The garden kneeler is so handy- you can kneel on it and then use the side supports to help stand back up or it can be flipped over and sat on.  

I pulled weeds and moved a few plants and dug up some plants that weren’t doing good.  

The front of our home on one side 

And the flower bed on the other side 

My husband is responsible for planting most everything.  His method is he buys things at Lowe’s or Atwoods that catch his eye, 

and then he plants a little here and a little there.  

Right now, the dianthus, rhododendrons, pansies, 1 iris and mock orange bushes are blooming.  

Soon the red lilies will be blooming and so will these peonies and rose bush- both are loaded with buds. 

  

While I was weeding,  I uncovered some of last year’s Purple Heart coming back to life.  

Supper was  boneless pork chops baked with ShakeNBake for pork and they were delicious, green beans and little potatoes, that baked along side the pork chops.  

And this little guy had a snow cone at his brother’s t-ball game.  

It apparently had plenty of blue food coloring in it 

❤️ Rhonda