Off to Camp Day

Today the girls leave for camp and will not be home for two weeks. What's mama gonna do without her girls the whole time?

The hardest part is Meredith has just come home after staying the past little over a week with her grandmother. Feel like I have hardly seen her this summer but am glad she had her time with her to always remember. Hopefully Meredith's health will allow her to stay the entire time, at camp.

Two weeks and then it's back to doctor appointments and waiting rooms. And just when all the same finally ended with their father and his (now under control) condition.

I hope they have a great time. That will make missing them worth it.

Laura's First Swim Meet of the Season

Baboosic Lakers did well at Jasper Valley Swim and Tennis against several other swim teams.

Laura did great and Freestyle is her best.

Baboosic is definitely the Bad News Bears to watch out for. I think their hearts are gonna bring them to great things. They did GREAT today!

I am just so sorry that Laura is going to miss so much the next few weeks with all the summer vacation plans.

Thanks for visiting!

Rain Boots!

Had these on yesterday evening while I was turning soil and doing a little gardening and forgot them on the back porch, when I was done. Normally, this is not a problem.

Sudden rain, today, and for once instead of being the only town in NH to NOT get the rain, we were one of the only towns on the map that WAS getting this DeLuGe! This amount of rain came from out of now where (could watch it on the map forming literally over head) and dumped this much in much less than a 1/2 hour!

Gives a whole new meaning to "Rain Boots", wouldn't you say?!

PURPLE GARLIC IN THE MORNING LIGHT

Aaah, I cannot imagine life without garlic. Purple garlic is the best for baking and after roasting in tin foil for a little while, nothing is yummier. Shamefully, I don't bother with the bread and other stuff, garlic's good all alone - popping out of it's clove. Tragically, no one will be looking for any up-closes with me, anytime soon! :O

This is an 11x14 acrylic painting on gallery wrapped canvas, with the sides painted.

Here are some WIPs pics of the painting. My computer died not too long after posting the 4th's picture. Slowly, it's being restored. It's a good thing I kept pictures of the painting on my cellphone and didn't delete them, they were my only copies! I hope you enjoy seeing these Work In Progress pictures of the purple garlic.

In this picture, you can see my painting and the reference photo I set up for this painting. And of course, the finished pic, again.

Happy 4th Of July!

Lots of Garden Surprises!

Hello again!

I was walking around the back-back-back-most part of the (rain drenched, mosquito infested, much in need of my mowing) yard and I noticed this tiny foxglove (which if I had mowed I would have plowed right over this....) just barely peeking out over the grass. I planted some foxgloves about 3 or 4 years ago and still I find little ones randomly popping up, all over the back yard. These little bi-annuals really reseed themselves! I planted more seeds this year for flowers next year and I am really glad I did
(and I am glad I didn't mow o.O )!

This is an early sprout in my hydrangea bushes. The other flowers are far from ready to bloom. I love this bush. It's my favorite of all my roses. Here's another cluster from my favorite rose bush. And here are the tomatoes!

Lots of goodies in the garden and still more to come! Hope the weather keeps on doing all the good stuff it's been doing. This area hasn't seen so much rain!