Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. And I'm also joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T Stands for Tuesday so hello to everyone who only visit on Tuesdays.
Last week besides getting together with a college friend and working at the lake 2 morning a week, I spent quite a bit of time in the garden. We had some nice but breezy weather which made it comfortable to work outside. I hope you're not sick of seeing my garden adventures.😏
This first photo is what I call my bee garden, mainly because it is down near my beehives. Most of the plants in here are self-seeded or are ones that I split off of plants from elsewhere in my yard. This year I haven't been able to do any cleaning in here because of the bluebirds. You can see the bluebird house, and now Mama and Papa bluebird are back with their second brood of the season.
Because this area gets full sun, and because I love irises, every year for the past 2 or 3 I've added a couple of Iris bulbs. Right now my solid purple variety is really looking beautiful.
Here's a couple of other blooms I'm enjoying now from that garden.
The other day our lovely host Elizabeth posted about some thyme she bought. I thought I'd share some of mine that I planted underneath my climbing rosebush a couple of years ago.
If you wonder about the dog statue, it's my memory statue of our last dog Harley. I planted some of my rose bushes the day we had to put him down because he was having pulmonary blood clots. I needed something to do to deal with my sadness. Harley was a big German Shepard mix (he weighed 90 pounds/ 40.8 kg) and he lived for 14 1/2 years, so he had a good long, and until this issue came up, healthy life.
This week's garden project is to work on weeding my big flower garden which is a mess right now, even though it doesn't look too bad from this angle. 😉
My other recent garden project was to make a base for my big bird feeder pole. Between the bear that pulled on it at the end of March and the chipmunks that bury under it, it needed a bit of TLC. Here's the before.
And here's the after.
I love having stone leftover from my raised bed garden because I’m using it to finish off some small projects around the yard. 😀
I had hoped to be able to attend one of the No Kings rallies in my state this past weekend, but my daughter couldn't make it over on Father's Day to see her dad. She and my husband decided to meet in Manchester for some chicken tenders at one of our favorite restaurants, The Puritan, on Saturday instead. I was invited along. and since I had a chance to spend some time with my daughter, I decided to join them.
They decided to meet at 11:30 for an early lunch, which was good because the waitress told us that all 3 high schools is Manchester (our states largest city and the location of the restaurant) were graduating that morning. She told us the restaurant would be filled once they let out. And yes, when we left we saw many families waiting for a table because by then all those empty tables were filled.
Here's my ticket for T Day this week. Besides water we all had one of their signature mud slides, full sized for the hubby (because he didn't have to drive) and half size for my daughter and myself. Plus my other drink was water.
I tried their peanut butter mud slide and so for dessert I had those mini peanut butter cups on the top of my drink. 😀 And for dinner the last 2 nights, I've been finishing my left over chicken tenders.
Have a wonderful T day and week ahead.