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Last week was cold, this week it’s hot and humid! Strange Weather

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It’s hard to believe that today is the second day of Autumn! It’s 27 C outside and with humidity if feels like 35 C (95 F). Now those are summer temps!

The weather’s been so weird this year. Last week it was getting so cool at night (6 C (42 F) that I was thinking about bringing in my tropical plants like the Orchids, passion flower, jasmine and other vines and putting the patio furniture away for the rest of the year. We even took the air conditioners out of the windows last Sunday so that the house would be warmer. LOL and now we’re having a mini heat wave!

It’s been so humid in the house that the chewable calcium tablets that I put out each day to remind me to take them have gotten all wet from soaking up the humidity! That’s a first!

I guess I shouldn’t complain about humid weather though … I heard that people in some parts of Colorado had snow yesterday! With any luck we won’t see snow here until December or late November at the very earliest.

How’s the weather in your area?





Lovely white phlox in the garden

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Well summer’s almost over but you wouldn’t know it if you took a look at my garden.

Most of my plants are still blooming and I expect them to keep blooming and looking fairly nice until late October or even later. Some years I’ve still had roses blooming well into December!

This year my Phlox has been doing well. Often it blooms and then the leaves get covered in powdery mildew and the stalks die down only to regrow slowly hindering further blooms. This year however my Phlox did well and wasn’t affected by powdery mildew very much (my roses on the other hand were!).

Here’s what my Phlox looks like in bloom –

White Phlox 5

Isn’t it lovely? The flower heads are on stalks of about three and a half feet tall and there are usually several blooms on each stalk. I planted the Phlox near my Patio so that I can enjoy the flowers while I sit at my patio table. I also like that they are white flowers … you can still see them fairly well at night so they help highlight the garden.

Do you garden? What’s blooming in your garden right now?

Our neighbors getting engaged!

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I know a secret! I was just talking with my neighbors grandson and he told me that this weekend, on Saturday evening, he’s going to propose to his girlfriend!

He was so sweet about it. I’ve known him since he was a teenager and he’s always seemed to really like me and value my opinion so he was anxious to tell me his upcoming engagement.

He hasn’t purchased an engagement ring yet though. He doesn’t know if his girlfriend will want to pick out her own ring or not. Since I used to work in the jewelry trade I was able to give him the name of a couple of very trust worthy jewelers for him to contact about getting an engagement ring made (for wholesale prices). These guys specialize in certified diamonds and can make custom settings so I think he’ll be in good hands. In fact, if he contacts them today he could possibly have a ring by the weekend if he decides to get a ring before asking his girlfriend to marry him.

Whatever he decides to do I’m happy for him! I just hope that she says yes!

The boys were doing yard work today

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My husband and his cousins were busy working outside today. They were digging a drainage ditch at his cousins house so that the backyard won’t flood anymore. They worked all day – until about 8 pm! Digging in heavy clay! Man, they won’t need any weight loss pills with the amount of calories they probably burned today!

The job isn’t done yet either. I guess Chris might go back next weekend to help too.

When we first moved into our house we had a bit of a drainage problem in our backyard too. When it rained we’d get huge puddles near the back steps and the back of the house. We have a dry basement, but if we hadn’t done something about the drainage problem shortly after we moved in (2001) we’d likely have a wet basement by now!

I can’t remember exactly what we did, but it involved digging a trench from the back of the house into the middle of the yard and making sure that the trench was on a slight downward grade away from the house so that excess water would flow away from the foundation. We filled the trench with screening (fine gravel) and then soil … after digging out the clay soil which was probably causing the problem in the first place. We haven’t had a problem since!

Hopefully when the guys get done with Chris’ cousins backyard drainage problem it will be as good as ours turned out to be!

Have you ever had to deal with a drainage problem in your yard? What did you do?

My neighbors are so dumb …

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Oh my God! My Redneck neighbors are sooooo dumb!

How dumb are they? Well, they’re half moved out of the house next door, but they’ve only been back once since last Saturday when they spent the day moving at least half their stuff out of the house. Not the best move when you consider that they left stuff on their front porch!

My husband was talking with their next door neighbor earlier today and while he was standing on her porch he got a good look at the Redneck neighbors porch and low and behold there was a small TV, several car accessories, some tools and a bike!

We live in a pretty good neighborhood, but they’re just asking to have their stuff stolen!

Dumb Rednecks!

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