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It's amazing how fast seven days go by! Good Saturday of crafting and Sunday watching the Skins and Dallas game with my bro. The weekend go by too fast too!
This weekend we have a football game Friday night and a wedding on Saturday night and boom...there we are...back at Monday again.
Had a really nice dinner at Clyde's of Tower Oaks the other night. Although my stomach didn't agree later.
Status quo for the most part...thought I would share a picture of the baby cardinal eggs!
Crazy weekend with the Pig Roast and the heat. Let me just say that even though the temperature was the same as last year's pig roast, the humidity was unbelievable!! Wish the Pig Roast could have been Sunday or even yesterday. Gorgeous weather!
Well, as the summer is winding down, I figured I would share some pics of the garden over the summer.
The first picture is so funny to me. It looks like I have dead chickens in the garden. It's really them sunning themselves and cleaning themselves.
Here's the start of a watermelon. We've never really been able to grow watermelons. There's a story here....
Once this one got a bit bigger, we picked it. Right around the time of the intense heat in August...
So we refrigerated it...and then went to go cut it. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY WHITE INSIDE!! There was no "melon" part of it at all! It was like it was the white rind all the way thru! So disappointing. We have another one sitting on the counter now. I think we are all nervous to cut it because we don't want to be disappointed!!
The green beans were fantastic this year! The best I've had even from a restaurant! Too bad they were only short lived.
Here we are about a week and a half ago. Watermelon and pumpkin vines are reaching!
The tomatoes didn't do super great. The ones we did get though, they are fantastic!!
Here's some of the pumpkins, the cucumbers and one of the three or four squash we got. We did get a good zucchini or two. Didn't grab a pic of them though.
Are the pumpkins just so darn cute! That was AB's idea for the miniature pumpkin plant. I love them!!
Happy Tuesday!
In August, definitely not the right time of year to visit Charleston, SC, but we did. The house AB found was built in 1913 and it was totally my style! I thought I had taken more pictures of it, but I guess not, so I'm borrowing some from the VBRO website to show you.
This first one I took and it is definitely interesting to see what pictures the owners of The Marlborough used in decorating the house.
This is the view from the front door to the little store across the street. This little store was GREAT! Had some incredible crepes! You could get small groceries there...more importantly, they did have a nice selection of wines to choose from...more home brews than domestic beers, but that didn't disappoint me!!
They did decide to modernize the kitchens...and there were two of them.
The picture below is from the VRBO website and is the room I stayed in.
This was the upstairs parlor. The downstairs parlor was very similar. Of course the downstairs one was A LOT COOLER!
This is the downstairs parlor. Much cooler.
We were right on Queen Street which really is ideal for the historic part of Charleston. I would like to go back when it isn't so hot so I can enjoy walking a bit more and partaking in some of the other restaurants.
It's hot today...and tomorrow and The Roast is supposed to be even hotter. Bummer--but what can you do?
Not only is it after Labor Day, but I can barely believe that we had this little scare with our Bird just about a month ago!!
Even though she is doing much better now, we were surely feeling like we were in a tail spin!
She's not feverish here...although she didn't feel the greatest--yet you couldn't tell by the smile on her face. She's so precious.
Michael came all the way down to watch Big Brother with us. That was awesome of him!
And this was my little "station" for that night. Complete with my own MiFi, notebook, kindle and the other half of the slice of pizza from dinner! You can't really tell too much by this picture, but the bed had a bend in the frame...pretty sunken in. As someone said--well, Carrie---we don't want you to be too comfortable here!!
The next day, before she was released, Bird had the opportunity to have some pet therapy. This is LuLu. She came and visited Hailey first, since we were "checking out" that day.
LuLu got comfortable really quick with Bird!
Happy we are home, safe and well.
Happy Tuesday! This will be a whirlwind of a week!
Happy Thursday morning to you! TGTIF!
Can you believe it is September 1st????????
At the end of July, when we were having a family crab feast for the girls, we noticed quite a few cardinals around. Two of which, a male and female, were swooping into this tree near the table we were at. Hmmmmm....
So upon looking around later--inside the house, mind you, because it was so blasted hot, I discovered this cardinals nest! We had a perfect vantage point--we could see right thru the window at Mom and the eggs! How lucky were we!!
We looked up the habits and hatchings of cardinal eggs...love to hear that they'll be back to use the same nest or at least our yard for their next brood!
We thought we would be away when the babies arrived, but we had our counts off! Yay us!
So I missed them leaving the nest...that I am pretty sure happened while we were gone.
About a week ago, I'm upstairs working on laundry, etc., and I see this guy!!
It's one of the babies!!!! You can tell this is going to be a male, because of the plumage at the top of his head! So the fam will be sort of near each other!! Yay!
I don't know if he put those holes in the screen or not...they weren't there before...and the dogs can't reach the second floor. I'm guessing yes...he did it.
Have a great Thursday!