Record Heat?

This is the temperature on our front porch, in the shade...OMG!  Everything is wilted and crispy.  :(

Garden update

Cantalopes!

Cucumbers........yummy.

Spaghetti squash, we forgot we even planted these, we thought they were cross pollinated or something. So glad to realize what they really are!

Zuchini.

Little baby butternut squash! 3 of 12 plants made it. So glad they did :)

3 OF 5 of the Hot Texas Chicks

Alexis's only pumpkin

The herb and radish garden. The tarragon and the thyme didn't grow, and we had to buy oregano and rosemary...but it is awesome!

Here is our green tomaters, all 14 bushes are loaded :)

We have Roma, yellow pear, early girls and better boys! mmmmmmmm

Joel is showing the love!



Since Last Time

Here is our adorable Hen House. Joel tilled me up a small square to have a flower garden.  I planted purple coneflowers and moss roses.  Can't wait for them to grow. 

They are our "Hot Texas Chicks!"

Here are the four hens, Joel took the two roosters back to his mom.  We are going to get a few more hens eventually.  Joel built the whole coop...well we did start out with a building.

I had to stand on ladder to take this picture of my award winning artist.  He is handsome and talented.

Close-up

Here is my Vivver's new haircut I gave her...it is pretty cute, but not as cute as my Vivvers!

I just love this picture!

Herb Garden

This is our Herb Garden, the girls painted us some signs, Joel cut us some plexi glass so we could divide the box into different sections.

They are seriously cute.

We also have about a million radishes!

This is our tomato patch

and our rose bush

my begonias have grown and they are even bigger now

Lexis flower garden and my two pots of Utah grass

Joel walking through his garden. What a hunk.

Happy Birthday to Grandma!

Here is the awesome reclaimed frame we all helped to refinish to frame the puzzle that Grandma got for Christmas.  It is sooo pretty.

This is what it looked like before 2 days of sanding, and 10 minutes of staining.

Hooray for Life

Here is my Sewing Shack today, with the addition to the porch that Joel surprised me with.

Here are my baby Hollyhocks!!! I am so excited :)

"Wild" multiplying onions.

"Random" wild garlic!

Grrrr face, Imported Fire Ants!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE THEM!

Our mural, we wanted to give it some color :D

Thanks to my Father-in-Law, we didn't have to plow our garden by hand. Look how cute the tiny little tractor is!

Joel lighting Alexis's 12th birthday cake! OMG, my "baby" is 12?

Sometimes, I don't know if she is coming or going...

Me and Vivian

Me and Bubba

Me and Alexis

Me and Joel, why does he look so tired?

February in Texas

I love the weather in TX most of the time.  This weekend was exceptionally beautiful tho.  Maybe it was because we have been couped up for so long due to the ice and sub-zero temps...

Here is how my sewing shack is coming along thanks to the lovely weather. We put a pathway of stepping stones in.

We made a small flower garden on one side of the patio Joel and the kids made.

Here is another view.  All of the materials, bricks, wood, stones, etc. were reclaimed from various piles that Joel's Granny had laying around.

The scalloped bricks were found holding up an old propane tank we have in the yard.

Joel buried a piece of pipe about a foot into the ground and we have an instant flower pot.  Maybe I will paint it...maybe not.

The poles were added as an after thought. I wanted to be able to hang flowering baskets.  All of the pots we found in the woods.  We can be very creative with found items if we try.  I am really loving my little shack.  The potential it has is enormous!