Peaches and 2 Apples

My apple crop is 2.  Yes, I said 2 apples. They are beautiful and just look at all my peaches.  Yum!  I am going to make peach preserves. I love this stuff.  I have it on everything.  Not only toast but any meat, with scrambled egg on corn tortilla.  I even add hot sauce to it and have it for dipping. I am going to be very busy and the smell in my house will be wonderful.

I just pulled Banana Bread out of the oven then put a chicken and potatoes in. Dinner !!  Hey, its all about easy and very very good.  Tottles

The Pigeon are no longer at this Address

I think we have new residents. Now I haven't seen them but I do hear whispers and snapping of twigs now and then. It's all such a mystery and I do hope we can figure it out. The Dogs are quietly barking and sniffing around, with their heads leaning to the side and their ears upside down.  Not to mention our cats, Angus is staring at what we don't know, then looking about scratching his crown , trying to figure just what is there, upon the ground.  We have peeked through our windows between the blinds to see what mischief we can find. I'm afraid we have found nothing to point to and say, "There is the culprit who's moved in the pigeon house and SCARED us away .  Oh, we will

  

Figure it out, just you wait and see. I for one would welcome the Magic, to see how it grows.  To feel it around me even in my toes.  I think they are in the berries, not hiding you see, just living their life as Happy as can be. That is my story and I'm sticking to it. Tootles

The Tarot

Here I go learning more. I've used a Tarot Deck for years and have numerous decks. I love to find different ones. One time in my life I did not have any cards, that is, with me, so I made a deck of Rider Waite cards. I looked on line and they had a pattern I could copy.  I colored them myself which at the time was great therapy.  Believe it or not I love this deck.  I'm sure its because I touched each card not only with cutting and coloring but my spirit, my soul and of course my passion is in every card.

Now with this book " Seventy Eight Degree's of Wisdom " by Rachael Pollock, I am able to learn even more about each card in the Tarot.  I think its going to take me awhile to get through this but when I am done I feel it will be an opening up of another part of my Sprit. Tootles

Pigeon House or What ?

How about this little gem. Some people see throw away, I see treasure.

I'm fixing this up for my yard. The worst has been cleaned out of it, well almost, now I'll do the final cleaning. Then the fun begins. Where to put it in my yard and deciding just what to put inside. Oh !  The possibilities are endless.

This will keep me busy as Jim is working now so I do have lots of free time. I'm so use to him being here I really miss him.  I mean you can only read and watch TV so long. I'll keep you in the loop.  Tootles

Lavender, Lavender, Lavender

Oh, how I love this sweet smelling plant.  I told you last week about making lavender oil. Well, here it is

That was fun and interesting. Will be doing more fun things. Until tomorrow. tootles

Elviria. Trying new things

My beautiful Elviria.  She is very sweet. I'm trying new things.

Angus and more

Our Newcomer  " Angus "

Our newest member to our household, "Angus".  What a character he is.  He discovered our door for the animals, as we have 4 dogs and 2 other cats besides Angus.  I swear he would not stop going in and out.  It's like he couldn't believe it was that easy.  I'm a firm believer in dog/cat doors. I do it for me as I'm a much happier person if I don't have to deal with accidents.
     Now as far as getting along with the other animals we have, I mentioned 4 dogs, no problem.  Even out biggest dog Eddie just puts up with hime.  He is forever jumping on their necks and wrapping his arms around them, then flying off.  The one it's a problem for is Elviria.  She wants nothing to do with him at all.  I can't believe it but he takes off after her and she runs !  There has only been a couple of times that she growled really loud and He ran off.  So we try to keep them separate.  I don't know if that's what we should do or not.

Today is suppose to be another scorcher.  Then it suppose to cool down.  When it's hot and the temperature just keeps going up, up, up you try and figure out how to stay cool.  Okay, in this day and age it's not that hard to do something about it.  We stay indoors with the air conditioning on.  We go to the beach or if that is not possible we jump in our own pool or friends pool or public pool.  We go to the Mall, walk the afternoon away.  Growing up myself, we certainly did not have air conditioning.  No one I knew had it in their houses.  We did however have lots of fans and the tall windows that were wide open.  Even at our school, once again those tall windows did get a lot of breeze in and of course the ceilings were 10 or so feet.  So the heat would go up their.  It was still hot but not having experienced air conditioning we were fine.  I went to the public pool in the town I grew up in.  A large pool with plenty of space in the different levels.  It had a high dive and several other boards lower.  That is where we spent the summer months.  Mom would buy a summer pass and all I had to do was sign my name and I was in.  Fantastic.i