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Madalyn will be five in October. She frequently asks her aunt Patty to tell her the story of "Handsome" and Gretel.
Yesterday I finished two days of testing. I have an appointment with my Cardiologist on the 3rd to learn the results. Thank you all for your continued prayers that all the tests will come back good.
This is the end of August but it has been feeling like fall around here for the past few weeks. Our temps have taken a dive and I am finding my green beans are rotting before they mature. I'm praying for more sunny days so the crops can ripen. I brought all my Epi's (Orchid Cactus) in this morning. Too much rain will rot them fast. The sun has come out today though and I am hoping to get the lawn mowed and beans picked.Have a blessed week end!
Little boy's on the other hand are at their finest form when they are camping out in the wild forest, barefoot and sometimes bare buttocks too. Rough and tumble, catching snakes and frogs, climbing trees and diving into anything that looks like water. Give them mud and freedom and they are in their element.
I saw water Lily's in a movie and I said to my Lord how pretty they are. I called them Water Flowers. I said, "They're so pretty, I'm glad you came up with them."
We have had several days of rain so I'm not getting much done outdoors.
Here are some of the ancestors we have been able to learn about. We get info from other relatives and a lot from the Internet too. It isn't enough to just fine their name and dates, I want to know what sort of people they were and where and how they lived.
Here are more of my ancestors. I think it is so odd to see them pictured among such modern day tools. See my Computer speaker, camera and mike? You Can also see a picture of my kidlet's that was taken around 1971, and a few of my oil paintings.
Looking through my bean patch, over my tiny garden, to the little flower garden I call my 'Sugar Lump' to the fence and rose garden and on to my sisters garden next door. I love fun pictures like this. If you enlarge it you will see all the cucumber blossoms and maybe even a few squash. I took this one a few days ago when the rain stopped for a few minutes.
The Crocosmia are blooming nicely right now. And even though orange is not my favorite color it sure brings the yard to life now that most everything else is spent. I found bulbs for yellow ones this year and expect they will begin blooming next year. I still want to find some red ones. They are taller and just gorgeous!
Just look at this perfect rose bud. I started this one way back around 1996 from a rose my son gave me. This plant has been a delightful surprise, blooming from May till it freezes, and it is loaded with flowers! 
Ok-ok I know there are lots of weeds growing in my garden. This low growing one is called purslane and is edible if you enjoy the flavor of dirt. That is what it tastes like to me. I think the bean vine growing around my little garden tool is so cute I just had to show you. Bean's aren't choosy about where they vine. I have some growing on my back deck, vining around the back of my Bistro chairs. 
The tiny viola's are blooming in my gravel again. They reseed so easily and apparently the seed pods pop and shoot seeds in every direction because they are growing all over out there.
This one made me smile. Doesn't it look like it's grinning?
I had to reschedule my tests because I came down with the creepin'crud on Saturday morning. We will try again next week.
I hope you are all having a great week.
Remember to pray for our troops and our wonderful USA!
We had some hot days last week and when the sun went down the sky was so unusual my sister and I just stood out in the golden world around us until it was dark and the stars were shining. 
You know, I am still in shock over this situation. I advertised on Free*cycle that I had some plants for whoever wanted to dig them up. I said, "Bring a strong shovel, a container and a bucket if elbow grease." You can imagine my surprise when a young lady showed up wearing thong type sandals with straps that wrapped around and around her leg but kept falling down, a white long sheeve sweat shirt , a black hat and this little skirt. I couldn't believe that she was able to get a big hunk of the Lemon Balm she was after. That stuff really has a massive root system!
They had a local bakery do their cake but it wasn't done right. It was about the nakedest looking cake I ever saw. My daughter and I picked it up to drive it to the ranch where the wedding took place but we stopped first and picked up some silk flowers and when we got it delivered we decorated it.
This is what we did. The cake top ornament the couple chose is a snow dome with their picture in it. I think it's just darling. In the next picture you can see them better.
Do you see my little pink doves too? I have to get them on all the cakes I decorate. I'm really sort of glad the bakery didn't do anything but put the blue ribbon around them because as I told my grandson. "Grandma got to decorate your cake after all." They didn't ask me to make their wedding cake because we had been doing so many they thought it would be too much for me. Are they precious kids or what? 
Here the groom is getting a hand with his tie from his brother Luke.
The wedding begins.
Can you just see the love? Jake and Jenn have been together for several years and have been through a lot with their little son being so ill when he was a new born. Many of you remember he had seizures and I asked for prayer. Again my heartfelt thanks for your Christian love and your faithful prayers. As you can see, Ethan is a perfectly healthy and very intelligent little boy. Praise be to Almighty God!
Their first kiss as Mr & Mrs.
Another special event took place this day. They had little Ethan Dedicated to the Lord. Do you think that made this old granny happy. OH MY!!!! I could have squealed just like a perfectly delighted little piggy!
The dancing begins and our beautiful bride danced first with her dad, then her new husband and in this shot with her ring bearer.
It wasn't long before the children were all doing their own interpretations of dance. I love watching them because they are so original and not really caring what anyone thinks. They know how to have fun.
My great grandson Dylan and the Ring Bearer had a very original dance. I have seen lots of dances but never saw this one before. It was fun until Dylan didn't duck his head low enough when he dived between the ring bearer's legs and the ring bearer had to hide himself under the table until the pain subsided. I didn't see them dance after that.
The end of a perfect day.
Did you know that Foxglove has hair? Neither did I. Click to enlarge and you can see the fuzzy head and the chin whiskers too.
I call this my Schoolgirl rose because the mother plant was growing beside a neighbors house and I saw it every day when I went to and from school. The neighbors have been gone a long time and so is their little white cottage. But the rose is still growing wild and wonderful in what is now a field. I got a start and here she is growing on my back fence. I think she's beautiful. 
Did you ever get snapped at by a dragon? Neither have I but if I do I'd hope it's this kind. See the brave little bug crawling down to say howdy?'
This is an interesting plant and I don't have a clue what it's name is. The yellow flower is much smaller than seen and grows in clusters at the tip of the stems which are around 2' tall. The leaves are a maroon color.
Here's a cute couple. Kitty says, "I don't care if your ears are so much bigger than mine, I love you anyhow!" Oh dear Lord, let us all love one another with this sweet kind of love."
I think this group of snapdragon blossoms sort of resembles a critter of some sort. Maybe floral a cow...
Oh how I wish you could get a whiff of this wonderful rose. The fragrance is incredible. This rose changes color as it ages and will end up being red and white. I just love this little sweetheart!
My swinging angel got a new paint job this spring. It's a little bright but it will fade out some. One of the sweetest things I have ever seen was when my great granddaughter Madalyn was just a toddler and saw this angel on my deck. She studied it for a minute then toddled over to it and began to push the angel so she could swing. It was just precious to see.
I think I mentioned in a previous post that I had to put net over my pond to try and keep out the blue herons, raccoons and dogs. Yes, dogs!! Some of the large neighborhood dogs have decided my pond is their public pool and jump in every time they get too warm. The net didn't stop them either. I was up there tonight and see that they have been skinny dipping again.
Oh how I love this gorgeous flower. I had several Portulaca last year but forgot to get them this year. I missed them very much. You can be sure they will be on top of my list next year. I grew them in big pots on the north deck and they thrived.
