Stuff on Monday

Things I need to do:

• weed kitchen garden
• weed veggie garden (that has only mint, strawberry plants and 1 lone tomato plant in it.
• laundry, am working on that now, as I sit here
• cut some flowers
• go somewhere and buy something
• put dishes away
• figure out how to use this:   
  

  Mandolin
  • figure out if I really needed it or if it was an impulse buy lol
  • find something new to do with pork chops
  • find my smile
  The US Open was hot.  Michael decided to sit on the bleachers at the 18th green.  It was in the 80's and very humid in the shade, but the bleachers were out in the open, no shade.  There was a breeze every once in a while, but not near enough.  I tried to sit with him for a while, I saw a couple groups come in, but then I had a flash and I just couldn't handle it, I had to find cool quick.  After sitting and sweltering for about 15 minutes, I went and bought a bottle of water and sat at a picnic table where I could see nothing of golf, other than the players walking by.  It was too hot to take pictures.  It was too hot to watch golf.  They did feed us lunch, we were in the US Bank villa, but we should've brought chairs.  They would have been a pain to carry but so worth it.  So anyway, I people watched.  On the way home Michael asked if we could golf I said "no wayyyyyyy its too hot!"  

When we got home, it was actually pretty nice here, in the 70's I think.   I wanted to fill the bird feeders and get the hummingbird liquid out.  The boys wanted to go see Batman.  I was so torn, couldn't decide, but the birds won.  I now have an Oriole feeder out there!    I realized something yesterday filling the feeders.  Birds poop all over them.  yucko.  Oh well, I washed my hands when I was done.  The humming bird feeder is really messy to work with, the stuff is so sticky.  The green ivy feeder has seed sprouts growing in the bottom 1/3rd of it.  Its pretty hilarious, the birds can only get the food out of 2 or 3 of the feed holes.  I guess I just decided what to shop for today.  Bird feeders. 

I've got some sunflowers sprouting in a pot on the front porch.

I haven't decided if I am going to thin them and let just one or two grow, or try repotting them, but that seems like so much work for something that sprouts so easy.  Add "plant more sunflower seeds" to my list. 

I've got a ton of new blooms.  There are a lot of pretty white things starting to bloom now! 

I don't remember what this is called, but whatever it is, the black flower is a variation of it, they grow the same, on a stalk, and the leaves are about identical, right down to the bug holes. 

The sunflowers are going crazy now!  I'm going to be able to cut quite a few of them once I get off my butt and go outside!

The reason my walls look red is because no one told us the outside water didn't pass through the iron curtain downstairs.  Last October when Rick was here, they did some of it with muriatic acid.  The stuff is dangerous deadly though, and they didn't finish it, and I'm not about to do it, so we just have some orange tinted walls.  LOL !  All the white trim was stained orange too, and the pillars out front. 

The tiger lilies are just about done. 

  This is one of the last.  The stargazer lilies are budding now though, shouldn't be long till I get them.  Three.  3.  Tres.  Thats how many buds I have.  Whoopdeedoo.  lol  Well, hopefully next year I'll get more.  This is the second and third year for them though! 

Here are some more things around the garden