Today's Roses

This pretty lady has an aroma as pretty as she is.

This is our surprise plant.
We planted two rose bushes for the same trellis.
One was to be a Joseph's Coat.
It turned out to be a red floribunda.
This rose was to be exactly the way it looks,
but it didn't  bloom last year so I thought it hadn't survived.

Happy Birthday

My Punky Noodle turned 1 Year Old this week.

She sure is a Daddy's Girl.

Cake tasted good!
Wonder why uncle and brother don't have it all over their faces?

Isn't she a cutie?

Miss Kathleen Jo's Lovey Bunny

This was made for the baby shower for my BFF's great niece.

Kate checking out her New York Kingdom.

Posing in front of her flower bed.

She folded her skirt under,
guess she was getting a bit of a breeze :)

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If you would like to buy the pattern, it is available for $ 4.99 in my Ravelry Store, "The Fur~Babies Momma." Just click the buy now button to be transported to my shop.

   ***100% of the purchase price for the pattern goes to no-kill animal shelters in Western New York and in my home state of Indiana.***

Roses

The roses of summer

in an antique milk bottle

from my hometown.

Yard Pictures from June 2013

Indy with some of our Martha Washington Geraniums.

The red, white and blue cup and saucer from Walmart.
I found the two cement like dog and cat sculptures at Joanne's years ago.

Complete view of steps to front porch.

Right side of front garden. The large flower stake is another WalMart find.
There is a ball in the center that lights and changes to different colors.
In the front right are all of my Coral Bells. Behind the coral bells, to the left
is a green mound of Ozark Mountain Sundrops which will bloom Butter Yellow

Left side of garden with the Butterfly Bush anchoring the left side
and two rosebushes climbing up the corner of the house.
The large flower on a stake was a Christmas present from my nieces and nephews.

Here is a close-up of my Christmas present.
The neatest thing about it is that it was made by
a friend who I taught with for years.
We retired the same year and she opened up an art studio.
My niece heard me talking about the large flowers
she made from bowls and cups and hos I wanted one.
This is the one she made for me :)

More Martha Washington Geraniums
and our two  hanging baskets of geraniums.

This is the view our neighbors have of our front yard.

Moss rose in the back
and dying daffodil leaves in the front around our housewarming WELCOME stone.

HUGE old fashioned rose bush in the back yard.
Easy to grow . . . I had it in Indiana climbing a trellis

The husband cutting the backyard weeds
in front of our flowering Clematis.

My mother-in-laws goose and her goslings
walking around our cherry tree in the back yard.

You can't see it very well
but these are my remaining 4 bunnies I bought years ago at Joannes
and my 2 lavender plants.

The hostas are on the north side of the house
where they have flourished.
The purple flowering grassy plant is some time of a "wort."
I want to call it a lung wort but I'm not sure.

More hostas . . .
someone didn't tell the middle hosta it was supposed to get huge.

A dainty white flowering "Stepable" on the left, an Astible
and another huge hosta,

Another hosta that didn't get the "huge" message between two huge hosta.

Guess what, two more hostas.

Now you can see a few of our Lily-of-the-Valley with two more hosta.

One surprise hosta . . . nether the husband or I remember planting this one.

Red, Yellow and Green Sweater

I designed this pattern in Aug 2010. Today, I got an email from Ravelry that it was being rejected because it had never been finished. I was surprised . . . but when I went to check the pattern, I still had edits that needed to be done before I could publish the pattern.

Needless to say, I fixed the edits so I could publish the pattern. Now, I have another pattern I can make for Miss E that I  had forgotten all about. All I need to do is find some cute buttons for her sweater.

I hope you like it.

Front

Shoulder not buttoned.

Shoulder buttoned.

Close-Up of back neckline.

Back

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If you would like to buy the pattern, it is available for $ 2.99 in my Ravelry Store, "The Fur~Babies Momma." Just click the buy now button to be transported to my shop.

   

 ***100% of the purchase price for the pattern goes to no-kill animal shelters in Western New York and in my home state of Indiana.***

Frozen Fruit Sherbert

Summer is O*F*F*I*C*I*A*L*L*Y here . . . 

the spotted bananas have been changed into a summertime treat.

We are in the midst of turning

those spotting bananas

into Frozen Fruit Sherbet.

Mixed and ready to freeze :)

Ingredients

1.5 C Sugar (I NEVER use this but it is part of the recipe.)

2 C Hot (from the tap) Water

6 oz Can of Frozen Orange Juice

4 Bananas - chopped/sliced. etc.

20 oz Can of Crushed Pineapple (Pineapple Tidbits work also)

Large Bottle of Maraschino Cherries, drained

1. Mix all ingredients in a container with a tight lid. Stir to distribute fruit evenly.
2. Freeze, turning upside down, or stirring, until completely frozen.
3. Remove 30 minutes before serving to allow it to "slush."

Favorite Option: Place mixture in foil lined muffin tins, freeze without turning. Makes individual sherbets. (This is how I would make the desert when I was taking it to a school for a carry in.)