Good morning, friends...Hope you all are doing well and enjoying your lives.
We haven't been up to much lately...getting groceries, planting some roses and tomato plants. Last
Summer's drought killed almost everything in our yard! With constant 108F temps and smidgens of rain, and really high water bills...we just gave up! It's the first time, in all the time we've lived here (49yrs), that we just watered the foundation (prevents it from cracking), not the grass. The yard was gorgeous and heavy with St Augustine. I'm just sick...I am seeing sprouts of the St Augustine though...and we've been getting a lot of rain so here's hoping it'll grow back. I fully intend to water it!! (Hubby is a tiny bit tight...not a lot butttt...and I can't really blame him...water prices here are terrible!)
This photo of my sister, Ruth, was taken probably in the around 2015. She's now completed round 5 of the chemo for her colon cancer, and the doctors are saying everything looks very good! After her round 6 treatment she'll have another PET (lights up tumors like a Christmas tree) scan done to see if it's shrinking. Please keep remembering her in your prayers.
Our little Sloane whispering to God...in the beautiful Bluebonnets. (Yes, mom & dad checked for snakes! lol)
Sloane doing a bit of shopping with mommy...
I placed a Bougainvillea on a tree stump (tree kill by drought!). It'll at least provide something pretty in the yard to look at. I've been buying plants and re-planting.
Two tomato plants are really taking off!
New roses planted...look at that parched ground! Horrible!
Mostly weeds now...
We're traveling down this morning to visit with our daughter, Crystal who is visiting her daughter, Samantha and granddaughter, Sloane. I got up early and baked some Walnut Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies. Really good! The sugar cookie is pressed into the center of the chocolate chip cookie... I'll post the recipe on my cooking blog.
(I want to pause here for a moment...I know that some of you already know who my family members are, by face and name but, my new friends don't. That's why I do a re-telling of who different people are. There's nothing much I hate more than trying to figure out how the people in photos belong to different bloggers. I do this so they don't have to go back in my archives and do a search, if really interested...and for people trying to just read a post, most don't have the time or patience to do that).
Our Libby is waiting for a cookie in her PJ's...but she can't have chocolate and besides that, it's too early for cookies! lolol...tell that to Larry! (hubby)
Libby is not happy with me...lol
Larry smoked a Tri-Tip...omgoodness! A seriously tender cut of meat! And a bit pricey but worth it!
And he made butter beans...yum...
Do any of you hike up the centers of your bacon so the edges don't drip grease onto the glass plate in your microwave? It works!
Well, I guess that's it for me...Hope you all are safe and happy wherever you are, so until next time...
