I'm still waiting on my Coneflowers (Echinacea) from Spring Hill Nursery. It's showing an estimated delivery date of 6/5/09 - 6/8/09. But, that keeps changing. So, we shall see.
I found most of the others that I was looking for, at a local nursery! I was SO excited, because they ended up being MUCH cheaper, and I didn't have to pay shipping and handling!
Of course, I haven't figured out where I am going to plant all of them yet! LOL! I always do that! Buy a bunch of plants, and then think "OH! Where am I going to put them?" They are all lined up outside, waiting patiently to go into the ground! Thank goodness for all of the rain we've been getting, because I was having to water them constantly!
After looking around more on-line, I found SO MANY different kinds and colors of Coneflowers that I want to get. It's going to take time to get all of them! Only bummer is that to get extra plants from the ones you grow, you have to divide the plants, you cannot use the seeds, because the plants that come from the seeds, tend to revert back to the original plant coloring.
Anyone want to come help me figure out where to plant all of my new pretties? They need to be in the sun! And need soil that drains well! So, that leaves out the most obvious place for them, which was down along the fence!
Hmmmm! Thinking.........Thinking!
OK! Enough of that! It makes my brain hurt! LOL!
Off to make a smoothie!
Friday, May 29, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Birthday Fun!
Sunday was my birthday, and I had a GREAT day!
Actually, I was pretty much spoiled for the whole week because of Mother's Day, and my birthday being so close together.
The kids gave me money, because I told them that I wanted to start an Echinacea (Coneflower) garden. Of course, I already have the "normal" Purple Coneflowers that you see everywhere. And I have seen White Coneflowers sold locally, so I will buy them here. BUT, I was looking through my Spring Hill Nursery catalog, and found that there are quite a few different varieties available, and I want to "collect" all of them. I hope to dedicate a spot in the yard to all the different types of Echinacea. I LOVE these flowers, and the fact that they attract butterflies, and gold finches, is a HUGE bonus!
I started with:
Green Envy Coneflower
Sunrise Coneflower
And, Sundown Coneflower
Next up, will be:
Twilight Coneflower
Coconut Lime Coneflower
And, Pink Double Delight Coneflower
All of the pictures were taken from Spring Hill Nursery's website.
Aren't they gorgeous? I cannot wait to get them! I am sure there are other varieties out there that I don't know about. So, if YOU know of any others, please let me know.
During the week, one of my friends took me to a little town nearby, to go antiquing, and eat lunch. We ended the afternoon with an old fashioned vanilla malt. (EXTRA malt please!) It was SO YUMMY!
I came home to find a box from my Mom waiting for me. Inside, was a BEAUTIFUL blue crackle glass decanter, and the cutest little crackle glass perfume bottle. My crackle glass collection is growing! YAY! The decanter is now the largest piece I own. (It's difficult to find larger pieces.) And the blue is GORGEOUS!
(Sorry! The pictures aren't the greatest! You can see the tag on that back of the decanter, shining through the front.)
I also got a delicious cake, that helped add more pounds to my rear end, but it sure was good! (We cut the cake on Saturday, because both of the kids had to work on Sunday.) Brat Girl said that she was going to have them put "Happy Birthday PUNK" on it! LOL! YEAH! I get called Punk all the time around here! (Actually, we all call each other PUNK! LOL!) But, she decided to be nice, and left it just saying "Happy Birthday."
We were cracking up, because the letters were melting SO FAST! They were collapsing all over the cake! LOL
Mr. Mister let me pick out some of the JustRite stamps I have been drooling over! I absolutely LOVE all of the different ways you can use these stamps! I will have to keep adding more of them to my collection (YES! Another collection!) over time. They have an awesome blog, with a super talented design team. CUTE! CUTE! Ideas!
As for the rest of Sunday, Mr. Mister took me to eat my favorite meal at Romano's Macaroni Grill. They have the BEST Chicken Toscana soup. And, I cannot go there without ordering the Vodka Rustica. (Recently, they took the Vodka Rustica off of the menu! I almost CRIED! But, they told me I can still order it whenever I come in, because they will always have the ingredients to make it! WHEW! You really don't want to see me blubbering in the middle of a restaurant!) After enjoying the meal, they brought over a piece of cake, and sang Happy Birthday to me in ITALIAN! It was so COOL!
Then, off we went, for another visit to the Country Wine Gardens. (Rhonda, from the Christmas Notebook, mentioned this place on her blog last year. They enjoy going there because they collect Daylilies, and this place has some huge Daylily fields.) Every year, they dig up plants from the fields, and sell them. We didn't buy any Daylilies this year, because they weren't in bloom yet, and I couldn't remember what we had bought last year. But, I did find another Yellow Coneflower ( Yellow Echinacea Paradoxa) plant, which looks like it will be darker than the Sunrise Coneflower, and Mr. Mister bought some Stargazer lilies, and some really pretty "Gold Rush" Shasta daisies.
This is what they will all look like once they bloom. These pictures were taken from the internet as well.
Now, to figure out where they are all going in the garden!
The Country Wine Gardens also has a restaurant, and (obviously) a wine tasting area. I had read on their website that they carried our favorite wine, Moscato D'Asti, so we decided to pick up a bottle, sit on their patio, and drink it while we people watched, and listened to the band for a few minutes. (YEAH! We bought a few more bottles to bring home with us! NO! We're not lushes! LOL!)
After all the fun we had, we came home to enjoy a nice, quiet, evening. It was a wonderful day!
Actually, I was pretty much spoiled for the whole week because of Mother's Day, and my birthday being so close together.
The kids gave me money, because I told them that I wanted to start an Echinacea (Coneflower) garden. Of course, I already have the "normal" Purple Coneflowers that you see everywhere. And I have seen White Coneflowers sold locally, so I will buy them here. BUT, I was looking through my Spring Hill Nursery catalog, and found that there are quite a few different varieties available, and I want to "collect" all of them. I hope to dedicate a spot in the yard to all the different types of Echinacea. I LOVE these flowers, and the fact that they attract butterflies, and gold finches, is a HUGE bonus!
I started with:
Green Envy Coneflower
Sunrise Coneflower
And, Sundown Coneflower
Next up, will be:
Twilight Coneflower
Coconut Lime Coneflower
And, Pink Double Delight Coneflower
All of the pictures were taken from Spring Hill Nursery's website.
Aren't they gorgeous? I cannot wait to get them! I am sure there are other varieties out there that I don't know about. So, if YOU know of any others, please let me know.
During the week, one of my friends took me to a little town nearby, to go antiquing, and eat lunch. We ended the afternoon with an old fashioned vanilla malt. (EXTRA malt please!) It was SO YUMMY!
I came home to find a box from my Mom waiting for me. Inside, was a BEAUTIFUL blue crackle glass decanter, and the cutest little crackle glass perfume bottle. My crackle glass collection is growing! YAY! The decanter is now the largest piece I own. (It's difficult to find larger pieces.) And the blue is GORGEOUS!
(Sorry! The pictures aren't the greatest! You can see the tag on that back of the decanter, shining through the front.)
I also got a delicious cake, that helped add more pounds to my rear end, but it sure was good! (We cut the cake on Saturday, because both of the kids had to work on Sunday.) Brat Girl said that she was going to have them put "Happy Birthday PUNK" on it! LOL! YEAH! I get called Punk all the time around here! (Actually, we all call each other PUNK! LOL!) But, she decided to be nice, and left it just saying "Happy Birthday."
We were cracking up, because the letters were melting SO FAST! They were collapsing all over the cake! LOL
Mr. Mister let me pick out some of the JustRite stamps I have been drooling over! I absolutely LOVE all of the different ways you can use these stamps! I will have to keep adding more of them to my collection (YES! Another collection!) over time. They have an awesome blog, with a super talented design team. CUTE! CUTE! Ideas!
As for the rest of Sunday, Mr. Mister took me to eat my favorite meal at Romano's Macaroni Grill. They have the BEST Chicken Toscana soup. And, I cannot go there without ordering the Vodka Rustica. (Recently, they took the Vodka Rustica off of the menu! I almost CRIED! But, they told me I can still order it whenever I come in, because they will always have the ingredients to make it! WHEW! You really don't want to see me blubbering in the middle of a restaurant!) After enjoying the meal, they brought over a piece of cake, and sang Happy Birthday to me in ITALIAN! It was so COOL!
Then, off we went, for another visit to the Country Wine Gardens. (Rhonda, from the Christmas Notebook, mentioned this place on her blog last year. They enjoy going there because they collect Daylilies, and this place has some huge Daylily fields.) Every year, they dig up plants from the fields, and sell them. We didn't buy any Daylilies this year, because they weren't in bloom yet, and I couldn't remember what we had bought last year. But, I did find another Yellow Coneflower ( Yellow Echinacea Paradoxa) plant, which looks like it will be darker than the Sunrise Coneflower, and Mr. Mister bought some Stargazer lilies, and some really pretty "Gold Rush" Shasta daisies.
This is what they will all look like once they bloom. These pictures were taken from the internet as well.
Now, to figure out where they are all going in the garden!
The Country Wine Gardens also has a restaurant, and (obviously) a wine tasting area. I had read on their website that they carried our favorite wine, Moscato D'Asti, so we decided to pick up a bottle, sit on their patio, and drink it while we people watched, and listened to the band for a few minutes. (YEAH! We bought a few more bottles to bring home with us! NO! We're not lushes! LOL!)
After all the fun we had, we came home to enjoy a nice, quiet, evening. It was a wonderful day!
Friday, May 15, 2009
Another Scary Night!
This is what we have to look forward to again tonight! Another round of storms!
I'm in the purple area! Some wind gusts have been over 50 miles per hour! I really don't want to hear sirens going off tonight!
TOO LATE! THEY JUST STARTED GOING OFF! (They went off twice, but ended up being false alarms!)
I'm in the purple area! Some wind gusts have been over 50 miles per hour! I really don't want to hear sirens going off tonight!
TOO LATE! THEY JUST STARTED GOING OFF! (They went off twice, but ended up being false alarms!)
Thursday, May 07, 2009
St. Louis Zoo - Final Installment (Hopefully!)
Are you tired of all of my zoo pictures yet? Well, guess what? There's MORE! A LOT more! LOL!
Let's hear it for my friends!
Posing for the camera?
MOM! Stop! They're looking!
Everyone was OOOHHING and AAAHHING over this little one! One very rambunctious little elephant who kept running in and out of the water, splashing and playing.
The older, and not quite so rambunctious!
OK! OK! Enough already!
THE END!
Let's hear it for my friends!
Posing for the camera?
MOM! Stop! They're looking!
Everyone was OOOHHING and AAAHHING over this little one! One very rambunctious little elephant who kept running in and out of the water, splashing and playing.
The older, and not quite so rambunctious!
OK! OK! Enough already!
THE END!
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
St. Louis Zoo - Part One!
Brat Girl and I went to the zoo today! I took approximately 400 pictures!
I have to say, the kitties are my FAVORITE animals at the zoo. Of course, most of them were asleep! But, not the tigers! I LOVE LOVE LOVE them! I think I took at least 50 pictures of them! LOL!
They were so stinkin' CUTE! And they were playful today! They kept running after, and tackling each other. One of them was even chasing a butterfly! (You cannot actually see the butterfly in the photo below, but it was a small white one!) It was TOO FUNNY! I never thought I would EVER see a tiger chasing butterflies!
We also saw the grizzly bears! They were HUGE!
Although, we think that maybe they were were fighting with each other, because the one looked SO depressed! First, she/he was just sitting there.
Then, she/he decided to lay down. Look at that face!
Now, this guy looked irritated! LOL!
I'm thinking, I wouldn't wanna make him mad! If he kept pacing around, and looking at me like that, I would be pretty depressed too!
More pictures later! There are TOO many to post all at once!
I have to say, the kitties are my FAVORITE animals at the zoo. Of course, most of them were asleep! But, not the tigers! I LOVE LOVE LOVE them! I think I took at least 50 pictures of them! LOL!
They were so stinkin' CUTE! And they were playful today! They kept running after, and tackling each other. One of them was even chasing a butterfly! (You cannot actually see the butterfly in the photo below, but it was a small white one!) It was TOO FUNNY! I never thought I would EVER see a tiger chasing butterflies!
We also saw the grizzly bears! They were HUGE!
Although, we think that maybe they were were fighting with each other, because the one looked SO depressed! First, she/he was just sitting there.
Then, she/he decided to lay down. Look at that face!
Now, this guy looked irritated! LOL!
I'm thinking, I wouldn't wanna make him mad! If he kept pacing around, and looking at me like that, I would be pretty depressed too!
More pictures later! There are TOO many to post all at once!
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