T Stands for Tuesday & Pirate Ship and Speed Boats

   Hi everyone,

        It has been awhile since I posted for T. Still working with the garden project and all of those rocks. August was an extremely hot month here in SW Missouri, and actually we are still rather warm to hot here this September as well. Another 90 degree day for Monday. (I am posting this early Sunday evening)

       I needed to take a month off working outdoors as I had really hurt both knees carrying heavy rocks into place. I am better now-finally-but must be aware and be really careful.  So much to do yet, that I don't think I will have time to get it all done so I can purchase the plants I wanted to get in the ground this month. 

  Today (Sunday) I decided I must get my little lavender plants in the ground, as well as what is left of my bee balm plants-I had lost half of them-and my echinacea plants. I placed my tomato cages around some of the smaller plants so they won't get stepped on. I had kept them in large pots outdoors in semi shade as we had such extreme heat here. The company I ordered from did replace my 3 lavender plants that I had lost with no charges. I even told them about our heat here but I had kept them out of the hot sun. They had sent me 3 extra bee balm plants originally, I lost 3 and still have 3 plants that look pretty good.  Now if we could just get rain.

    I have been also trying to get perennial bulbs that I had dug up replanted-I got allot of those in over the weekend-but the area that I also want to plant them in is almost impossible with the extreme hard soil-I am going to need to water that down this week. and this is the area with poison ivy-ugh I will be wearing long sleeves and gloves for sure.

    We are working on an area next to that rocked slope that I had completed-to extend that over some. Larry started cutting down big bushes in that space-which we will eventually use for crappie beds around our dock. I will need to dig out that dirt-reuse-and get rocks up there-that will use up allot more of the rocks in this area. Being in my 70's now-I had not thought this through that I could just get this all done in a month haha. Oh well our minds always think we are still young but not our body parts.

  My poor husband has been back to working alone on the dock project-he was getting close to finishing-and has hurt himself bad twice now in a week's time Today was a bit of a panic. A huge wave came up that he didn't notice and it caused him to run a piece of machinery down his arm-allot of blood loss and took off allot of skin under his arm -that was a bad one.  We got the bleeding stopped and have it bandaged up.  Like I have mentioned-things are so much more difficult to accomplish when we get older and ill.  We have never been ones to do nothing though-we are always involved in different projects.

   A couple posts back I posted a 4 minute video on the lake with lots of geese. We had allot more "lake action" mid day Saturday   September has been perfect for lake activities this year-warmer and no rain or high winds. Later that same day I took another video of the pirate ship. It was straight across from us-docked-picked up passengers to take for a pirate ship ride and dinner and then a couple hours later brought them back home. I think that sounds like great family fun.

    I really zoomed this in for a closer look-about 8 times on my old digital camera

Here is a photo and also a video

Note for better viewing you can enlarge videos to full screen-and then click on escape to go back

  Like I mentioned, Saturday was crazy busy-we learned there was a bass fishing tournament so that explained all of the fishing boats speeding by. There were also allot of those speed boats all day too-fun to watch but noisy and they take over the lake sometimes . Here is a video I took right after the pirate ship video.

A couple weeks ago I opened up this bottle of wine-one I had picked up at a local winery, when our Wisconsin friends came down for a long weekend visit.  I just finished the bottle last week. It was really good-my favorite is a semi-dry red. The wine had an unusual finish that I couldn't quite figure out-thinking perhaps it was aged in oak barrels.  This is one of my favorite hand thrown pottery wine glasses.

Happy T and new week