Happy cool thursday :) a nice day :) We're thankful for all the love :) Thank you angel friends <3

Happy Peaceful Thursday! :) We're having a peaceful, and relaxing day, with checking in on our plants, organizing, and getting ready for a fun baking friday adventure tomorrow :) We're all continuing to do ok, and taking things a day at a time :) focused on our health, our home, and keeping healthy :) Thank you angel friends, for all of your continued support, guidance, encouragement, and for always being there for us :) We feel the love, care, and support, every day :) With all of the love of our hearts, we thank you very much :) our plants, and garden are doing very well, growing and flourishing :) We recieved some nice replenishing rainfall overnight,and today at times too :) Our plants are very happy, and healthy as they continue to flourish with the season :) Holly and i are going to be another batch of banana peppers to pickle :) We're planning a fun baking friday adventure for the kids, and will be writing a full journal tomorrow, all about our baking friday adventure, including sharing some heart-felt moments we had last week when we were in the moments of baking :) We're keeping with routines, traditions, and we're rolling forward with you all :) Thank you all so very much, for being here for us :) You all are our guardian angels :) Holly and i put some movies on today, a mini movies day,and gonna have a movies marathon on saturday, and TWD sunday :) the positive energy is continuing to flow, and we have much to be thankful for, our health, our home, eachother, and the most wonderful family of friends, all around the world :) that makes every day, a gift, and a blessing :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's almost time to bake! bake! bake! :)



Hi angel friends, the month of August has been settling in,and our plants, and summer time garden are flourishing nicely after some awesome replenishing rainfall :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a really good day :) We're all doing ok here, at home :) it's been a week, where all of us have really needed eachother a lot, and also all of you, our wonderful friends here for us, along with the balance of our daily routines, and traditions :) in my writings this week, i've been able to express, and focus in on some writings,that's been healthy for me, and all of us at times this week here, have been feeling different emotions, and feelings, and it's been helpful to write, and to talk :) it's healthy too, and helps with the moving forward a day at a time :) As long as we have our health, family, friends, our home, it's what will continue to surround us all through any types of times :) thank you all, our dear angel friends for the strength you all are giving me, but also giving my family and Holly :) Your support, guidance, and encouragement in my times of need, helps me to be strong for my family, Holly, and for friends across the miles :) We're very strong,and i'm very proud of us all :)



It's been a good, positive stretch of days :) This morning, we had a nice new day, rising and shining :) We're very thankful for the nice replenishing rainfall we recieved overnight, and at times today :) The plants love the rain :) i was up early, enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) the rain was eased this morning :) i love checking in on our plants, especially after a good raining :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went ouside :) the air felt refreshing, and has had a hint of that early september morning air, with it a bit cooler lately :) we do have some 90 degrees weather days in our forecast, with humidity soon, but the cooler weather is so nice, and refreshing :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area, and around our front trees, for our nature friends :) they love gathering the goodies :) i saw a happy golden finch this morning, it was first on top of one of our shepherd's poles, and then flew onto the top of one of our sunflowers, and was eating some sunflower seeds :) cool nature up close! :)



Our plants, and garden are doing well, and have settled very nicely into the month of August :) our plants are very healthy, and happy :) it's so nice, to see them doing well :) Holly and i are going to be picking some more banana peppers, string beans, and snap peas :) we have lots of tomatoes growing ,at least 3 or 4 varieties, including cherry tomatoes, and roma tomatoes :) it's gonna be awesome making homemade salsa :) We'll need just onion, as we have some tomatoes, and peppers growing in our garden :) We hope to make at least 10 jars of salsa :) it's gonna be very nice :) our pumpkins and gourds plants are doing well, lots of blossoms growing on the plants :) we have cucumbers growing, and our carrots plants have grown taller :) Holly and i are very excited, to harvest some carrots later on this season, it's a gardening first for us :) we have yellow squash, and zuchinni growing :) Holly and i definitely want to make some more zuchinni with pasta sauce, and spaghetti very soon :) The string beans are growing plentiful,and it's gonna be so nice having string beans for snack, and with our meals :) Our popcorn plants have grown so tall, they are over 6 feet tall :) The popcorn cobs continue to grow and grow :) We'll have some awesome popcorn cobs to harvest in september :) We love growing garden popcorn, it's a cool experience :)



The sunflowers, and flowers are doing well :) it's a beautiful wave of the colors of summer time blossoming all around our yard, and garden :) This is the most wild daisies we've had grow, and blossom, and also lots of snowball bush blossoms, and our morning glory flowers blossoming :) it's amazing, all of the many vines of the morning glory flowers that blossom :) They'll be blossoming all month, and most of september :) We have a beautiful variety of marigolds, petunia's, and soon some huge tall yellow marigolds will be blossoming :) We saved seeds from last year's plants, and they have sprouted and grown :) the yellow marigolds, remind me of sponges, as they will blossom, and open up a lot, it's gonna be great to see :)



We love our garden, and are getting lots of energy, and enjoyment from it :) we often go to nature, or in our garden when we need it most :) it's so nice, it's there, and the season is flourishing, we all can gain that energy from the plants, just like our dear angel friend Cj (ddeadred) told me years ago, during any rough times, the nature, and plants can give us energy, it's very true :) we love sharing our garden, and are looking forward to lots more adventures, as the season continues on :) our plants and trees, are replenished, from the rain, and will be soaking up lots more sunshine, and very warm weather coming, very soon :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us :) Happy nature, and gardening season smiles :)



We've been hanging out today :) Holly and i put some sports radio on early, the NFL preseason begins today, with the hall of fame game, Steelers vs Cowboys :) We love football season, and are thrilled the season begins, just a little over a motnh away :) Holly and i also put some movies on today, a mini movies marathon, and gonna have our full movies marathon on saturday :) we're putting together a cool list of movies :) we've been doing some organizing, and getting ready for a super fun baking friday adventure tomorrow, we're planning a fun adventure for us all, which will be very good for all of us :) We all need a good fun baking friday, and blossoming into the weekend :) i've been continuing to browse some collectibles online at times too :)



We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) my family, Holly ,and i are doing ok, and continuing to keep up with our daily routines, and activities each day :) Holly and i had a nice lunch today,tuned into some sports radio for a bit, and put some movies on :) We're continuing each day forward, enjoying simple joys, that brings our hearts a lot of comfort, uplifting, and joy each day :) we enjoyed checking in on our plants today :) We look forward to some more gardening soon :) Holly and i are going to watch some episodes of "mad tv"comedy show tonight :) Tomorrow's baking friday :) we're looking forward to a fun baking friday adventure with the kids, and blossoming intothe upcoming weekend, with nature, gardening,movies, and twd show :)



keep healthy, safe, and strong everyone :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for the very special heart warming joy you all bring to our days, our hearts, and our lives :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group warm caring happy sunny sunflower friendship hug and iced coffee cheers! :) You all give us strength, hope, inspiring us to enjoy each day to the fullest <3 We're with you all, and will always be here anytime you all need us :) Thank you all, for brightening our days and making each day very special :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) We look forward to sharing in many more very special times, adventures, birthday's, holiday's, and all of the seasonal traditions and festivities with family, friends, nature walks, the wonderful spirit of the season, gardening adventures, and continuing to enjoy the summer season to the fullest :)



-never lose hope :)



To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) We enjoyed checking in on our plants, garden, also putting some movies, and tv shows on :) it's been a good, positive stretch of days :) We're looking forward to a fun baking friday adventure tomorrow with the kids, and blossoming into the upcoming weekend :) Thinking of you,our dear friend :)



my mom says hi :) she says, "it's been one of those weeks". She says, "we're strong. i hope everyone is doing well, in good health, and having a nice day" :) Awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a good day :) we think of you and your family's often, and will always be here for you all, our dear angel friends :)


Golden days of Summer Gardening :) hi angel friends, we've had some nice rain in our area at times today, and a clearing in the weather this afternoon :) Holly and i went outside, to check in on our plants, and we picked 12 more banana peppers, and a bell pepper :) we're having a huge growing season ,for peppers :) it's truly amazing, to see all of the plants flourishing :) it's been a big nature, and gardening week :) we've been soaking up lots of gardening and nature energy :) i'd love to re-share some nature and garden pictures from the week, along with a few new pics :) We're gonna enjoy lots more nature and gardening adventures in the days ahead :) happy nature, and garden season smiles :) 


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Carrots :) 


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Pears :) 


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Roma Tomatoes :) 


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Popcorn cobs growing :) 


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CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you and your family are doing well enjoying a nice day. We had some rain where I am as well The sun is out this late afternoon, The garden is looking awesome. Your carrots are so green in the photo and your pears popcorn and other plants and flowers look wonderful too Its great you and Holly have been enjoying sports radio and your shows and movies Glad you have a nice baking Friday planned for the kids tomorrow. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening hugs to everyone-Stephanie
sunsetyellow2
sunsetyellow2

Hi Chris and Holly love the pics today. Nature is so wonderful. Your flowers are so pretty. I love the little pink zinnia. It is so pretty.

Have a great baking Friday. I have my MRI tomorrow afternoon. I am really nervous about it. They gave me medicine to take that will calm my nerves and help me get through it.

Go Steelers!! First game of the season. Football season has arrived. Big Ben not playing tonight.

You and Holly have a great evening.

Hugs
John and Debbie
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

beautiful garden pictures!! i'm glad you're in good spirits. praying for continued healing for you and Holly and family.

i'm going to go to a few yard sales today:) sometimes i don't buy anything. i just love to look!

my new kittens are growing stronger and getting healthier every day! they had an upper respiratory virus. it's going away with the help of good nutrition and warm blankets for good rest:) soon they'll have a new room to go outside! it's 95% finished:)

enjoy your day. keeping you all in my heart and in my prayers:)
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Amazing pics!! Everything looks so healthy, you and Holly have green thumbs for sure, lol
Have a fun time baking with the boys today and enjoy those treats! Hopefully Jenn doesn't show up today and ruin the fun!!
Wishing you and Holly a very peaceful night :-)
Lots of hugs, Jeannnie