Happy Cool Thursday :) A peaceful relaxing day :) Tending our plants sunflowers growing tall :)

Happy Cool Thursday :) Summer greetings, from our garden :) We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) Tending our plants, keeping hydrated and cool, phone call,and our favorite sports radio :) We're enjoying sharing in the week with everyone, and seeing our summer time garden continue to grow :) it's a very exciting time in the season :) Holly and i tended our plants today, giving them a good watering :) the plants are soaking up the summer sunshine ,and super mega growing during these golden days of July :) We're so happy and excited to see our plants, flowers ,and fruit trees doing well :) We have tomatoes growing :) We look forward to picking grapes next month :) It's been a nice stretch of days :) We enjoyed a nice phone call today,and also tuning into the sports radio :) i'm enjoying browsing for some cool collectibles on ebay, and we're also getting ready for a super fun baking friday adventure tomorrow :) There's lots more great things and summer times to look forward too, as the season continues to shine :) Thank you angel friends, for all that you do for us, and for sharing in the season with us :) We love you all bunches and bunches :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season :) Tomorrow's baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's almost time to bake! bake! bake! :)



Rise and Shine Sunflowers! :) our sunflowers are super growing in the garden! :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly ,and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a nice day :) We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :) The summer season and month of July is in full swing :) We have a special birthday wish for my sister Lisa :) today's her birthday :) Happy birthday Lisa! :) She's enjoying a nice day,and Kayla enjoyed a nice birthday yesterday :) We love sharing in special times of the season with you all, our dear angel friends :) Wishing everyone continued safety, thru these very hot/humid summer days. it's been in the low 90's here this week, we're keeping hydrated, and cool :) Drinking plenty of water, and pacing ourselves with the days, especially while tending our plants :) We enjoyed a nice phone call, and also getting ready for a super fun, summer time themed baking friday adventure :) Thank you angel friends, for making each day special :)We love hearing about your seasonal festivities, traditions, and sharing ours :)Sending lots and lots of love, super big happy sunny caring friendship hugs, and sunflower smiles :)


This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) i was up early this morning ,enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) The plants have been soaking up lots of summer sunshine this week, as they continue to super mega grow :) We've been hearing lots of happy birds outside, including during the evening :) shortly after 8pm, we heard a happy bird in our tree outside our window :) We love those peaceful nature moments :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies ,and went outside for my nature walk :)



Our nature friends, plants, and summer sunshine greeted me :) Lots of summer nature energy all around :) the bluejays were visiting this morning, they were ready to gather some peanuts :) i put lots of goodies, peanuts, pretzels, and some oatmeal cookies on the bird feeders, and in the bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) The bluejays were so excited, as they gathered some goodies :) it's awesome, being amongst the spirit soaring nature moments :) It's a great time in the season, with lots of nature sights shining all around :) our plants, fruit trees, and flowers are doing well, growing and flourishing :) when i see the sunflowers, especially in the early mornings, i think of the sunflowers rising and shining into a new day, and them soaking up the sunshine :) we have lots of happy sunflowers growing ,and our flowers, including marigolds, zinnia's, cosmos, nasturium jewel flowers, and more :) our snowball bush has just began to blossom, and many roses are blossoming in our front yard :) We love the beautiful wave of flowers blossoming, and lots more flowers to blossom all throughout the season :)We have a huge sunflower growing in our front yard ,it had sprouted from last year's sunflowers, and we transplated it into a safe spot in a planter, in our front yard garden :) it's grown a lot :)



The vegetables, and fruit are growing, we have lots of pears, apples, grapes, plus cucumbers, zuchinni, yellow squash, string beans, snap peas, potato plants, plus our tomatoes, and pumpkin plants :) the tomato plants are over 3 feet tall, and lots of blossoms :) We might be able to make some fresh homemade salsa :) Holly and i love mild salsa, and also cucumber wraps :) We can't wait to pick more cucumbers :) nature ,and gardening is very rewarding :)We love these sweet days of the summer gardening season ,it's an awesome joy seeing how much the plants have grown over the past couple months :) They are in their summer growing days now, and are very healthy,and happy :) We've been keeping our plants replenished with plenty of water this week :) We love being out in our yard, and garden, and sharing our garden, and adventures with everyone :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us :) Happy summer nature, and gardening season smiles :)



It was a nice peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and vanilla iced coffee :) Tiger girl enjoyed her breakfast, and some treats :)She's having a nice week hanging out with Holly and i :) Lisa was here this morning : )We wished Lisa a happy birthday, and gave her a birthday card, with money, and some gifts Holly picked out for her, including shampoo, conditioner, and more :) Holly and i called our friend Shirley (Squarley) :) we enjoyed a nice talk :) We put our favorite sports radio on, keeping up with our favorite sports :) we look forward to keeping up with the second half of the baseball season ,and seeing which teams do well :) i've been enjoying browsing some cool collectibles on ebay :) i browse some cool Washington Commanders collectibles,and also some coins, and sports cards too :) my mom and dad have been doing well, my dad's been doing some uber driving in our area this week :)



We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care, and a nice pace with our days :) it was so nice enjoying a phone call today, and also tending our plants early :) We're enjoying the gardening season, and looking forward to lots more nature walks, and gardening adventures :)We've been doing some organizing this week, and also enjoying some tv/movies at times :) we're picking out some cool movies for our popcorn movies party on saturday :) Tomorrow's baking friday :) We're very excited for a super fun, summer time themed baking friday adventure :) We love sharing our adventures :) We're also looking forward to the upcoming weekend,with shopping, movies, and tending our plants :) Thank you angel friends, for always being here for us, and for the special joy you all bring us :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives :) We appreciate you all very much, and will always be here for you all too :) Big group caring, happy sunny sunflower friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)



-never lose hope :)



my mom, Holly, and our family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day :)We love you all bunches and bunches our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) You all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts : )We're very excited to share in many more special times with everyone, as the summer season continues to shine :)


Sunny summer greetings,from our garden :) Hi angel friends :) Holly and i enjoyed some nice nature walks, and checking in on our plants :)We gave the plants a watering :) It also rained a bit earlier today :) We picked some more string beans, and a cucumber :) it's so nice, seeing everything growing :) it's an exciting time in the season, with all of the nature that's flourishing :) we love sharing our garden,and adventures with everyone :) We're looking forward to lots more nature walks, and gardening adventures :) Happy sunny nature, and summer gardening season smiles :)


Tomatoes growing :) 


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Sunflowers rising and shining :)  Growing tall :) 


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Dragonfly visiting :) 


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Kentucky wonder pole string beans :) 


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Zinnia flower blossoming :) 


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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well enjoying a nice Thursday. Happy to hear Lisa and Kayla are enjoying their birthdays Its great you and Holly enjoyed tending the garden and enjoying nature, Your tomatoes beans and flowers look great in your photos Glad you're looking forward to a fun baking Friday tomorrow. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
Ladybug7
Ladybug7

Your garden is looking great, Chris! Beautiful zinnia flower, and I liked the closeup of the dragonfly, too. Can't wait to see your sunflowers this year. Hope you, Holly, and the baking crew have a fun Baking Friday! Love and hugs.
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

I love the dragonfly. They are wonderful at keeping other insects at bay. I can't wait to see the goodies you're going to bake. I see you've got tomatoes and other goodies from the garden. I am very happy! Love and hugs.
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Hi chris, thanks for sharing so many amazing garden pics, everything seems to be doing really well. Can’t wait to see your sunflowers once they bloom.
wishing you and Holly and the boys a fun filled baking Friday today.
Sending lots of hugs for everyone :-)
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

PS - happy belated birthday to Lisa! I hope she enjoyed her special day :-)