Happy Sunday! :) Summer Garden greetings,TWD marathon :) Flowers smiling in the garden! :)

Happy Sunny Sunday! :) We're enjoying an awesome day and a great weekend! :) Our summer garden continues to flourish, as our plants are super mega growing :) We're very happy and excited to be picking lots of fresh garden goodies :) it's a very exciting time in the season, and lots more super fun adventures to look forward too :) Holly and i tended our plants early today, giving them a good soaking with the water :) They're soaking up the summer sunshine ,and spirit soaring in the garden! :) We picked some cucumbers :) We're gonna make some homemade sweet pickles this upcoming week :) We're going to be pick some more string beans, and zuchinni soon too :)The season is shining bright :) Today's the final day of the heat-wave in our area, we're so glad and thankful cooler weather in the 80's is forecasted for the upcoming week :) We'll be able to spend more time in the garden, and planning to freshen up our garden areas, pulling weeds :) we're keeping cool and hydrated :) Holly and i are having a TWD marathon, watching some classic episodes and are so thrilled and excited, about 2 huge characters on the show, are returning with their own TWD series :) there's gonna be about 5 TWD shows coming up, including the final 8 eps of the original season ,wow! :) Holly and i would love to get some more TWD cards sometime, we love adding to our collection :) i love browsing the mystery minis on ebay and amazon too :) it's been a great stretch of days, enjoying lots of simple joys :) We're enjoying some foods, snacks, drinks, and did some organizing today too :) We're gonna have 2 mailing days this upcoming week, tuesday and super wednesday :) Thank you angel friends ,so very much, for all that you dofor us, and for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) Enjoying an awesome day,and a great weekend, with family, friends, tending our plants, TWD party, and the awesome spirit of the summer season! :) we look forward to blossoming into the new week with everyone :)

Happy Sunny Sunflower smiles, from our summer time garden! :) hi angel friends! :) my family,Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, keeping cool, hydrated, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We're thinking of you all :) We're so glad, and thankful the heat-wave is ending after today,and cooler weather this upcoming week. it's been a big heat-wave, we're very thankful we're gonna be able to be outside more in our garden, this upcoming week, and been treasuring all of the times we've been getting to get into the garden, watering our plants early,and then later on in the day. We're so happy and excited to see our plants doing awesome, growing and flourishing :) it's a great time in the season :) We love picking fresh garden goodies :) We're so happy and thrilled everyone enjoyed seeing the huge zuchinni we picked yesterday :) We have another huge zuchinni like that in the garden, along with others growing :) it's so much fun harvesting goodies, and having some cucumber treasure hunts in the garden this season :) The cucumbers surprise us, as they are growing low to the ground, and are growing fast, and it's always a cool surprise when we find one :) We're gonna make another jar of fresh homemade sweet bread and butter pickles this upcoming week :) we're keeping cool, and hydrated :) We're having a TWD marathon today, and so excited for some big TWD news that was announced the other day :) Lots of great TWD series/shows coming up, Holly and i are super pumped and excited about it :) i also took some cool new pictures of our plants today to share with everyone :) Cheers!!! to the wonderful spirit of the summer season! :)

This morning, we had a great new day, rising and shining :) it was so nice shopping yesterday,and having a popcorn movies party :) Holly and i watched a total of 5 comedy movies :) We love having themes, for our summer blockbuster movies :) it was very exciting, seeing some fall/halloween items in the dollar tree yesterday :) Holly and i hadn't seen fall/halloween times there, since 2019, and then had the 17 months where we didn't shop, and returned to shopping this past December. :) it was so neat seeing the items, including seeing candy corn on the candy aisle :) it's gonna be so much fun shopping for fall/halloween items, and candy :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) during the evening, we had a nice dinner, zuchinni burgers, and also some cucumber wraps :) i like to put mayo on the tortilla wraps, with cucumber slices, cheese, and old bay seasoning :) It's really good :) We enjoyed our movie night,and so excited to be enjoying lots of fresh garden goodies as part of our meals :)

As the new day was blossoming this morning, i was up early enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) our cat Tiger was up early this morning ,and we heard a Bluejay outside here :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, crumbled bread and peanuts, and went outside for my nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love gathering the goodies ,i saw bluejays, and a red cardinal this morning :) The nature is awesome all around :) The bumble bees ,and butterflies hve been out and about early, visiting our garden areas :) i walked over to our garden to see our plants, it's so much fun checking in on them :)

Our plants, and garden are doing great! :) We have about another 7 zuchinni growing, some have been growing ,and some just began to grow :)We also have cucumbers, 3 varieties growing this season :) it's a really big season for zuchinni and cucumbers :) Each season is very unique, and special :) the string beans are growing wild, each day we're picking some fresh garden string beans :) Holly and i love to each pick a string bean to enjoy while walking around our garden areas :) The peppers, tomatoes, carrots, popcorn, sweet corn on the cob plants, snap peas, celery, and potatoes plants are all doing very well :) our fruit trees are doing very well too, we hope for an awesome harvest, and lots of apple goodies to look forward to baking :) our grapevines are doing very well too :) we're past the raspberry harvest now, and have been trimming back the raspberry bushes, to get more sunlight into the garden areas :) We're really amazed, at how well the plants are doing :) they've been handling the very hot weather, very well and growing nicely as the season continues on :) We've been keeping the plants replenished, with 2 good soakings per day :) the nice cooler weather is gonna be a relief :) We're hoping for another good rainfall this upcoming week :)

We have lots of happy summer time flowers growing and blossoming, including lots of sunflowers, morning glory flowers, daisies, poppy flowers, forget-me-not flowers, also a variety of flowers called "sweet william" flowers, Holly planted in honor of her grandfather, who is named William :)We love seeing the flowers, and sunflowers spirit soaring in the garden, it's a very exciting time in the season :) our first cosmos of the season have blossomed, and we also have some zinnia flowers blossoming :) The plants love the summer sunshine :) we have some mammoth sunflowers growing very tall :) We're enjoying a great time enjoying our gardening adventures, and sharing our adventures, and pictures with everyone :) We're gonna be tending our plants early,and then later on when it cools down :) Lots of happy summer garden smiles :)

It was a sweet spirited early morning :) Holly and i enjoyed our breakfast :) Tiger enjoyed her breakfast too :) Tiger's been living with us here, almost for a full year (August 10th) :) We're so happy and excited Tiger is living with us :) She loves it here, and has so many areas in our downstairs apartment, where she loves to lay, sleep, including under my football collectibles shelves, where i have my jackets/shirts, she sometimes sleeps there all night :) awww! :) She's a very happy cat :) Holly and i enjoyed having some hot tea, water, and iced coffee this morning, and began a cool TWD marathon :) we love re-watching some classic TWD episodes :) on friday evening, at the San Diego Comic Con, it was announced, a very special big news announcement, for the TWD universe, the 2 legendary characters, Rick Grimes and Michonne, are returning for a whole new, 6 episodes series featuring the continuing of their story :)we're so happy, excited, and thrilled!:) Rick (actor) left the show in season 9, with an open-ended exit, which left us all wondering if he'd return :) We're absolutely thrilled, Rick and Michonne are returning, in 2023 :) We can't wait to see continuation of their story :) Holly and are big fans of the show, we love TWD, and discussing the character, and storylines :) We love collecting TWD collectibles too :) There's gonna be lots of TWD shows coming up, TWD mainshow returns in October, plus in August, Tales of TWD, Daryl's getting his own show, Negan and Maggie getting thier own show, plus there's FTWD, lots of great episodes to look forward too :)

We're enjoying an awesome day,and a great weekend :) celebrating the spirit of summer time! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) We're enjoying the weekend very much, enjoying some fresh garden goodies :) There's lots of great things going on as the summer season is in full swing :) We're looking forward to blossoming into the upcoming week with everyone, with cooler weather, in the 80'. We're gonna tend our plants, picking some more fresh garden goodies, we're also gonna do some writing, having 2 mailing days this upcoming week, we also have sweet treats tuesday, super wednesday mailing envelopes here from home, ghost hunters party,and lots more leading us into another super fun baking friday adventure :) i look forward to sharing our days, adventures, and pictures with everyone in my daily journals :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for your wonderful love, care, support, warm well wishes, and for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our very happy hearts :) Big group happy sunny warm caring Sunflower friendship hug and Summer Smiles :) We wish everyone, a nice peaceful evening and night, and wishing everyone continued joys of the blossoming summer season :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying an awesome day and a great weekend :) Holly and i tended our plants ,and also enjoying some fresh garden goodies :) We're watching our show, having lots of iced cold drinks, and writing :) We're looking forward to blossoming into the upcoming week with everyone ,sharing in our weekly traditions, adventures, and mailing cards, and a letter :) the summer season is in full swing :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom, Holly, and family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a wonderful day,and a great weekend :) Awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We cherish and treasure your very special friendships :) We'll always be here for you all, and so excited to share in continued joys of the summer season with everyone :)

Happy Summer Garden Smiles! :) Hi angel friends :) Our plants are growing and flourishing :) We're so happy and excited to see the plants growing wild :) We picked some snap peas, and a cucumber today :) It's so nice, harvesting fresh garden goodies :) i sauteed some string beans and snap peas :)We're loving the gardening season, and having somuch fun sharing our adventures with everyone :) We have our first zinnia flower blossom,and lots more flowers, fruits, and vegetables growing :) We've been keeping our plants replenished with lots of water, and looking forward to some cooler weather this upcoming week :) a very special greetings from our garden! :)

Our first Zinnia flower of the season :) 

We love seeing the sunflowers blossoming :) 

This unique plant is blossoming in our garden :)

Our snowball bush blossoming :) 

Poppy flower :) 

Sunflower getting ready to blossom :) 

Popcorn and swet corn plants growing :) 

Pumpkin plant :) 

i love the view of the flowers  view of the sky, this zinnia flower looks like a  carnival ride :) summer cool :)