Happy thursday :) Garden and Nature Energy, Sunshine Spirit, and Enjoying our garden days :)

Happy Thursday! :) We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) it's a classic, hot summer day. our plants are soaking up the warmth, and super growing! :) it's a good day for some cold drinks :) we're keeping cool, and hydrated :) Cheers! :) i've been checking in on our plants, wow! they're super mega growing, as the season is blossoming beautifully :) it feels like classic summer time, as the season settles in. We're gearing up for some fun, summer time festivities :) Tomorrow, we're going to have our annual, 4th of July themed baking friday adventure :) we're going to bake an American flag themed cake, and also going to make some fried clams strips :) it's gonna be a super fun adventure :) We've been hanging out at home today, checking in on our plants :) i've been filling our bird bath this week, with cold water for the birds :) Alyssa and the kids came over to visit :) they brought us some chips, and blue raspberry slushies :) its very nice of them :) we're so excited to blossom into some more summer time festivities, including grilling hotdogs on sunday :) my brother Bobby and family are going to visit :) we've had some tv shows on, nice time online, and some phone calls today too :) i've been checking out some coins and ordered a few new coins on ebay for my collection :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing your days with us, and for the very special joy you bring to our hearts :) enjoying a sweet relaxing, and peaceful day today and looking forward to more summer time traditions :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's almost time to bake! bake! bake! :)

angel friends, before i begin my usual journal start, it's been an emotional time, and nature, gardening has been helping a lot. it's so nice, and comforting, your positive energy, comments, on our plants, garden. if there's any pictures, with a plant with chewed or bitten leaves, instead of just pointing it out, it would be even better, if you have any garden Tips to share, always feel free to share, in message, which would be very welcome and much more helpful, than just pointing it out. it's just, in these recent times, with all that's been going on, positive energy, feedback, is very welcomed especially right now. all it takes is one comments, that can be taken to heart, in emotional times, that can make someone feel bad/sad, and right now, needing the positive energy, helpfulness, that means the world to us all :) i'm very sensitive about our plants, and garden, and anyone who gardens knows, the love, care, energy put into gardening, is a lot :) we love to share our garden, plants, and the journey of the season. :)

Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone are doing well, and having a great day :) We'd love to take this time, to thank everyone, for their wonderful, positive, and lovely comments on our plants, and garden :) my family, Holly, and i are so thankful, and blessed to be able to share our plants, gardens, and our daily adventures with everyone, and are very happy for all of the positive energy, and special heart-felt comments, we recieve :) it gives us strength, and hope getting to share :)  it's been a rough time, and we find wonderful comfort, in your friendships, caring support, and also in our times in nature, gardening, and our plants :) we are very thankful to be able to garden in our backyard again :) it's very special to our hearts, to see our plants and sunflowers out there :) Holly's so proud, growing her first radish plants, turnips plants, many other plants, for the very first time :) we are very proud of our plants, and garden, and we cherish the wonderful love, care, and hard work we're giving the season :) We want to thank everyone for joining us on this very special gardening journey :) it's very theraputic, and comforting :) we always can't wait to get out into our yard, and garden :) it brings us such wonderful joy to be able to share, and we look forward to sharing lots more adventures, many more pictures :)

i just wanted to start my journal today, with a special thanks, to all those who give us such wonderfully heart-felt compliments, encouragement, about our plants, and garden :) We're giving the season our all, and are so happy to have an extended garden this season, with our backyard garden :) i know with emotional times, we can be a bit sensitive about things, words, comments, that can affect our hearts. i've always taken a lot of pride, with our plants, garden, i know all plants may not be perfect looking, or may have had some troubles with insects chewing at the leaves, but i'm always proud of our garden, and the journey of the season :) someone in my family mentioned to me at times, that gardens they saw around our city, they had bigger tomatoe, or peppers plants, and more, and it made feel bad.  sometimes over the years, i've had times where i felt our gardens were being compared to others in our city, and made me feel like our plants, garden wasn't good enough, and i struggled with that for some years, but everyone's comments here, compliments, always reminds me of the beauty of our garden, and i love to base our garden journey's, as an un-perfect garden, that is like us all, un-perfect in life, but always proud of how well we do :)getting back into gardening in 2002 when i did, as one of the best blessings in my life, that i will always cherish and treasure :) when i see friend's plants, gardens here, i always love to send compliments, because i know the joy gardening brings, and the hard work that goes into gardening, i believe every plant is a beautiful plant, that is growing in the sunshine, and is a part of a gardening journey :)

i love being able to share our garden across the miles, here on DS, and i want to always feel like, even if a picture or two, is a rougher one like a plant that may have some chewed leaves , i want to feel comfortable taking those garden pictures too, because those plants are strong too, like us, and can make it through, and continue to grow and thrive, like we do in life :)

It's truly amazing, to see the plants, and how our backyard garden has come to life this year :) our grapevines, raspberry bushes, our radish plants, turnips plants, sunflowers, popcorn plants, cucumbers, yellow squash, string beans, zuchinni, pepper plants, and we also have gourds pumpkins plants sprouts, which is very exciting :) we're in the gardening zone, and looking forward to more gardening experiences, and adventures all throughout the season :) This morning, i was very excited to go out to check our plants :) i fed them plant food yesterday :) we've gotten into routines of feeding our plants once per week :) it's so nice, to see everything flourishing, and growing so nicely with the summer warmth, and sunshine we've had, and the nice rain nourishment :) we're loving our experiences, and gardening :) it feels like it's still very early in the season, with so much more to look forward too :) we still have another 3 full months of gardening times :)

Amongst the garden, there's so much going on :) many of our nature friends are visiting :) we've been spotting birds, bumble bees, and also butterflies :) it's really nice, all of the gardening season joys :) we're always on the lookout, for ladybugs, and other nature friends :) this morning, i put lots of goodies outside, for our nature friends, and was checking our plants, as the birds were singing happily :) it's a great joy, all of the nature joys :) our plants are doing really well, growing, and flourishing :) we have cucumbers, string beans sprouts, zuchinni sprouts,and raspberries ripening :) my dad mentioned, that radish plants, we can harvest radishes, and replant the plants to grow more, kinda like potato plants :) Holly's been taking pictures of our plants, garden, and sharing them with her family :) Holly's so proud too, as she loves to give everyone a garden thumbs up in the pictures from time to time :) Holly's soaking up all of the experiences, and learning a lot about gardening :) that means the world to me :) Holly and i enjoyed a nice nature walk today :)

The summer season is setting in nicely, and we look forward to the continued joys of gardening, festivities, and also all of the summer time traditions :) We're planning our annual 4th of July themed baking friday adventure tomorrow :)we're gonna bake an American flag themed cake, and making fried clam fritters :) we have some nice patriotic 4th of July trays, and napkins :) Alyssa and the kids came over to visit, they brought us some nice chips, as they got to go to Aj's workplace yesterday, he works at a chips factory :) it's so nice of them to bring us some chips, and very nice of Alyssa too, as she brought Holly and i some blue raspberry slushies from burger king :) cheers! :) we're going to treat Alyssa to an iced latte soon :) we've all been hanging out today, keeping cool, and hydrated, drinking plenty of cold drinks :) We're planning a BBQ cookout on sunday :) my brother Bobby and family are going to come over sunday :) it's gonna be a great day to enjoy time outside in our yard, and garden :)

New Coins! :) Hi angel friends, i've been browsing at some coins, and collectibles online :) i treated myself to some very nice, new collectible coins :) on ebay, i ordered a new 2019 S minted America the Beautiful state quarter, featuring war in the pacific commemorative, plus i ordered 2 classic coins, 1893 and 1896, Liberty V nickels, for my collector's book :) i'm very happy and excited, about my new coins arriving soon :) they're gonna be great additions to my collection :)

We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) The spirit of summer season settling in, and our garden flourishing :) we're gearing up for lots more summer festivities, and traditions :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well :) enjoying some calls today, and time online, writing to friends :) it's been a fast moving week, and it's amazing how July is almost here :) we're looking forward to all of the upcoming weekend festivities, and 4th of July festivities coming up :) Tomorrow, we're going to have our annual 4th of July themed baking friday adventure :) it's gonna be lots of fun baking :) we're baking an America flag themed cake, and i think we're gonna make some fried clams and onion rings  we love sharing our adventures with everyone :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch some cool youtube videos :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for being here for us, and for all that you do for us :) 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 :) There's many more special times, and great things to look forward too, with family, friends, nature, and the beautiful spirit of summer season :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) our plants are super growing, and the summer season is settling in nicely :) we're looking forward to more nature walks, and gardening adventures :) thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hello :) She says, "i hope everyone is having  nice day" :) awww! :) we love you all lots and lots, our sweet dear angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a peaceful day  :) we think of you and your family's often, and are so thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :)  Thank you angel friends, for brightening our days :)

new sunflower sprouts :)

Happy garden greetings :) We're enjoying our garden, we love our plants :) They are very special to us, and we are very proud of them :) we tended our plants today, giving them nice water :) We look forward to lots more summer garden :)

New Sunflower sprout :)

Morning glory flower :)

Butterfly :)

string beans blossoms :)