Sunflower Smiles :) A Sweet Spirited Sunny Saturday! :) our 1st Sunflower of the season :)

Happy Spirit Soaring Sunny Sunshine Saturday!!! :) oh my!!! :) we're enjoying a super cool, and sweet blossoming sunflower awesome day!!! :) we're celebrating our 1st sunflower blossom of the season! :) Welcome Sunflower! :) You have arrived! :) Enjoy that sunshine!!! :) we're so happy and excited! :) our sunflower is soaking up the sunshine, and spirit soaring in the sweet blue sky! :) woot! :) This day is rocking!!! :) my mom, dad, and i enjoyed a super cool shopping adventure at the dollar tree :) it went really well! :) i bought gifts, goodies, and treasures :) they have the campbell's butternut squash soup! :) wow! :) i bought 4 of them! hehe! :) they haven't had that soup there in about a year. i was so thrilled to see it on the shelves! :) i always looked for it, and it was a neat surprise find! :) i also bought, some nice birthday cards, rice crackers, rice cakes, and some nice pumpkin seeds too :) movie night snacks! :) woot! :) our shopping experience was awesome, and went so well and smoothly :) i was in the shopping zone! :) i felt very confident in the store today :) i'm so happy and excited about the awesome items i got :) i'm putting together a treasures package, and envelope, and gonna write some more ct postcards :) It's such a beautifully sunny day, wow! :)The nature is glowing!!! :) our plants are doing so well, flourishing and blossoming beautifully :) our 1st sunflower of the season is shining bright, along with all of our other plants :) it's such a beautiful time in the season :) Holly and i opened up our boxes of TWD trading cards today! :) Woot!!! :) We got awesome cards! :) We also picked out a new movie to watch tonight :) there's so many great things going on, and the solar eclipse is coming up!!! :) We're so thrilled to celebrate it with everyone :) Enjoying a beautiful day, with family, friends, spirit soaring nature, and the awesome cool spirit of the season :) Tonight, the popcorn movie party is on!! woot!! :)


Hi angel friends! :) Sunny smiles, and happy Sunflower greetings, from our garden :) my family and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a beautiful day! :) The spirit of summer season is glowing, and we have a very happy smiling sunflower in our garden today :) our 1st sunflower blossom of the season! :) It's such an exciting time, in the season :) the golden days of summer :) i'm smiling and smiling! :) Thank you angel friends, for your lovely comments, on our solar eclipse themed baking friday journal :) We're so happy, and thrilled that everyone enjoyed our adventure :) We had lots of fun baking the cookies, and are so excited, for the upcoming solar eclipse on monday :) We got our glasses, and are all set, and ready to celebrate with eveeryone :) my mom and Lisa went to our local walmart yesterday evening, and they mentioned that our walmart was out of the eclipse glasses. wow! we're so glad, and thankful we bought some earlier this month :) it's gonna be such an incredible nature event, and we heard the weather channel is having all day coverage of the eclipse too :) The solar eclipse party is on! :)


We love the weekends, and this morning, we had such a beautiful new day rising and shining :) Lots of sweet sunshine, beautiful blue sky, and many birds, butterflies, and bumble bees out and about. :) as i write this, i can see some butterflies outside here :) it's a wonderful time to soak up some great nature :) we have lots of morning glory flowers, and our happy smiling sunflower blossomed in the garden overnight :) The nice replenishing rainfall yesterday was so nice, for the plants :) the popcorn plants are nearly 4 feet tall now! :) Absolutely amazing!!! :) We're lovng the season, the spirit, energy, the excitement, and there's still so much more, to look forward too :)


it was a nice peaceful morning, blossoming into the new day :) i enjoyed my early morning nature walk, some nice time here on ds writing to friends, and also checked out the news about the upcoming solar eclipse :) it's very exciting :) i've got my writing area set up too, and gonna write some more ct postcards, and i want to send out some more twd mail, hoping to recieve back some autographs in the mail :) my mom is gearing up for her upcoming 1st eye surgery on tuesday. She'll be going in to the eye dr. place, during the afternoon. all of her tests results came back with good results, and they've fully cleared her for the 1st surgery. i'll be keeping everyone updated that day. Big group friendship hug :)


my mom, dad, and i went out to shop today, at the dollar tree :) We love going there on saturday's :) Around mid-morning, we were all set, and ready :) we enjoyed a nice car ride over to the shopping center :) it feels so spirited, these sunny days, and we saw lots of people out and about :) We arrived at the shopping center, and parked our minivan :) We walked over to the dollar tree, and got some shopping baskets :) They've got lots of back to school supplies, items, and also they are beginning to add in, more fall season, and halloween items too :) we were browsing around :) i bought some happy birthday cards for friends. :) we have some friends who have upcoming birthday's :) The dollar store wasn't too busy today, i felt very comfortable and confident from the start of the experience :) We were browsing around, finding some great items :)


i bought some nice gifts, and treasures :) my mom and dad were finding some nice items too :) we were browsing around, at the snacks, and foods aisles :) each week, i look for the campbell's soups that they use too have there, about a year ago. i was totally amazed to see, they have the campbell's butternut squash soup! :) wow! :) i bought 4 :) they also have the chicken noodle, and tomato and basil :) i just bought the butternut squash :) it's really good :) i'm looking forward to having some :) i also bought some rice cakes, to put peanut butter on, and some rice crackers snacks :) my dad looked at the reading glasses, and i went over to the kitchen supplies aisle :) it was fun browsing around the store :) We finished up shopping, and went to the checkout :) it went nice and smoothly :) we checked out together :) i had 2 bags of items! :) sweet! :) after we were all set, we walked outside, and i felt a great sense of accomplishment, and spirit soaring excitement :) we rocked it with a nice shopping adventure and experience today :)


GARDEN SUNSHINE, AND UPCOMING SOLAR ECLIPSE!!! :) our plants are rockin and spirit soaring in the sunshine today! :) woot!!! :) It's so nice to see the plants soaking up the sunshine, after the rain we recieved yesterday. :) The popcorn plants are growing wild, and we have our 1st sunflower of the season blossoming :) The sunflower has blossomed for the upcoming solar eclipse! :) awww! :) it's gonna be an amazing nature event on monday :) my family, Holly, and i are all excited for the eclipse! :) my mom mentioned, that our local walmart, is all out of the solar eclipse glasses. We're so thankful we bought the glasses last week. We're gonna have an awesome view of the solar eclipse on monday, from our front yard, especially near our driveway :) it's gonna be so neat to see :) i'll be outside monday afternoon, shortly before 1pm, and gonna see the eclipse :) Holly and i are gonna call eachother, during the afternoon :) it's gonna be awesome :)


All of our plants are doing great :) it's so amazing to see how much the plants have grown :) we have lots of flowers, and there's beautiful sunshine :) many birds are out and about today, singing :) it's a beautiful time to enjoy some great nature :) We have some new blossoming flowers, our popcorn plants are doing amazing, and our pumpkin plants, and gourds plants are doing well :) i took some new pictures of our plants today, to share with everyone :) We're so thrilled, our 1st sunflower is blossoming :) i'd love to take a picture of the sunflower on monday too, during the eclipse :) i've never seen/experienced an eclipse before, and to be able to take pictures of our garden during the eclipse, it'll be really neat :) We hope everyone is looking forward to an amazing solar eclipse day on monday :) it's gonna be a nature event, and celebration that is amazing! :)


We're enjoying a wonderful day! :) my family and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) There's lots of awesome spirited joys :) it was so nice going shopping today :) i'm so happy, and excited about the nice gifts, goodies, and treasures i got :) Holly and i had so much fun opening our TWD trading cards earlier :) we love the cards we got :) They're awesome collectibles :) We picked out a new movie to watch tonight :) We love our fun saturday night, popcorn movie party's :) i'm going to write some cards, and letters tomorrow :) We're gearing up for the awesome solar eclipse on monday :) it's gonna be so much fun celebrating the special nature event :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, 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 HAPPY SUNFLOWER HUG :) there's many more great things to look forward too, with family, friends, and the cool spirit of the summer season :)


-never lose hope :)


To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's a cool day :) we enjoyed going shopping, and enjoying some nature walks :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)


my mom says hello :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really good day" :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We ohpe everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day :) We think of you all often :) Thank you for brightening our days :)


WELCOME SUNFLOWER! :) it's so very nice to meet you!!! :) A VERY SPECIAL SUNNY SUNFLOWER GREETINGS, FROM OUR GARDEN!!! :) We're celebrating the blossoming of our 1st sunflower of the season! :) The sunflower blossomed near our snowball bush :) it's a happy smiling sunflower soaking up the sunshine! :) Hey there Sunflower! :) from seed to sprout, to growing strong, tall, and standing proudly, you have arrived! :) We're so happy and excited! :) the cool sunny garden party's are on!!! :) woot!!! :) It's our 1st sunflower of the season :) The sunflower is smiling at us and the sun :) Where there's a Sunflower, there's a smile :) Enjoy that sunshine, sunflower! :)


i dedicate this sunflower, to my wonderful family and friends :)


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Bumble bees love the sunflower :)


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Butterfly :)


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Zinnia flower :)


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Poppy flower blossom :) 


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Popcorn cobs :) 


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Shopping fun! :) We enjoyed an awesome time shopping today, and got so many nice items at the dollar tree :) i bought some butternut squash soups, rice crackers, and rice cakes :) i like to have the crackers for snack, and i like to put peanut butter on the rice cakes :) it was awesome browsing around, and finding some great items :) we love the dollar tree :)


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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you and your family had a nice day and enjoyed shopping. Happy to hear you found some of your favorite soup at dollar tree. Wow! the popcorn plants are 4ft tall. Your sunflowers looks big and beautiful too.Great photos of the butterflies and bees. You always take the best photos. Glad to hear your mom will have her surgery soon.She will see much better afterwards. My solar eclipse glasses didn't arrive today.They were to arrive Friday the 18th. So most likely they have been lost in the mail or stolen by now. If they arrive Monday it may not be in time. Good things they were only 2 dollars and some change.Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good night hugs to all-Stephanie
KneeDeep
KneeDeep

hello chris... The squash soup sounds good do you ever make your own?
Your sunflowers and dedication to your family is beautiful...I am glad your mom's test results are all positive and she is in thought as she goes into surgery.
Enjoy your movie and twd cards. ♥blessings/greenies
Squarley
Squarley

Hi Chris and sunflower smells, loved your pictures what a beautiful son far and beautiful pictures you have today. You got a lot of good traits from the dollar store. Love seeing your journal and your pictures thank you for sharing have a wonderful day your friend Shirley
Squarley
Squarley

Sorry I missed spelled some fun things like smiles and treats. Getting tired and getting ready for bed talk to you soon love you bunches ,friends forever Chris.
sunsetyellow2
sunsetyellow2

HI Chris WOW!! Love the first sunflower of the season. Also it looks like your corn is coming along fine as well and it won't be long before you will be picking it and drying it so you can pop it. I have to take inventory to see what I have to can this year. I think I will need to do a bushel of sweet corn and possibly tomatoes. That may be all for this year. I love having fresh produce again. It tastes so much better when it is fresh from the garden.

Your trip to the Dollar Store sounds like fun. John and I went to Ollies yesterday and got new curtain rods for our bedroom and a rug for the sunporch. Glad that you found your soup. I have a recipe for homemade pumpkin soup that is really delicious.

Got to run for now. Take care and have a great week. Love you--John Debbie Mya Abby and Allie
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

best nature pics ever! i love your sunflowers!! nature is wonderful. thanks for posting all of those:)