We got Gourds Pumpkins growing! :) plus, i recieved Redskins autographed card in the mail! :)

GOURDS PUMPKINS GROWING!!! :) oh my! :) WOOT!!! :) Yes!!! :) i am so very tickled happy, excited, and thrilled!!! on this sweet classic, and golden SUNNY SUMMER gardening day! :) it's a day of NATURE GARDENING JOYS!!! and awesome discoveries and harvesting in the garden! :) my dad and i harvested string beans, and tomatoes today :) we were deep within the gardens! :) i am smiling and smiling! :) i'm in the nature gardening zone today! :) oh my! :) This morning, i discovered, we have GOURDS pumpkins growing! :) They are growing up into our lilac bushes in the garden on the side of our addition! : )WOW! :) The gourds pumpkins are tiny, but are growing! :) This is such a cool, and really neat gardening joy! :) We're gonna have gourds pumpkins to harvest in september, for the HALLOWEEN SEASON!!! :) i am so very over-joyed, with emotions! :) these gourds plants, we planted from seeds! :) they are garden seeds, that our dear, and lovely friends Sharon (Silvershadow) and her family sent me last March :) i took some pictures of the gourds to share with everyone :) i am super garden pumped up and excited! :) Spirit soaring all around our yard, and gardens, like a butterfly, and bird soaring all around! :) Today, i've been in the nature, gardening zone, all day! :) From sunrise, and i will be out there during sunset hour too, soaking up this wonderful nature, gardening enjoyment, and i am so happy, and thrilled, to be able to share it with you all, our dear friends :) We got a COOL sunny summer day, and a SUNFLOWER BLOSSOMING PARTY!!! going on in the garden today! :) is that Mr. COOL Sunflower i see! :) oh my! :) it's the sunny golden days of august, and the gardening season! :) i feel the energy, the gardening spirit! :) i picked tomatoes, and string beans today :) We are going to bake an awesome string beans casserole on baking friday! :) We got so many nice string beans, we may bake 2 casseroles! :) come on over, for a garden feast! :) i am so excited, beginning the week, with nature walks, gardening, and enjoying the wonderful joys of the season, wholesome, rewarding, and beautiful summer gardening, with family and friends :) tonight, it's monday night football, preseason, Redskins vs Browns! :) it's on tv here! :) Hail to the Redskins! :) The countdown to the football season and September, is on! :) woot!!! :) Tomorrow's sweet treats tuesday! :) We're gonna go to mcdonalds to get some treats, to celebrate this amazing summer time nature! :)
WOW!!! :) I GOT A SURPRISE IN THE MAIL TODAY!!! :) REDSKINS AUTOGRAPHED CARD!!! :) WHOOO!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) This day, just keeps getting BETTER and BETTER!!! :) i am absolutely thrilled! :) i have some SWEET!!! stuff to share today in my journal! :) Earlier, our mail came, and i recieved this envelope, from Virginia :) When i saw this envelope, i first thought, "this has got to be, one of the cards i mailed to the Redskins players" :) i called our dear friend Holly on the phone, as she's a big football fan, and i wanted to be on the phone with her, while opening the envelope :) about 2 and a half months ago, i bought a set of Redskins players cards, on amazon :) i mailed about 7 or 8 cards, to some of the Redskins players, with a note, and a football card :) i asked for their autographs :) i didn't expect to recieve any back, but i always had hope, maybe i'd get one, or 2 back, so i've been thinking of the cards lately, and here today, i got an envelope, addressed to me, from Virginia :) that's close by to where the Redskins play their home games, in Maryland :) i opened the envelope, by our gardens, and i was super thrilled, to see the card! :) it's one of my cards i sent! :) it's Redskins Player, #91, RYAN KERRIGAN! :) DEFENSE! :)woot! :) i am so very happy, and appreciate this so very much! :) i was telling Holly on the phone, about the card, and also showed my family! :) my brother Charlie and Barbara stopped by, and i got to show them the card! :) i will always treasure this awesome REDSKINS COLLECTIBLE! :) VERY COOL! :) a cool surprise! :) this is so neat too, the Redskins have a pre-season game tonight! :) HTTR (Hail to the redskins!) :) i'm so excited! :) i took a picture of the card, to share with everyone! :) a very special thank you, to Ryan Kerrigan, for autographing my Redskins card! :) woot!: )Go Redskins! :) this is a sweet new collectible, for my collection! :)
SUNNY SUNFLOWER GREETINGS, AND HAPPY GARDENING SMILES, on this BEE-eautiful summer day! :) The bumble bees are out and about, enjoying the summer blossoms, and we got some SWEET!!! gardening news to share, with you all, our dear, and wonderful friends :) i'm feeling gardening/nature adrenaline, flowing in my spirit, and in my heart today :) it began yesterday evening, when we had a flourish!!! of sunshine, during the evening hours, and i went outside to water the plants :) it was so nice, as the sun was directly upon our plants, and sunflowers, and i was soaking the plants with the water nourishment, and picking string beans :) oh my! :) We sure are getting an amazing bounty of flourishing string beans harvest this summer season! :) i wish you all could come over, to enjoy some string beans, and sitting by the gardens :) i've got lots and lots to share, including some SUPER COOL Pumpkin GOURDS that are growing in our garden!!!! :) They will be a HUGE part of our halloween season celebrations, and decorations! :) i am so pumped up, and i got lots and lots of pictures to share! :)
my family and i hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful day, with lots of sunshine, and spirit soaring excitement, of a brand new week arriving :) We think of you and your family's often :) i am so excited, and just have to begin my journal today, by sharing about a very special, GARDEN SURPRISE!!! :) i LOVE!!! these gardening surprises, that makes me take a 2nd look, a 3rd look, to make sure my eyes are seeing what i'm really seeing! :) it happened this morning, during my 2nd nature walk of the day :) by 9am, the sun is rised way up into the sky, and that golden glow of sunshine begins to trickle upon the happy smiling sunflowers :) these golden days of the summer season, August, i get some of the most amazing picture taking opportunities, during the early morning hours now :) the sunflowers blossoming :) i went outside, to check these incredible summer time sights, to take some pictures, i was checking out our snowball bush, and also our cosmos flowers in our front yard garden, that have grown absolutely sweet nature wild!!! :) i love it! :)
i began to walk around to our side garden/backyard, and i was just opening up the gate to our backyard, when i spotted something very COOL! :) GOURDS PUMPKINS!!! :)WOW! :) We got a gourds pumpkin plant, growing in our garden on the side of our driveway :) it's growing in 2 directions, one toward our apple tree, and one side of the plant, growing up into our lilac bush :) it's a very healthy plant :) i was so excited, i instantly went over to the plant area next to our fence, and saw the tiny little gourd growing, then spotted another one, and ANOTHER!!! :) WOW!!! :) YEAH!!! : )YES!!! We got GOURDS GROWING!!! :) one of the gourds, is getting larger already! :) these must have began to grow, about 3 to 5 days ago :) i knew they would, with that very heavy rain last week, that replenished all of the plants so very nicely :) i took some pictures of the gourds pumpkins :) They are SO NEAT!!! to see! :) i instantly thought of everyone, and how super sweet this nature, and gardening joy is :) our dear friends Sharon (SilverShadow) and her family, sent us these gourds seeds, in March, as a part of my birthday treasures package :) these wonderful gourds plants, are growing so nicely now, and we're gonna be able to harvest gourds pumpkins, in late september, for the HALLOWEEN season of October! :) i can't wait!!! :) i'll be putting one of the gourds in my HALLOWEEN TOWN in October! :) This is so awesome! :)
i am over-joyed, and absolutely sweet tickled happy and thrilled, that we have gourds pumpkins growing! :) This is such a great blessing too, because our other pumpkin plants, regular pumpkins, got infected by some insect, and didn't do well, so now that we have our gourds pumpkins growing, it makes it even more super garden special for us :) i am imagining that COOL CRISP SEPTEMBER FALL SEASON DAY, when we harvest/pick the gourds pumpkins, that is gonna be such a sweet joy, and very special memory made, for us to always cherish, and treasure :) We're so happy! :) i was showing my mom, dad, and famiily pictures of the gourds, and showed them in the garden too :) there's 3 gourds growing, plus we have other gourds plants growing by our grapevines :) We may have even more gourds, that grow :) This is awesome!!! SUPER MEGA SWEET AWESOME!!! :)
These are truly, the golden days, of summer gardening :) my family and i are enjoying all of our plants, gardens, our harvesting of peppers, tomatoes, string beans :) a wonderful bounty of wholesome harvesting season, the season, nature, it's blessing us, with delicious goodies, to enjoy :) We love having a big bowl of string beans, in our fridge, fresh from the garden :) We're picking string beans every day now :) there's string beans growing here, growing there, growing EVERYWHERE in the garden! :) WOW! :) we're gonna bake a really nice string beans casserole on baking friday :) plus, we want to freeze some string beans soon, to have for our freezer, to be able to enjoy throughout the colder months, into fall/winter time :) our garden will continue to reward us, throughout the rest of the season :) We love gardening, and are so happy, and thrilled to celebrate this incredible time of the season with you all, our dear friends :) i love adding those string beans to my salads :) i've been having at least 1 or 2 salads every day with string beans included :)
We have many flowers growing, and blossoming in our garden :) There's a family of sunflowers, in our front yard gardening areas, the sunflowers, standing strong, tall, and proudly together, sunflowers in our backyard gardens, blossoming beautifully, with sunny smiles, sent across the miles :) Sunny golden days of summer time :) The sunflowers are spirit dancing, this time of the year, and i love to get into the garden, to really dwelve into the spirit, of the season, by tending the plants, helping them continue to grow :) Giving the sunflowers support stakes, and watering the plants :) i love to soak the plants with the water :) We got nasturium flowers, cosmos, daisies, marigolds, all blossoming beautifully :) the flowers add an incredible wave of colors to our yard, and garden :) these sunny days like this, are a picture taking dream come true, because i get lots of views, of the plants, from the sun rising here, and shining over our yard, throughout the course of the day, the bumble bees, all gathering around the sunflowers, and snowball bush :) it's awesome nature, that really blossoms spirit of summer time :) All of those spring gardening adventures, have lead us to gardening heaven, each and every day, this wonderful month of August :)
My Dad and i picked string beans, and tomatoes in the garden today :) it was lots of fun :) we were picking lots and lots of nice goodies, and enjoyed seeing the gourds pumpkins too :) it's a beautiful day, to tend the plants, harvesting, enjoying the plants :) This is wonderful! :) my dad is amazed, by our string beans plants :) he says, "WOW!!!!" hehe! :) he said, "you really got these beans plants growing!" :) it makes me so happy! :) i said, "definitely, the jolly green giant would be proud!" hehe! :)
HAIL TO MY REDSKINS! :) PRESEASON FOOTBALL!!! :) hut! hut! HIKE!!! :) it's that time of the year, as we get deeper into the month of August :) football season is coming! :) my Washington Redskins have a primetime game tonight, on monday night football, vs the Cleveland Browns :) it's just preseason, but still very meaningful, as the players are now beginning to play more series in the games, as they gear up, for the big season in early september :) it's beginning to feel like, football season is coming :) i've got my Redskins fan cave sign, my Redskins mini helmet, lamp, and my Redskins coaster/keychain here, and i'm ready to cheer on my team tonight, they are playing at home, vs the Browns :) i'm really excited :) our dear friend Holly and i are going to watch the 1st half of the game, on tv :) it's gonna be very nice, to enjoy some football :) i get to see my team playing, and cheering them on, it's awesome being a fan :) i think my Redskins are gonna have a great bounce-back type of season, last year, 3 wins, very rough season, but this year, i think they can win 10 or more games :) i'm hopeful, just like all of the many fans, of all of the teams :) this time of the year, every fan, of the teams, has superbowl dreams, and hopes, for their team :) it's what makes being a fan, so exciting :) these 32 NFL teams beginning preseason, 1 of these teams, will win a superbowl next february :) it's just the start, of the incredible journey :) i'll be tuning in to watch the Redskins vs Browns game tonight :) GO REDSKINS! :) HAIL VICTORY! :)
We're enjoying a beautiful summer day :) my family and i are doing well, and are in good spirits :) We're so happy, and delighted that everyone enjoyed our sunday car ride adventure, and pictures :) that warms our hearts, and makes us smile :) we had a really nice time yesterday, going for the car ride :) We love going for sight seeing adventures :) Today for lunch, i enjoyed some baked potatoes, a nice fresh crisp salad, with string beans, lettuce, cornbread croutons, green olives and chipotle ranch salad dressing :) lunch was delicious! :) i've been enjoying some nature walks, tending the plants, and enjoying some talks on the phone with friends :) it's a really spirited start to the new week :) i brewed an iced coffee today, i love to have an iced coffee :) i've been enjoying some nice quality time here on ds too :) Tonight, i'm going to call our dear friend Holly : )We're going to watch some of the Redskins vs Browns football game :) Tomorrow is sweet treats tuesday :) We're going to get some nice treats :) i'm also putting finishing touches on some nic ewritings, and putting together a treasures package :) my family and i thank you all so very much, for all that you do for us :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) BIG GROUP SUNNY SUNSHINE HUG :) There's many more wonderful times, and things to look forward too :)
-never lose hope :)
To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, this day, is sunny awesome! :) discovering gourds pumpkins, and also enjoying harvesting goodies, from the garden :) the spirit of golden summer time : )Thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is enjoying a really good day" :) awww! :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear wonderful friends :) we hope everyone is doing well, and having a great day :) it's a sweet start to the new week :)
SUMMER SHINES! :) GARDENING SMILES :) it's a THRILLING!!! sunny summer day, here in CT, and in our gardens :) With joyful harvests, and sweet smiling sunflowers, and a wonderful surprise, of discovering gourds pumpkins growing :) it's one of those sweet classic, and golden sunny summer days :) my dad and i harvested tomatoes, string beans, we also checked out the plants :) i picked a cucumber, i love cucumber slices in my salads :) it's so ncie :) it's a really great time of the year, with all of the summer time joys :) i am so happy, delighted, and thrilled, to share our gardening adventures, and new pictures with everyone :)
GOURDS PUMPKINS!!! :)WOOT!!! :) This is so cool! :) our dear friends Sharon (SilverShadow), her husband Ian, and their family sent me, some nice gourds seeds, for my birthday last march :) We planted the seeds, and are so excited, and very happy, to have gourds growing :) we're gonna harvest the gourds in late September, for the month of October, gardening season :) it's gonna be so exciting!!! :) FALL HARVEST!!! :)HALLOWEEN SEASON!!! :) woot! :) i am smiling and smiling! :) i love these sweet garden joys, and special memories being made :)


my dad and i enjoyed picking string beans, and tomatoes :) We filled a garden planter full of tomatoes, and string beans :)

The corn plants are doing great! :) We have some corn husks growing :)

The Sunflowers are SPIRIT DANCING in the gardens, on this sweet classic, and golden summer day :)









We have lots of tomatoes, growing :)
Glowing Marigold :) Sunrise Sunshine :)
The Cosmos are blossoming beautifully :)


This day is SO COOL, it's perfectly COOL for a Mr. COOL SUNFLOWER! :) 

REDSKINS AUTOGRAPH! :) #91, Ryan Kerrigan :) i recieved this super cool surprise in the mail today! :) It's an autographed Washington Redskins team player, card :) this is so cool! :) i am absolutely thrilled! :) i'm very happy, and excited to recieve this very nice collectible :) i mailed cards/notes to some of the Redskins players :) this is a sweet new addition, to my Redskins collectibles :) i'm ready for the Redskins vs Browns game tonight! :) HTTR Hail to the Redskins! :) Hail Victory! :) 
This is the envelope :) 

The autographed card :)