hot, humid, and sweaty. It’s brutally hot out there, heat index over 100 so beyond going out and checking for green beans and tomatoes or pulling up the obvious crabgrass in the daylily bed or taking some pictures, I’m staying indoors. So instead i got sweaty vacuuming the entire house Wednesday because apparently I’m in no hurry to work on the shadow box project because I haven’t done anything since I transferred the drawings to watercolor paper. I keep thinking I need to walk around to the other street and take close up pictures of the leaves on the cottonwood tree there but Minnie has not turned that way lately when we go for our walks. She gets to decide if we turn left or right at the end of the driveway since these walks are primarily for her.
I did finish the book I was reading. Yoga class Wednesday night, SHARE and yoga class yesterday. SHARE was another busy day coupled with it being a food delivery day from the regional food bank along with the stuff that arrives from Walmart, HEB, and the Dollar Store. More tomatoes so I got enough at the end of the day to make another batch of tomato sauce. It did finally slow down a bit after the first couple of hours. I even got to sit down for a while. We had three Es though (7 and up) which has never happened in all the years I’ve volunteered there, rarely two but usually just one and most weeks not even one.
The rest of this post is just going to be miscellaneous pictures because I have nothing else of interest to report.
Here’s how the tomato sauce went: after roasting, after blending, after containing, about 4 1/2 cups in all.
Minnie laying next to me in bed the other night.
The red crinum lilies are blooming. These were in the yard of the city house when I bought it 50 years ago. When we sold the house I dug up every one and brought them out here.
More green beans. They bloomed and produced and my neighbor pulled up all his when he had picked all they produced. I meant to pull mine up but never got around to it and they started blooming and producing again. I'm getting a good handful about every other day.
Another day lily.
The bees were swarming this magnolia bloom. It looked like they were pulling the stamens off one at a time.
I have more but this is long enough.
It feels brutal to me here too. I can't even imagine spending an hour or more in the garden which I was doing not two weeks ago. Forty five minutes picking green beans, and half that in the shade, and I ready to fall over.
ReplyDeleteI gave a woman I know some rattlesnake beans last winter for her to plant this year, which she did. About a week ago she announced on FB that the beans had finished producing. I commented on the post that they were not even close to finished and she should get another two months out of them. And I bet she will unless she pulls them up.
Your photos are gorgeous. Love the magnolia and the red crinum lilies.
I wish I was getting enough tomatoes to contemplate making sauce. We just flat out did not plant enough this year.
I've never grown enough tomatoes to eat and make sauce. The last two years I've gotten the tomatoes from the past prime ones that get sent to SHARE. Before that I would track down people in the community and buy from them at a good price. I never buy them at the farmer's market because all the home gardeners got together and decided to charge the same price...$5 a pound which is outrageous but I guess they sell them. The year round peach creek market down the highway a bit sells them for around $2.50 - $3 a pound which is better and I did buy from them one year.
DeleteWe just received a heat warning for the coming week so I am going to put as many outdoor hours in as I can before it gets too hot.
ReplyDeleteI just adore the magnolia and your dog shows us how to relax.
We are the frogs in the pot. Minnie is so funny, she makes me laugh all the time.
DeleteYour flowers are so lovely. I have a red canna lily blooming right now that is so beautiful. I was worried our bad storms would ruin it but it has bounced right back.
ReplyDeleteI had some common orange cannas at the city house but they never bloomed well because of the leaf rollers and just looked raggedy. My neighbor had some gorgeous red one that bloomed beautifully. When we bought this place there was a large amount of the small common orange at the back of the property and I dug them all up and threw them on the burn pile. There were a few on the side of the house that I never got to and one of them is blooming now.
DeleteNice to see the bees on the magnolia, and the crinum lilies are beautiful. I'd have moved them too. Awwww, Minnie!
ReplyDeleteI don't usually lack for bees sine one of my neighbors keeps bees in his backyard but that's the first time I've seen them in a magnolia.
DeleteStunning photos, including the tomato sauce. The bee photos are exceptional although I admit to rushing by those. That alone makes me feel like I’m having an allergic reaction!
ReplyDeleteThat's the first time I've seen bees in a magnolia and they were just swarming it and another one.
DeleteI found some of our native crinums recently; they're white, and just lovely. It's great to see the ones you brought from Houston are flourishing; they're so pretty. There sure was a lot of mowing going on everywhere today. I guess things have dried out just enough for some of it to get done before this next batch of rain. I had no idea a tropical wave was involved, but it sure is: I suppose it's time to start paying more attention.
ReplyDeleteI have some pink ones too but they didn't bloom this year or last year. Andong we had MORE rain today.
DeleteI have no idea how you survive in that kind of heat. Give me a cold winter’s day any time!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have no idea how you survive those long months of freezing, snow, and ice!
DeleteBeautiful blog
ReplyDeleteThank you
DeletePlease read my post
ReplyDeleteMinnie laying next to you in Bed was EVERYTHING... and I thought Cats could get comfortable in any position!!! *LOL* It's 110 plus here in Arizona now, so Indoors is pretty much how it's going as well except if I venture out super early.
ReplyDeleteShort forays outside for sure.
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ReplyDeletePresumably comfortable?
What are the bees up to?
Presumably comfortable? In response to what? The bees were pulling the stamens off I guess to get at the nectar and pollen more easily.
DeleteProbably Minnie - I mean, I'm guessing presumably because it sure doesn't look comfortable to me. Ha!
DeleteCodex what bug said. Cats are worse lots of comfy blankets and cat beds and they prefer cardboard boxes or have a paw hanging off an edge
DeleteGorgeous lilies! And that tomato sauce looks good enough to eat! It's been in the 90s here and humid. We keep hearing that it will cool off, but not so far.
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