Blooms and my Garland Ta-Dah

My absolute favorite Rhododendron is this big hot pink one.  I am not sure of the name.. but that's okay, it was here before we came and will be here after I'm gone.  

This one is amongst a stand of old Birch trees in our front yard.

But wow.. the blooms are quite literally amazing!

After working on the crocheted flower garland of Lucy's from Attic24 blog - I finally got all 15 flowers done, along with 30 leaves and 16 little flowers... it was FINALLY time to crochet them together.  

The vine took hardly any time, but I missed adding one little flower between the big ones and had to pull out some and fix it.

Here is my pile of flowers as I was ready to stitch them together.  You should smell the Lily-of-the-Valley near me and the warmth of the fire.

Ta-Dah!  What a fun project but I am glad it's done.  I have a blanket to finish.  Ahem.

And here it is, strung across the TV cabinet.  I asked Dayle to find me a pretty show on TV and he found this British show of animals in the countryside there.  :-)

Kind of fun to have flowers across there.

A fuller vase of Lily-of-the-Valley.. have you ever had the privilege to smell these?  aMAYzing! 

A little closer.. you might even be able to see that the flowers are still wet with rain.

Chef Dayle has added a new talent to his repertoire!  Homemade PIZZA!  When the kids were growing up I found a recipe in my old trusty Betty Crocker Cookbook and made them on a regular basis.  So, I tutored Dayle as he chef-ed away.  First off, I used the food processor with dough blade to blend and knead the dough.  I even got a new food processor not long ago so we could make pizza again.  Which is how he made the dough.  He then cooked ground beef, Italian sausage, fresh mushrooms and sliced olives and added a jar of marinara sauce to it and spread it on the crust...

Then covered it with Mozzarella and some grated sharp cheddar.

And Voila! Fresh and hot homemade pizza!  YAY!

Want a slice?  :-)

A walkabout yesterday, the white Lilac is covered with blooms this year, next to the dark purple French lilac, strawberries below.

This is the delivery we had on Friday - 2 more raised beds.  We were given a bunch of Dahlia tubers which we'll plant in one of these and then put the Zucchini in one of these, too.  The soil was delivered on Saturday and Dayle will use the tractor to fill these.  They will need some shims to level them, too.

Here is Ben who makes these and delivers them to us, he is a Firefighter and does this on his days off.  We gifted him with a dozen and a half eggs as he didn't charge us for the delivery.

Did you want to see Mocha after she was groomed?  How cute is she?  :-)

So.. that was our weekend.  Did you have a fun one?  Do tell.  Dayle is off to Home Depot to purchase a few trellises so we can plant our peas and beans.  Yes, he will be wearing a mask and sterilizing his hands after he leaves the store.  I've been reading some stories from nurses of how horrific Covid-19 is to your body and the torture of being on a ventilator.  We are going to avoid this virus like the plague.  Which it is.  I hope you are being safe.  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)