Fleurs, Zines and Roofing

Our sunflower bloomed!  Our tallest one got decapitated by our windmill.  This is the 2nd tallest.  What fun flowers!  They are almost 8 feet tall.  Next year I want more of them.

And great news, my Trumpet vine finally bloomed after years of it just producing foliage.  Rather amazingly is this plant was given to me from my sister Roberta and these buds emerged exactly one year after we lost her.  I think my sister is reaching out to me.  Hi Roberta!

The boys were here for 2 weeks helping out after Dayle's surgery.  We taught them both how to cook eggs.  Hayden likes fried eggs and I taught him how to crack eggs on a flat surface instead of the edge of the pan. Caleb wanted to learn how to cook them scrambled.  I showed him how to use deli ham and slice them up and saute it in butter before adding the eggs, then to grate cheddar cheese over the top and Dayle cut some fresh chives for the top.  

Tadah.. his masterpiece.  

I cut a little bouquet of Jasmine to put next to my easy chair.  Wow, what an aroma!

I used this cute little glass vase which is a hand holding the flowers.

A close-up of the Jasmine flowers.. cute little buggers.

Over the easygoing weekend I decided I needed to read some of my magazines in my rack as it was so full I couldn't put one more in it.  I read 2 Victoria and 1 US Country Living.  I always get inspired by many of the articles.

This one was so amazing as 3 women artists joined together to save a group of vintage cottages in Indian Rocks Beach in Coastal Florida on the Gulf of Mexico.  Developers were eying the property and wanted to raze the historical community and build high-rise condominiums.  So these 3 women began painting the charming scenes and cottages, they sell them in their gallery and use the funds to restore the homes.  Isn't that wonderful?

This shows the 3 women painting together, the gallery, a cottage and the beach and gulf.

The home of one of the women, after they paint they go back to her home and have tea and lunch together and chat about their day.

The roofers are here working.  They've put a membrane on the garage barn and shed and even put new plywood and fascia on the front of the shed.  They even cleaned all the moss that had fallen on the chicken yard roof.

The back of the garage, there is a loft on the 2nd floor.

They've laid out the metal panels on the grass.  I just realized we didn't paint the back of the woodshed red!

Moving the panels to the yard.  Behind him are our plum trees.

My furry dog hat.

I found my silver polishing cloth and shined up my Yard-O-Led fountain pen, pen and mechanical pencil.  All shiny now!

Did you miss my blog post yesterday?  :-)  I got busy with checking to see if my package and birthday card got to my granddaughters as promised and they did!  Paige loves her blanket and I told her all about the beads I used on her necklace, she chose the turquoise and red coral one.  Jenna called me to thank me for her necklace, the porcelain, jade, cinnabar and pearl one.  It did my heart good to hear from the girls.  

Then we had to jet off to the eye doctor for them to measure our eyes for our cataract surgery.  What an ordeal.  Their AC wasn't working and it was 95 deg. out and it was hot and stuffy in their office.  It took forever for the measurements and other testing.  Ugh.

And so, I won't post again until Friday.  I hope you have a wonderful week!  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)