Finally sunshine and roses!!

 

Lots of pictures of flowers this time.  And probably every time for a few months!  It's JUNE!!!!  I am so happy, especially because we are now having our second warm, sunny day in a row.

Last Wednesday we were finally allowed to drive on Anthony and Lori's newly blacktopped private road.  I picked the boys up after school and took them and the food I had made for them to their place. 

I had made sweet and sour chicken and fried rice.  It's so delicious, but a very labor-intensive, time consuming meal to prepare.  I don't make it regularly.   

It was raining, but I decided the rhododendrons looked beautiful in the rain and I took pictures. 

Then as I drove down their road I put my phone backwards in my car's phone holder and took a video, mostly to show to our other kids, but I'll share it here too. 

Dick and I worked at hanging pictures on our newly painted walls that evening.  

On Thursday we finally had sunshine!  I went out to check my flowers.  I have a few nice zinnia blooms, but the plants are not looking healthy.  The leaves are all eaten up and they really are not growing at all.  This weekend I got Neem oil to spray on them.  I hope it gets rid of whatever is destroying the leaves.  One of our red rosebushes started blooming last week.  

We had choir practice that evening. 

On Saturday morning I enjoyed sitting on our side porch for a while. It was actually quite cool, but sunny and beautiful. 

Anthony had given us a bigger TV for our living room, one he no longer needed in his studio.  Dick decided to hang it on the wall, so that was one of his Saturday projects.  

My Saturday project was badly needed organizing a few places.  I got rid of years-old papers in some of our files in the filing cabinet.  Some things I shredded, others I just threw into a big garbage bag.   Then I tackled our horrendous junk drawer in the kitchen.  I took everything out.  Some of it went into the trash, others onto organized piles.  Here are some lovely pictures from my labors, lol!

Anyone remember "Labels for Education"?  Campbells apparently ended that program in 2018, but I still had one in my junk drawer!

On Sunday afternoon Anthony came and helped Dick to lift the TV onto the wall bracket.  Then they moved the media console from it's temporary location in the kitchen to its spot under the TV.  I was SO happy to finally have it out of my kitchen!!!

I took this picture today.  Things are pretty much back in place except for the "Welcome Friends" motto that I would like Dick to hang above the archway.  

I think the TV is terribly big.  But it does have better sound and a sharper picture.  

Yesterday I took these pictures of the rhododendrons in the sunshine!  They are definitely nearing their end.  Always so sad to see that happen.  

There was an event at Hunter's school last evening.  I went to that while Dick went to a trustee meeting at church.  

Kids had written lyrics for rap songs.  Rhythm and music had been added to them and they were recorded.  There were 11 songs altogether.  So at this event we got to hear them.  It was fun to hear Hunter's voice in the one he and his friend had created.  It was a fun event in the gym with lots of food and games.  

While we were listening to the songs Hunter was writing furiously in his notebook that he takes with him everywhere.  Turns out he was writing a story, and he read it to us.  He's a really good writer!

Today a few of my yellow roses bloomed!  I'm so happy with those leaves!!  Last summer the foliage of our roses was eaten by bugs.   This spring Dick has been spraying the leaves with Sevin, but one of the rose bushes has very sad looking leaves anyway.  So we got dust to put on them.  I really hope it protects them.  I never had this problem until last summer. 

 

Yesterday I got a video from our daughter Miki in Sweden.  She is in a Gospel choir and they had a concert on Sunday.  She sent me a little snippet, a medley of songs in which she was a solo.  That girls hams things up!!  I have listened to it so many times.  She's the one in yellow. 

Destiny and Ozzy finally have their own place!  This is a duplex, theirs is on the left.  It's really cute inside.  She called yesterday and took me on a video tour.  

Getting her career as a licensed esthetician up and running is not easy, especially living in an area where she has not had lots of friends.  And she's not happy with the management of the salon.  They do not charge for no-shows, and apparently that is a fairly frequent occurrence.  She would be a good manager actually.  

I haven't heard from Elizer for almost a week.  Hopefully that means he's happy and not bored.  

That's all for this time.  I gotta get outside while its still daylight and the sun is shining!