The Year of the Graduation Parties

This is the year of graduation parties.  This is Katie's.  Always fun.  We did a lot of dancing when the sun went down.

Christy

Dinner With Friends

Jen's favourite colour green

Dinner and a nice evening with friends.

Christy

Cadbury's 99 Flake

This is part of my childhood at the Seaside.  Cadbury's 99 Flake.

Christy

Turnersville Assembly Hall

We missed Saturday because of Hurricane Irene, the Convention was rescheduled to the following weekend, so we decided to go to Turnersville, which is an Assembly Hall and seats about 2,000.  I had not been there before and enjoyed seeing it.  We enjoyed the program and the tranquil setting; which I found very soothing to my tired body and nerves.

We left at seven am and it took about an hour to get there.  We had plenty of time to find seats, look around and the boys even had time to walk to Wawa and get us bagel, sausage and egg breakfast sandwiches, very good, we ate them in the dining area.  At lunch time we ate outside on the patio, it was a lovely day and we enjoyed the association with a close friends and so very much appreciated the spiritual program given by the faithful and discreet slave.

A memorable, enjoyable day.

Christy

A Friend In Focus

This a a shot the boy took with his new lens of a family friend.  I think it's a great shot.

Christy

Little Italian Beauties, Espresso Coffee Cups

My little thrifted Italian Espresso Coffee set.

Just pain glass but the shape attracts your eye.


Christy

Artichoke Platter

Now this does remind me of Tuscany.  Imagine yourself under some great vines, on a patio, surrounded by a stone wall over looking Sienna.  Yes I can just see this platter on that table, with Italian food and a bottle of vino.

This is an Italian platter from Epcot.

I love it.

Would be great to serve pizza on or an anti pasta salad.

Christy

Fabulous Find

Love at first sight.  I'm not sure what time period this teapot comes from, forties or fifties.  It's so unusual, so unique and so large.

It seems rather appropriate as we head towards autumn when all the geese start to congregate and some head south.

Well two things came together love and money, yes it was the right price too, so all came into alignment.

Large teapots always remind me of camping with my parents.  Mum had a huge brown enamel teapot we used to brew tea up in.  Dad always had a pint mug of tea. so one pot did us all.  Happy memories.

Christy

Update On My Garden After All This Rain

My garden is running riot with all this rain.  The cleome has seeded itself in many areas, such as in front of my Simla room sliding doors.  As you see Tink likes to accompany me.

One of my garden disappointments this year is the dying of my weeping pussy willow;  which for so many years did so well.  But this spring it did not come back very well after winter and with the drought most of the summer it just died.  I don't think it will come back.  I'm thinking of replacing it with a giant hosta, leaving room for the Japanese maple to spread.

I can't keep up with the wisteria growth.

With working full time and then all the rain it's hard to keep up with everything.

The boy cuts the grass, but it hasn't been dry enough to do so.

Christy

Orchid Came Back To Life

My beautiful orchid which a friend bought for me several months ago and was glorious for a while and then seemed to go downhill.  Well I thought let me put it out in the garden near the hedge where there will be some shade.  I watered it regularly and then nature watered it very regularly, drowning it every time.

Well I thought they didn't like too much water, but it seems to have thrived in this environment.  I'm glad I never cut back the main stem, because a new shoot came out of the old stem and then put forth eight, yes eight new buds.

Before the hurricane on Saturday I decided to bring it indoors and that's were I have it now.  But I don't think I'll go back to watering it with one eggcup full a day, it seems to thrive on much more.

I'm enjoying it's glorious over the top beauty.

Christy

P.S.  Orchids always remind me of Geogia O'Kefge

The Aftermath

Well it seems for us hurricane Irene was a storm in a teacup, but for others, things were not good and it seems that Vermont really got hit and they weren't even mentioned as being in the path of the storm early on.

We did not even loose power so that was great.  It did rain and rain.  During a hurricane the rain seems to fall so differently to everyday rain.  It seems to fill every space as it falls, denser and coming from every direction.  It was fairly windy it kept coming and going in gusts and then would die down and pick up again.

After two days at home not doing too much I decided that I'd better accomplish something.  So I cleaned my sitting room floor and some dusting.

Tinkerbell is a naughty little cat, she thinks the Chinese rug is her special wee patch right on one of the corners.  She just will not stop.  I just couldn't keep up with her and I can't seem to stop her.  So decided to take the rug up and put it in the garage until such times as I can afford to have it cleaned.  Rob helped me carry it out.  Now I have bare wood floors which I scrubbed up and one long rug in front of the sofa which I took from the upstairs hallway and it's just enough to make it look not too bare.

So the room seems fresher and I don't have to feel irate at that naughty, naughty cat, who if she was not so cute and sweet natured I'd send her to the knackers yard.

I also washed the covers to my large sofa cushions we sit on.  I still have to wash the back ones. but those I have to unpick and then sew back up again.

I did get on my blog Lil Bit Brit Lit and wrote up some reviews on books I've read this summer.

Christy

I Guess We're Ready For Hurrican Irene

 

Went into the garden and folded up the umbrellas and put them in the shed.  Picked my tomatoes, some greens and my gladioli, so they wouldn't get smashed.

Cooked up a meal, of sausage and greens, we will have that over pasta with tomato sauce.  Cooked potatoes for potato salad, filled up some water containers.  Bought some cat food and an extra gallon of milk for tea, that would be a total disaster if we did not have enough milk.  Tea calms my stress.

It's 4:30 PM and the wind is picking up just a bit.  It's been dull all day and sprinkling. 

The convention was cancelled and all transit systems in NYC and Philly are closed down. This is the first time in my memory that they have closed down everything. So we will see.

Christy

P.S.  Do you like my little flask?  It was a gift from a friend which I love it's just right for packing.  Hubby put it in the dish washer and half the decals came off on one side.  What to do I was most disappointed, so I bought some more decals and stuck them on, flower and camping emblems, just right.