70 degrees outside the window this mid-morning saturday. I am grounded this weekend unless I want to attempt driving with a bad water pump on the car or if i want to drive the van and get out and jiggle the wires under the hood everytime it stops........ I have been dreaming of shiny smooth paint, automatic seats, cd players, air conditioning, .............The day lilies in my garden are really making a show....beautiful blooms, some are reds, some yellows, some yellows with tinges of pink, oranges, some old fashioned ones, some hybrids. I believe I will be planting more daylilies from now on and cutting back on any other perennial buys as the daylily has been adding color to the garden longer than any of my other plants.
Also the Rose of Sharon bushes are really pretty this year. They are starting to branch out. Instead of the usual stick like shrub with a few blooms, this year they are rounder with scattered flowers. I have 3 about 4 feet tall now , all in a row. First a white one, next a pink one and last a purple one. What a show they are making! This is the first year for so many flowers. I did not realize at first that they needed to be prunned to make them branch out better.
Along the road in and out of the valley, the milkweeds bloom profusely with their fragrant orbs of soft purple. I love that wildflower. One smell and I am transformed into a skinny little girl wearing a pretty feedsack dress, barefoot in a newly plowed field with a bouquet of milkweeds in my hand while the milky fluid drips all sticky and white all over my fingers and onto my arms. Ahhhhh......the joys of summer, do they never end?
Old habits are hard to break. I find myself going automatically towards Monkey Face's doghouse at feeding time each day. Special thanks to all my dear friends here at deardiary for there comforting comments.
I am going thru an emotional slump right now. My birthday looms in the near future. Outside the beauty of summer continues to unfold but inside nothing seems to be right in my world anymore.
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