Miscellaneous

Good evening! Tonight's post is a bit random, small things from the week that I admit, passed mostly in a daze. Doing okay, thanks!

We are supposedly having a heat wave and I've been keeping Mo mostly inside---but the high was 80, with a soft breeze and now it's 76* at 8 PM. Not my idea of heat wave. I just turned off the AC so we can enjoy the summer air.

The hot pavement can burn pets' feet! 

Here is Mo keeping cool on the sheets of paper as they spew from the printer. Pugs are like cats, they will gravitate to and lie on anything laid out on the floor, comfy or not.

The first thing I did this week was put away all the red/white/ and blue decorative items. Here all the quilts are stacked for storage, put away for another year. 

For now the house is only blue white decor, though I admit to a hankering for wild tropical prints and bright colors.

                             

Hydrangeas: these are the ones that were brilliant blue last week! 

TS Fay ruined them and they tried to recover but have morphed into their dusty pink Fall colors, much too soon. Plus lot of deadies.

These bloom later and survived.

You can see why the name Lace Cap Hydrangeas was chosen for them. The centers never form blooms, just the buds as you see here. These used to be blue and white, the soil is turning them lavender, then pink

                                                 

These are gorgeous tall old fashioned hydrangeas, the shrub must be 15 feet tall. The lime green heads turn deep rose in the fall, or fade to creamy off white.

I had to go to a different supermarket yesterday, because the bridge to the mainland was, is, closed for repairs. The market is big, like a city block? My phone app said I walked more than a mile shopping in there and I never did find any Windex or other cleaning products. The good news is they had Charmin and even Bounty paper towels, Splenda for my sun tea [but no new plastic pitcher for the tea making, my current one leaks; need Home Goods!!!].

I was exhausted afterward. I find it hard to see with mask fogged glasses, very hard to navigate a strange store.  Here everyone uses their masks though, as do I; follow the arrows, distancing carefully. New York still takes the plague very seriously for the most part, though the IV clinic was crowded, the chairs closer than 6 feet---and freezing cold. The store had pretty flowers so as a reward for getting there and shopping, I treated myself to blue hydrangeas. Two stems for 5.99.

                                           

July is daylily season. The gardening service who does my neighborhood's public areas is new three years ago. They have systematically removed almost all of the huge beds of beautiful daylilies, putting grass and/ or hosta instead. This is the only bed of a few lilies left.

This is one of my funny keepsakes. 

It's the center of  a Stangl "Garden Flowers" plate. 

                   

My mom loved her daylily plate collection and we used it always for summer dinners. One day she dropped one! The sides fell away and this central disk remained, perfect and separate. I use it under my summer candles and remember my mom.

                                      

Mt friend has an eggplant! And my seeds seem to be spruting. 

Mo and I spent afternoons on the deck mostly. 

I reworked Tiny Baskets. And did the applique.

It's always serene out there for an hour or two, cool by 3.30 usually. Mo closely watches all I do, plus guards against evil intruders who may pass headed to the beach! He has so much fun.

                                                   

I'll stop here, I think. My Tiny Baskets update will be a separate post. Monday? Nope, Tuesday....

See you then!

love

lizzy 

gone to the beach....