Poppies and More.......

 Poppies in bloom.....Mr. Outdoors fishing...... Great Blue Heron's waiting on dinner....squirrel eating

the mulberries...and of course the majestic mountains of Colorado!

Bouncing back and forth.....

Bouncing back and forth between Kansas and Colorado keeps us busy, happy busy!  The hollyhocks, poppies and elephant ear are loving all this rain we are having! We planted a couple of  "knock out roses" anxious to see how they do. The Blue Heron's hang out at the fish hatchery every evening for supper, don't they look pre-historic?  We celebrated a couple of family birthdays and brother-in-law doesn't like chocolate (can  you imagine!) and my niece does ,so I went with strawberry and chocolate cakes.  Using my stainless steel roaster ( forming a foil wall between the two while baking)  got the job done.  Finished off with buttercream frosting (have you ever made it?  scrumptious!)  and both were pleased with their cakes. This is a great way to feed a crowd, plenty of cake for all.  Have you noticed summer is zinging by?!!!!  Enjoy these happy sweet summer days for they will be just a memory before we know it!

It's June!

The weeks are flying by!  We are into a remodel of the farm house and having our April rains in May.  Mr. Outdoors is laying tile in the utility room, bathroom, hallway and kitchen.  Quite an undertaking and it is turning out beautiful!  I have a quilt in the works making my great niece a quilt from her onesies.  She is now 7 so it is past time for me to do that!  Actually it will thrill her Mother much more than it does her, hopefully it will be something she will enjoy later in her life.  Onesies are so tiny aren''t they?  Getting in some quilt time for what is in my quilt frame and wanting to get it done so I can move on to others waiting to be quilted.  Sometimes I fear I will not live long enough to quilt all I have waiting in the to-do pile.  LOL.  Traveling thru Colorado we stopped by a roadside park and found a wonderful smelling bush called "deer brush".  They smell like lilac's and evidently are deer, elk and moose food.  I picked a branch and am hoping to get a start from it.  June is here, can you believe it?  Enjoy!