HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!
The solstice is on Wednesday.
I hope everyone has a wonderful week. There's a white-tailed deer fawn like this one on my patch. Her mother takes her across to the creek for a drink of water every day at dawn.
White-Tailed Deer FawnSand Lake National Wildlife Refuge, South Dakota (USA)U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service PhotoPhoto labeled "Public Domain" (copyright free)
Evening all: Another busy day; don't plan to do anything or go anywhere tomorrow! Have read all posts, but again, incapable of developing a coherent response to any!
AQ: Hope you guys get some rain.
Good Morning, All. Dull but dry here - the man is on TV right now, saying that it's a weekend of sunshine and showers. Out of the window I can see a telegraph line full of rows of starlings, and on the grass, two rabbits so close to us it feels as if you could touch them.
Enjoy your family visit, Heather.
Here's today's pic:
One of my poppies, a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks, LINDY! and good morning. No rabbits here but plenty of seagulls leaving their calling cards:-(
AQ- hope that you get rain, soon. I wonder if that crunchy roll has been eaten yet?
ANNETTE- rest easy. I'm glad that you don't get those desert temperatures. I know about the ' snowbirds' who come to the desert towns from the north in the winter, but wonder if there is a reverse migration of folk during the summer heat? At least most homes have air conditioning there.
OG- my tomatoes in the greenhouse must have been affected by lowish temps at night. At least, that is my theory. Some leaves have curled. I don't know if the heater is still set to come on, will check today. Surely it isn't the opposite, too hot?! There is a roof window thingy that opens automatically if it gets hot. As you can tell, I'm an ignoramous.
Must go and get showered. I've to walk to town and pick up the girls from the hairdresser and then go book shopping etc while their Mum gets her hair sorted.
Glad, Pat, that you enjoyed your golf yesterday. Have a good time in Dumfries and safe journey home.
My crunchy roll was delish yesterday, while OH took himself out for lunch. Poor plants are confused - the first snowflake is flowering, 3 months early. Still no rain.
Thank you to all for your kind comments and prayers. I will be returning to Suffolk on Sunday and returning to London the following Sunday. The funeral will be on Wednesday 5th. Please keep the prayers and healing thoughts coming our way at this unreal time.
I'm thinking about you and your family often, HARELADY. It must all seem like a particularly nasty dream just now. The experts tell us that this sense of unreality is what helps us to cope with all that has to be done in these very early days.
Hello, all, on Saturday. OH is having a catching-up day as he got very much behind with jobs during the week. The weather is variable – but dry so far, and windy again.
Pat – have a good weekend with your friend in Dumfriesshire and then a safe journey home to Surrey. You have fitted a lot into those three weeks and must be exhausted – I can’t imagine three weeks away from home, and with all the travelling between destinations (I am always ready to come home after about three days!)
Annette – pleased to see that you have planned a restful day after all you have been doing.
Linda – I hope there will be more sunshine than showers for you through the weekend!
Heather – I don’t get too worried by the Tomato leaves – so long as the fruits keep coming. Our first ones are beginning to blush (and we are having our first courgettes tomorrow). I hope you and the two girls managed to find some good books in town.
AQ – sorry you had yet another day without rain – but at least your OH went out!
Harelady – it will seem a very long week for you back in Suffolk, as you wait to rejoin the family for further farewells to your Daughter. I will be thinking of you, still, and praying for you all.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
LINDY What a beautiful poppy.
HARELADY What an age to wait for the funeral. Thinking of you.
Finally getting around to feeding some neglected shrubs. Will catch up tonight.
Harelady: Do hope you'll have family and friends close by for the week you're home. Best friend of the teenage kid across the road was killed in a boating accident last week - he was off to college soon. So much sadness and doubly so when it's a child - whoever's it is and of whatever age. Like everyone else here, thinking of you and wishing there was a practical way to help....