Happy Saturday & This & That

   Good morning friends,

     We have full sunshine this morning, lots of boats out there since dawn and we did get more rain last night as well. I welcome the rain here in the Ozarks Missouri area as the structure of the land and soil here-just seems to drink up the water and send it down deep-so different from what I grew up with in northern Indiana with their rich deep soil.

  Are any of you still watching Outlander? This will be their final season and I know I will miss it. Have loved this series with the actors, beautiful scenery and awesome clothes too.  Years ago I had scrounged the internet and bought all of her books including the Lord John books. I probably mentioned this before but I do love long involved books but these were just too much for me. I had a difficult time getting through them and ended up selling everything on Ebay so I got my money back plus the shipping cost

    For me the details were too  much which sounds strange as I write this but I just couldn't get through them after the third book. Never did get to the Lord John books.  I will be sad to see this series end on the Starz channel. I have enjoyed and loved this series so much. Since I didn't read all of the books am not sure if the series ends with all of her books for Outlander or not?   Any thoughts on the books and/or tv series?

  Have you noticed how expensive the garden seeds are this year??  I was shocked when I looked at Wal mart's seeds last time I went food shopping. So I went on Amazon and found seeds by Farmer's Almanac and others that had more seeds in their packets at better prices. This year I am buying all sorts of annual flower seeds to really fill in the spaces between my perennial plants-that are looking really good this year. I did lose my perennial bee balm plants a couple years ago, so I ordered online two varieties. The plants are tiny so I have them in one of those big tubs so I can keep an eye on them. Want established they can get quite large with beautiful flowers.

     My neighbor friend and I were visiting different garden centers for plants-but the last time I did that-a couple years ago now-I spent way too much on annuals so am not doing that anymore. Seeds are much less expensive. I do love petunias but they don't last here all summer do to the very hot temperatures with less rain-so ended up being a loss of money. 

   With my back still giving me troubles I won't get my ornamental grass dug up and moved this weekend-this is the perfect time too with all the rain we have been getting.

 I am thinking of baking up some pumpkin bread today. I always keep canned pumpkin and sweet potato purees in the pantry. I had purchased awhile back a small can of walnut oil which I think I will use instead of a light olive oil this time in the bake-should add some extra flavor I am thinking to the loaves.

  Enjoy your weekend! 

      and hoping you live where you will miss this next round of severe storms We have been missing the worse of these storms that are coming through Missouri