Good Morning Thursday

   I keep forgetting some times that Missouri is closer to the sun than northern Illinois was. At full sun, no wind-the sun was sooo hot already early this morning, and checking it's only in the low 60's F now.  I did get a few hours of weed pulling a bit ago and I planted my new bee balm.  

   I do not have access to close by nurseries here at the lake. The Walmart plants are not all that great especially for buying perennials. 

  I bought a midnight oil bee balm that has lovely flowers on Etsy-it was horrible and died the next day-I did get my money back but not the shipping cost. So I found a nursery online and bought one there. Very impressed and came with excellent instructions that I was not familiar with.  Here is a photo of it I found online This last purchase came in a quart size pot, so the plant was better established. That is what I will do going forward.

  I decided to plant in that large copper pot I have. It will get full sun there too and should be deep and wide enough to handle the plant as it grows.

  I also bought another variety off of Ebay. These were small but healthy except for one. The two are looking pretty good now  I also planted them in one of the big tubs to grow into.

  Happy with myself I did get all that mint dug out as I didn't see any while I was pulling weeds. Late afternoon I will get back outdoors to pull weeds and set up the area for the ornamental grasses or start cutting grass.

  We have been eating our main meal at 2 pm since retirement-I like that so much better than eating a full meal in the evenings. I made cupcakes yesterday to go with the fresh strawberries I found at the store-with a little scoop of ice cream on top A fun treat Smiles.  For something different today I am going to make us spaghetti and meatballs  I always make our  meals from scratch but sometimes I can't think of something different haha. I don't make this very often. I will need to be careful not to eat too much of the tomato based sauce.

  I ended up only eating the meat balls with no sauce. I saved some of them out for me so they would be plain and just ate some veggies with it for me. When I opened up the organic marinara sauce I could smell the garlic a huge no no for acid reflux issues. I had never baked meatballs before-wow sooo much easier. I ended up using ground bison for these-so delicious. here is the recipe I went by for the meatballs

  While eating I got the delivery for my lavender plant from the same place. This one will get quite large with a strong lavender scent. Loving that  This one was called summer serenade. Here is a photo from online

and here is a link where I bought my last two plants They have sales going on now as well.

  Hoping your weather is lovely as well