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 

Amaryllis Blooms

 Happy Mid-Week.

   This morning  have blooms on the amaryllis bulb. I am thinking now that the bulb with the two offshoots was the original bulb, and this one that is blooming now was the first off shoot. The blooms are smaller as this is a young bulb. I have kept these indoors do to the very cool nights we have been having

 In the middle of the night I had gotten woken up around 3 in the morning-do to very strong winds and lots of rain. Lasted about an hour.  So today is chilly and rainy.

 I did get shopping done yesterday morning. I needed a few things and mostly 8 of those very large garden soil bags. I can't even pick these up any more-so those will stay in my car until our workers return for projects.  The plan was to begin the mowing today-so that is getting put off for a non rainy day and the grass can get dried out again. It is on my mind as the grass is growing and growing.

  The orioles are still here so am really enjoying seeing them-and we have one pair of hummingbirds-a start smiles.

 Happy md-week