I'm Back

I'm back! did anyone miss me? It's been a hectic few weeks! I've had unexpected house guests--the good kind! Not bugs or insects of any kind. lol
Our daughter's air conditioning went on the fritz and it was way too hot to stay at their house.
We've had record breaking temps all summer. It stopped working on a Thurs. night and, of course, the AC companies were too swamped to get to it Fri. and they don't work on the weekends unless you pay a hefty fee.
Who could let these cuties suffer in that heat! They stayed till Tues.
What fun to have the babies around 24/7.We let these cuties come too.

On Wed. morning we left to go to Gatlinburg for a couple of days. My brother rented a log home for a week and asked us to join him and my sis-in-law for a couple of nights. It was so much fun!

We were way up in them there hills. No one around except the bears. Literally! I'm not kidding. We put in a call to have a maintenance man bring a wire cage for our garbage cans because the bear or bears kept getting in them. A little scary just going to the car. Yikes!

I'll do another post and show you the pictures where we captured a bear in a tree and one along side the road.

We got home late Fri. and Sat. company arrived from CA for a week.

During that week I had a check-up at Emory University in Atlanta for my kidney condition.

Thanks to all of you that knew and said a prayer for me. The results were better than expected.

You guys are the best!

We got home and moved the two girls from CA into an apt. and it hasn't slowed down since.

On another note:

When we returned from our long trip to MI in July some of my plants didn't look so healthy from the extreme heat.

Hubby wanted to get some new urns and plant new flowers. I was so tired of the pinching off of the dead-head syndrome, I decided to plant Coleus and potato vines. They grow so fast, I thought I would show the progression.



Here's the start of them in late July.

It didn't take but a couple of weeks and they looked mature.

Now they are almost as tall as hubs. Which is 6 ft. We trim the vines every couple of days. I think they grow 3 " a day. lol

Well, that's a little bit of what's going on. I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in awhile.

What's been going on with all of you?