Dreaming

Whenever life gets busy, I start dreaming about places I'd like to be at instead of work, home, car, etc.  This is a favorite spot:

This is in Little Sebago, Maine - a very relaxing, enjoyable spot.  We do a lot of this:

and love to water ski and tube, sit by the fire.  Here's a picture of Rich and I celebrating the 4th of July, I think in 2010:

Looking forward to some days to relax next week! 

Crazy Life!

Life has been on fast forward lately - working & playing!  We've had numerous parties to attend, family get-together's and trying to keep up with the outside work and inside work!  I have some pictures to post, I'll get them posted later.  Hope everyone is keeping cool today! 

Peonies & Poppies

I love seeing all my perennials bloom throughout the spring.  Here are my peony bushes.  The smaller one is much older than the larger one and for some reason it doesn't have as many blooms as in past years. 

This is the larger peony above.

This is the smaller (older) peony.  I took these pictures BEFORE a huge rainstorm last week.  The larger bush is pretty much beat down, the smaller one fared much better and I can still see some blooms ready.

Here is a closer picture of my poppies.  I love the poppies - I wish they lasted forever.  I used to have some icelandic, but they seem to have stopped blooming, all I have now are the orange blossoms:

I have a large Hydrangea, that has so many buds on it, we can hardly wait for it to bloom.  That blooms until late October/early November.  Looking forward to sharing those pictures with you!

We have some weeding and mulching to do - hopefully this weekend if there's time - we run out of time every weekend, we need to have 3 or 4 days off all the time to get it all done!

Pictures of the Fire Pit

A few hours of work - the patio was already there.  Rich and Christopher dug out the middle of the patio, laid the stone and cleaned up the cover and spray painted.  I need to get some plants and flowers, we have a large patio umbrella and some more chairs to put out for visitor's but otherwise it's ready to light!  Just need a bit cooler night for the fire.  And the smores fixings are all bought! 

A fire pit!

The boys have wanted a fire pit for a while - today Rich built one for us! 

I bought a great wicker furniture set at a yard sale and it looks great (a good deal - $35 for the three pieces and the cushions too. Then the owner of the set said I had to bring home the table, no charge!)

Pictures tomorrow...