All done!

Well I got the rest of the balcony cleaned and what I had left planted!  Woo hoo!


I had taken the 6 small tomato plants that I had gotten when I bought all my flowers last weekend. I  saw I had a few extra pots he could use to plant them in so I called him today to let him know in case he still had them and hadn't planted them yet.  I had told my mom if he didn't want them to just throw them out as they were free.  So when I called him he said he had given them to a neighbor well actually just left them at his house. He called me back and said he was bringing them over. Long story short, he wanted me to plant them in my own garden for him. I could have done that from the start.  I thought maybe he'd enjoy growing some on his own but I guess not at his age. After all he is 87 and has a right to say he'd rather not mess with growing anything.


So here I was with 6 more tomato plants than I wanted.  We had a company out here repairing some cement at our porch and side of the house, so I ended up giving them to the wife.  I was really impressed with this company as we just called them yesterday, the owner came out and gave us an estimate and said they'd do the demo today and the rest within a week.  I half expected him to not show today, which would be typical for around here. Well turns out he not only came but he brought his wife and son and did the entire job today!  We were so impressed!  I thanked his wife for taking up their Saturday and asked her if she wanted the tomato plants so she took them for her in-laws.


Anyway here's the pictures I took today. I'm beat!  We're watching a movie we got recently Angel Eyes with J Lo...looks good.  Back to it.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BALCONY, CLEANED AND MOPPED

BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS

PARSLEY AND ROSEMARY

AND JALAPENO, SINGLE GREEN PEPPER AND TOMATOES

THEY'RE BACK!!!  THE LEFT NEST WAS LEFT OVER FROM LAST YR (SOLID AS A ROCK, HUBBY WAS UNABLE TO KNOCK IT DOWN.  BUT THERE IS A NEW ONE ALREADY!

Pictures

I'm on my lunch break and thought I'd post those pictures before I forget. 

Here are some new tomato and green pepper
plants

This is looking down the row of new flowers and aloe plants brought back outside after being indoors for the winter

New begonias in the hanging planters

Up close Begonia. Love the vibrant RED!

Ditzy checking out the back porch progress

Trying for the first time Cilantro and Peppermint

Picture of Tika and the part of the back balcony I did get mopped and cleaned up.

What I have left to plant except the tomatoes outside the flat are going to my dad's

Just one thing!

Why is it that sometimes just mentioning one thing can change the chain of events?

Hubby came into my office yesterday and said "Why don't you get rid of that old fax machine?. The belt is shot and you don't have any ink for it anyway and haven't used it in so long?"

So this morning I decided to take his advice and went into the office to remove it. As soon as I did, there was a shadow on the shelf, a familiar one.  The kind that show you how long it has been since you dusted. This shadow was screaming months if not years. :)   I decided to clean off that spot, then that shelf, then the floor underneath that area, then the dog bed below that shelf. Suddenly I am on a mission to clean up my whole office!  I didn't plan this!

Here is a pic I just took.  Can you guess which shelf I did? And see all those pink yogurt lids sticking out of that box on the second shelf that I saved to send in for the cancer cause?  Most of them are from last year!  So I have my day or at least rest of the morning cut out for me.

 I initially came out to the office to upload a few pictures I had taken a week ago. So I'll post those before I get back to cleaning the office. Below are some of my wonderful home grown peppers that I harvested. I got quite a few this year They always seem to really multiply after September, maybe because it is slightly cooler at night by then? The red ones are really sweet!

 And below is what I did with them. Yup. I made stuffed peppers in the crock pot.

 Gave some to my folks to have for dinner also. They were awesome and I loved that fact that I was eating peppers that I had personally grown! No chemicals or preservatives. Go me! I also froze some so when my youngest is visiting from college we can have them for lunch one day.

The photo below I give the credit to my hubby who saw this buck from our front window.  Handsome fellow isn't he?  Deer are always roaming the neighborhood grazing. Everyone leaves them alone so they tend to stay and grow their families.  There are a few herds (guess that is the proper term) that have 10 or more deer that tend to stick together. This guy was on his own.

Well back to cleaning my office..