Garden Bouquet

My brother-in-law is home. He hasn’t stitches in his hand and scalp but otherwise is doing well. Says he isn’t sore nor stiff. That is a miracle.

Kent is miserable from all the yellow jacket stings and even with taking antihistamines and putting topical on them, the itching is driving him crazy. Poor guy.

The torrential rain yesterday beat more of my flowers so I went out this morning to see what the damage was. I had one lily that still had pedals but it was on the ground. Several of my bee balm blooms were also on the ground.

I decided that what I needed to do was cut the flowers that were on the ground and add a few others to them and make myself a nice garden bouquet.

Drove up to Burgaw to the car dealership to have my vehicle serviced, so hung out there for a while as the work was done.

Alex, one of the salesmen, greeted me as he almost always does, and commented on the great condition of my 2008 vehicle. He was commenting today on how he sees vehicles that he sold only 6 months ago that are in a sorry state as people just don’t seem to take any interest in taking care of anything anymore.

When I got home I thought I would sit on the porch a little while and indeed it was a little while! We were forecast to have afternoon thunderstorms but one came out of nowhere and the torrential downpour was coming sideways. In less than a minute I was good and wet even though I was under the roof on the porch! MiniMe was off my lap in a flash and under the chair so she had double protection.

I came inside, got dried off & put on my pj’s. Wrapped up in a blanket & read my book.