Well, life has kept me happily occupied these last two weeks!
Here's a little of what I've been up to.
Precious Daughter and her family got tickets for Mother’s Day to the St. Louis Muny Opera, a lovely outdoor theatre venue in Forest Park, St. Louis. We live about an hour away so she and I left mid afternoon and did a little shopping before eating at a
lovely French bristro in the Central West End section of St. Louis.
Precious Daughter ordered trout with asparagus while I enjoyed this delicious spring tart. We were both very happy with our meals!
Then we were off to the Muny to see 1776! It was really good, and put us in the
mood for the 4th of July!
Forest Park is a large and beautiful municipal park in west St. Louis and was the site of the
1904 World's Fair. There are lovely structures throughout the park as well as a golf course, numerous ball fields and trails, museums (Art, History and Science), our wonderful St. Louis Zoo and, of course, the Muny! The St. Louis area LOVES Forest Park!!
Favorite Son was home for awhile! He and J went on a hunting trip to
Argentina the first week of July.
Precious Daughter and her handsome husband went to Chicago for a short vacation so little Jack's Grammy and Cami stayed home and spent a lot of fun, quality time with our little grandson and each other! We took GG (Great Grandma) to brunch one day. Jack had a great time, too!
Even though our vegetable garden has had a slow start this year with all of the rain and cool weather, THIS week I've been busy with some of the vegetables that are coming in. We're enjoying cucumbers, peppers, beets and the last of the lettuce.
The green beans in the raised bed have been great! We've had lots of fresh beans for dinner and I've been able to put up 12 quarts and 5 pints.
More beans have been planted where the peas were so, hopefully, we will have another good harvest in late summer.
Our county fair has been this week. I was asked to judge the open class (non-4-H members) on stitching, crochet and quilting. Here is a fun example of one of the quilts. The lady who entered was 75 years old!! Isn't it beautiful?
Our Master Gardener group has a demonstration garden at our county health department. Another MG and I put in this succulent garden in an elevated raised bed. This bed is on legs which makes it higher and easily accessible for those with bad backs. It has a tendency to dry out quicker than our other raised beds so we decided to see how succulents do. It actually looked really pretty when we finished. We will see how each variety does in this environment.
The day lilies and wildflowers around our house are gorgeous now!
Coneflowers
Vervain
Rudbeckia
And I have to leave you with a darling picture of J with our little Jack.
Isn't this a sweet photo?
Thanks for stopping by! I'm wishing each of you lots of blessings this week!!
Zenda
