My mother-in-law, who is the greatest, volunteered me to give a talk on painting fabric to her quilting group. In October. Yes, I've known about this for months and she did move the date back for me but, well, life gets busy. I've decided it's about time to get started on it - the fabric has ...

Mmm, a cup of Roger's fabulous coffee and a sketchbook. Perfect Saturday morning.

Mmm, Saturday morning, sitting on the deck, cup of cappuccino (Roger always makes delicious coffee on the weekends. Spoils me rotten!). A sketchpad in hand and life is perfect! Oh, I do love weekend mornings!

Can you find the queen? A bit like Where's Waldo!

After conducting my first hive inspection in a big hurry to not disturb the bees more than needed I decided the hives were teeming with bees and quickly enough wasn't really possible for a beginner. I could study them for hours and they just wouldn't like that! So I enlisted Roger to hold the smoker and ...

Just look at how much work these guys did on Father's Day! It's pretty amazing the dent they put in that massive tree. They were absolutely exhausted from working all day with chainsaws in the heat so we did get to go out to a nice dinner. I think we'll have to have another dinner when ...

So... yesterday while we were visiting in-laws in Alabama, there was a storm. We came home at midnight to find this in our driveway. It seems in question whether or not it was a tornado, but there seems no doubt there was a lot of wind. And golf ball size hail. Our yard was the one really ...

Two new beautiful bee hives, full of honey bees! Don't they look happy? Sourwood is in bloom, ready to go! You unpack them at dusk. For some reason we wanted straps around them in the car. I have a smoker wafting away. I also have water right in front in the windowbox. Water is a necessity if you ...

I have an awesome new stove! A KitchenAid 5 Burner 36" Gas Stove! The middle burner is a blowtorch at 18,000 BTU! My almost new, came with the house, JennAir range is now functioning beautifully as a counter. I'm able to use it now more than ever. The glass top still won't come clean no matter how ...

Just relaxing outside... Sniffing the marigolds... Isn't the tiny olive tree perfect? I've been wanting an olive tree since I first went to Italy. This is a Frantoio olive. It probably can't stay outside all winter so I may have to repot it in a movable pot. I want to get one more type to cross pollinate that ...