honeysuckle anniversary

The honeysuckle bloomed out and wow, did it ever smell delicious!
 

We celebrated our wedding anniversary.

going outside to make pictures of my anniversary roses

enjoying my roses!

My anniversary present, a pearl necklace. The blue beads are lapis lazuli

I got the identical one with green beads for Christmas from Mr. Front Porch, so now I have the two I wanted, I just love them!

pearls with green aventurine

Mr. Front Porch got interested in growing herbs this spring, so for our anniversary I got him gardening and herb items, like these herb cutting scissors and an herb gardening book.

And fun markers!

and these cute little fancy cutting scissors:

We had a yummy steak supper for our anniversary with baked taters.

Along with loving the old Rifleman series, we've been watching Bonanza all spring. Another really OLD SHOW,  (started 1959) and such good episodes! 

Loving the adventures of Hoss, Ben Cartwright,  Adam, and Little Joe, who of course, was Michael Landon.

Since we're enjoying the old Westerns, we got a combined anniversary present of the next 3 and 4 Seasons of Bonanza, Season One of The Big Valley, and one of our favorite old TV mini series North and South. (1985)

this should keep us plenty set for evening tv viewing all  during the hot summer!

things are growing here:

tiny baby sunflower

getting bigger and bigger!

baby moonflower

planted the carrots, awaiting sprouts

baby taters up

This is my FOURTH TRY at hollyhocks! I love hollyhocks and have not been able to even get any to come up here YET. 

I am not giving up, lol.

These seeds soaked about 12 hours I think I read to do.

Not 100% sure, but I'm hopeful these are baby hollyhocks!I'm so excited anything even came up, LOL. All the hollyhocks I've had in the past grow the first year, establishing themselves, roots, etc. then they don't bloom til the second year.

little baby morning glories

Hope your week is going great. It's very very HOT HERE, and pretty much a summer thunderstorm moves through each evening, great for all these things we have growing. But it sure leaves things so steamy and humid.

Hope you are staying cool!

spring reads

 

One of my favorite things to do......enjoy a good book on a peaceful day out in the country

Some of my spring reads:

I'm about halfway through this one and it's pretty good so far! The descriptions of 1950s fashions and things in this era are great!

This was a great book, I loved it!

I know it's not Christmas, but this little book looked good and previous books by this author I've liked:

This was a tiny little book, just introducing some of the characters from the longer novels by this author:

(below) I loved this book! Many interesting tales from New York City's famous Red Door salon back in the 1960s.

Red Dirt Girls was set in the South in the 1960s . I think it was a true story and was sad as it was about abuse, alcohol, and poverty.

the book below by Patrick and his wife Lisa was interesting. Patrick was one of my most favorite actors beginning with the tv mini series "The North and the South" in 1985. (based on John Jakes books)

The show had so many well known stars! ----James Read, Johnny Cash, James Stewart,  Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley- Ann Down, Kirstie Alley, Genie Francis,  Gene Kelly,  Olivia de Havilland, Jonathon Frakes, Robert Mitchum,  Morgan Fairchild, Jean Simmons, Hal Holbook, Wayne Newton and others.  

Patrick went on to a very successful movie career best known in "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing".

We used to walk by so many of the places/streets/homes where they filmed the series when we lived in Charleston.

below, Patrick and Lisa's book jacket:

I just finished this book:

it was a good story

Some of the magazines I read have interesting book reviews and show new books:

First magazine

(I got a mail notice that First magazine is shutting down after the last June issue, I believe. I've subscribed to that magazine for years)
 Lots of magazines are just shutting down and I hate that as I love reading them in magazine form and not online. I hated when Reminisce shut down, that was one of my longtime favorites.

Woman's World magazine

Woman's World magazine

Woman's World magazine

Do you have favorite books, authors, magazines?

It was a HOT weekend here, and also lots of good hard rain. Good for the gardens.

Hope you have a great week coming up!