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MERRY MERRY JULY, Y'ALL!!

Hot Summertime has arrived, and the blue skies are so pretty!

our first bright and happy sunflower has arrived!

and our four o'clocks are in full bloom

June was pretty busy here, so July has kind of snuck up on me.

I was up late last night processing green beans to freeze. LOL

And I have ALOT more onions to harvest and process, these are just the first two days ago.

enjoyed them on cheeseburgers, they were so good!

We also harvested ALOT of parsley, our first year for this.

....and I made bean sprouts!

Did you see the beautiful Strawberry Moon?

I could've gazed at that all night long.......

Some of you leave me such sweet and kind comments about me dressed up or dressing up just like a Southern Lady. And I thank you for those!

But what you see are pictures we usually make on Sundays, in our "Sunday Best" or as my Ma-Maw called it "your Sunday go to meeting" outfit. LOL

This is more like the "daily me". ha ha LOL

I'm pretty much in old pants and with either boots on or long tall socks, (or BOTH! lol)  with the loose pants tucked IN, to keep from being bitten by the various bugs and/or other critters.

 See how sloppy I look? LOL. Big old wrinkled but comfortable shirt for gardening and taking care of chickens/animals, sometimes a dirty chore. That big old blue farm shirt is my favorite everyday shirt. 

And of course, we like everything pure cotton as much as we can in the Spring and summer here as it gets so hot and real cotton breathes better.

No, I'm not after a predator right here, it's just a garden tool I got for my birthday last year. LOL

and a fond goodbye to Closer magazine:

They have ceased publishing.

I've read this little supermarket check-out magazine since about 2005 or so and enjoyed it alot the first years.

 It used to be full of stories of the movies and actors back in the old days.

 It was about Judy Garland, Shirley Jones, Cary Grant, Ann Margaret, Elvis,  Elizabeth Taylor, Sally Field, Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews,  Gregory Peck, Lucille Ball, Doris Day, Natalie Wood, Marlo Thomas, Barbara Eden, Patricia Neal, Farrah Fawcett, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Burt Reynolds, Barbara Streisand, Tony Curtis etc. 

Stories about them, their movies, their lives, their homes and children and hobbies.

 In the past two years, it started to feature a large percentage of the movies and celebrities from present day, which I have no interest in reading about, so I was going to let my subscription lapse anyway.

Farewell, Closer!

and also received word from the publisher that this magazine is stopping issues as well. Below was the last issue:

Been reading this one since 1989!

I really enjoyed this little monthly magazine all those years, until the last year they totally changed the format and articles and I just wasn't going to re-new my subscription to this one either. It just changed too much.

Magazines just aren't selling anymore, and alot of people enjoy reading them online, but I will always prefer finding my glossy new magazines in the  mailbox at the end of each month, and looking forward to sitting down and reading them. 

I like the option of clipping coupons, tearing out pages of pictures I like, flipping through the articles. Guess I'm "old fashioned" that way. 

I remember old magazines like Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, Glamour, McCall's (does anyone remember the Betsy McCall paper dolls each issue?----oh, how I loved those!), Family Circle, and others that are now just a memory.

Does anyone but me subscribe to old fashioned magazines anymore?  LOL

Hope your July has arrived nicely and you are staying cool in this heat wave.

Goodness, it's hot here. LOL

it was my birthday

Summer has arrived! Merry Summer, y'all!

time for the long hot summer.........

My May birthday arrived

went outside to make pictures of my balloons

We went to Bluffton for my birthday 

Scenes along the way:

the mimosas were in bloom on my birthday

so dainty, so delicate!

Bluffton is a nice small town! Lots of history

We toured the Heyward House museum, it was great!

The home was built in 1841 and still has most of the original woodwork and floors. The Carolina farmhouse style was from planters from the West Indies.

So many interesting things to see!

We used to walk by the old Confederate Widows Home all the time. And of course we've been to Magnolia cemetery many times. So this was interesting.

I have a similar old lamp like this one

the Sweetgrass baskets like in this painting are still sold by the Basket Ladies in downtown Charleston, and at stands all along the highway

I have quite a few similar bottles, we find them in the fields all the time. Always fun to find a new one! Some are liquor bottles, many cough syrup bottles, lots of spice and medicine bottles.

If you can find where the old "outhouse" was on a property, you can find loads of these amazing things! They threw alot of broken bottles, toys, and dishes and garbage in the outhouses.
Our historic house qualifies, we are trying to find out where it was! LOL

broken pottery and dishes

Posing by the trundle bed

I loved seeing all the old furniture, dishes, shoes, quilts, and do I spy a DOLLHOUSE?

My friend Pam and I would love to play with this! LOL

I LOVED THIS PAINTING!

Sites around Bluffton

We toured this fun Sculpture Garden:

Palmetto Oaks sculpture garden

The creator is from Indiana and he has sculptures on display all over, at colleges and hospitals and other places, as well as his home sculpture garden here on his property.

He is very generous to allow people to tour it.

It was fun and so interesting!

Went to see the old Oyster Factory:

lots of people out enjoying their boats

We spent alot of time resting on this bench and enjoying watching the boaters. There was a really nice breeze.

Garvey House

Beautiful old twisty trunk tree

Enjoyed looking at the pretty flowers that were blooming

and I always stop to read memorials when I see them. This was near the water, so perhaps a boating accident/drowning? sad...

I like seeing all the giant decorated oyster shells about town:

The beautiful shells are painted by local artists and are scattered all over town. I think there are about 21 of them. It's fun to search for them. We only saw about 3 or 4! Each one has it's own plaque with information.

Some amazing clouds on the way home.......

and then a rainbow out in the country!

Presents:
One of my favorite presents, a green corduroy pocketbook! It's soft and "slouchy", I love it.

And I'd heard of these, but never had one.......a  pocketbook organizer!

It's so easy to transfer the whole thing to different pocketbooks and you don't have all the little things stuck down in the bottom when you're searching. I love it.

 It has lots of compartments, zippers, pockets. They come in alot of different sizes too, for little and large pocketbooks and tote bags.

some of my cards:

a funny chicken tin sign

Hairbows and doo-dads. I also got bags of candy and two new pairs of slacks. I picked out a new dress too, but it hasn't arrived yet.....

.....and new Crocs house shoes, in the green color I wanted! And they couldn't be any easier to keep clean.....you can just hose them down, LOL. Perfect for country living.

they are SO comfortable!

a pretty magnet
and these adorable fairies came with the teas and card up above

I especially love the porch swing one!

a friend from church brought me a German chocolate cake too! So I ended up with two cakes, plenty to last all week. LOL

It was a wonderful birthday! I was blessed with many fun and special cards and things!

Hope Fathers Day was nice yesterday for y'all and MERRY MERRY SUMMER!!

Glad you stopped in to see me!