mothers day and bluebirds

 I was thrift shopping right before Mother's day and I spotted this pretty china so I grabbed this as a "present to myself" ha ha ha LOL

I just LOVE THIS OLD PATTERN..........I thought it was called "Millie" but it's actually "Mildred".

I believe it's an old pattern from the 1940s

on the same day, I spotted these pretty little teacups and saucers, so they came home with us too!

I got beautiful red roses for Mother's day!

and more "jewelry" for the furniture and/or cabinets knobs! I just love these borealis ones!

sparkle like rainbows......

I ordered myself some new summer blouses and a summer dress as well.

I had the black one and the blue one, and I love these square neck embroidered blouses so much, and wear them so often, that I ordered the purple one and the red one! LOL

a few bags of my favorite candy: (LOVE THIS STUFF!)

But my FAVORITE present was this:

my new bluebird porcelain ring!

See, we've had pretty little bluebirds dancing and flitting about our backyard for a long time, (and eating the delicious worms and treats we put out for them!) but they never NESTED. Mr. Front Porch had built them nice little birdhouses, but they wouldn't use them and we never knew why.

 My friend Pam has theirs up on a pole, and they have not one, but sometimes even MORE bluebird families each year. So we moved our houses to poles, and yep, guess what?---they moved right in and started nesting. It was exciting because we had wanted them for so long! Our first clutch of babies fledged while we were in Florida, which is best so our big dogs were not in the yard. 

Surprisingly, we have either a new family, or the first one----and they have moved into the OTHER bluebird house on a pole, and are busy busy, busy flying in and out! ( I think the male is keeping the female on the eggs well fed, or else they have hatched their babies and he is bringing them meals)

we received this as a wedding gift many many decades ago! It's really heavy and it's really BLUE.

I have always loved it, but am especially enjoying it now!

see his tail sticking out? LOL

I love watching them, I think they are such pretty little birds!

Summer and the sweltering has arrived. It's much too hot to walk in the daytime. We do venture out some evenings when it's cooler and one day this week we had a slightly cooler spell which we took advantage of. Our gardens are loving the summer sunshine and the heat though, as well as the afternoon or evening thundershowers that breeze through, dousing everything with rain water.

Is it hot where you live?