Yearly Archives: 2022

……………………..For many years I’ve planted one of Jac and my favorite flowers on trellises…..Morning Glories…….However, for the past few years there have been no flowers, or a few bloom in late October. It was becoming depressing, because I knew how much Jac loved them……This year I decided to make a change, and planted these beautiful RED climbers that were recommended to me at Sam Bridge Garden Center in Greenwich [photos second in from the left at the top and middle]. I was told they will climb and bloom straight through the fall. It will be nice to see a wall of beautiful red blooms instead of just green vines. Maybe next year I’ll try the Morning Glories again……My Peonies [center photo at the extreme left] will be blooming soon. I see ants crawling all over them which is necessary for them to bloom so I’ve been told. They secrete a fluid, some say ant pee, that is necessary for the flowers to bloom……It’s an interesting story, and every year there are those ants so maybe it’s true?!………CLICK ONTO NEXT PAGE FOR ONE MORE POST!

……………..One of my favorite things to eat in the summer are TOMATO sandwiches….Jac’s mom used to make them for me, and they were the best on Portuguese bread and lots of mayonnaise, salt and pepper!…..Store bought tomatoes never taste like home grown, or as good as the tomatoes from Farmer’s Markets, but I never know where and when they are…..so I’ve planted SIX different plants in huge pots. I also planted a large pot of Basil for my Caprese Salad……yummy…….I don’t usually plant too many annuals, but I love Giant Zinnias, so I planted more than a dozen of them in all different colors. They always remind me of my Mom. She loved them, and would plant beds of them. She always had vases of Zinnias in the house….I guess that’s why I love them too.

………………..”People who have a good sense of humor, dirty mind. and beautiful heart are a rare combination”…..think about it

……….Being a home owner isn’t easy….especially when you own a wooden home on the water!!!…A house on the water comes with its’ own special problems……It’s ALWAYS SOMETHING!!!! After Super Storm Sandy, 10 years ago, I had to put new fences up. I wanted to replace the wooden fences with vinyl, but Jac, ever the purist, wouldn’t hear of it….so all new wooden fences replaced the old wooden fences…..Now, ten years later the wood had rotted out, and with the last storm the damage to them was bad. They once again needed to be replaced! However, Jac isn’t here to argue with me…..so I had them all replaced with beautiful vinyl fences. The fences along the drive way, the fences in the back yard between my house and my neighbors, the three gates, and the two small picket like fences and two more gates that lead to the water at the end of the brick path, have all been replaced. These two smaller fences create a little pen off the family room that I can let Samantha out into at night. I can still get from the back yard to the water with the two gates….I am very pleased with the way they turned out even though they were very costly…..At least I don’t have to worry about them rotting out, or painting the wooden ones, or being replaced ever again while I’m still living here…………I think Jac would have liked the way they looked too…….after she got over the fact that they weren’t wood!