Our 50th anniversary today!

Some new irises opened up a couple of days ago. Isn't this color amazing!
Today is Jim's and my 50th anniversary. I can't believe this passage of time!Where did it all go! So many experiences, memories and mutual growth - such a gift!

We're enjoying a quiet morning with our animals, and breakfast with Wimbledon. Later this morning I'm going to take the kitty, Bonnie Lass and her toys and other kitty paraphernalia to my studio and see what her response is to the new environment; but more than that, see if I can get anything done with her in there. It's going to be more observational than anything to see what she can get in trouble with at this stage. She's not quite 4 months old; but boy can she climb and jump high! This morning she slid into our spa tub and had no trouble jumping out! I figure I'll just sit in my new recliner, try to sort and file some of the huge paper piles on my studio desk while keeping an eye on her.

I'm going to try to get a tiny bit of planting done before studio time. If nothing else, I want to plant the basil and a couple of tomatoes which are very pot bound!

We're going out to dinner to celebrate and our son and daughter in law sent us this hugely expensive dessert wine, Chateau Queem (not sure of spelling), so we'll bring dessert home from the restaurant and have it with the wine when we get home - good day so far, with more to come!

Blooming Irises

Here are some of the irises that are currently blooming. If it weren't raining I'd take pictures of some of the others. There are other groups of yellow, deep purpose, and purple and gold, throughout the garden - just beautiful.

By 6:30 this morning I was at Spruce Pine Hospital for routine blood work, then some grocery shopping, breakfast out and home to start on some chicken, andouille and shrimp gumbo. I made a big pot of it, so some will go in the freezer for another day or two.

I want to make some fried corn bread to go with it. I had fried cornbread for the first time two days ago at Michael Klines party and it was delicious, so I have to dig up a recipe. Maybe you just fry regular corn bread batter?? I'll have to go to the repository of all knowledge - Google, to find out!

Yesterday was split between supervising some of the garden work and doing some slipping of a couple of pots and starting to load the bisque kiln. It's 90% loaded, so I'm hoping to get out there later and finish loading and turn it on.

It's supposed to be nice tomorrow so I may get to plant some of my veggies. I have squash, cucumbers, melons, peppers, basil and more tomato plants to get in. The ground may still be too cold and too wet to plant beans and corn, so I think I'll wait a bit on those.

Jim picked up another bale of straw today and will get a couple more tomorrow, so we can continue to mulch the vegetable beds that have been weeded and planted. It's all, slowly starting to come together.

Till later,
June