Fun, flies and Father's Day!

      That's what we have around here! I can't believe all the flies! I kill them, but just as soon as the door is open, more come in! I'm sitting here dodging them as I write this! Do ya'll have a lot of flies at your house? The back porch is full of them and they are on the door. That's how they come in. I really need to get a bug zapper!

      We had a lot of fun and food on Father's Day! We decided to bake a ham since we had one in the freezer. I made baked beans from soaked beans I soaked Friday night, then cooked in the sun oven Saturday. They were just plain pork and beans, so Sunday, I turned them into homestyle baked beans, and cooked them in the sun oven again! I really like using the sun oven! The summer sun cooks things really fast! That way the inside oven can be used for baking the ham, and the augratin potatoes. The potatoes sure did taste good! I also made a pasta salad and a chocolate cake, both from scratch. They were delicious! Saturday night I made Randy a flan! He loves flan and really liked the one I made. He would like the texture not to be as thick. That calls for another recipe! I like the one I made, but I will try again later. We have had a lot of celebrations this month, with the best one about to come! Actually, it's not really a celebration but a vacation! I can hardly wait to write my next post because I'll be sharing about our trip to the beach! We always take our camper to St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach, FL every summer, so I'm really looking forward to eating sea food! There goes my diet, if you want to call it that! I'm taking my VitaMix, but it's possible I may not use it. I plan on eating healthy, but I probably won't work out very much. The only exercise I'll be doing is walking, hopefully, a lot!

      The girls are here today with their Mom and are taking a nap, so I am able to write this now. They are so cute napping! Hope ya'll are having fun this summer! Stay cool! Talk to you soon! Blessings from Bama!

Love these day lilies, just wished my camera made better photos.

Such a lovely color!

I really like the colors on this day lily!

The photo makes this day lily look fake!

The honey bees are doing good!

I love this trail mix I made with ingredients I have on hand.

Butterfly bush flower and day lily.

Lulu during nap time!

Win during nap time.

Yas during nap time!

Update on my Dad and another snake!

      Thank ya'll so much for your nice comments and prayers concerning my Dad! He did great through the surgery and is now in ICU. I am in between visiting hours so I wanted to give ya'll this news. He looked so pitiful lying there with countless wires and bags hanging everywhere! He has a nurse by his side during this time, of which I am so grateful! God is so good! He has heard and answered our prayers! Thank you all so much for your concern! It's nice to come home from such an ordeal and read what you've written!


      I went out to gather the eggs, and yep, you guessed it, another snake! It was smaller and brown, where the other one was black. I thought it might be a copperhead, but upon further examination, I think it's just another chicken snake.  I made more of a fuss the other day when I saw a tomato horn worm! I don't know why, but those tomato horn worms freak me out! I can hardly stand to see them devour my tomato plants! And they really put up a fight when you're trying to get them off! The chickens sure did like it when I gave it to them!


      Sorry I don't have much time to view ya'lls blogs and leave comments at this time! I really miss reading them, and hope to get to again soon! I will blog when I can and share updates with you! Thank you so much for being here, since you can't be there! I'll leave you with some photos of the garden. Blessings from Bama!

Such a lovely rose!

I was so thankful to discover that I still had some of these double day lilies!

I like this yellow one too!

Another sunflower!

I absolutely love these day lilies!

These really showed off last week!

Another shot of this beautiful rose!

The dirt finally got spread and now hubs is putting out some parts to the pool. We have more up than this, now.

Aren't these raspberries beautiful? They sure were delicious!

What kind of snake is this? It has a white spot on its head.

I don't think it's poisonous. Is it?