A Wedding and a Birthday Party!

      This past weekend, we went to Randy's brother's wedding! It was a very nice wedding held at their home. The bride was so pretty! She held photos of her Dad who passed away years ago, instead of a bouquet. I thought that was a nice sentiment. We enjoyed barbecue pork and chicken the groom cooked. They even have a small garden in their backyard! I should have gotten some photos of those big, green tomatoes! There were lots of family members we enjoyed spending time with, as making a few new friends. One couple fascinated me because the man was 91 and looked about late seventies! I missed them dancing but Randy said it was great! I'm sharing some wedding photos here since I'm having a hard time sending them via email. If you have any advice how to do that, please share.

      The next day, we went to Yasmine's fifth birthday. I can't believe she's five already! The weather was overcast so it was quite humid! The sun shone too, so lots of sunburns that day! The reason for the sunburns is because we pushed the kids in swings a lot! But we endured since it will be August before we get to spend time with Yasmine and Layla! I miss them already as they are in Morocco! I'm sure they are having a great time with their family there!

      The garden is coming in a handful of cucumbers, green beans, and raspberries at a time! Before I know it, I'll have enough cucumbers to pickle! That is if I quit eating them. I love them! The squash isn't quite big enough to harvest but when it is, there should be quite a lot! I hope I haven't found out too late about DE being good to deter squash borers! The vine looks kind of yellow at the ground. I bought some today and when I finish writing, I'm putting the Diatomaceous earth on the base of the vine. Every year I loose squash plants no matter where I plant them! Lets hope this works!

      The weather has been quite hot and humid with a thunderstorm almost daily! The winds gusted up enough to cause a walnut tree to fall on the goat girl's fence. I didn't even know it had happened as there wasn't any sound. They must not have known it either cause they didn't escape. Kind of scary to have damaging winds and not even hear them! Everything else is o.k. 

      I'm loving this time of year with everything growing and producing! I hope ya'lls gardens are growing nicely! Have a nice day! Blessings from Bama!

The cake was so pretty and delicious too!

Left to right: Randy's Dad, the Bride, the Groom, and Randy's brother.

The  Bride and Groom and Randy's Mom and Dad. Of course, it's the groom's Mom and Dad too!

Almost all the gang!

The Bride and Groom and her Mom, sister and family.

Congratulations to the Bride and Groom!

Nice photo of them cutting the cake.

We were entertained by a live band. Here, the groom is singing "Drift Away" after the ceremony.

Another brother playing drums. He's good at it!

The Thompson's. He's 91. Incredible!

Randy swinging all four of them.

Little Lulu!

Our first 'mess' of green beans.

Our first cucumbers.

Nice red day lily.

My two guys and one of my 'babies'.

Look at Yasmine go!

Riley's happy in the swing!

Lovely day lilies!

How do you like this color?

Randy is taking care of the tree that fell on the fence. The girls didn't mind.

      

We now have woodchips!

      The guy kept his word and they arrived Wednesday! I was so thankful! While he was here, hubs asked if they could cut down a tree that was dangerously close to the house. He came back a few hours later, and the tree is history! God really moved in our lives this week and I'm so thankful to Him for doing these things for us! Now, we don't have to worry when the wind blows or a storm comes up. The tree will never attract lightning again, nor will its branches fall on the house. Hopefully, we'll have our own chipper soon so we can chip up all of this tree!

       I planted a lot of seeds in the garden last week. Here's what I planted: squash: straight neck, crookneck, butternut, table queen, zucchini. Green beans: Blue Lake bush. Herbs: basil, thyme, cilantro, sage, spearmint. Melons: charentais, Hale's best cantaloupe, yellow Canary, Crimson sweet watermelon, and Orange Glow watermelon. Pumpkins: Big Max, and Jack-Be-Little. There's another pumpkin I'd like, but I haven't gotten any response from a request I left on another blog. She may be out of seeds. The herbs seeds I ordered from Sand Mountain Herbs came in so I can vouch for them now. What have ya'll been planting in the garden?


      There's still a lot I've got to do in the garden. I'm waiting until after Wednesday night to put out tomato plants because the temp is supposed to get in the mid-to upper 30's Tuesday and Wednesday nights. I don't want the fragile tomato plants to suffer from that chill. Hope ya'll had a wonderful Easter! We certainly did! Blessings from Bama!

Here's the snake to the snake skin we found!

The tree before, as viewed from the garden.

The guy at work.

Two other guys are on the ground holding the rope to guide the limb when it falls.

The tree is almost down.

Not much left now.

No more tree!

I just happened to have my camera with me as I was about to turn in my driveway, when I saw a turkey. Can't really see her in the photo.

But I did capture her here!

Rose bush the chickens like is in full bloom. It smells wonderful!

This rose is so beautiful and fragrant! You can see the garden beds here too.

Such nice woodchips! We have a Fuji apple tree that needs planting.

The tree after.

This is one beautiful rose!

I got started with the woodchips here. Pepper plants and eggplants will go here.

Sour dough bread from the breadmachine. Delicious!

The hubs enjoys cooking on the Primo. It's smoking the ham.

A larger view.

These are home canned beans that were cooked in the smoker.

Here's the delicious ham!