Good morning ladies, I am sitting here and having a nice cup of coffee and a Chocolate Pumpkin Muffin, big one, Texas style, Lol. What a beautiful weekend it was, got my playroom all cleaned out, DH took everything i didn't want to Salvation Army. I hate to leave the junk there for a lawn sale, too much work to store it, so it goes out of the house.
Patti-Loved the pics of your flower bed, it is so nice and you have a lot of beautiful flowers. I have the red Bee Balm too, and it is so beautiful, it really grows over the years, but stays in a nice grouping of red flowers. I have a nice big patch of it. Also love your DH's work shop. What a big building, it is really nice. Wouldn't my DH love to have that, we are sharing my garden shed, and he has such big snowblowers and lawn mowers, that he takes over half of the area. As long as he leaves my potting bench alone, he can stay there.
Margie and Junebugs, good to see that you all enjoyed the weekend. I get so busy on my projects, that I don't find time to come on the site, very often. Yesterday, I went to pick up the specials at the grocery stores. Our stores are called Hannaford and Shaws, and I shop at Wal-Mart for other things. I brought specials at one store for Diet Pepsi, it was 5 cases for $10.00, and you got a free case of Mountain Dew, if you brought 5 cases of soda. I had DH take one cart and I had another and we filled both carts with the specials. At Hannaford, they had specials for NY Sirloin steak, it was $2.99 a pound, it was in a family pack, so I brought 4 pkgs. of those. They also had boneless chicken breast for $1.88 a pound, those were also in family packs, so brought 4 pkgs. of those too, came right home and got all the meat into the freezer right off, as it was quite hot outdoors. I will have enough for winter in steaks and chicken breasts.
Also stocked up on peanut butter, went to Sam's and brought the 6 lb. can of Peter Pan peanut butter for $7.22 a can. Also brought 4 jars of grape jelly to go with it on sale for 2 big jars together for $3.00. I also brought 4 cans of Clorox wipes together for around $7 or 8 dollars, and they are selling at Wal-Mart for around 3 or 4 dollars apiece. You can shop wisely if you just get the specials at certain stores. I go through my flyers each week to see where the specials are, and I stock up. My shelf down stairs for my stockup items, are full now for winter. It will be nice not to have to go out in a blizzard to get groceries, when I have it in the freezer, and on my shelves downstairs.
Today, I am doing a load of white laundry, I stocked up on Tide too, you can find the non concentrated for sale at a good price now, that the concentrated is skyhigh. I don't like it as well as the old Coldwater Tide, but will have to eventually buy it that way, or go on another different liquid soap.
I have to go out and deadhead some flowers out back today also, and pull a few weeds. I have tiny Cucumbers that I should be able to pick at the end of the week, a lot of radishes, thank goodness that DH loves them, as I would be giving a lot away. I also have tiny tomatoes on my plants now, my beets are looking beautiful, and my Sweet Potatoes are taking off. I can't wait to see how they do in the Fall. My Sugar Snap Peas are up and doing so well, I am going to have to get some chicken wire, so they can climb on it, and can't wait for those, either.
I am going to have Ham steak, Mashed Potatoes, and some frozen Peas for supper, so that ought to be good. Hope everyone is having a good day, waving to everyone, hope you all have a beautiful day filled with flowers.
Belle