wine on the keyboard

Life, such that it is

Looking Back

by Kay~Kacey on 8/3/2012

Due to a hard drive crash on my new iMac…grrrr… I’ve been busy making sure everything I have is backed up. Luckily I did have a time machine backup of the iMac, so it just took time to get things all set up again.

white flowers

I’m in Columbia this week on my old iMac and I’m going through making sure everything is also backed up over here. In the process I got lost going through old photos on this Mac.

Then I got lost clicking through the related blog posts links on my blog.

antique suitcase and glove

Then I got lost in the memories the posts bring back.

old skeleton keys

I might as well have been a male trying to do chores…you know how side tracked they get when they do chores…

yellow glads

I’d forgotten all about some of these photos. So fun to look back through them. So, of course I decided to do up a blog post using some old photos…

woodpecker in snow

Anyway, now, I promise, as soon as I hit enter to post this blog post–I really am going to make sure that everything is backed up on this computer too. I get a bit lazy over here on the backup process. Okay, I’m really going to back this whole computer up. Right now. I promise…

Hey, I need another cup of coffee…

Never-ending Heat and Drought

by Kay~Kacey on 7/20/2012

Seriously, I can’t remember a summer this hot for so many days in a row, and this dry. Dry. Dry. We haven’t had any significant rain since before we started building our house at the beginning of May. We’ve lost a few trees, some bushes…our yard is a joke. No tomatoes. My lilac that finally bloomed doesn’t look very good…

But I’m always surprised at the survivors. The flowers that weather the drought.

zinnia flower

A few zinnias have survived where all the other flowers in the garden have succumbed to the heat and drought.

pale pink flower

A few random flowers that I don’t even like have survived…but that’s another story….

This pale zinnia with its hint of lilac is so pretty, braving it’s way up between a lot of burned out foliage.

pale yellow zinnia

Well, we all do whatever it takes to survive the heat and the dry weather, now don’t we?

white wine

So how are your flowers and gardens surviving this summer? And what are you doing to survive the heat??

Independence Day – Twenty Twelve

by Kay~Kacey on 7/4/2012

Hope you all have a fabulous Red, White, and Blue day!

Red CardinalRED

white fluffy clouds
WHITE

blue hydrangea
BLUE

Stay cool and enjoy!