7 days - day 7 - Me Deere

My last image as part of the 7 Days self portrait project. It was a fun project to take part in - there were some wonderful images in the project - I haven't had much chance to comment on them the last couple of days so I plan to do that tomorrow! If you have a chance check them out at:
www.flickr.com/groups/sevendays

35,001

Over 35,000 visitors!!!

And Sharon - I think you were my 35,000th visitor!!!! Congratulations!!!! :)

Not that theres a prize or anything but just thought I'd mention it lol!

Another hobby to share...

I guess it's not really a new hobby to share as it's something we've done in the past. In Scotland we used to play golf in our apartment - we'd set up mugs on the carpet and we'd hit golf balls into them and play against each other (lol) and over ehre we've been to the driving range on date night before. And we've always said we'd have lessons together and when the children are older we'd play golf together, have lessons and join a golf club - and if we get a place in the South it will be somewhere with golf courses so we can play golf a lot. So this is just a step towards one of our plans for the future :)

Thank you Lloyd - it was a lovely surprise - even if I did seem a little unsure and a little less than enthusiastic lol....I LOVE that you want to do this with me :) I'm just not so sure I'm going to be good at it lol!

And Donna if you read this:


HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

A surprise!

My wonderful husband came home with a surprise for me today :) He's been hinting that he had a surprise planned for me for a while now, but today he came home and handed me a glove! It took me a while before I realised what it was! Then I saw it was in aid of Breast Cancer Research so I figured maybe he just bought it because he knows that that is a charity that I support! Then he was grinning and told me the rest of my surprise was in the car.

This is when I started shaking my head and GROANING.

Oh no!

You have to be kidding!

Oh no.

This is soooooo NOT a good idea darling!

I am soooooo NOT a golfer!!

I am crap at golfing!

Really!

I am useless at golfing!!!

Oh baby!

Oh

My

GAWD!!!!!!!

Thank you Mom and Dad!

A parcel arrived from my Mom and Dad this week - normally we would phone and thank them but of course we don't have a telephone right now so we can't! So here is a picture of Sam with Bob The Builder magazine instead! They also sent me a lovely Marks and Spencers t-shirt and lots of bags of Flying Saucers candies!!! Including some bags labelled 'Val'!!!!! So they are in a bag put aside for Val's family :) Laurence got his Beano magazine too and Chris got a Word Search book :) Oh and I got a newspaper clipping of my Nephew Daniels 21st birthday and my other Nephew Olivers prom!

Thank you!

Ouch

Chris hurt his bum the other day and couldn't even sit on it - he literally burnt it by skidding on it playing baseball! OUCH!!! It isn't often Chris lets me photograph his butt!!!

My blog is going private!

Don't forget my blog is going private! If you would like to continue to read it, please email me: JaneThorpe@syban.net Or leave me a comment with your email address and let me know who you are.

Thanks. My blog is normally private as it has a lot of personal information in it, but it has been made public for one week to allow me to take part in a self portrait project at Flickr called '7days'. However this weekend my blog will return to being private again.

Thanks everyone :)

Bws
Jane

In bud!

My Coreopsis is in bud! This is my Double Coreopsis - I also have another kind that isn't doing as well and I forget the name of it but the foliage is a different colour.....it isn't doing nearly as well though for some reason. It's doing ok but not as big or fast as this one - I don't know, maybe it just isn't supposed to......But this one seems to be doing great! I can't wait for the buds to open and to see what they look like! Watch this space everyone and I will take pictures of the flowers and post them when they open :)

I'm envious of a certain bloggers Lupines by the way!!!! They are stunning!!!!! My Lupine doesn't look as though its going to flower at all this year! Well actually it's Susannahs - she chose it!!! But it doesn't look as though it will flower at all this year - so hopefully it will next year!

None of my seeds came up that I planted so next year I am not going to bother with seeds AT ALL I am just going to buy plants - or maybe I should be more patient - Lloyd said I should start them all indoors but I can't be bothered with all the hassle to be honest! I think why bother - I'd rather pay a little extra and just buy the plants ready to go in the ground! You get what you see and they do great - ALL the plants I buy do fine.....te Lupine will do fine I'm sure....but all the seeds were waste of time....maybe they'll surprise me next year....who knows! but all the perennials I bought this year as plants are doing brilliantly :)

Cooling off the dogs!

Abigail and Sam helped the dogs cool off today - although then Rosie found her own way to cool off :) Amber won't swim in the pond though - she has never liked swimming!! She is more than happy to get in the paddling pool though and enjoy the hose! Much to Sams enjoyment!

Jasper in the blooms...

Flowers from my garden....

False Sunflower

This is my False Sunflower. I wasn't sure how it would do as I've never had one before. It's an annual so it won't come back next year, but I love it! the petals are soooo papery! I might cut one off and dry it :) they are stunning :)

Daisy, Daisy.....give me your answer do.....

My Shasta Daisies are flowering again :)

Iris...

Sharon!!!!!!

These are the trees!!! I think they are Birch! They grow FAST have narrow silver trunks and shimmery small leaves that look gorgeous in the breeze. In groups they look lovely! You could have teeny ones or big ones - and Lloyd is getting a tree mover in the Spring so can dig up whatever size you want if you decide these are what you want! I took three pictures - an individual tree (top) a row of them (middle) and a group of them (bottom). Hope that helps you show Terry what they look like. But don't worry if they are no good. Spring is definitely the best time to plant trees as it gives them the whole Summer to get their roots nice and strong before the frost. The good thing about these Birch is that they grow fast - these grow several feet a year. But if you wanted mature trees we could dig those up and move them too - not like we have a shortage of them ;)

Todays lunch!

Thank you Sharon!!! Yummy scones baked by Sharon with FAR too much butter and yummy raspberry jam :) And we ran out yesterday so I made Lloyd drive me to the garage last night to get some more :) JUST for these scones :) Yes I shared ol - Laurie came home for lunch today as he has finished school for Summer and is only in for exams now so he was home for lunch today....so he thanks you too :) Oh and Sam had some too :)

YUM :)