Garden beauties

Some of our bell peppers are big enough to pick if we need one for something.  Not sure we are going to have many more, but hoping to.  I always clean out the seeds from inside and cut them into strips, and freeze them for use in bell pepper casserole, or chili, or whatever else we need them for.  Certain things we still want a fresh one for, but a lot of things the frozen ones are just fine.

When this posts we will be at Sarah's house...so I may not get to visit everyone till we get home.  Lorelei tends to keep me busy.   According to her mom, she has been in firefly heaven some of the time.

Just a few flowers...

I was taking some close up shots of some of my flowers and thought I might as well take a couple others...

This little flower spot is going wild...

I don't know why I didn't take a pic of the other end with the coneflowers...probably cause they look such a mess since they had to be tied up.

Lorelei sure has fun going out every day to see what is what when she is here...the funny thing is I already was buying pink flowers before she was born.   So kind of funny to continue to buy them because of her.
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We have had no rain today...I actually hung a couple loads of clothes out.  Though by the time I did that it had become overcast again and they did not totally dry.  Still I had the joy of doing it.
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I hope everyone has had a wonderful 4th of July!  I am sitting listening to fireworks.  We are heading to Sarah's tomorrow or I might have been up for going somewhere to watch them.  

Did you know....

Did you know that you can actually burn something in a pressure cooker?  I suppose it makes sense, but I have been cooking with them since we were married in 1976, and had even helped can with the big one at home since in high school.  I had never had it happen, but I am here to tell you that it CAN happen.

Roger was in the mood for cabbage rolls...so I threw everything together and got it in the pressure cooker....and turned the stove on.  I do not know what happened but the control did not start jiggling as soon as I thought it should have...in fact I kept going to the stove and looking at it and wondering should I pull it off and let it cool down and release the pressure and see if I could figure out what was wrong.

In fact, I was just getting ready to do just that and the control started its dance...I debated whether to use the 8 minutes or to reduce the time, but thought I would just use the 8 minutes.  About the time I was pulling it off, I could smell a slightly scorched smell...

It is more that stuff burnt under the cooking rack, but burn it did.  I don't know if I will be able to get it cleaned off or not.  I have put hot soapy water in it and turned the heat on low, then let it set and soak and it isn't helping any.
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I took this a couple weeks ago...I don't have but two colors of the day lilies but would like to get more.  I enjoy them so much.

Notice the one above has company.  This one was taken last week...I got the bulbs for this one from Walmart late in the season last year...more like in early summer.  They were in such sad shape I didn't expect much from them.  I got a lovely surprise...most of them came up and they sure put out the blooms.

Oh, we had sunshine...first just a minute here and there in the afternoon, but by evening the sun was out to stay for an hour or two.