Tuesday Tidbits #373 Another Kind of Paradise

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We love this view!

Thank You!

First, I want to thank you for all the lovely comments on my last post about The Beauty of Life in Arizona . It truly is beautiful and I appreciate your kind words. But it does get hot in the summer. So when it gets hot Miss Nancy and Sweet Man head to the Lake in Pennsylvania!

We Made it Back to Our Other Paradise

We have returned to our summer home by the lake in Pennsylvania. It’s good to be back but the To Do List is growing!

“Sometimes our Stop Doing List needs to be bigger than our To Do List!” ~Patti Digh

Forget Me Nots

Even though I love these little blue flowers. They are everywhere!

Most of our gardens look like the above. I know, I know, it’s very pretty, but all those forget-me-nots have to be pulled when they stop blooming and die off. Don’t you worry, they reseed themselves for next year. I also like to remind myself that my Mom planted these forget-me-nots 55+ years ago. 💙 For my new readers, our summer home is my childhood home. It is comforting to feel my parents’ presence in our gardens and in our home.

Our country kitchen. There’s still a lot of Mom in the kitchen. That’s her hutch. And Dad is still by the table. The brick that you see is the back of our living room fireplace. My Dad built the fireplace and left it exposed in the kitchen.

Busy is My Middle Name

The yard has been keeping me busy already. I’ve been pulling weeds, trimming bushes damaged by the freeze, and sadly our lilacs got hit too. 🙁 Between unpacking, planning a paint refresh on the porch, and getting the patio set up for summer, there’s definitely no shortage of projects around here.

This porch is getting a new coat of paint.

Rhododendrons

The Rhodies are blooming! They were not hit by the freeze like the lilacs. Thank goodness.

The bees love the Rhodies!

“Soft petals of white, such delicate embrace, sweet Rhododendron, you fill my garden space.” ~Jayne Louis Davies

“I’m never too busy to make bouquets.” ~Nancy

The Weather

We arrived in cold, rainy weather, and almost overnight it turned hot and sunny. Welcome to spring, moving into summer, I guess! But let me remind you that the day we left AZ, it was 109°.

Cold and Wet!

Warm and Sunny!

Movie

In the middle of all my work, I did sneak away for a fun night out with friends for dinner and a movie. We saw The Devil Wears Prada 2 and really enjoyed it! Have you seen it?

We did not see the movie here. But this is the entrance to Erie, Pennsylvania’s Warner Theater. It was commissioned by the Warner Brothers in 1929.

That’s A Wrap

I need to get back to work. The weeds won’t pull themselves.

Thanks for stopping by. See you next time from our little corner of paradise!

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