Friday Meanderings

Adley, Riley and Piper

I’m headed back to Florida today.

Terry says the heat has been OPPRESSIVE but I’m still coming back.

The North Dakota visit turned out warm and lovely then turned windy and chilly.  Just in time for me to go home!

Grandkids all started school while I was there.

Adley, Riley and Piper
Well, the little one on the left stayed home with Grandma. And doesn’t Riley looked thrilled about going back to school? Or is that the “okay, I’ll let you take my picture but it is totally uncool!” At least Pipety Princess Piper was looking forward to her first day in REAL school!

I had lots of fun and got to spend quality time with the kids but I’m looking forward to getting home to my Homosassa life!

A little less HOT and HUMID weather is right around the corner and I’m ready to get back out and enjoy all the fun things Florida has to offer!

Friday Meanderings

fairies

I ALMOST forgot that it was Friday.

Phew.  It was a close call.

At 7:30 pm Thursday I remembered I had to meander.

And I had been to a Festival meeting.  Good meeting.  Bad meeting.  (Typical meeting.)

Here’s our committee.

Festival Committee

(not pictured, Kathy Green cause SOMEONE had to take the photo!)

And we do allow minors on the committee.  That’s my buddy Dylan Watson in the front.  I almost want to take him home with me then I remember how much work little boys are.  (And most of them have a distinct odor!)  But he is definitely one of my favorites.

I’m going on vacation!  So, unless I go out and get some photos today, I’ll not be posting until next Friday.  Yeah, I can meander from any location. And I’ll be updating the Project 365 when I get the chance.

Terry’s not going.  Too much Festival stuff going on.  But I’m outta here.  I’m headed to North Dakota to see the family before the snow flies.

Think I’m safe from snow the last week of August!  Adley just had her second birthday, Piper is headed to her first day of kindergarten while I’m there, and Riley’s a sophmore and I’m hoping to spend some quality time with him.  Can’t wait to see them.  Oh yeah, and their parents, too!

Today starts early voting so we’ll be hitting the polls to make our well informed choices. (And how many political calls are you getting every day?  We don’t even look at the caller id anymore.  We are one of the few homes that actually have a landline phone so we are just prey!)

Went to a garage sale today.

Let me preface this with, I’m not into garage sales. All I can think is that this stuff is really grimy and if you don’t want it, why do I?  (And I love thrift stores and antique shops and Extravaganzas so I don’t understand why I have this mind set about garage sales!)

But we walk by this house every morning and say hi to this lady cause she’s always on her front stoop with her cat and she called us in to see her garage sale.

And I bought some cute things.  (Some seasonal rugs actually and I left them hanging outside to get the musty smell out and we had a HUGE thunderstorm so they might not be in very good shape right now!)

I also bought these fairies.  Thinking that the grandkids could use them in their fairy garden.

fairies

And I left them on the countertop in the kitchen until I could give them a good scrubbing.

And they kinda pulled me into their weird fairy vibe.

And I kinda think they are just weird enough that I might have to move them into my office and have them appear in some of my DIY blog stuff.

Whata ya think?  Weird?  Scary?  There’s a slippery slope from fun weird into crazy old lady land.

Hmmmmm.

 

Butterfly Flutterbye

Butterfly Flutterbye

It rained.  Then it stopped.  And it rained some more.

By the time I got out to the gardens, weeds were rampant.

And so were the butterflies!

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Monarch Caterpillar
A few weeks ago I thought that this was a Monarch Caterpillar. But now I think it was a Queen Butterfly Caterpillar since two Queens appeared and both the Monarchs and the Queens use the milkweed as their host plant.
Queen Butterflies
Queen Butterflies

Queen Butterflies

Gulf Fritallary
Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar. I haven’t seen many of these but I have a plethora of the butterflies.
Gulf Fritallary
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
Zebra Longwing
Zebra Longwing on Purple Coneflower
Pipevine Swallowtail
I want to believe that this is a Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly. It is so pretty with that dazzling blue. I rely on my Audubon book to identify my visitors but I don’t have the host plant so I’m doubtful.

Butterfly Flutterbye

Eastern Black Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail

And that’s why I plant so many butterfly plants!