Just need to talk to my friends ,(206) June 2025

Iris L. · June 7

Here are some hydrangeas where I live. They grow naturally, no one tends to them.

Iris

Mint · June 7

Good morning

Lorita I have noticed some pretty clematis here too. Hope your caladiums do well

I got all my plants out and planted my seeds. Got done with that thursday morning. we got close to 3” of rain Thursday evening-Friday morning. Saw a bit of standing water when driving to Amish stores Friday.

hope to make a strawberry cobbler today.

Enjoy all the pictures

BethL · June 7

Iris, the hydrangea is gorgeous!!!

I can't remember if I shared my clematis previously. If so, I apologize.

BethL · June 7

Mint, you got a lot of rain! Lorita and Judith and Carl seem to have had a lot of rain too. Do you go to the Amish stores often, and what do you like to buy there? My MIL liked to go to the Amish stores. She liked looking around and talking with the people; she often would purchase spices.

JeriLynn, glad you had a good trip!

We celebrate our soon to be 10 year old grandson today. They come over tonight. I'm making tacos and Molten Lava Cake.

ladyzetta · June 7

Lorita. Gizmo flow out of the nest tree at 8:27 this morning just 9 minutes ago. Her first flight. 🙏🙏

Iris L. · June 7

Good morning. Beth, yum on the molten lava birthday cake. Your clematis is beautiful, so full of flowers.

Iris

jfkoc · June 7

This morning I realized that "old" people discuss how they sleep and the weather so here goes…there were tornado warnings off and on all night and I mostly dozed…lol

More bad stuff headed this way today. Thankfully during daylight!

The flower pics are beautiful

Jl …glad you had a good trip and got to do what you set out to do.

Lorita · June 7

Zetta, glad Gizmo

. Maybe the four will stay together a while.

jfkoc · June 7

Gizmo

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/big-bear-eaglet-flight-nest-sunny-gizmo/#:~:text=Local%20News-,Big%20Bear%20eagle%20Gizmo%20takes%20first%20flight%20from%20nest%20in,Sunny%20after%20weeks%20of%20anticipation

Lorita · June 7

No idea what happened to that post. We had another inch of rain and it is so wet. Judith, guess that is what old people talk about. I was awake a !ot because Stormy was scratching and couldn't sleep. The last allergy shots didn't work too well.

Beth, the flowers are so pretty. I love that clematis. Do you know the name of it? I only have one left after last summer.

Carl , just now saw your last post.. Glad you didn't get storms. We have had do much rain -wish we could save some for July and August. There is a creek about a mile north of us that is out of banks. A UPS truck drowned out trying to cross water just south of the bridge. I need to get the GPs back to the vet but doubt I could get over the roads. In the car. Three lights on the instrument panel in the PU are coming on and staying on. No idea why unless it might be the fuses.

Lorita · June 7

Beth, how do you make the Molton lava cake? Sounds so good.

BethL · June 7

The clematis (only one I have, but it's a good one) is 'Piilu.' At the other house, we had 15 or so clematis. A good place to get clematis online is Donahue's in MN.

Will type in recipe later.

Getting ready to go to a graduation party.

BethL · June 7

Molten Chocolate Cakes

3/4 cup semisweet chocolates (can use chocolate chips)

1/2 cup butter

1 cup powdered sugar

2 eggs

2 egg yolks

6 Tbsp. flour

In a medium saucepan, melt chocolate and butter over low heat, stirring constantly. Whisk in powdered sugar, eggs, egg yolks and flour. Whisk well to incorporate all ingredients.

Pour into 4 greased ramekins. Bake at 425 for 14 minutes. Remove from oven and let sit for 1 minute, then carefully run knife around the cake edges and invert the ramekins onto individual plates. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

I will double recipe to serve 8. I've made this many times. It's a favorite with the kids requesting it,.

Refrigerate leftovers. Beth's note: What leftovers?!!?

jfkoc · June 7

Lorita…Stormy might be scratching due to the storms….anxiety…barometric pressure

GothicGremlin · June 7

Carl - Grandma's is exactly like the Lost Dog - right down to the great food.

JeriLynn - I love all of your photos - although that one with the wall of blue/gray clouds is really intimidating.

HB - ugh, sorry about the freezer and fridge. It's a nightmare.

Lorita - Rhododendrons need a fair amount of shade and cooler weather (so I've been told), which pretty much describes western Washington. I should have taken photos of our block - every other yard has rhododendrons running amok. So many different colors - white, red, hot pink, purple. We're all pretty colorful right now.

Mostly I'm good with bugs - but there are two that gross me out - grasshoppers and the one I call The Shiny Horror. The Shiny Horror is just too much. But a three inch grasshopper is not going to make me happy either.

Iris - I love the pink hydrangeas. We have some blue ones in our yard although they haven't bloomed yet. They're close!

Beth - that clematis is amazing!!! I had one for awhile and was thrilled when I got one bloom.

Now I want chocolate lava cake - thank you for posting the recipe.

jfkoc - I'm going to go down the old people path kicking and screaming. 😄

Over here on the west coast - I've only been up for about an hour. I got to sleep in - first day like that in more than a week! I'm still drinking my morning tea and contemplating the household chores I need to get done today.

It's so nice and sunny (here I am, being old!), so we've got everything open to air out the house.

Last week when we were in Charleston we both had severe cases of FOMO - and we did in fact, miss out. While we were gone, there was a fairly intense geomagnetic storm, enough that our neck of the woods got showered with auroras for a couple of nights. We knew it was going to happen (a few hours in advance) because my s.o. has this amazing app on his phone - the Glendale App. It's this one guy who lives on the Isle of Skye and he updates every day on the solar winds, the coronal holes on the sun - any piece of info that might help predict an aurora. So, people posted all of their aurora pics …. and we didn't. Oh well, next time. 😄

jfkoc · June 7

GG…ISLE OF SKYE….HAVE YOU WATCHED OUTLANDER? WHAT IS FOMO?

GothicGremlin · June 7

I haven't seen Outlander, but I know of it - and I suspect I'd like it.

FOMO = fear of missing out

Lorita · June 7

Fear of missing out, according to Gary Goben of Denim & Company, sorry for butting in, GG.

Hadn't thought of that, Iris, but Sheena is the one afraid of thunder. I will mention that to Mike when he comes to give allergy shots. The sun has been Shining and it's 81

JeriLynn66 · June 7

Evening everyone,

I spent the morning at church decorating for Vacation Bible School and got home just before the afternoon’s Thunderstorms . Power outage for about an hour. More storms coming and possible tornadoes.

My early morning was chicken house shenanigans. A robin has built a nest up high in the roof in there and a baby fell into a nesting box below the roof🙄🤷‍♀️ The hens were all twitterpated so I put on some gloves and put the baby inside an Amazon box lined with shavings and made a nest out of a potting basket. I think the baby will be protected from the hens and Mama will still be able to get to her. (? him/her?) I’ll check before I close the chicken coop for the night.
The second set of barn swallows have hatched and they seem fine. I think these birds have sent word to all their friends to come to my house 🙄😂

Roscoe the youngest baby goat grew A LOT while we were away. He’s scampering everywhere.

DH has a man cold so he’s been in bed most of the day.

Oliver Kitty decided he wanted fresh rainwater so here he is drinking from the downspout.

Hope everyone has a good sleep tonight- see ya tomorrow!

Lorita · June 7

Cute picture of Oliver Kitty. They know where everything is. Hope your husband gets over his cold soon. Hopefully the mother bird will find her baby. Probably will hear him.

Sheena spent quite a !ot of time on the porch this afternoon so let her in and looked at the barn swallow's nest.Saw two babies looking over the edge with their mouths wide open There may have been three,not sure. I went back inside and watched and here came mom to feed them.She won'go to the nest if anyone is on the porch. They're ten days old and have feathers.Google says they might fledge at 18. days and up. Haven't sat on the porch today so have seen the humming birds. Did see Rusty this morning so gave him peanuts and sunflower seeds and refilled the bird feeders. The geranium now has very few leaves, thanks to Rusty or maybe a rabbit. I can see more caladiums coming up. Found a purple basil in the grass so transplanted it to the pot outside the gate.

Weatherman just said more severe weather tonight. Mostly SW of here

Carl46 · June 8

I have started watching the Youtube versions of Dave Ramsey's radio show, in which people call in to ask for financial advice. The advice is pretty much the same as that I received from my grandfather in 1960, except Grandpa's idea of investing in stock was buying a registered bull. The show is kind of fun. The callers remind me of people I know, like a couple who both went to law school, racked up $300,000 in student loans, and bought two nice cars and moved into a really nice house without paying for the loans. Makes me feel better about the foolish things I've done over the years.

Lorita · June 8

Mike came by and gave the GPs their allergy shot. Maybe we can get a good nights sleep. Hope all of you rest well. Here You go, Judith, talking about sleep. Good night, everyone.

Iris L. · June 8

The moon is very bright tonight. Is this a special moon?

Iris

JeriLynn66 · June 8

Iris, the Strawberry Moon is supposed to rise on June 10 around 8 pm in your neck of the woods.

Carl46 · June 8

I read that the full moon is unusually close to the Earth this month. It will be spectacular if the sky is clear. We should make some strawberry daquiris and sit on the porch to watch it rise.

JeriLynn66 · June 8

Carl, Google says blackened salmon with asparagus is great to pair with strawberry daiquiris. I make a mean salmon skillet. I'll brick that to the porch and we can serve on Gail Pittman Grapevine pattern dishes - I'll bring those too.😀

JeriLynn66 · June 8

Mint · June 8

Good morning

Beth, that is a beautiful Clematis. We go to the Amish stores every two weeks in the winter. Now we’ll be going every week until late fall or early winter. They don’t have the things that the Amish stores do in other areas. They have lots of fresh produce. Sometimes they’ll have eggs and I know they bought as many little chicks as they could find so pretty should have plenty of eggs think it takes about six months if I remember right for a chicken to get to where you start getting eggs. I guess JerriLynn would know that answer.They do sell baked goods and pastas that they make. They have kale this year, which is the first time they’ve had kale. We go to two different ones and one of them sells a lot of outdoor furniture and they make it during the winter I believe.

Hope each of you are blessed with a peaceful day

JeriLynn66 · June 8

Beth, or any of you who grow climbing roses: is it too late to plant next to my trellis bench?

And who/where do you buy from? Is Jackson and Perkins reliable source?

Mint, we don’t have an Amish place (my friend does) but we visit the Mennonite store sometimes.

harshedbuzz · June 8

Good morning. Bright and pleasant here this morning. It was hot and humid with two bands of rain that just made everything stickier.

Beth— That clematis is amazing. I used to have a purple one on my mailbox but it petered out a few years back and now I just have the species version which is running amok.

I'm glad the lava cakes were well received. They do require a bit of leap-of-faith when removing them when they don't really look "ready".

Gothic G— The rhodos are lovely. I have 2 in my front foundation planting that are the color and just finishing their bloom. Dad built this house and did the initial landscaping. His signature move was lining up rhododendrons. He's done it in every house he's owned regardless of suitability. He even brought some from MD to FL in his car one year. SMH.

Iris— Those hydrangeas look like something out of a catalog. I'd love to put some hydrangeas where the azaleas used to be but I'm not sure about them and deer. About the only thing they don't eat are peris and weeds for some reason.

Lorita—I hope you were able to get a decent night's rest. I wonder why the shots didn't work as well as they have in the past.

Carl— Strawberry daquiris? Do folks still drink them? The whir of the blender reminds me of tropical vacations. I'm always down for a full moon party.

Jerilynn— Drinking from the downspout is a classic orange boy flex. They are derpy creatures. Those plates are amazing. It's almost a shame to put food on them and obscure the pattern. I do enjoy quirky dishes although my own daily dishes are classic white. So boring.

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I need to get my act together. I need to head to mom's and make sure she has all she needs for the trip ready to go. If she hasn't packed clothes, I'll help with that. She has a tendency to pack aspirationally and include just-in-case ensembles— one never knows when a black-tie cocktail party might break out after all. Last year my niece asked me to put together a capsule wardrobe ahead of their trip in the Mini. One benefit to her Talbots addiction was that I was able to pull together a set of mix-and-match items that all went together and was able to get her down to 2 pair of shoes and 1 handbag. The only snag was she spent the week complaining she was cold, and I hadn't packed a sweater— there was one in there, but mom didn't see it rolled up until they were packing to come home. I need to wrap up laundry and throw my own bags together.

Be well.
HB