My Cozy Corner

Monday, June 15, 2015

♥Summer Refreshments♥

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a nice weekend. We have had a hot spell here this week. I've been in the house tweaking the living room and master bedroom and I finally bit the bullet and when outside to photograph my other birthday gift to myself. A little bistro table and chairs. I have wanted a metal bistro table and chairs for years. I found this one at Big Lots. Now I can leave this table and chairs out all year long. No more moving outdoor furniture for me.

Since my new bistro set is sitting under the pomegranate tree, I decided to make some pomegranate punch and sit down for a few minutes to look at my new English Home magazine. Every year we pick the pomegranates and sweetheart squeezes the juice and we freeze it for jelly and punch. Go Here to see the process.

Can you see my Drop in the Bucket decoration? I received the darling gift from my daughter and family Go Here

While I was at the thrift shop I bought the flower vase. The blue trim and pink flowers are similar to the Simplicity roses on the vase. I never seem to have enough vases. The galvanized tray I found at Wal Mart and I know I will get alot of use out of it this summer.

Pomegranate Punch is so delicious.

1 package of Crystal Light Pink Lemonade

6 cups of Pomegranate juice (fresh or POM)

2 cups of sparkling water.

adjust to taste. No Sugar added.

A very refreshing summer drink.

Life is simple and fresh @ My Cozy Corner

Thanks for visiting today. I hope you enjoyed the garden and stopped to smell the roses.

Joyously,

Betty

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Monday, June 8, 2015

A Drop in the Bucket

Hello everyone,

Happy June. The last week of May and the first week of June has been a whirlwind for this couple of old fogies...Sweetheart and I attended our granddaughters piano recital in a rural community at a beautiful performing arts center. We also attended the 8th grade graduation for our other granddaughter went out to dinner three nights in a row and celebrated my birthday. I am proud to say I enjoyed my 74th birthday week. Wow!!!

It feels like a drop in the bucket!

This is the precious gift I received from my daughter and family. I love garden art and this bucket with a crystal drop of water is just perfect. My daughter found this in Ashland OR on a trip a couple of months ago. She knew I would love it and I do.

Every year on my birthday I reflect on what I've done during the past year.

I have a very active, enjoyable life. I have pretty good health and I love retirement. When I start to think about what I've been doing for the past six months, I think it is just A Drop in the Bucket.

This post is about some of the fun and work I have been doing the past six months.

In the bottom of the bucket is a little hole for the rain water to run out.

I have this bucket under the pomegranate tree and while I photographing the bucket the wind was blowing. Of course the temperature was 103 degrees in the shade. Summer is here.

To see more posts for each month visit my

Blog Archive

May

The garden was in full bloom.

April

We updated our Master Bedroom and Living Room

Work, work, work

March
We celebrated Sweethearts birthday and took a little golf trip with a little tea room for me. I am so blessed.

February
We celebrated the anniversary of our engagement and beautiful roses were my gift.

January
I was taking down Christmas decorations and stopped for a fireside dinner with my Friendly Village dishes and my little English tea pot from my grandma.

As you can see I was a busy old girl. Thanks for visiting My Cozy Corner today.
I love your wonderful comments and I wish I had more energy or ambition to post more often, but I do what I can do.
Joyously,
Betty
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

May Garden Journal 2015

Hello everyone,

Sweetheart and I have been busy finishing up our living room and master bedroom update. Saturday we hung our new sheers in the living room and on Monday we hung our artwork in the living room and bedroom. And then we (two 70+) non techies hooked our DVD to our television and hooked the tape deck, CD player to the receiver and hooked four speakers to the receiver... Three hours later we were finished. Our daughter came down just as we were finishing up and invited us to have dinner at her house, It was so pleasant to eat dinner and not do any dishes. Sweetheart and I were entertained by their two new puppies that have just joined the family. The total dog count in now FOUR. I love dogs as long as they belong to someone else. LOL!!!

As they say "Now you know the rest of the story" LOL
Now to get to this month's garden journal. To see how the garden has grown from last month go here.

The May garden has a variety of blooming flowers, herbs and vegetables. As you can see the lavender is ready to harvest.

My newest rose is Cherish a florabunda and has 28 petals per bloom.

The purple spike flowers are called Veronica.

Foxglove

A Christmas Amaryllis is blooming. When the Amaryllis is finished blooming at Christmas time I bring the bulbs outside and plant them in my garden. In the spring they bloom and multiply every year. Give them a try...

It's lavender harvest time. I have seven plants this size.

Christmas bazaar projects this fall.

I have Grosso lavender and it is so fragrant.

I use Alyssum as ground cover in my rose beds and as borders in other beds.

My new love this year is the Hosta. I have a big shade tree and my hostas love the space. Nice and cool. This is my first hosta bloom

~ I am in Love~

Blooming artichokes. Last month we cooked the small artichokes from our other plant. This plant is going to bloom into a beautiful purple thistle

The grapes are going to be very tasty and plentiful.

Yarrow is the most beautiful yellow.

Last year after the Rose Tour was over, my friend gave me several miniature rose bushes. This one is called candy cane and it is the sweetest climber.

I hundreds of plants, but my hydrangeas are so beautiful. I have lived in my house for over 45 years and I have had hydrangeas in oak barrels and two years ago I planted two hydrangeas in this bed. The big tree that's shades the hostas is also shading this bed. I think this is going to be a successful endeavor.