Appropriately….practically TWO MONTHS since I used to be correct proper right here with an substitute…..what’s up with that? I’ve missed all of you, and as a consequence of those of you who’ve reached out to me on Instagram to let me know you could have obtained missed my weblog posts!

I under no circumstances intend to remain away so extended, it merely appears the cases fly by, one after one completely different, and prior to you acknowledge it it has been wayyyyyy too extended!

Work is loopy….and by the aim I shut my laptop computer pc off on the top of the day/week, I haven’t got to open it as quickly as further till I’ve to. Sigh.

Nonetheless correct proper right here I’m…and thanks for sticking with me by means of these extended absences!

It is almost certainly the worst yr in historic earlier to be inside the wedding ceremony ceremony planning enterprise.

I’ve cried additional with my brides this season than in a single different yr. My coronary coronary coronary heart breaks for all of the {{{couples}}} accessible in the marketplace who’ve been wanting ahead to their dream wedding ceremony ceremony this season, solely to have the rug pulled out from beneath them.  Who might have ever predicted this after we heard about that first case of Coronavirus correct proper right here contained in the US as soon as extra in January?

We’re all earlier delighted for Amanda & Alex and may‘t wait to have pleasant with them after we’re in a position to all be collectively as quickly as further! We have missed wayyyy too many celebrations this yr, nonetheless we’re undoubtedly not alone in that. Sigh. 

Correct proper right here they’re in a single amongst their favourite ‘lookout’ spots….they’re dealing with inside the path of the freeway, and though you presumably can not see it in the meanwhile of yr, they hear folks accessible in the marketplace mountaineering or strolling their canine and like to allow them to know in no unsure phrases merely who owns this mountain prime!!

I like one of many easiest methods this nook turned out, though it wasn’t my preliminary plan. 

I had bought Lily bulbs for this nook and hoped earlier hope that the critters would depart them alone inside the event that that they’d been in pots on the deck. 

Appropriately guess what….regardless of my pathetic efforts to guard the bulbs, and trying so many various ideas, the darned chipmunks ate each single bulb. 

I hand over on Lilies. So unhappy. I took a go to to the yard heart final week to hunt out one issue tall to place in these pots in lieu of Lilies. Merely check out that beautiful Salvia, it is merely beautiful! And you possibly can’t go improper with Cleome. There’s furthermore a purple Verbena in there someplace, it is so feathery and appears to drift above the opposite additional dense flowers. I identical to the utterly completely completely different textures taking part in off each other. 

After all the darned chipmunks needed to dig contained in the pots appropriate after I planted, merely to see inside the event that they left any lily bulbs behind…..grrrrrr, they’re such aggravating little critters, nonetheless so cute! 

On a facet phrase, it is laborious to consider I restained this deck merely final spring. The snow and ice actually destroys it each season….oh efficiently, I take the nice with the dangerous. Presumably if the urge hits me I will take a brush to these spots….or perhaps I will wait till subsequent spring. We’ll see. 

What’s been occurring in your world? I optimistic hope you could be all staying protected and efficiently!