Long hot day... Neutralized!

Summer showed up today! 

When I left work, the temp inside my truck read Ninety-eight

degrees! Far too warm for me! But here at home in the pool, my

Mr. Floating-Shark thermometer says it's 80 degrees... Now,

84 is my magic number. But I'm no snob! 80 will do today!

Our sweet friend, Kelsie brought this over last weekend. He's

become our Unofficial swimming pool life guard!

Down by the koi pond the Iris is blooming even

more than she was Yesterday when I looked!

The heat is definitely on now and Everything

seems to be Popping up out of the ground!

This white peony variety is putting on quite the show tonight!

I think it was five years ago that I first saw a big vase of peony

blossoms on the cover of Oprah magazine. All I remember

of the peony plants we had in our garden in Kansas was

that they were big balls covered in ants! However.

I knew Oprah was on to something and that I

simply had to have Peonies in my garden!

So he planted... And now, I love his Peonies!

Tomorrow morning, these pink Peonies

will be huge balls of Pink ruffles!

From now until the leaves Fall off the trees... This

is where you'll find me Every day after work!