I'm having some problems creating a blog post! Last week I gave up...Blogger is not allowing me to type into the editor window, in compose mode, so I have to shift back and forth between HTML and Compose..not fun. Is it just me or the web getting more difficult and more unstable...instead of easier to navigate?
IT could be because Im using windows XP and Explorer 7.0 lol And the scrolling bar that should be here in the edit box is missing
SO I have no idea how this post will turn out! I'll give it a try.
Finally the weekend...I will be working on my DIY home make over project... still on the inside of the same room off the porch. Im just not making the kind of progress I had hoped to. I believe its because Im doing some projects that are brand new to me so Im learning as I go. Budget has a lot more to do with it! I HAVE NONE..lol so that is a big draw back..so Im repurposing and reusing when I can.
Meanwhile here is something completely free and wonderful MY MELON, its a cantaloupe!
LOOK how big with all the rain we've had this month...our norm for July is about 5.5 inches, some counties got 22 inches THIS MONTH! We have already had more than our annual rainfall for the year and we have 5 months to go, our annual is about 43 inches, we've had close to 50 alread! My pasture grass has grown so tall I cant mow it with my old worn out mower, so Ill wait till fall and once frost hits it a couple times I can cut it down then....
Meanwhile I found a local to help me out with it, but she hasnt been able to make a dent in it!
She tried to help me out in the old house yard too...
Some of the containers I made up this year have done pretty good. I like to root my own plants from year to year. I take cuttings and place them in the a jar with rocks and some water and a root soon grows, I keep it on the window ledge till its time to pot it outside...I rooted this wonderful Purple and bronze colored sweet potato vine this is the 3rd yr Ive had it now...and that pot its in? Well that is a repurposed fire pit, the Pit part! Someone tossed it out in the dumpster out back of the building where I work...so I dragged it out...I drilled a hole in the bottom for dainage, and I placed it in an old planter base and positioned it behind a stone I brought back from the mountains one yr..and its DONE so well! I also winter rooted the Dusty Miller and the Coleus that is in that mixed container. The elephant ears ended up in pots this yr too...

Another mixed container Ive enjoyed this year is the old strawberry pot...this Green Sweet Potato vine I winter rooted along with the purple Wandering Jew. Ive had this pot for manyyy years.

NOW if Miss Deer could get to this poor Fig Tree she would make a right mess of it! I bought it 4 yrs ago. Planted it out in the pasture, and it was eaten right to the ground the first yr, I put a wire cage around it and it grew about 6 inches yr 2 and then they tore into the wire and chewed it down again...yr 3 I gave up...this year I dug up the root and one tiny shoot in the spring and put it in a pot RIGHT next to the house, literally, and LOOK how much its grown in just a couple months! I plan to reset it into a larger pot when the leaves come off in the fall. MAYBE If I leave it in a pot I MAY actually get a fig or two!

Ill take some photos of my progress of the old sunroom make over, and share when its DONE,,,,,I want a finished PROJECT for a change!! Meanwhile the forecast for tomorrow is 30% chance of showers! My little peace sign disappeared I hope it will appear in the next post....

PEACE