Shadowy Bloom

A lovely bloom from my SIL's front yard. I can't resist not to take a photo of it.  She told me  the name of the bush but I forgot it's name.

My husband received another certificate from  his school.  He made it again to the Dean's List last term.  We are so proud of you hon.  I stumbled upon  A level courses online and  want to share it to you guys,  you might be interested in checking it out.  I am sharing this post to weekly memes.

Triple the Charm

I am a Guest Friend over at Today's Flower this week and I am delighted.  Special thanks to Luiz for inviting me.  Below is the first bloom in my garden.

I took photo of this one when my daughter and I went for a walk.  I dunno what kind of flower this is.

And this lovely orchid is from Lowe's.  The two that I bought last December  are still alive  and I am waiting when it will bloom.

I call this post triple the charm because those three are all charming.

Cancer Battle

We visited my BIL the day after Father's day. We were suppose to visit him on Father's Day but his wife told us that he was so sick due to the last chemo that he received.  His battle with cancer is  still not done because even if the big amount of it was removed from his lungs, there still some that spreading  in his liver.  Since they can't do an operation, the doctors are just hoping that  it will be cured through chemotherapy treatment.  

These photos were taken when  he  has still a long hair, after  a couple of chemo, his hair started to fall off so his wife decided to just shaved it off.  He is now bald.

My kids are very fond of Dave because just like my husband, he is also very good in dealing with children.

I hope and pray that the chemo treatment will cure the remaining cancer  in his body.  

Thanks for dropping by folks!

Frugal Gardening

Here's what keeps the frugal gardener busy.  Transferring my plants from  our  front walkway to our backyard.  I am done with it now so we are just waiting for the contractor to start with the porch renovation.  Oh, I still have to transfer my roses but I'll wait for the  construction to start, maybe they could help me dig out my thorny roses with their  equipment hehehe.

Here's our vegetable garden looks like now.  The lettuces and the beans are  getting thick and the tomatoes are catching up too.  We put the wire fence around it  to  hinder our  dog from getting inside and tearing up the plants.

New addition to  our backyard.  I dressed up the mailbox we put  there for  the bird and planted  some flowers around it.  I also connected it to the Lilac bush that we planted   there three years ago.

I used  the rocks I found  at the  flower bed in front instead of buying bricks.  Thanks to my SIL for  giving the kids those concrete  car and star molds a couple of years ago.

The only thing I bought on this flower bed is a bag of mulch.  There you go friends, it might not be as fancy as your garden but I am trying to beautify my backyard without spending  too much. I am trying to save some moolah for Tuscany Holidays, opps... you know that I am just kidding right?  What I am not kidding is that, I am  saving for our upcoming getaway next month.

Wrinkled Knuckles

I seldom paint my nails but for mother's day sake, I painted both my nails and my daughter's. It was a special little bonding  between me and my little lady,..

Ms. Burrito said "We should do this more often Mom."  LOL!

My wrinkled knuckles is my contribution to ABC's W.  I grew up planting rice in the field with my bare hands and my hands was so rough because of calluses before.  Glad the calluses went away but not the ones in my feet, very unattractive .. sigh.