Home Garden Up Date

That the Lovely lovable yet evil to her playmate. I, finally, got to see sweet pea flowers which used to die because of hot desert sun and drought. I did not have time to water them so they could not last or live long to bloom. The sweet pea fragrant is very strong and almost like exotic perfume. The lily of the Nile, which I believe that my boyfriend's mom loves, is finally blooming. I was hoping it to bloom during Mother days to give to her but it blooms much later. I think now it is time for it to bloom; in another word, it is the season to bloom.
I just love the hollyhock! If it is peach, it would make a great statement in the neighborhood. Every house--almost, in this neighborhood has it in front of the house, but, of course, it is just single petal; mine is fully double and huge. Everyone has pink so am I therefore, it can hardly be outstanding or different than anyone else. The peach color one died last year. I was not sure why because I watered both of them at the same time.
I do not remember why I was mistake zinnia seeding plants with sunflower. I dig up three 'zinnia' plants home with me. Since zinnia is not much big so I planted them almost next to each other. When they had a few more leaves, I realized that I got sunflower instead! That was good too because I love sunflower also. I hope that the big tall plant wont kill my little rose NOW is under their leaves. My plan was to have big leaves shadow and shade the weak rose but only time can tell.
I finally get to see the color of hydrangea--at least one of them, I ordered three kinds but only two survive the hardship of moving and staying in small pot. It is forever pink I think because it is pink through out and nothing else. I will try the nitrogen to see if it will change the color or not. Maybe the other is Nikko Blue Hydrangea because it has big leaves also.
There were two butterflies and a bee stopping by at the lavender. I show this white lily because it looked playful.
I was gonna continue to water my plants but there was a disturbance by a man without shirt and white short walking around and screaming including 'pervert' to some workers who are working on the fence for some of my neighbor. It has been noise from just one man for an hour or more. He was giving me a headache and my plants are getting thirstier. Someone has called the cop

Black and White

Jordan took Jamie's bear as her own for napping while Jamie was in bed snooze away. I changed the poppy into black and white picture which seemed to highlight the eyes much better. Jamie always sleeps with at least a toy in bed with her. Sometimes all of the toys that she plays for the day and she cannot be part with any of them.

Got the Baking Notebook! Rose Pictures

This dish is Salmon Mint with Walnut Raspberry
Vinaigrette (salad dressing) and a little Cajun spice which work well with fish. There is garlic olive oil and a flash of lemon juice.
I only remembered to get 16 oz of salmon last night along with painter tape to line the soap mold, and AA battery for the camera to take picture of the soap. I forgot the sour dough bread for today French toast! I had to make a 5 mile trip to get the good bread from Smith. There is one Mexican's supermarket but the place is always loud from the music and weekend the place always pack. I rarely went to this supermarket. There are only two of these supermarkets in town.
I was in a hurry to make the breakfast that I forgot to take the picture. I used three eggs, 3 tablespoon of milk, 1/8 tsp salt, a pinch of cinnamon and a dash of nutmeg. 1/2 tsp vanilla because I do not like the smell of egg when I eat. Cinnamon should overcome the smell but I do not like the strong smell of cinnamon much. Cinnamon bun is good but whenever I make it, I do not put much cinnamon and sugar at least for myself. I use 4 1/2 bread to make 4 1/2 French toast for two. I was not able to eat much this morning.
In order to get the Baking Notebook, I had to travel to my boyfriend's parents' house 45 minutes to go to the barn and search for it. I was luck this time to find it because I tried the last time I could not find it.
I had a good night sleep, except that I woke up with a cold that my voice change to croaked. Jordan wanted a share of the bed when everyone was sleeping. She made Jamie moved for her to get a good spot. Jamie went up and slept between us; thus, she moved most of my top cover down. I had only a layer of blanket so I got cold. I do not understand why I should got cold because that layer is the white goose down; perhaps, I did not have the whole thing cover around my body but just my chest.


The red rose is the Fragrant Cloud the smell is sweet and strong. To me it smell delightful. The cottage Old English cabbage like rose is Shasta rose. I think it is one of David Austen Rose which I admire and want to grown as much as possible in the yard.because they smell great and they are gorgeous!
I am baking rib in the oven right now. It had been marinated for an hour. I cleaned out the silver lining skin so that the meat can get much of the marinated sinking in to be tasty. I used virgin olive oil, garlic and onion powder, salt and lot of cracked pepper, Spanish balsamic vinegar, a little Worcestershire powder, and ginger powder. I set the oven @425 degree for 20 minutes, 400 degree for 20 minutes the rest will be 350 degree 25
minutes.