A Bit of This, A Bit of That

Good evening blogger friends!  The last day of May ... can you believe it?  One more month & we will be half-way thorough the year!

John & I did some more work out in the yard this morning.  We got an early start to avoid the 93-degree temperatures, but as soon as we walked out the door at about 8 a.m. we thought perhaps our clocks had stopped for a few hours during the night!  It was so miserably hot & humid already at that early hour with no breeze whatsoever   : (   Still, the work had to be done.  We gave everything a good watering & then John, sweetie that he is, finished taking the sod out of the butterfly garden & turned it over.  Now it's all ready for me to add the topsoil & organic matter!  Another trip to Lowes tomorrow ... lol!  While he was doing all that digging, I was re-weeding the 2 beds I had cleaned up a couple weeks ago.  Oh how I hate weeds!  I have the long bed behind the house to re-weed yet.  Maybe tomorrow if it doesn't rain.  50% chance of storms tomorrow & the next day.  We shall see.  Here's the progress on the butterfly garden thus far ...

  

I found something really neat in a Gardener's magazine today ... a butterfly shelter!  The description begins "Entice passing butterflies to stop & rest awhile...."  I like that   : )   There is also a little butterfly drinking station that you can buy, but since you place a sponge in it soaked with sweetened water I'm just picturing the ants crawling all over it ... not to mention the bees milling about.  Will have to think on that one for a while.  

I know I told you that I would post pictures of the surprise giveaway items that Angela won as soon as she received them, but you know what?  Her photos of what I sent are SO much better than mine ... I am just going to ask that if you are interested in seeing what she found in her package, please visit her posting about it on her blog, Thru Nana's Window   : )  

Till tomorrow ...