A True Friend and Neighbor

I have a new neighbor and friend!

Really!

How many neighbor's on the first time

you meet would start helping you

weed your flower beds??

About 2 and a half months ago we

got new neighbor's next door, after

the house had been empty for about

2 years. I prayed for a nice neighbor

around our age and my prayers were

answered and then some. What a Blessing!!

  She even offered to come over and feed

Milo while we were in Florida on vacation!

Yes, on the first day we met!

Now this is a true friend! Not that I was wanting

someone to help with my yard work,it's just that

we both enjoy working outside. 

The family that lived there before were young and had children.

 SEE I told you, here she is encouraging me along

to do yard work I've been putting off for years, yes

years!

She asked me a couple weeks ago if I wanted the

 ceder tree in my front yard limbed up. 

Yes, for a long time now! 

So one night last week she text me and said she'd be over at 8 the next morning.

She was and with her she brought her pressure washer!

Oh No, she really was going to work ME!

Here you can tell (on the Left) how the limbs touched the ground. On the right is after. Look

how bad the sidewalk needed cleaning. (that was next)!

 You can see from this photo the sidewalk looks so much better.  We worked for 4 hours and was so tired. Pressure washed the porch,sidewalk and the front of the house! 

 Hubby did take off the limbs and picked up under the tree. Uh oh, looks like he needs to wash the lawn mower now. Maybe we should have pressure

washed it.

Here is my elephant ears and Hosta bed.

The Hosta is always so big and pretty, but I do need

to thin them out next spring. The red flower is Bee Balm, the hummingbirds love it!

 Oriental Lilies

They smell so sweet!

Crape Myrtle

Look at that 'big' bloom on that limb!

Look how much my "America" climbing rose has climbed! I can't wait until the arbor is covered and in full bloom. I love the color.

When the Wisteria first bloomed, there was a cold

snap and it killed the blooms, now it is blooming again!

At the driveway door, I have two pots of this 

Moss Rose on each side. I have lots of it planted

since it is a favorite of mine.

I moved my fairy from the flower bed and put

her on the bird bath, the glass ball glows at night,

maybe the birds can see how to bathe now,after I put more water in it!

Someone told me or I read it somewhere that if

you put moth balls in your flower beds it would 

keep the pets out. Well I don't know but we'll

see if it works, Milo wants to use it for one Big litter box!

My Day Lilies have never been this pretty!

I love my Knock Out Roses, but it's hard to keep the stinky Japanese beetles off them this year. I get

out every morning and catch them before they wake and knock them into a bucket of sudsy water. I know it sounds cruel but they ruin the roses!

I had to tie up the Iceberg Rose bush,

it was hanging too far out and it was hard

to walk by it. It is almost as tall as the 

rabbit!

Yes, even Hubby's tomato's are doing good, with

all the rain we have been getting and it's suppose 

to rain today also.

Honestly, I didn't intend to be so long, but it is

the last day of June. Maybe now we can relax and

enjoy the rest of the summer!

Oh, maybe not, yard work is like housework it never ends!

Have a Blessed Day,

Sylvia

Joining Roses of Inspirations