{"id":603,"date":"2009-07-15T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2009-07-15T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T15:25:00","slug":"give-me-some-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Some Summer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\" >To see the Summer Sky<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\" > Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie &#8211;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\" > True Poems flee.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\" > ~Emily Dickinson<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl31NL5g5GI\/AAAAAAAAEhU\/vRdLAsk6O2U\/s1600-h\/DSC00397.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl31NL5g5GI\/AAAAAAAAEhU\/vRdLAsk6O2U\/s400\/DSC00397.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358708738521883746\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I am not one to complain about mild weather (because I have trouble handling the REAL HOT STUFF) but I have felt very sorry for my kids lately.<\/p>\n<p>While I am happily digging in my garden beds, in spite of the rain, they are staring at me from the kitchen window with big sad eyes.  All they want is a SUMMER!  It has been pretty gloomy in our province this July.  We haven&#8217;t had a nice enough day to hit the kiddy pools ONCE!<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4lnuSHZVI\/AAAAAAAAEhc\/YCClyVMvNrc\/s1600-h\/DSC00519.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4lnuSHZVI\/AAAAAAAAEhc\/YCClyVMvNrc\/s400\/DSC00519.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358761970986607954\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The kids live less then a block from a kiddy pool and it is just killing them that they can&#8217;t use it.  My four babies and I adore to swim, and since we live in a practical desert land, we have to accept the local wadding pools as our only option most of the time&#8230; so when they are out of the question my kiddos get pretty blue.  We did what we could with visits and crafts but they got pretty tired of watching a happy mommy fussing with her gardens all day PRETTY QUICKLY!<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4mq28uwwI\/AAAAAAAAEh8\/0O0YpucFX_g\/s1600-h\/DSC00515.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4mq28uwwI\/AAAAAAAAEh8\/0O0YpucFX_g\/s400\/DSC00515.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358763124364067586\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Specking of my gardens!!!  I have gotten them all weeded and believe me that was no small task as they had weed TREES from being ignored for a year or so.  I also planted almost 100 irises (thanks &#8216;E&#8217;)&#8230;. she must have been reading a previous post of mine when she thought that up as a house warming gift&#8230;  I have all the over grown grass mowed nicely and even wrestled the giant horse radishes out of the ground&#8230; they had taken over the back garden.  I found raspberry bushes, strawberries and even an apple tree (hidden behind my cedars!!)!!  I now plan to plant more trees in the front yard (found some baby trees in my flower beds that need to be relocated), collecting rocks to make a path and a more rustic look to the front yard and keeping the weeds down so there is hope of a veggie garden next summer!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4mqMIIErI\/AAAAAAAAEhk\/xn11uem8DQc\/s1600-h\/DSC00501.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4mqMIIErI\/AAAAAAAAEhk\/xn11uem8DQc\/s400\/DSC00501.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358763112869139122\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(Our Park!)<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Today is SUNNY so we are off.  Mommy&#8217;s garden gloves are put aside and her flip flops are ready for walking to the park, running after kids and filling up with park sand! I plan to spend the whole day outside for their sake.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4mrHSKp6I\/AAAAAAAAEiE\/nv-zZWtfpkQ\/s1600-h\/DSC00509.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4mrHSKp6I\/AAAAAAAAEiE\/nv-zZWtfpkQ\/s400\/DSC00509.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358763128748943266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4mqveWIqI\/AAAAAAAAEh0\/z-tAIteNeSw\/s1600-h\/DSC00506.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sl4mqveWIqI\/AAAAAAAAEh0\/z-tAIteNeSw\/s400\/DSC00506.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358763122357576354\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(The Park Was Very Mucky Today.)<\/div>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie &#8211; True Poems flee. ~Emily Dickinson I am not one to complain about mild weather (because I have trouble handling the REAL HOT STUFF) but I have felt very sorry for my kids lately. 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