Summer........

... long hot days for nearly all of June 100+ days ... not really cool at night... no rain.. you may hear of rain in TX but not where i'am in TX... Remember last post i mentioned a Chalk Art Contest at the Museum... ? Well it was a whole Family Day thing.. Not one of us won at the Chalk Art but it was loads of fun! 

As part of Family Day we each got a slab of Air Dry clay to play with...  I could not think of a thing to make so i was looking around the room and saw a poster of a snail.. SNAIL!  and i eventually painted him my signature love copper... I think he turned out pretty stinking cute!! :)

This Summer i finally found something to grow in my Mother in Laws cast iron pot.. I inherited it from her a few years ago and i just LOVE it.. Last year i tried Petunias (I LOVE Petunias) and Sweet Potato Vine... they couldn't  handle the heat.. I don't know if it was just the Tx heat or i think the metal pot heats the soil up quite a bit... Anyway this year i bought Moss Rose or Portulaca... And so far.. 'knock on wood' it seems to be in fine form.. I may have just found the perfect plant for it.. 

AND my SunFlowers.... now these are special this year as these are the first ones i have successfully transplanted to where i wanted them.. the trick is... to get them young (the leaves are very easy to spot amongst the other weeds)  and just dig them up in a shovelful , not disturbing the roots !! very important... and just popping them in a hole you already dug... water in... they droop some  but give them a couple hours or by the next morning they pop back up.. whew!  Now i don't have to have them just wherever they pop up.. 

This is where i sit on my laptop....  mostly in the morning with my coffee.... Morning is my computer time... i watch videos of my favorite creators on YouTube and i like to sit there and draw or sketch my own thing while they ramble on... lol  I also visit my favorite blogs over coffee.. 

This is my current doodle after that Winged Alien MerMaid...lol  I used a mixture of Prismacolor and Crayola colored pencils... the Crayola does not blend as well as the Prismacolor with Gamsol but i just grabbed what i had on hand.. 

I hope your having a fabulous Summer....School is creeping up on us... this year BOTH my GrandLittles will be in school... little sad about it...less Grandma time :( but forward we must go... Thanks so much for stopping by ! Hugs! deb