Old found rosebush is blooming

My old found rosebushes are blooming, I got this rose bush from my mother, who had gotten it from her mother, we are not sure where it came from before that or even it's name, but this rose, well you know its about to burst open before it does because it smells soo good, then it opens and POW in your face, loaded with tons of blossoms with a bazillion petals, when I was a kid, my sister and brother and I used to grab off the nearly done roses and bomb each other with them, there would be petals everywhere! we smelled good though HA HA

they are fading and dropping, just like when we were kids and would torment each other with them

I found my photo from 2005 so you can see how bright they are when they first open, its not the best photo because my camera wasn't very good then and trying to blow it up didn't help

oh well, will just have to keep watch and get more good new photos of it up close

geesh, I opened up the bathroom window cuz it's such a prety day, and there lays Scooter, she is dead to the world, I had to get my camera, but she really is just having a very good sleep, scared me for sure though when I first seen her

 planter on front deck is starting to fill in

 my rocks are finally all done around the fish pond

 dirty birds, they love sitting on the hand railing and the pond, they get lots of drinks in there

strawberry patch in front by the railroad ties have really taken over, started with 12 plants, the rows behind them are all potatoes, then I have beans on the right fence

 white peony

 I do know all the names for these but at present don't remember them

 such pretty flowers and huge

 this clematis is stunning

hanging on my back door, nobody uses the front door here, everyone comes to the back kitchen door :)

Adding onto the front walkway strip flower bed

I love flowers! I just didn't have enough garden space for the, when we were transplanting things here from the old house, alot just got dumped into strip beds around the house to get them in so I wouldn't kill them, now that I have lived here awhile and have had some time to get used to where stuff needs to go, I found that I needed more color in the front area of the house, so I am taking that little walkway strip bed and widening it out quite a bit

 so I get the tiller out and start tilling all around the dogwood tree, and made a nice big planting area, put down some weed block cloth and started transplanting my flowers from the south side of the house to the east side, partly because we know where the water runs off the back hill and we ended up with a wet basement, so we know we need to dig a trench around that end of the house to put in drainage, so getting my plants moved before they come to dig and tear up that end

I also started a "strip" bed down by the road, it runs from the azaelia bush over to the burning bush, I have planted corkscrew willow trees, oak trees, hosta, grasses, iris, you name it, lots put in down at the road strip bed as well

got a load of mulch down finally and just look at all the flowers in this bed now

I love when a new project is complete and I can sit back and enjoy looking at everything we have accomplished here in such a short time

still live fishies in the pond

 a dear friend of mine gave me a pile of railroad ties, so the upper strip bed and the new turtle pen under the male tree have railroad ties outlining them

sweet hubby made me some rustic wood planter boxes

filled with salvia, lobelia and hmm thought I had something white in there too

 kittens are now full grown and bring me presents

and the hen house kitty Backfire is getting spoiled and so big and pretty now

Japanese Morning Glories & water hyacinth in fish pond

I love morning glories, but have loved them even more since I found these gorgeous Japanese variety of morning glories

just look at the colors on these, some are even 5+ inches in diameter!

stunning!

see how bright and pretty they are, and I love the varigated leaves they have

 beautiful colors that just pop out at ya!

and they have a beautiful shimmer or sheen to them too, would love to have one of every variety there is out there!

 water hyacinth in my fish pond, they have taken over!

told ya they took over LOL, can't find the fishies in there any longer!!

Random pics from phone

Random pics taken from phone

front wall of the living room

making ketchup from tomatoes

fishies out in the pond

Setting up new fish pond

Today we are setting up the new fish pond so we can let it get settled before we move some fish :)

We will also be painting the dining room

See I told you before that weeping cherry tree was going to have to come out, but that's down the road, all those privet's along the house will also be coming out 'later"

because today it's all about getting the pond level and filling with water, I will be adding rock around it too at a later date

there's that blasted hand railing again, I really don't like it, but hubby has spoken on that subject, so I will be good LOL

there we go, this is the view I will get of the pond out the big front window and yes I like it.

also moved more bedding plants and some planters and benches from the old house, had to decorate the front stoop a little bit even though we don't live here yet!!

here we go, photo of the before in the dining room, remember that UFO looking light that you can pull down or let it retract back up, weird but haven't replaced it, we will do that after we move in, however, when it came time to clean and paint this room, well let's just say that everything was removed from the room EXCEPT that cuckoo clock on the wall, and I know her son sent it over here from Germany while he was in the war, soooo, you can bet your britches I was NOT wanting to mess with that!!, so HA HA have you ever tried to clean and paint around one of them suckers? Well let me tell you, it's not easy, but I did manage to take it down long enough for the kidders to paint behind it! and sneak it back up on the wall ;)

THAT was a harrowing experience, so afraid I would break it!!

can you guess if they look guilty or not? HA no they are just sick of getting their photo taken!

the new color is called "Mark Twain House Olive"

it will be getting another coat of paint and we will need to finish up the ceiling paint trim, but it's coming along, in a few weeks we will be moving in :0) YAY!!!!!