T Stands For On My Front Porch (again)

Welcome to another porch T Tuesday. 

Yes, I mowed.

Mowing is easy, but edging and trimming has become a chore, since I have not done it once this year.  It's hard to even see the bricks that segregate the "flower bed" from the yard.  Even the pavers are starting to break and settle into the soft ground.

I was worried that my smallest Rose of Sharon wouldn't make it, but it looks like it is doing well after I transplanted it.

While admiring how well my various Rose of Sharon transplants were doing, I noticed my rose bush was dropping two more roses.

Today I am not sitting on my chairs.  Instead, I'm admiring how much I like them, even though I've had to weigh them down with cans of "dead" and hardened paint due to the 60 plus mile per hour winds we have today.  If I didn't do this, these chairs would tip over because they are top heavy.  Then they would skirt across the porch and land in front of my front door.  Believe me, it's happened in the past.  The only thing stopping the chairs is the desk on the other side of the porch.  Then I have trouble getting out my front door when that happens.  Lesson learned, thus the paint cans.

Directly behind the chairs is my craft room where my sewing machine sits.  Yes, I blurred my image I captured in the window.

I call this the smoking section.  People who want to smoke (yes, there are still people who smoke in the states) are allowed to sit here and use my ashtray I found at a flea market years ago.  I love this ashtray and whether I smoke or not, I'm not about to get rid of it.

Usually my coffee sits on the table and the paint can is moved from the chair and sits where my coffee is today.  However, I wanted to showcase my table and chairs rather than my iced coffee in my ugly Shocker mug.

Next Tuesday is our anniversary.  We will have a pay it forward type swap.  The rules are easy.  IF you are planning to make and send an ATC:

1.  Create an ATC in advance of the party next week.
2.  When you link, be sure to add an asterisk (*) after your name if you are sending an ATC.
3.  The next person on the list whose name has an asterisk (*) behind it will be the person you send your ATC to.  It's called Pay-It-Forward.  Contact that person either on their blog or through e-mail to get their mailing address.
4.  The person with an asterisk (*) behind it whose name is before yours will contact you for your mailing address.
5.  If you want the other person to be surprised, please don't show your ATC until you know your recipient has received it.  We'll have a reveal party on the 27th/28th.
6.  If you are NOT making an ATC for the swap, add your name without an asterisk.  Please add your NAME ONLY next week and nothing more.  It's going to be too confusing otherwise.

Now it's your turn to share your T entry this week.  The rules are extremely simple.  Your drink related post may be anything from a photo of a glass, cup, or mug, to an actual drink.  You may choose to share a sketch or a digital, hybrid, or traditional page in your scrapbook, art journal, or altered book.  Maybe you'd prefer to share a tag, or wow us with your photography.  You might choose a postcard, decorated card, or magazine image.  You might even draw an image on a used tea bag.  Or perhaps you prefer to review a place you visited, a movie, or book.  It makes no difference as long as it's drink related.  And don't forget that the more unique and outside the box it is, the better we like it.  Please tie it back here, and please link only to your T post, not your entire blog.  When you link, Bleubeard, the T gang, and I will be by to visit.   Bleubeard would also like to remind you that your photos may be taken any time, even months or years ago, if you choose.

Some of you may want to know about my eye.  It seems the patch didn't help as much as the vision specialist hoped.  Instead, he has now taped my eye shut.  I still need to wear the patch to protect the taped portion, but I'm not allowed to remove the taped area until next Monday.  We'll know more then if the added protection has given my eye the time to heal it needs.