Friday Smiles 442: gardening and museum visit

 

 

It's Friday and I'm once again joining Friday Smiles which is hosted by Annie (at A Stitch in Time).   Let's visit her and the other wonderful ladies who also share their smiles each Friday.

It's early morning here and I am busy watering my gardens before the heat takes over.

My Rose of Sharon is lucky.  It can accept water from the hose.  Unfortunately today about 1 p.m., after I had taken these photos, there was an electrical outage at the main water facility.

The Rose of Sharon is still producing new flowers, as you can see.  

 

When the electricity came back on, they theorize it overloaded the system, causing the primary main water line to break.  As of the early evening news, we were losing water at a rate of 40,000 gallons an hour.  They are unsure how soon it can be fixed, but until then, all water must be boiled for one minute in order to be used, except bath water.  When washing dishes and cleaning counters, we must use 1 T bleach to 1 gallon of water.  The grocery stores were all reporting they had sold out of bottled water by 5 p.m. and the break happened shortly after noon today.  Luckily, I filled the cats gallon water container late last night, so they will both have safe water for several days, at least.

When I mowed earlier in the week, I also edged my bricks and found them again!

I actually lightened the photo in Photoshop, because it was so dark under the tree.

I probably need to expose the bricks a bit more, now that I see them through my camera lens.

I also have one final rose of summer in my flower bed.

The veggie garden is winding down, but the cantaloupe are finally beginning to ripen.

I'm incredibly amazed at how different each of these look, even though the seeds all came from the same melon.

Then it was time to check on my bell peppers.

They are looking healthy, even if they are still small.

While watering my three pots of dill that were slowly making a comeback after the swallowtails had their fill,

I found this little muncher.

I know it won't turn into a swallowtail, but, even though I have no idea what it will turn into, I left it eat to its heart's content.  Please let me know if you are familiar with this caterpillar that also loves my dill.

I know people harvest HUGE amounts of veggies each week from their garden, but I am still very proud of my first peppers and more dill, too.

Here are a couple of photos from the museum I visited on Smithsonian Day.   You can see this is a circa 1975 model public water fountain.  According to the sign, they were widely used until the pandemic.

This is a letter holder/box for the museum.  Apparently you can mail letters or postcards from that box and it will be picked up at specific times during the week.  

 

I didn't have time to find funnies this week.  In fact, I'm having trouble getting this ready to publish on time.  I won't be so long winded next week, I promise.  I guess I'm making up for missing last week. 

Now let's join Annie (at A Stitch in Time) and the lovely ladies who join her for Friday Smiles.  Thanks again for visiting and spending a bit of time with Bleubeard and me this Friday.  We would love to have you join us, too.