Rescued the last few survivors

I have 10 rosebushes and they currently have zero roses in total.

These are the last remaining three.

It’s been a combination of a lot of rain, and a lot of gray days. The roses, that started out this season healthy and plentiful, are now just sparse, bare and pitiful looking.

It usually takes a lot longer than this for the rose garden to go downhill. It usually happens around the end of summer, when the roses just kind of give up. It takes all their energy just to survive the hot days.

This weekend, or whenever it stops raining so much, everyone’s going to get a little peptalk ..... come on. You can do it. Let’s get some more blooms going.  A pep talk in the form of some fertilizer.

The last 4 Sundays

This Sunday was full of weeding the Rose beds, power washing the front and side porch, mowing and catching up on laundry.

A work day at home was needed. Because three out of the last four Sundays have been dedicated to the little Sunday road trip. 

These little road trip‘s grew out of a real desire to travel, and a real dilemma of not being able to travel. Our vacation was canceled. Like I’m sure everyone’s vacation was canceled. And what else are you going to do during the height of the lockdown? Thus, The little day trips, and I do mean little.... and then we just continued. 

We mfound a petting zoo and historical museum two hours away. Funny story, this was an accident. We stopped at Wendy’s for lunch and parked in the parking lot to eat, and the zoo just happened  to be behind the Wendy’s.

A different Sunday, about an hour away, we found the smallest church in the world! Never even knew it was there!

Another Sunday, in a different direction, and an hour and a half away, after we thought we were lost, we found what we were looking for- this old courthouse and Downtown area. It’s the oldest courthouse in the state of Louisiana that is still in use. It was built before the Civil War. The little office buildings in the downtown district were also built in the late 1800s, and still occupied by mostly lawyers.  It was very interesting. Beautiful grounds. People were taking graduation photos on the grounds and there were three food trucks set up. It was quite a little unexpected party.