July 12, 2020

Last weekend Michel finished my arbor. I am thrilled! It looks awesome! 

I've posted different views so you can get a good look at it, and also see how my yard is coming along. 

That being said, Michel had surgery on his right eye on Tuesday. This one is healing slower than the left. That is because the doctor had to do a lot of scraping (the cataract), so his eye is still red, a little tender, and still blurry. Hopefully it will be good in another week or so. They did say it could take up to six weeks for the blurriness to completely go away.  So he will continue doing the eye drops and taking it easy ... no lifting, no bending over.

This view is from the deck.
You can see the whole back yard... and my new arbor!

This is my Morden:
the first to bloom in the spring and the last to bloom in the fall . 
Such a beautiful rose bush, given to me by my good friend Donna Kusch. 

The roses were so beautiful last weekend I took pictures to share, but since then ...... this week as a matter of fact they were stricken by a bug. I'm pretty sure it was a rose slug, and the reality of it was, we had to cut them down. I can't believe how fast they chewed up all the leaves. It was a matter of a few days. I sprayed but it didn't help. I was too late!! It was devastating! They should come back but in the mean time what was once big bushes are now little twigs. It's like starting over. 

I hate to end on such a sad note, so I won't.....although we aren't doing very much to blog about, we are enjoying the sunshine when we get it, and hanging around indoors when it is raining. We are getting a lot of rain this year. Very good in that we don't have to water the gardens every day, AND... there are no forest fires around us!! 

Bye for now and thanks for reading!