Show And Tell Time

Please allow me to bore you with some photos of a few new things around here!  A while back, if you recall, I showed you my new "lawn mowing hat" and I had a request to show a photo of me wearing it on my new mower.  So here it is:

My lovely new lawn mowing hat - very elegant, eh?

Then, check this out:  My welder husband took some old metal and a couple antique hay rake wheels  and made this great "Ferris Wheel" for plants!   It actually turns, too!  Bear in mind, I DO have to paint it with some rustoleum paint and then a coat of outdoor white enamel paint to make this look real cute.  But I just wanted to show you how it looks anyway.   I just planted the petunias in those planters that I started from seed, so they need a chance to grow.   I planted a cascading type petunia called "double ruffle" (deep maroon color) and some called "morning glory red" along with some plain pink ones.  Once they get to growing this will be really pretty, I think!   I guess I can't complain now about hubby's scrap iron pile  - especially when he makes pretty things for me out of it!  This planter is about 5 feet tall and about 3 feet wide and weighs about 300 lbs.  I am going to eventually put some crushed rocks underneath so weeds won't grow.   The hummingbirds will love this flower ferris wheel.

The turn-able flower Ferris Wheel my husband made.

Another view.  I will eventually move it a little bit to the right after I paint it.

Another close-up.

Then, finally, check out this great new wing backed chair I bought for $12 on a northern Minnesota online auction site.  (do-Bid).   This chair is practically new and larger than the photo shows.  I will put it in the living room since I now have more room in there, since we gave up our TV .  We discovered we can watch everything we like to watch on the internet, live, so why pay for TV?   We are not movie watchers and we don't care for most of the shows on now.   I will get more use out of a reading chair in the living room by the window than a TV set.   I love colorful furniture and blue is a hard color to find these days.  It seems that every furniture store only carries earth tones of brown, black and beige.   Those colors seem so dull to me!  Give me color any day!  And I have always loved wing chairs.

Think I got a good deal for $12?

OK - I think I've bored you all enough!  We have had so much rain that the gardens are in terrible need of weeding - but - more rain is predicted!  Uff da........