Backyard Honky Tonk - 2014

 Today was our neighbor's 3rd annual "Misery Loves Company" party is his backyard.

It gets better & better every year.  

 

The Hollywood Wranglers

This was my favorite band.

MDH brought over his gourd for Christina to play with, and I made the honky tonk banner a few weeks ago.

The Hollywood Hillbillies

MBC liked the steel guitar...

The Brian Lynn Jones Band

The Jimi Nelson Band

our host...neighbor Tony...

Lots of dancing...

We brought our special umbrella over:)

We got quite a kick out of this lady.  A groupie who had a little too much beer and wanted to sing with the band.  They told her "We wont plug your mic in, but you can play the gourd."  She sang like it was plugged in anyway:) 

Wilee likes country music.

So does Belle...

I can't wait for next year.

Windchime

by MDH

Today's harvest

new cooler

I know we don't need another cooler.

But this one is my favorite color and matches my beach towel.

A new umbrella for the patio

 Kellye gave me this umbrella (actually 2 of them) that Willy saved from the trash pile on a job.   It's huge...about 12' across.  The fabric was so dry rotted, that when I tried to sew the rips in the fabric, it just fell apart.

So, I decided to re-do the entire thing.

MDH sanded the wood so I could paint it.  This is the same $5 gallon of paint from Lowe's in Vegas.

It matches our swing chair and the side table.

Last year Manfred gave me a bunch of fabric that his wife was throwing away.  I had almost enough yellow silk for the panels.  I wouldn't have chosen yellow & I wouldn't have chosen silk, but as someone always tells me..."If you can find it in the house, then you can have it."  Since I'm not crazy about yellow, I decided to sew some patches on the underside...

I had to use orange velvet for the center section since I ran out of yellow silk.

I decided to add our initials so everyone knows who it belongs to ;)

 

Tah dah...

Free:)

I have an idea for the other one, but that's a project for later.

By the fence...

Sunflower...
(there are apple gourds behind the rock)

Bell pepper...

Tomatoes...

And pumpkins...

2014 Garden - week 12

 The tomato plants are taller than I am...

Cucumbers and gourds in the back...

Sweet Million tomatoes...

We have 1 or 2 zucchini every day.

The dumb squirrel ate the cucumber in the back.

We love yellow squash...

Corn is getting tall...

The second garden is getting full sun now.

We added some strings for the gourds to climb up.

A quick trip to Vegas

MDH had to work and I had a hair appointment:)

We finally drove on Zzyzx road...
It was dark and I was a little scared.

We tried to watch the meteor shower from this giant rock, but it was cloudy...
The rock looks small in the this photo, but it was almost as tall as I am.

Saturday...

First order of business is a quick trip to Moapa.

to get some sparklers.

Then a stop @ Savers.
I was happy to find a few Tupperware tumblers.  The extra large size...

Of course I had to drive by my house. Twice.  Then to a 3 & 1/2 hour hair appointment.
Then finally I picked up some tacos and headed back to the hotel just before MDH had to go back to work.
The next day while MDH was working, I ran to the World's Largest Gift shop.
I got some patches for my bag...

 Then we went out for breakfast @ Blueberry Hill.

And to visit my friend PAL and his fiancee, where MDH found a dead tree to bring home:)

We wanted to ride the High Roller @ the Linq, but it was not running.  Hopefully next time...

And on Monday...

What should have taken about 4 hours, took 7 hours to drive home in holiday traffic.

& in 100 degree temperatures:(