What do you do when it's hot and humid outside?

Well of course I decided to bake......as why not....LOL

I picked some rhubarb the other day and hadn't gotten around to using it, so decided to use some in the rhubarb cake,  I used this recipe.

I had to use up the rest of the leeks, so made a leek and smoked cheese quiche.

While the quiche was cooking I popped in some potatoes to make roasted potatoes which I coated in balsamic vinaigrette.

Supper was quiche, potatoes and salad.  With a piece of rhubarb cake for pudding.  It was yummy!

Champagne Bubbles.............

One of our neighbours up the road posted on our subdivision Facebook site, that she had free veggie plants she was giving away.  I reached out to her and asked her if I could have a couple and she said yes.

I picked up a yellow bell pepper, a chocolate bell pepper, a jalapeno pepper and two cherry tomato plants.  I gave the pepper plants to our son, as he has more room than I have to plant them, plus I know he'll give me any excess he has.

Here are my cherry tomato plants, I am hoping this tub is large enough, it should be:

and this is where the blog post title comes in; the name of this variety is champagne bubbles, as they are a yellow variety.

I am going to pop by this ladies house and give her a set of my reusable produce bags as a thank you gift for the plants.

Do you have a veggie garden?  Or just veggies in tubs?

Just stunning..........photo heavy.

It's that time of year when my all time favourite flower is in bloom.  My red poppy; it's stunning.  It's such a shame it's never in bloom for very long.

Now despite being British I have no luck when it comes to growing roses.  I have one mini rose in the garden, and it's hanging in there by a thread!

My white peony is coming into bloom also.  I need to pick some, as every year we get a summer storm and it gets bashed to bits.

I also have a couple of white clematis in flower now.  The purple ones are all done.

I "think" this may be a Columbine?  Not 100% sure.

One thing I need to look for are Irises.  This is a mini one.

Finally my bleeding heart, I have a white one, but it's all done flowering for the year.  They are hardy plants.

Are you busy gardening?
 

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Gentle Reader,

I cannot wait to see this...can you?

Couple of crafting updates.........

New month, so finished of the May section and started on the June section with my temperature cross stitch.

Now is it just me, or do you also think this year is just scooting on by?  May was a wet month but nice and warm.  It has cooled off a little so the a/c hasn't been on the last few days, which is nice.

As I have been reading a lot of books, my paint by numbers has suffered.  Here is what I have finished so far on it:

It's going to be lovely when finished, but I am struggling seeing all the numbers.  They are very faint.

What have you been up to crafting wise?

Sunday Song

I love this version of the Simon and Garfunkel song, very different.  I know it's not everyone's cup of tea.  So here is the original version as well.

Costco trip and a couple of deals........

 Went to Costco on Friday.  I haven't been in a couple of weeks, so had to get/spend more than I normally would.

The bill included a pack of 4 golf gloves for hubby, which do have to go back, so that would put my total at around $100 for the groceries.

The pack of muffins are a super buy at 2 packs for $10.99  The muffins are that big that I have to cut them in half.

I wrap them in cling wrap and freeze them, so we get 24 for the price of 12 and they are really nice.

Popped into Walmart and they had this bag of leeks on clearance.

I find leeks expensive over here, so rarely buy them.  After I cleaned them up, I had this lot left.  Popped them in my Tupperware Fridgesmart container and will use them up later in the week.  By the way The Fridgesmart sets are on sale at Tupperware at the moment.  I love mine.

Also saw this big bag of bananas on clearance.

I was surprised how good they were when I got them all out of the bag.

Good thing we like bananas!!

Did you get any good deals this week?