THE SUNDAY GARDEN AND PHOTO CHALLENGE DAY #2 -- MY FAVORITE COLOR

Hello friends!  I hope you are all having a wonderful day.  It has been such nice weather here lately and I am enjoying all of it.

I am cleaning up the garden little by little.  There is a huge amount of work to do and I just can't do it all at once.  Wish I could but I'm not 20 anymore.  Or even 30.  When my back and legs start hurting, that's the end of my clean up.  BUT I had an entire trash can of cut off branches, weeds and pruning to put out to the curb this week.

Instead of cutting things back the other day I sat at the kitchen table watching the birds at the bird feeder.  All of a sudden they all flew away because there was a big pigeon coming down to chase them.  He (or she) sat on the top of the fence post watching.

Sorry this isn't the best shot but it was through the screen window.

I had another visitor too.  A squirrel came to see what he could find.  I haven't seen a squirrel in my yard for about two years.  So nice they have come back.  I'm going to have to get some peanuts for him.

A second pigeon came to join the first.  I tried so hard to get a picture of it in flight.  It was so pretty, but I missed it every time because the pigeon was fast and I was not.

I could have sat there a lot longer watching them, but unfortunately I had things to do.

Last night on the 11 o'clock news broadcast they ended the program with a drone view of center city.  It was so pretty that I stopped the picture and took a shot of it.  I was just saying to Joe yesterday that I love center city at night.  At the upper middle just left of the tall buildings is about where I live.  Not too far from the river.

By the way, thank you everyone for your kind comments on my new jacket.  I hope I didn't mislead anyone into thinking it is a kimono.  It really is a jacket with kimono sleeves.  It is beautiful though, and I wore it to church today with a pink blouse and a black skirt.  After church though I changed into my "heart" t-shirt that I got down Ocean City a few years ago.  It's the first time this year it's been warm enough to wear this.  I ❤ this shirt.  😁

PHOTO CHALLENGE
Today's photo challenge was "Your Favorite Color."  This was hard for me because I really don't have a favorite color.  I like all different shades of blue.  I like red, magenta, orange and gold.  But I went to Rite Aid after church today to pick up a few things and went to their 50% off summer items to see what they had.  My heart went pitter pat when I saw this cute shell candleholder for only $2.50 and it had my favorite shade of blue inside.  You know I got it.  So here is my favorite color.

And here it is with a little battery powered tea light that I had here.

I have it on top of my little stove heater and it is so pretty.

WEIGHT LOSS
I haven't talked much about how I've been trying to lose weight.  But my health was really suffering and I knew now was the time.  I have been trying since March with some success, but not much.  But then Joe had to lose weight too.  It was so much easier to do it with someone.  So I really started in April and Joe started in May.  When I weighed myself this morning I was so pleased to see I have lost 11 pounds.  Woo hoo!  All we have done is cut out a lot of the sugar and carbs we have been eating.  We don't deprive ourselves entirely, but we aren't running to the store because we are hungry for a doughnut either.  Joe has lost some, but I don't remember how much.  This is good for both of us.  And if we have to buy new clothes because what we have doesn't fit us anymore, well...  I think we can live with that.

And that's all for today, folks.  I'll be back tomorrow with another Photo Challenge picture.

Have a great evening.

Kathy