Sassy Water

Emma found a recipe for 'sassy water'  on google. It is from the Daily Mail web page and is supposed to ease bloating in the stomach area (where else would you get bloating I ask myself).

We thought we would try making some.

The ingredients you need are:

1 teaspoon of grated ginger

Medium lemon thinly sliced

Medium cucumber thinly sliced

A few mint leaves - we didn't have any mint leaves so we used some dried mint instead (I hope that wasn't a mistake)

Here is a random question: When you look at pictures of lemon does it make your jaws pull in - it does me :))

Here is a picture from the top of the pitcher.  The wee black dots are not flies but dried mint leaves.
 I did think twice before putting this picture up!!

Anyway, you leave that all in the fridge overnight, drain it the next morning and then drink and hopefully enjoy, lol.

I'll let you know how it tastes. 

PS. Well it is now the next day. We tried the water - I have to say it isn't too bad - the main flavour being lemon - but to be honest I would rather drink plain water.

Blueberry Bells

Our great weather continues - temperatures reaching 84.2 degrees fahrenheit!

 Believe me when I say that is hot for here. I know some of you guys get a lot hotter than that - I don't know how you cope with that kind of heat!!  

But I am LOVING our 84.2 :))

This is our blueberry plant - it is starting to flower. 

Which means we will get some lovely blueberries this summer. 

We have strawberry and blueberry plants, and now an apple tree.

 I really wish we had a big enough garden to grow more but this will do me for now :))

I was lying flat on the ground to take this picture - I sure hope none of my neighbours could see me they would have been wondering what on earth I was doing!!!

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 Lisa

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Fab Friday

What a busy (but good) day I had on Friday.  

First off I had to go to work and I don't finish until 6pm.  Then I had to get ready to go out for a night out. 

One of my work colleagues retired last week and we were having a wee night to celebrate with her.  We were to meet at her house at 7pm.

Before work I had dropped Emma off in town so that she could join her friends at the beach - great life that girl has got. I told her if she was ready to go home at around 5.30pm to call into my work and I would give her a lift home.

Well, she duly turned up at 5.30 armed with a lovely bunch of flowers for me - isn't she the best :))  

A lovely bunch of gladioli and they were yellow - my favourite colour.

I took some close up shots - well your knew I would didn't you :)).

I made it to my night out in time and had a great time.  

We enjoyed a Chinese meal and had lots of laughs and a good time was had by all.

A great way to finish the day.

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Nancy

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An Update and some Flowers

We are having such a great spell in our weather at the moment. 

My only complaint is - I have to go to work - it would be so much nicer to be off and sitting in the garden. 

 But, I suppose I can't have it all.

Everybody seems so much more cheerier and smiley as well, which is lovely.  

Well, that's my Emma finished all of her exams - just waiting for results to come in - they should be the beginning of August. She is also finished at school so she has a lovely long summer ahead of her - she does have a wee job but she does get quite a few days off.

She also has her prom coming up on the 18 June.

Karen has just found out today that she has a conditional offer to go to university for a digital art course. She just have to pass the course she is doing at the moment and she will be in.  

Phew I will have 2 of my children at university this year!!

And Laura, my oldest, is off  on holiday on Saturday. She is going to Vegas - lucky thing.  She is very excited about it all - can't say that I blame her for that!! The only trouble is Danny has to get them to the airport really early. They have to leave here at around 5am. 

Yikes!!!

Now that I am up-to-date with my children I thought I'd pop into the garden to see what I could photograph.  I found these lovely tiny wildflowers - I've no idea what they are but they are lovely. 

And these are the flowers from Karen's strawberry plants - these are very pretty too, don't you think?

I'm sharing these today with

Deb

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My Mirror

 A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I love elephants.  

Well, I wanted to show you my elephant mirror. 

My mum and dad bought it for my Christmas when I was about 18 (that sure was a fair few years ago!!).

We had taken it down a while ago when we were decorating but on Sunday Danny put it back up for me.   

I love it!!!!

I couldn't resist popping in to say hello - 

so 

 Hello Everybody :))

A Perfectly Lovely Afternoon

It's just as well I decided to put yesterday's post up early because the internet went down sometime yesterday afternoon. 

 I tried to get on last night to catch up with a few blogs when I couldn't get on.  

This doesn't happen very often but when it does it's just a wee bit annoying.

Anyway it came back on at around lunchtime today. So here I am - trouble is I'm off to work in an hour.

Because yesterday was such a lovely day I didn't want to waste it by being indoors so I decided to walk round to my mum and dad's - about a 20 minute walk each way. 
So,  I got to enjoy the lovely weather, get some exercise (and a couple of pictures) and see my mum and dad a definite win win situation. :))

I only managed to get  a couple of pictures worth posting. 
I love these dandelion shots and couldn't make my mind which I preferred - so I posted them both :)

These next two have a strange colour cast to them - I tried to fix it but they still look a bit strange, in fact I've probably made them look worse.
 

But I liked the ploughed field and the grassy field in the distance and of course that lovely blue sky

I had a nice blether (chat) with my mum and dad catching up with what they have been up to had a very nice cup of coffee and no biscuit :))  
Then I enjoyed my walk back home.  

A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon.  
Now I just have all the housework to do that I should have been doing  - oh well!!!

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Beautiful Bloom

I'm up bright and early this morning. 

It's a beautiful day. 

 According to weather reports the weather is going to start improving this week - all I can say to that is YIPEEEEE it's about time.

 I just love bright sunny warm days - who doesn't!!!

The trouble with living in this part of Scotland is that you can never plan anything because you just don't know what the weather is going to do. 

But today I'm going to spend some time outside enjoying the sun.

So all this to say I'm putting my post in early.

I found a new blog to share pictures with and thought I would add this to it today.

I saved this picture from my walk yesterday because I thought the flower was sooooo pretty and I just love the yellow and orange.

The blog belongs to

 Nancy   

and is called 

aruraljournal.com

 

Now I'm off to read some blogs and then I'm out of here to go and enjoy our lovely day.

Hope your day is just as good.