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Volume 22 Issue 7, July 2025 What's New in July?  Took a week off to visit family in Illinois before wandering through the Smoky Mountain National Park on our way back to Florida. It’s been years since I’ve been to Gatlinburg and wow, it’s really built up! Crazy busy on a very hot day that had us seeking refuge in a cantina where Harry could chill under the table and we could enjoy a great taco. It was great to get to the park after facing the crowded streets.   In the animal bingo world, we saw elk, deer, and even...

Volume 22 Issue 6, June 2025 What's New in June? Here we are already at the halfway point of the year and the beginning of the hurricane season. Heading into the doldrums of summer is never fun in the tropics, but there’s always the ocean to bob around in or the pool to nap in on a floatie. I have been busy working on putting together a hummingbird garden outside the back porch and some remodeling inside, so while I have lots of flowers, I don’t have any furniture. Interesting times! Harry is turning 7 this month, so a big...

Volume 22 Issue 5, May 2025 What's New in May? Been very busy in April putting together a lot of lovely flower cards and stickers, so May is going to be as colorful as my yard is these day. I added a hummingbird garden section of the back porch, which includes the porterweed flowers shown below. I bought purple and coral red flowers, and while I’ve yet to see a hummingbird, my butterflies have lost their collective minds trying to get all the nectar from these pretty little flowers. In addition to building more flower boxes, I dropped a finch...

What's New in May? Been very busy in April putting together a lot of lovely flower cards and stickers, so May is going to be as colorful as my yard is these day. I added a hummingbird garden section of the back porch, which includes the porterweed flowers shown below. I bought purple and coral red flowers, and while I’ve yet to see a hummingbird, my butterflies have lost their collective minds trying to get all the nectar from these pretty little flowers. In addition to building more flower boxes, I dropped a finch feeder under the trees to see...

Volume 22 Issue 4, April 2025  What's New in April? Other than a trip to the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, we’ve been laying low this month and puttering around in the flower garden. Lots of new Monarchs have flown the coop, and my dill and parsley is ready for the swallowtails to start laying eggs. Now that my butterfly garden is well established, I moved on to starting the hummingbird garden that I have been put on the To Do list for a long time. This is the spring for it! The weather is still very nice and the humidity...