Since the party started.......

Mike and I started our own little party outside on Fathers day.
I made his favorite meal, and afterwords we decided to head outdoors.

 WOWZA, what a party it is so far.  This party by the end of the week will have hundreds and hundreds of links.

Here is the line up for the rest of the week.

You MAY link up here or go visit any one of these blogs when their party starts and link up there as well.

Mike chillin!

Kim is next up for outdoor patios and deck.

Well seeing I shared my day time summer deck, I thought I would share our evening party deck.

I never took evening pictures, so I thought I would try my hand at that.

LOTS of trial and error.

My bad, I had to bring the laptop outside, so I could start to blog hop.  Mike understood, and we still were able to chit chat.  If I left you a comment and there were typo's that is why...

not good at multi- tasking anymore.

Getting the tiki's going.  Believe it or not we do NOT have a huge mosquito problem back here.

In fact, never get bit, I guess they do not like me!

Fire is cooking now...

Outdoor speaker for some tunes!

Roo is looking all Relic.

Taking night time photos is practice..I have a long way to go.

And this is the patio by night....

and by Day...

 Some of you gals asked me about this rug.

It is suppose to be for outdoors and I bought it at Walmart (Better Home and gardens collection), However, it went back the next day.  It retains way too much moisture and I could see it would be a problem with rain and dampness. SIGH...it really is pretty if  you have an enclosed room.

Summer Color paint partay is coming in de house!

Oh yeah, oh yeah, Summer color paint partay is in the house, oh yeah, oh yeah!!~wish right now, wish right now...

Ok I am not losing it, and no I don't think I want to be a rapper, but I make up my own songs sometimes.

My sons room is right next to my computer, and he has his music blaring at times, and I can't help but sing..

Just a friendly reminder girls, I want to see you all tomorrow night to kick off the week long 

Blog party.

It's not like I have not reminded you, or helped motivate you...HELLO, I should have been a motivational speaker this weeeeeeeeeeekkkk!

Don't worry I won't clobber you or anything...

But I would hate for you to miss the fun, and to potentially meet a lot of new blogging friends.

Speaking of friends, my friend Jennifer spied this flag on ebay...she said it reminded her of me...

well for 5.00 no shipping, I just had to have it.

How cute it is!~

Today putzing around my garden, I realized, that although I am not great at gardening, I seem to have luck

with anything vine..perhaps because they are easy, and just like where I plant them.

Trying to camouflage the shed some.

I planted this jasmine 5 years ago, and it is still going strong. In fact, we have to trim it often, because it grows out of control.

This is my most recent planting, near our outdoor fence. Not sure how it will do, it is starting to bud, but NOT grab to the fence very well.

I just wanted to leave you with the last picture.  Since that horrible storm we had weeks ago, So many of our neighbors, and outside neighboring area have had roof damage, and actually had to get new roofs.

Thank goodness we are not one of them.

SEE you all tomorrow!
NO NEWBIE PARTY:
this Summer paint project party is OPEN to all!

Here's some motivation for you!

Some of you gals expressed to me, that you don't have anything to paint for the Summer paint project kick off party on Monday.

Well I think you do, if you look around and think outside the box....

here are just a few fun ideas, simple and you can find most around your house.

We all have a rock or two in our back yard...
Paint your initial, or a house number, this is a really cute idea!

Have an old chair that needs new life?

Cute, and easy!

Have some old trays or even plates around?
Pick up some chalkboard paint at Walmart and Paint it...

Source: Country living
 I am betting you have some empty bottles around...
Spray paint them.


So here are just a few examples of something you can paint for Summer.

See you Monday for the Summer Paint Linky party, and blog party going on all week.

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