Our Caribbean Adventure: A Much-Needed GetawayIt has been nine months since the passing of Molly. I mention this because for the last five years of her precious life, Molly needed a lot of close personal care. This prevented us from taking any vacations where we had to leave her home.Our little pup had many needs, and we didn't want to burden anyone with those issues. To be honest, we weren't sure when her time would come, and who wants to place that responsibility on someone else? So, we didn't take any vacations away from home or without her tagging along in the car.A New Journey Begins ..Over the last five years ..Cruz Bay - St John USVICoral Bay - St John USVIGetting to St. John was a bit of a hassle and required some planning ..![st john 3 (1).png](

Another Week In The Books ..And another day closer to the Independence Day holiday week ..And here is the dry front lawn, Almost in complete dormancyYou are correct..But It is raining nowOrchid UpdateI Figured I would throw a quick orchid update in here…Back on the rack for now![IMG_3429.jpeg](

First, What's Not New ..Well for starters this Full Moon ..Now that what's not new is out-of-the-way we can jump into a few new things going on.New SilverI and revisiting an old collection ..Sooooo... I bought a new silver quarter. I wonder if you can guess which one it is by Looking at the picture above?? Yep you guessed it…1954 S Silver Quarter. 11.8 million of those suckers made! Wasn't hard to track one down I'll tell you that.I'm not looking for the best quality coins To fill in these gaps, as you can see, and the rest of the quarters in the collection are not in the best of shape anyway. Most of them I had gathered up from loose pocket change as a kid. If you take a look at a tape on the side of the collection my name is still barely visible in pencil written there.New

Appreciating The Beauty Around Me ..It was a quiet Sunday afternoon..Let's Take A Stroll ..First up are Day Lilies..I dug out several pieces of those lilies and brought them over to this new house. We still have those lilies in a pure yellow and a maroon color with a yellow center. Both Beautiful!The Gentlemen Buttons ..

It's Been A While..Yet again it has been some time since I've posted…High Go's SilverLet us start with silver, so I don't forget.This is a painting I did probably 18 years ago now. Refined my skills a bit but I thought it was the perfect fit being that we rearranged our entire house for this new carpet that we got. I needed a backdrop for that silver! Lol.Carpet is in and looking good, but as you can see our dining room is still packed with miscellaneous things including reading chair and all of my painting stuff. Sooner or later it will move up the list of importance and we will get it back into place. For now I snagged one of my paintings and I'll use that as the backdrop for these Cool silver Peace dollars. Sorry about the black glove. The only thing I had available at the time That was neutral and didn't take away from the coins.![IMG_3

Progress Sort Of Sums It Up ..Yes, that word sums it up nicely ..I'll shared these two photos with you because it depends how green the house was and then how clean they got it.Progress in the garden as well ..We picked up some additional plants this weekend ..I also got around to peeling that onion apart and planting each individual sprout in through the garden. We'll see how they make out.