Rain, rain, and more rain plus a little of this and a little of that!

We had more storms roll across the area today.  About 20 minutes before I left work to come home (only 16 more days 'til I retire!!!) we had a tornado warning, the sky was so black and the rain just came down in sheets so I stayed.  We had no ac today at work so as the day wore on it got hotter and stuffier and downright draining in there.  So I was anxiously waiting until I could leave and then that happened.

 Back in the spring when I was working on the front yard gardens my helpers came over.  Dominic (one of my grandsons) takes his job seriously and was just having a field day with the garden fork while Little Miss Juleigha (my great granddaughter) just walked back and forth.  Dominic was also very busy stomping on ants that he found in my garden.

 This is a dogwood tree that I planted in memory of my mom.  She loved dogwood trees and this year it bloomed like crazy.  I want to get a pink dogwood next hear and plant it close to this one.  This is part of my back yard.

 This is my hydrangea bush.  I guess with all the rain and the cooler temps at night at the beginning of spring made it bloom like this.  However, the weeds I just can't get rid of.  We spend hours pulling and pulling until it's practically bare and then it rains and before you know it they look like this.  This only takes about a week to look this way.  These weeds come up very easily but have a long runner on them.  I don't know what to do to kill them without hurting the hydrangea.  We also have a tree growing up inside the hydrangea.  It's very frustrating!

And here is my handsome little Dominic.  He had to smell the flowers then told me that my flowers were bootiful!

I have been doing some punch needle...duh!  Should have taken a pic of my progress...oh well - I'll show the finished product.  :)

Hope that those of you that might have been adversely affected by all the storms across Ohio are okay and didn't suffer too much damage!

Thanks for stopping by. 

Char