Thanks for helping me deal with the loss of Sydney. I'm still very much on her time frame - always thinking time to feed her, time to walk her, etc.

Bad storm here a bit earlier but not as bad as when we got impacted by Beryl. They say several more days of rain, but it's making the temperatures drop and the plants are happy.

Today's Bingo words: COGNAC and TORCH RELAY

I have brownies in the oven so I'd bettter go check on them...

Today's Bingo words give us a look at Paris: ARC DE TRIOMPHE and LOUVRE.

Anyone have any garden news or pictures? With the most recent rains and more to come, my lawn is back to green and things are getting a little new growth. On a day when it's not wet or raining it will be time to mow. Haven't done that for weeks since it had been so dry.

Tgif everyone!!

poppy mix

Coreopsis

Nicole, beautiful flowers.

Beautiful flowers! Thanks for the pictures.

My card from Annie arrived today - a great card and recipe and I'll take a picture to post tomorrow. Flowers in my yard are few and far betwen. That extreme heat and no rain for about a month stopped any flower production on most. I have some crocosmia in bloom and that's about it right now. That is one tough plant.

So sorry. Got behind here.

Yesterday's words were: BASKETBALL and DIVING.

Today's words are: FRANCE and BURGUNDY.

Here is the card and recipe I received from Annie. Thanks so much. Beautiful job making the card. She even included a few red, white and blue postage stamps. Great idea! And the recipe she sent is for French Onion Galette ... sounds wonderful and I will try to make it soon.

Jeanne, WOW...that card made it to you fast. Just checked Amazon....The other small part of your swap is still scheduled to arrive at your home tomorrow.

Happy Sunday....stay cool!!

Someone named Sharon tried to reach me to get information about our swap. I tried to respond to your message but nothing is going through. Might just be me with not understanding the newer messages system. Anyway, if you see this, maybe there is another way for you to contact me?

We had some wonderful rain this weekend and cooler temps. So thankful for that.

Saturday was our July Euless Garden Club meeting. We've had some really good topics this year. This month's topic was microgreens, by a local person who grows them at his house and sells to a health food store. I used to eat a lot of sprouts, but never paid much attention to microgreens. I did buy seeds once for the pea shoots, but never planted them. I just thought they were to add to salads or sandwiches. I never realized the higher concentration of vitamins and minerals of the Microgreens compared to their counterpart mature plants. Now I'm very interested in growing them for the health value. Plus, I love all greens.

I'd love any advice from any of you that grow them.

Glad you got rain, Ruth. It seems every time I check my rain gauge there is 2 or more inches in it. Likely we have gotten 6" worth over the past 9-10 days and more ahead. It doesn't even rain all day long, but when it comes down it sure comes down. So nice that your garden club meets over the summer. Mine doesn't but they did plan some activities for each month of the summer this year so that was nice. So busy I haven't made it to one yet!

Annie. thank you for the little gift that came in the mail today. I haven't taken it out of the plastic yet, but it's a reusable bag for groceries and whatnot and has a design with the Eiffel Tower. Love it and it will be very useful.

So odd, when I pick Bingo words they often relate to each other. Today we have French phrases: BONJOUR and BON VOYAGE.

French food and drink for Bingo words today: CREPES and CHAMPAGNE. Sounds pretty good!

Opening ceremony for the Olympics is almost here. I will be plugged to the TV quite a bit while the Olympics are going on.

Annie, I haven't mailed yet, but will soon and will post when I do.

Our Bingo words for today: C'est La Vie and Swimming.

Continuing daily rain here. Lots of happy grass, trees and plants.

Rain would be lovely........

Jeanne, no rush on sending. I am leaving Saturday or Sunday and will be home Tuesday or Wednesday.

So looking forward to the Olympics....and, of course, Opening Ceremony Friday night.

Ruth, re: microgreens.....I have done a few different seeds in jars (sprouts) and shallow trays. I buy Botanical Interest seeds. You remind me, I have not done it in a while. I need to see if I have any seeds. They are tasty!!

Our daily rain and a bit of thunder just showed up so I'll keep this short. Bingo words for today are BON APPETIT and OLYMPIC MASCOT.

I just finished setting some of the Olympics up to record for later viewing. Can't wait!

Mailing out card tomorrow to Ruth.

where does the time go? way to fast where the month is about to end!!

take care everyone!!

Nicole, have you not received anything from me yet? I mailed over a week ago and am concerned that it may be lost.

Annie, I mailed your package today. I guess I should start listing who sent and received. I'll try for that tomorrow. Today I've been glued to the TV watching coverage of the Olympics - from when the torch arrived by boat in Marseilles through to the lighting of the cauldron in Paris. Everything was wonderful. I felt bad for them that it rained, but you would never have know it from the performances. Seemed everyone did their part perfectly.

Our Bingo words for today are BON COURAGE and PALACE DE VERSAILLES.

Ruth ~ sorry, your happy mail hasn't come yet. I remember you posting that you had mailed but so far, I haven't received it yet. Thank you for checking.

Happy Saturday everyone!! Where does the time go??? I need four more bingo words :)

Today's Bingo words: SEINE RIVER and EIFFEL TOWER.

Hopefully a winner this next week which is almost here. July has flown by!

Our Bingo words for today: OPENING CEREMONY and CITY OF LIGHT.

We're getting closer, ladies! Today's Bingo words: YELLOW and ROWING.

And an update on the mailing:

Jeanne and Annie will swap with each other

Jeanne has received from Annie.

Annie's package has been mailed by Jeanne.

Ruth and Nicole will swap with each other

Ruth has mailed to Nicole.

Nicole has mailed to Ruth.

Ruth ~ my notification shows delivered from amazon. hope you got it. hopefully you get my card by this friday.

Yes I did get mail from Amazon last night. Nicole sent a beautiful Welcome American garden flag. Thank you so much. I enjoy having a good collection of flags to change out.

I mailed on the 18th< I believe. How long should I give it before mailing again? I know we've had issues like this before.

Ruth, Unfortunately now and then some mail doesn't seem to go where it should and gets shuffled around. See what you and Nicole think about how long to wait. No problem with me and there being a delay. We know that you sent. However, if you begin to give up on it being received, we'll thank you to send a second time.

Our Bingo words for today: OLYMPICS 2024 and FLEUR-DIS-LIS.

Hopefully Bingo will happen this week!

As of today's mail, I didn't get the card. I am sorry it hasn't arrive yet. No worries. I am surprise how we get our mail anyway, it goes through so many hands/machines/etc etc. May be this week it will come.

I need two more words for bingo...

Happy Monday everyone!!

Yes, Bingo is going on and on but we'll have a winner soon. My strips I drawn from are getting pretty low. Today we have: BONNE CHANCE and BLUE.

Annie, I looked at my slip from the post office and they predicted your package would arrive today, but who knows?

I received my card from Nicole a couple days ago, but couldn’t remember where I put it. Duh, I had left it with incoming mail.
Great selection of seeds. Thanks so much.

Today will be 2 weeks since I mailed. I guess I’ll need to mail again. It will be something different since I don’t have duplicates of what I mailed originally.

Sorry Ruth for the trouble and also for sending a Christmas card but that's all I had at the moment. I did try to do red, white, and blue with the seeds. The card/seeds got there so quickly. I am surprised this batch of cards (yours and others that I have mailed from other groups I am in) got them so quickly.

Hope for a great garden season for you!

Happy Friday EVE EVE everyone!! I still need two more bingo words :)

I have been out of town....returned late last night.

Jeanne, your package to me arrived. I have not gone through my mail yet. I will post your niceness to me today. I need to do a few things around here before I do the mail thing....but thank goodness there is very little mail....LOL!!! Thank you in advance.

And I need to catch up on BINGO....soon!!

Nicole, you don't need to apologize. It's just our WONDERFUL postal service. Maybe one of us will eventually get it. I mailed a $30. something dollar money order to Georgia for a copy of my delayed birth certificate back in January. Haven't heard a thing from them. Lucky for me I found my old one.

And I love Christmas cards and the seeds.

Are y'all affected with this,

" The state of Texas is bracing for a Saharan dust outbreak, as large plumes travel northward from the African desert and move over the Atlantic." Our air quality is bad today. I'm trying to stay inside as much as possible.

Oh my, Ruth. I hate to think of a storm like that. I would stay inside.

Today's Bingo words. After this only 3 words left to pick so we are getting to the end. For today GREEN and BAGUETTES.

By the way, there is no swap for August. If anyone in FOTESS wants to post a heading for the Month of August for chatting and pictures, please be my guest.

Very cool PARLEZ VOUS OLYMPICS package from Jeanne....

*Paris card with Eiffel Tower

*I Pledge Allegiance..... To/From

*Recipe.....BLANC-MANGE....I have never heard of this. It is like Vanilla Pudding and very easy to make. Jeanne's Great Grandmother used to make this for Jeanne when she was young. OK, I will give this a try.

*Several "PARIS" puzzle pieces.....I do love to put puzzle pieces on cards.

Jeanne's gifts were all wrapped in white tissue with USA colored ribbons.

Very much enjoyed this month of Olympic excitement......I am going to lounge (haha) shortly and watch Simone win the All Around.

Thanks Jeanne!!

And Ruth, no news of the Saharan Dust Outbreak out here. I will read about that!! Possibly monsoon showers here today.....fingers crossed.

And the USPS.....shame, shame shame.....they keep raising prices and the mail delivery is slower and slower or LOST.

Now I need one more bingo word. Ladies check your bingo words to see if you are winner otherwise its a tight race :)

Ooops I forgot to put a recipe to Ruth. I will msg you one that I like to use. Hope you can get some stuff done Ruth since you need to be indoors due to the air quality.

Take care everyone!!

This should be the last time I post for Bingo. One word still to be drawn, but someone should have Bingo with these: SILVER and GYMNASTICS. First person to post Bingo wins. Thanks so much for participating. Made the month of July so much more fun!

Funny, I bet I know what that one word is, since I still need one word.

Nicole, I got the crepes recipe.

I'm working on something to send out, hopefully today.

Ruth...LOL!! "Funny, I bet I know what that one word is, since I still need one word"

I think the three of us (Ruth, Nicole and me), need the same word and it isn't SILVER.

I posted an August chat post, but it didn't show up. I'll give it until tomorrow and then post another if it's still not here.

Just mailed another envelope to Nicole. Should receive on Monday. I have a tracking number this time, so hopefully better luck in getting it.

Sorry you had to do that, Ruth. We all certainly know you sent the first time. This hasn't happened recently but for the longest time I kept getting mail in my mailbox that wasn't for me. Sometimes I would write "not at this address" put it back out there and sometimes it just came back again --- once it arrived here 3 times! If it's an address in the neighborhood I would just walk to deliver it when I was out walking my dog. Other times I had no idea who it was for.

Sorry, everyone. I had been checking off words as I drew and posted them and according to my list there are still 3 I have not drawn. Please recheck your words after I post the 2 for tomorrow. Someone definitely should have Bingo then.

bingo!! The last two were silver and baguettes.

Ahh Ruth, thank you for resending. I am sorry, may be it will show up. Thank you for resending and I will let you know when your happy mail will come my way.

TGIF Everyone!!! Thank you Jeanne for hosting!!

Congratulations, Nicole. I'll send out a little Bingo prize soon.

Congratulations, Nicole

Thank you Jeanne for hosting a fun month.

I posted an August chat post this morning (finally got it to post on 3rd try).

Congrats Nicole.....

Thanks, Ruth. That's great!

Happy Monday everyone and it was a happy mail day today. THANK YOU So much Ruth!!! I got both mails today. I wish I knew where the card was traveling because it finally came today along the mail you mailed out with tracking. The postmark date shows July 17th from Dallas Texas. I am sorry that you had to send again.

Thank you for your thoughtful card with the red cypress vine/blue and white nigella seeds/sheet of USA stamps/penzeys zatar/recipe for Socca flat bread) I need to get some chickpeas flour then I can make this. I will get back to you on how it taste. Right now, its too hot to be using the oven due to our hot weather. Also, thank you for drawing the olympic symbols on the card. The mail you sent with tracking: thank you so much for the red/white/blue greeting cards/spices of herbs de provence penzeys/zatar penzeys. The spices smell soooo good.

I love everything you sent and thank you again RUTH!!!!

Jeanne ~ I got your happy mail 2day, thank you for the red/white/blue flag! Thank you for hosting and hope everyone is doing well.

Glad it arrived okay, Nicole!