EARTH DAY

 

Earth Day was yesterday...and it was a good day to! The weather here for the most part was beautiful till we had some much-needed thundershowers in late afternoon, just in time to water all the new plants in the garden I was planting. The stunning magnolia is actually our neighbors and sits betwixt our priorities. Every year Earth Day is a welcome reminder to give our planet some much needed TLC to ensure a better, healthier future, and get us outside more. That means we should all carve out time to reassess our own carbon footprint or do a little something to add to the environment. I myself have committed to planting more annuals and perennials in the garden to attract natural pollinators. Last week we had two huge bushes of some sort removed, and I planted a whole new garden, and was surprised at how quickly bees were already finding them...they weren't even in the garden yet, but still in the little buckets you buy them in. How can one not get behind a day like this or do something for Mother Earth when we get such lovely results...like a spectacular spring. Some snaps from the day...

Our Eastern Redbud

Last of our tulips of the season

The columbine came out full force, and while out yesterday I was very surprised to see the bleeding heart I though was dead and gone...is still there and is coming back.

Our Lilac with visitor. The first butterfly of the season!!!! It smells heavenly.

This one is a miniature lilac. And loaded with buds just waiting to open...and right next to my bedroom windows, even closer than the other. That will make for some wonderful scent upon getting up in the morning.

The yellow finch males are well, back to yellow again! Nice to see them. I also added in another birdbath yesterday for the feathered ones...now three boyd baths!

This grounds vine thingy. It is great...but can get extremely invasive and has to be kept in check.

One of the new sage saliva planted with a bee already making an appearance if you look closely enough.

The "Westwell" anemones

Some of the new salvia and delphiniums that were added in yesterday. I even got one tomato plant just to see how it does. I'm also toying with a small herb or potted herb garden.

I suspect he was supervising.

And since it's spring...how about some Miss Hope Springs!

ALL IN A WEEK

I must apologize for being so absence this week. It seems I didn't make my rounds with you all this week, as I normally do. I'll admit the spring bug as bit my ass, and I started my nightly jogs up at the lake again, and I also had a dinner date with my Asian persuasion Stockbroker, whom I hadn't seen in some time. It has certainly been a week dear ones, and I'm here to tell you, I'm exhausted...EXHAUSTED I tell ya. It all started last Friday with friends at the Raven in New Hope, where we caught up with the ultra fabulous and talented Miss Hope Springs, who was in from London, for her very well received show.

 What a treat and truly entertaining queen. Hope writes her own original music, sings with his own voice, and tickles the ivories of a baby grand. Afterward we even got to talk and make merry with her for some time, and the Mistress received one of her fabulous cd's....a sure thing for a relaxing weekend.

 

Luckily, yours truly remembered the show, but not much after that, as the spirit was getting the better of me. I do believe, Smitty the bartend was getting me drunk..... I was then taken to my room across the street, by Ms.Moorecock and left for dead till the morn light....which was very ugly indeed. I'm not sure what bus line hit me, but it was a rough day. Monday started out swell with a doctors appointment. Now I don't mind the doctor...I don't. But...my new doctor is extremely handsome,HAWT, tan,HAWT and looks muscular, and I go all stupid when left with him. What was I saying? Oh...the doctor. Well, yet again I was embarrassed this visit, as the last two. This visit was my yearly whole works check up, and I'm getting at the age now where guys start getting the ole finger up the bum check. WELL, HELLOOOOO!!!! I'm sure he knows I'm smitten after that. Good grief, at least buy me a drink first. But this time my boy down below decided he'd stand at attention!!!!!!! Now I'm proud of what I got, but he must think I'm completely easy, I have no idea what goes through his head, but he did put me at ease, till it came time to check the boy and twins and BOING....UP AGAIN! Needless to say afterwards, I needed a stiff drink.

 

Later in the week I had an impromptu trip to another store to help out with some visual work with a new shop called Suit Supply, and set up a display at our own store for a new designer J.Mendel.

 

And a handbag set up, we did at one of our entrances...Loved the yellow. I was very pleased how this turned out.

I took a half day yesterday to go visit one of my guilty pleasures Aurhaus, a lovely purveyor of beautiful interior accessories and furnishings. I am in the beginning stages of doing some interior sprucing at the Casa. The whole joint is getting the walls re- plastered and painted and then I want to freshen the place with some new accessories. I always get some good ideas at this place...but the wallet hates me for it. And like Mame Dennis, every couple years, is time for a change.

No, I won't be hanging chairs from the ceiling though.

 

Needless to say, I'll be happy to have the week end, and have some time to myself this weekend. After this week, I need a nice evening to relax and a day tomorrow also. Sunday will bring about Lambetville's Shad Fest which I'm heading to, so Ill report on that then. But tonight I stopped at the market to get some poesy's for the Casa. Nothing like fresh flowers to enjoy.

AH POPPIES,POPPIES...POPPIES.....

 

A gin and tonic....BUT OF COURSE....

 

And then a lovely late afternoon spell.

Isn't that what weekends are for?

MISS HOPE SPRINGS..A OLD HOPE IN NEW HOPE

 This weekend, the Mistress will be over joyed to have the privilege to see this next Grande Dame, Miss Hope Springs ...Comedy Cabaret Chanteuse.

 This weekend, the London based queen will be headlining her first and only show in the US right here at my beloved Raven Resort in Hew Hope!!!Miss Hope Springs is the towering blonde creation of composer, lyricist, pianist and comic actor Ty Jeffries (son of the late British screen legend Lionel Jeffries).  Ty’s formative years living in Tinsel Town lend authenticity to his multilayered portrayal of never-say-die show business trouper Hope Springs.  Ty is a classically trained pianist (Purcell School) and since 2012, his glittering alter ego has been starring in London's West End top cabaret rooms. Playing the piano and singing her award winning repertoire of uniquely catchy original songs, ex-Vegas nightclub chanteuse Miss Hope Springs brings her laugh-out-loud-move-you-to-tears one-woman show.  A show which has garnered praise from critics.  Still wearing the sequins she left the Pink Pelican Casino with in 1972, and accompanied by her Hot Jazz Combo on throbbing double bass and sizzling percussion, Hope regales with hysterical tales from her ‘Ritz to the pits’ life.  You’ll hear Hope’s blend of finger snapping pop, romantic rhumbas and sassy bossa novas.  Ty is a classically trained pianist, a published songwriter (Elton John's Rocket Music) and has worked with artists as varied as Neneh Cherry, Vangelis, Chaka Khan, and Billy MacKenzie and The Associates. Ty continues his hugely successful relationship now in it’s 5th year, with London's premier cabaret room, Crazy Coqs, with a once monthly Sunday evening residency.

 

If your in the area stop on by, enjoy a talented queen and sling back some gin with the Mistress and clan.

Grande Dame...Miss Hope Springs

After more than a year of sell out shows and critical acclaim, at 'The Crazy Coqs' London's  premier West End cabaret venue, unique comedy cabaret chanteuse Miss Hope Springs continues her hugely successful sensational weekly Sunday night residency. Performing her award winning, self-penned songs at the piano, accompanied by sassy double bass and simmering percussion, the ex-Vegas showgirl delights audiences with her Jazz, Pop, Swing and Bossa Nova originals, while her scandalous showbiz stories and slightly medicated stream of consciousness humour tickles them pink, and with her top drawer musicians on bass and percussion, Miss Hope, swings her way through an evening of acclaimed material and personal anecdotes from her ‘Ritz to the pits life’

 

Does her look remind you of anybody?

 

And check out her act and voice.....incredible sounding and loungy! And the video is very Mary Tyler Moore.......You'll enjoy I promise, or I don't drink gin!