SUMMER STYLE
Month: June 2019
Hallmark Day
I was up most of the night due to a middle-of-the-night downpour with tons of scary lightening. The dogs were upset and woke up barking. The upside was that I got to throw on my new Johnny Was raincoat to go to my early morning doctor appointment!
By noon the sticky humidity had arrived, which forced me to peel down to my silk tunic that we totally forgot to snap a cute photo of.
I did get to feel like a person in a Hallmark movie for once in my little raincoat. (We had a Hallmark Movie weekend so the feeling they build up in you that your life is just not quaint enough…was still fresh in my mind.)
The Hallmark movies are usually so cute and clean! We love them. The happy music they play in the background would not be appropriate for my life though. Here I Go Again by Whitesnake or anything by Journey would be my background music.
The raincoats came in different prints and this one is reversible! There is this beautiful view and usually baby ducks are piddling about in the little park area at my doctor’s office so we took a minute to show off my adorable raincoat! Whenever it rains I know I will have my sidekick with me since tennis gets canceled in the rain. Sometimes this is a good thing, and sometimes not so much! Today it was great! Who likes hauling in groceries or running errands alone every week? I got to buy a watermelon because I had someone else to carry it and load and unload the car!
Today was a Hallmark Day. Simple. Clean. Very few curse words and joy in the simple things.
A Bird Named Splash
I was so excited to come across eggs in a nest this past month! Previously, I’d been fortunate enough to find another one two years ago but this was a cardinal nest!
I found the nest tucked away at eye level and it had 3 little speckled eggs inside. Oh the joy! I kept checking every morning for about a week but the mom was always sitting in it, warming and protecting her babies.
One early morning, there were no more eggs. Instead, there were 3 tiny little one day old babies who didn’t even have formed eyes yet! Love!
I went out daily to hope and photograph the little miracles and loved watching them grow!
About 8 days later, I came home from work to find an empty nest. I felt empty and robbed! I researched and found that it was about the time the parents try to transport them to higher ground and work on a bit of flying.
Ken was piddling around the back yard watering and cleaning up…I was floating in the pool like a slug since I’d worked all day. Right over my husband’s head came the dad cardinal, flying along the side of the baby bird. It looked like a flight lesson gone awry. The baby bird lost his composure and face planted directly in front of me in the pool with his wings spread out! We were horrified and so was the dad bird, he wanted to help the baby bird but was scared and didn’t seem to know what to do. I threw my phone to the side, broke nail and jumped in to fish the bird out since he was still laying face down in the spot he had splashed into the water. Since the dad was clearly so upset, my fear was that he would drown himself to fish out his baby so he was looking on the entire time. I scooped him up carefully and checked to see if he was ok.
The baby bird was soaking wet and with both parents now flying and trying to get him to fly to safety but he couldn’t because his feathers were sopping wet.
Night came and he couldn’t fly although he finally tried, so we decided to take him inside for the night to dry off, knowing his parents would be at the bird feeder early in the morning. Mind you, he jumped onto my finger and seemed perfectly happy sitting there.
To keep him warm, I covered the cage with a dark blanket and he fell asleep on the perch within 15 minutes. Dude was like a week old…he was worn out. The next morning, the minute I heard peeps outside, I got up and took the cage outside near the feeder. We watched through the window when the dad came and saw him it was magical!
After about 15 minutes, he followed dad away, at his urging…and the whole family has been reunited!
They live in the trees that are higher in the backyard, so we see and hear them all the time! we wonder if he tells them about his adventure in our house.
I love birds and it was such a beautiful treat to see God’s little birds up close and in my hand. We are so glad we were there when he crashed in the pool so that we could help nature. I do realize that you shouldn’t interfere most of the time with the circle of life. I just really wanted to share my story!
SILK
Hi, y’all! People always ask about the different ways to wear a Johnny Was scarf and I am always quick to tell people that I sometimes wear them as a bikini top! Because the scarves are silk, people assume they must be dry cleaned, which isn’t true! While chlorine isn’t probably great for them, I have some that I keep for the swim wear purpose and I have not had an issue yet!
I water my plants a lot during the summer, so it’s a perfect quick top to throw on and it keeps me from getting swim tan lines on my shoulders. I do not enjoy bikini tops that wrap around the neck because it is not comfortable long term.
I really don’t have the type of skin that is sun friendly so I prefer to wear cute things that cover my skin from that big ball of fire in the sky. You will come to the same conclusion about the sun once you have a cancer spot dug out of your chest! I also decided that my short kimono – which is made out scarves, makes a beautiful and comfortable cover up.
I just wanted to share photo of one of my scarves as a bikini top since it always comes up in conversation! I have a terrible Johnny Was scarf addiction and I keep telling myself this is the last one!
They have videos on How to Tie a Scarf because there are a lot of different ways to get use out of them, this is just one of my favorites! What do you think?
Poolside Glam
