the Mammoth Sunflower house

Thankful for the Mammoth Sunflower, Cute Kentucky Birds, and Sweet Country Home Decor

by Kaye Swain

The Sandwich Generation caring for elderly parents and their real estate needs have much to be thankful for including this cute fall scarecrow clip art

It’s Thankful Thursday at SandwichINK Real Estate Info. A time to share the things we are thankful for this week – on the web, in our communities, and with our families. Here’s my list. I’d love to read yours – just leave it in the comments or link up and I’ll pop over to visit. :)

I’m thankful for the fun we’ve had with the Mammoth Sunflower seeds and other varieties my grandchildren and I planted to grow a Sunflower House.  It’s been so intriguing and the fun keeps going on!

I am so thankful for the fun we have had this year with the Sunflower House - it added sweet spice to our landscaping designs - fun for our senior and grandchildren gardening projects - and now will be great food for the Kentucky birds

I’m thankful for the Kentucky butterflies, birds, and critters in our yard that encourage my senior mom as she is busy with her gardening and provide us with great learning activities for grandparents and their grandchildren as we learn more about them from THEIR playing with and munching on the Sunflower House. After we put a couple of the beautiful yellow flowers on our pile of logs, we found the remains to indicate that a squirrel or some birds had enjoyed a yummy and healthy snack. :)

I am thankful the Kentucky Red Northern Cardinal birds and the squirrels are enjoying the Mammoth Sunflower seeds from the Sunflower House activities for grandparents and their grandchildren

I’m thankful  for the tiny hints of Fall that we’re seeing – in some of the leaves that are starting to change color, in the Sunflowers, and in the cooler nights – hooray. :) My thoughts are definitely turning to ideas for autumn art activities for grandparents and their grandchildren to enjoy creating some intriguing autumn country home decor such as centerpieces and wreaths. SO fun! 

As this autumn leaves clipart reminds us - fall is coming complete with pumpkins activities for our grand kids and updating needs for our senior parents landscaping designs

I’m thankful for all of you in the Sandwich Generation who caring for elderly parents – including helping them with their real estate needs, as well as helping with the grandchildren.  And I’m thankful for Greg's General Store for hosting Thankful Thursday today to encourage us all, Fertilizer and Flaunt Your Flowers Friday to remind us to stay on top of all our boomer and senior home landscaping designs and gardening chores, and My3Boybarians for Sweet Shot Tuesday next week – full of delightful photos and great tips to help us save all these fun family memories with our easy to use digital camera! 

PS Don’t forget… 

 

Tagged as: Autumn art activities for grandparents and their grandchildren, autumn leaves clip art, baby boomer and senior gardening, baby boomer and senior home landscaping designs and gardening chores, butterflies and flowers, easy to use digital camera, Fall country home centerpieces and wreaths, Thankful Thursday - Fertilizer and Flaunt Your Flowers Friday - Sweet Shot Tuesday, the Mammoth Sunflower house, The sandwich Generation real estate needs and issues

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The Grandkids Sunflower House Entertained a Wind-Surfing Bee!

by Kaye Swain

Delightful summer storms to cool us off and add a bit of exhilaration to our Sandwich Generation days! :) As I wrote at SandwichINK, the Sunflower House, and our house, have enjoyed some summer wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. I had fun snapping a ton of photos of all the goings on and was particularly intrigued with one very adventurous little honey bee.

These bees were determined to hang on and these flowers were determined to survive no matter how windy it was

At first, I thought he was just very tenacious. But after watching him a bit, I'm more inclined to think he was having a blast "windsurfing" in my giant Mammoth Sunflower!

This wind-surfing little honey bee is great for landscaping designs as he helps pollinate the various plants sweetly

I, of course, am thrilled because honey bees are great for our landscaping designs, thanks to their wonderful pollinating plans. And the Sunflower House has definitely proven to be good at attracting bees lately.

Looking for flowers for bees and butterflies to add to your delighful landscaping designs - think sunflowers

But mostly, I just had fun snapping his cute little picture with my easy to use digital camera so I can share the sights with my grandchildren and all of you! :)   Speaking of pictures, be sure to visit Sweet Shot Tuesday, as well, for more delightful and intriguing photos! And, don't forget to…

 

Tagged as: activities for grandparents and their grandchildren, baby boomer and senior citizen gardening, bees and flowers, caring for elderly parents, easy to use digital camera, Sweet Shot Tuesday, the Mammoth Sunflower house, the Sandwich Generation issues

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