11. Blue envelope

I think there is enough blue to count

12. Blue towel

16. Blue pillow or pillowcase

19. Blue on package from the grocery store

20. Blue cookie jar

15. blue fire hydrant

13. blue potholder

7. blue wheelbarrow

18. blue mailbox

Ladies, I am so impressed! I'll have to start counting.

Jayeanne, although I absolutely love your Shultz and Dooley Utica Club "teapot" (I have one myself and think this is Shultz who is a beer stein. Do you know for sure it's a teapot? I used to live in Utica, NY, years ago so I'm very familiar with the brewery and its characters and really think he's a beer stein.) Utica Club had the greatest TV commercials! Your cookin' sign is fine and will count.

I don't see any other problems. Good luck hunting!

10. blue fruit bowl

Jeanne ... you are correct, LOL! It IS a stein. My apologies ... new 'tea pot' coming soon LOL!

6. blue teapot

Better match on the teapot, Jayeanne!

Ruth, I got your card and little tuck-ins mailed today. Very simple but hope you enjoy it. I think a lot of the time we just get cheered up by getting something personal in the mail --- and not always junk mail and bills.

If you enjoy watching major horse races, the Preakness is tomorrow. I need to set up my system to record in case I guess busy with something else at that time.

Very stressful trying to get ready to move later this year, sell my house, etc. So far I'm only talking to realtors and not signed into anything, but I guess I'll have to take another step soon. I did rent a small storage unit this week so I can move some of the things out of the house thereby reducing some of the clutter. It sure gets your legs and back sore and I hope I get faster on packing boxes. It seemed it took me forever but these things might be out there for 3 months or longer so I was careful they were things I could do without for that length of time. This place is low tech with a gate that gets locked at night and a padlock on the unit so it suits me fine. I see so many online with computerized set ups, camera and 24 hour access. It wouldn't surprise me to find out some operate with face recognition!

This little place suits me fine.

Here are our two BINGO words for today.

Lookout

Silver Charm

I know those of you who are posting blue things are probably checking them off on a list. If you think you have all that you need posted, please make a comment here and I will check them. I'm going to make a chart for myself, but you are likely to notice before I do.

EDITED: I just made my chart and Jayeanne is the winner already! Congratulations, Jayeanne.

I debated for a few minutes about the fire hydrant, but then just checked it off for everyone. Fire hydrants are blue here, but I know in some places they are red and other places, yellow, so that probably shouldn't have been on the list.

Great entries, Ruth and Emily. So many pictures in such a short time.

Games won so far by Jayeanne, Urooj, and Emily with Bingo yet to be decided.

(Urooj, your horse crossed the finish line first and you get the win for the race!)

Swaps sent:

Jeanne will send to Ruth - Sent

Ruth will send to Urooj - Sent

Urooj will send to Jayeanne

Jayeanne will send to Emily - Sent

Emily will send to Jeanne

Hope I didn't miss seeing the others. Several "early birds" this month.

15. blue fire hydrant

Jeanne, I posted the above pictues to finish up before I read your last post. Yes finding a blue fire hydrant was just about impossible here. And the one I found is only partially blue. Here they all seem to be mostly red or silver.

(Why are fire hydrants different colors and what do they mean?

Fire hydrants are painted different colors to win the trifecta of maintenance, safety, and precise communication. Fire hydrants are reservoirs for life-saving water. Many people are unaware, however, that the paint color and select markings on a specific hydrant convey key information to aid in firefighting and safety.)

And normally I have tons of bluejays in my yard, but not yesterday and today. Only saw one.

First bloom ever today on Sunny Glitter

Congratulations, Jayeanne!

Ruth, Sunny Glitter is so striking!

Ruth, thanks for that info about hydrant color. I thought they were all red!

Wow for Sunny Glitter!

I hope it's okay to post this link here: https://www.northislandgazette.com/community/25-fire-hydrants-painted-throughout-the-village-of-woss/

Also, you can just search for painted fire hydrants and find some interesting ones. I remember we went to Charleston years ago and they were all painted like little firemen or soldiers. As for here - just solid blue.

Bingo Words for Today:

Day Star

Sunday Silence

got the best package from Ruth in the mail today. i love it. took a picture but its on my phone and I will post it tomorrow.

congrats jayeanne on the pictures win. i found a blue flower pot i was going to take a picture of later... lol...

will send my package out in the next few days! been busy here, celebrating the end of Ramadan.

Hooray, a package has arrived.

Our Bingo words for today:

Winning Colors

Behave Yourself

Heading out to see if I can find gasoline for my car.

This is the full list of Bingo words. The ones I have called are shown in Bold. I couldn't edit where I previously had this posted. Maybe after one week they "freeze" the message?

Aristides

Day Star

Lookout

Chant

Pink Star

Unbridled

Always Dreaming

Sunday Silence

Sunny's Halo

Secretariat

Winning Colors

Strike the Gold

Northern Dancer

Swaps

Tim Tam

Old Rosebud

Wintergreen

Leonatus

Worth

Behave Yourself

Bubbling Over

Country House

Animal Kingdom

Mine That Bird

Smarty Jones

Funny Cide

Big Brown

Swale

Silver Charm

Joe Cotton

hey everyone. happy monday! we have a dark and gloomy week in 8a. we need rain but no sunshine and gloomy weather makes me lazzzyyyyy.

got the cutest package from Ruth! some seeds, a blue scarf (i dont have this color!) a cute handmade card and derby trivia! (the fake rose is just added decor)

of course i put it away in a safe place so i cant type out the trivia fact... i cant read it from the picture. 🤣

still no gardening here...but i do have some things coming up regardless...

jayeanne, will get your package out today...

Bingo words for today:

Sunny's Halo

Tim Tam

We had that one day of rain and now it's back to dry. We are supposed to go up into the mid 90's for the weekend. That sure will slow me down on getting things down!

Got my cute little envelope from Jeanne today. Wow that was fast. Seems like everything I've mailed this year has been extremely slow.

I love all the little gifts and story. Thank you.

Had two beautiful iris blooming this morning in spite of the overnight downpour and storms that rolled thru.

Adoregon

Jeaane, your stuff is in the mail!

I got Jayeanne’s nice package on Saturday. She kept with the Derby theme and sent me a card with a couple of gorgeous horses on the front and seeds for royal blue morning glory and sky blue and pearly white morning glory. It is literally the perfect card and the inside is blue. She even found blue bags for the seeds! So well thought out! Thank you, Jayeanne!

She shared the following derby information:

The official song of the Kentucky Derby is “My Old Kentucky Home” by Stephen Collins Foster. This song is performed each year before the race.

The official drink is the mint julep.

Rain is a common factor. However, the derby has never been postponed due to weather.

Swaps sent:

Jeanne will send to Ruth - Received

Ruth will send to Urooj - Received

Urooj will send to Jayeanne - Received

Jayeanne will send to Emily - Received

Emily will send to Jeanne - Received

Great packages being received. I love the blue grass in the card Jayeanne sent. I only came up with green grass from an Easter basket.

I worked more in the garage today. You would laugh to see me moving furniture on my little garden wagon. We used to have a wheelbarrow, but something must have happened to it. No sign of it any more. Never underestimate the power of an old woman and her wagon!

Bingo words for today:

Leonatus

Chant

It's already beginning to look very sunny outside so I anticipate a hot day. I'd better get out there to do some work.

i found my derby fact while I was looking for a bill i needed to pay...

did you guys know that "Its the longest running sporting event in the U.S. The first Kentucky Derby was held on May 17th, 1875."

i lied... i didn't get to the post office yesterday... i received my second covid shot on sunday and spent most of yesterday in bed. i did not have the usual symptoms but i had intense back pain. i took some pictures of my front garden last night, and took a look at my irises... im not sure what i'm doing wrong but still no irises yet.

pictures not uploading. will try again later...

What beautiful day lilies, Jayeanne, (and other flowers, too)!

Sorry you had a reaction to the COVID vaccine, Urooj, but I hope you are all better today.

Here are today's Bingo words:

Country House

Swale

I have people here pressure washing the outside of my house today and they will also clean the outside windows. Sounds like a big project but I know things will look better.

jayenne, i mailed your card a few days back...

still cant attach pictures...

Bingo words for today:

Northern Dancer

Big Brown

BINGO

Congratulations, Jayeanne!

Whoop Whoop Jayeanne!

Here are a few pictures! It's cool and wet here. When it heats up things are going to grow GROW. We needed the rain, though.

That's my finger on the right. They are babies!

Ants on the peonies mean blooms later!

I have almost planted every seed I have. I'm saving some back because my shade garden is having some construction. Heidi

Congratulations on the Bingo win, Jayeanne. I might manage to get the prizes out before next week, but I doubt it. Will post when they are in the mail.

My house looks so good now that it got pressure washed. Like having a new house - well, almost!

Emily, thank you so much for the goodies I received in the mail. Your choice was perfect to include some postage stamps (with blue on them!) I was just thinking that it was about time to buy some more stamps. Really cute card and I'll enjoy trying to grow the Blue Breadseed Poppies.

Emily's information included that the Kentucky Derby dates back to 1875 and it originally was 1 1/2 miles long before it was reduced to the current distance of 1 1/4 miles in 1896. I can't remember hearing that before so something new for me to remember for a future derby. Thanks again.

Urooj ... received your DERBY card today ... so cute how you decorated the front of it with the horse stickers ...

FACT ... was about the derby HATs ... long story short as tradition has it has now morphed into sorta a good luck charm for both men and women wearing HATS that are attending the race.

she included a few seeds for allium azure, heavenly blue morning glory, african daisy, and blue bachelor buttons, unfortunately, all of which have been crushed and no viable seeds, had no bubble wrap to protect them. see pic for reference

Cute card, Jayeanne, and what a nice selection of seeds. Is it possible some will germinate - might be worth a try. All of our swaps are now completed so post more if you like and otherwise, enjoy your gardens. Mine are really in need of watering and I sure hate that part of garden work.

Thanks for joining in, everyone!

oh no! they got crushed. 😪 i will resend jayeanne!

Jeanne ... I agree super cute card!

Urooj ... although I truly appreciate the gesture, PLEASE DO NOT resendanything ... I added everything into my veggie garden to see if something might sprout ... if it does I can easily replant/transplant somewhere else. That is the area that gets the most attention daily. That is the reason why I add my seeds into a bubbler for the shear fact it is a 50/50 chance of survival in just an envelope LOL .. and believe it or not, your card/envelope was in absolute mint condition upon arrival. thanks again Urooj! enjoy your weekend, getting HOT here.

I can check another gardening task off my Garden Bucket List. You know I'm a little crazy. I made seed bombs and lobbed them into the location I've wanted to hit for 10 years. It's a maintenance road half the town uses as a shortcut. There's a "natural spring" that fills the ditch and on the other side are cattle in a pasture. I was trying to hit between the pasture fence and the far side of the ditch in the grass. A few hit the pasture and I picked a place that's lower and stays wet longer, but not standing water. I was so happy to have planted every seed I had (no holdovers for next year) and then I bought some for this project and found 2 more packets. So if the cows have sunflowers, watermelon or pumpkins it's my seed bomb! I'm hoping for a lovely crop of Autumn Beauty sunflowers to brighten our drive and then to feed the birds and maybe reseed. Plus, it rained last night! If it's ever going to work, it might be this time!

My peonies on the south have big buds and ants eating on them. The peonies on the west, no buds. Trying to figure out why. My tomatoes were freed from their prison in the dining room. They look so pathetic in the garden. I try to water and not look. I'm hoping they make it. Got my melons planted along my metal hoop and with the cottonwood tree gone they'll get more sun!

Heidi

What fun with the seed bombs, Heidi! Thanks for sharing.

I didn't want everyone to think I fell off the radar. I started the swap this month having in mind I might be done with my hostess duties before the end of the month and other than sending out the prizes, it happened. My daughters will both be able to come here and my husband's remains will now go to his final resting place while we are together. We have not all been together for over 2 years so a sad time, but it will be wonderful to see each other! If I don't get the prizes out this week, they will get mailed next week for sure.

Thanks to all who joined in. It was a fun month as always!

jeanne, enjoy your time with your daughters and putting your husbands remains to rest. it will be a nice time for closure and rekindling at the same time. thanks for a great swap, don't worry about the prizes at all. as you can see, the prizes from April are still on their way...

jayeanne, don't worry i won't send. i really thought they would be okay. im sure you know morning glories are hard to transplant but hopefully something sprouts for you.

heidi, i am so glad you told us about the flower bomb idea. i am a borderline hoarder/collector and i have so so so many seeds i'm almost ready to stop swapping (but won't even dare to think of that! :) i even promised some local newbies i would send the seeds and i never did. i don't know why but i have had a total disconnect with gardening this year.

in other news.... my youngest got accepted to a local competitive soccer league so i'm officially in over my head if i decide to accept that. good thing is we will be adding a driver to the family in July so she can help! last but not least, my eldest is graduating H.S. on saturday so both grandfathers are coming into town thursday/friday to get the weekend festivities going! (both grandmothers are recently deceased and will be greatly missed as he is the first grandchild on both sides!)

hope everyone has a great weekend. and as i said above, I'm still "thinking" about what prizes to send for the April prizes, my brain is working in slow mode these days.

I hope to get the game prizes mailed tomorrow. It's just a matter of putting my items in the envelopes and making sure I have enough postage on them so shouldn't be a problem. Before my daughters arrived I was trying to get the house cleaned up and dealing with so many of the details that were spinning in my head.

Still haven't mailed prizes, but I will get them out soon. I came home really tired after my travels. I'm still busy everyday reviewing the houses that come on the market. What an adventure - a tiring one!

Emily, your game prize is on the way. I'll get the others in the mail this week. Today I was hurrying and trying to get out Father's Day cards so they might make it to the guys in time for Father's Day.

Hi, Jeanne. I got your prize today. Thank you so much! Love how it fits with the theme!

Thanks for letting me know, Emily. Urooj, your prize is on the way also. Jayeanne, I should get yours mailed on Monday. For some reason I've been very tired lately. Not getting much accomplished and I need to do so much!

Jayeanne, your prize package is ready to go so I'll drop it off at the post office tomorrow.

Hey Jeanne. I received my prize. thank you for the wonderful seeds. Im glad the Derby winner hasnt been sorted out yet so i still got my prize! lol 🙈

i dont know how you know... but irises are my most favorite flowers so the card was also a plus! thanks again!

Jeanne ... THANK YOU! Absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the reusable (stands up) snack bags! OH these are perfect, cant wait to use them! they just have FUN written all over them! LOL the bookmarks are beautiful and will definitely be used. and also enjoyed reading your note, happy summer to you as well.

Thanks for letting me know that all the prizes were received. Sorry I was so slow getting them out.