What's the Story Morning Glory?

I suppose it is no big secret that my favorite color is blue. I ♥ blue. Morning glories are just the perfect color of blue....
When I was younger, one summer we made a "sunflower house" in my mom's garden. We planted morning glories to climb up the sunflower stocks. I thought it was really neat to see the morning glories open up in the morning and then later in the afternoon close up tight....
Before we got married, Robin bought some seeds. He knew I liked flowers and he knew I liked blue, so he picked some blue flowers.... Morning Glories....
This year, I planted the morning glory seeds next too our peas. I knew peas grew up and that morning glories need something to grow on... it seemed like a good solution and similar to the "sunflower house" I enjoyed in my mom's garden.
The vines have been growing really well, but I didn't expect the flowers to open because our balcony doesn't get any direct sun until 3pm... quite a bit past typical morning glory time... I figured it was at the very least a good experiment....
Imagine my surprise when I looked out the window this morning and saw HUGE blue flowers blooming. Oh so pretty.... I keep looking out my window at them... they are really pretty... pretty blue... it certainly puts a smile on my face :)

Weekend Market

Robin and I went to the summer market in Michaelstadt this weekend. It was a cloudy day, but there were plenty of people at the market. During the day, there were two bike races through the middle of the town. We decided to watch the first one. When we got there, we realized there was something special about this race - most of the racers were dressed kind of...funny. There were guys in McDonald's shirts with candy in a basket on the back of their bike. Guys dressed up kind of like bugs. Other guys were wearing long, blonde wigs... and then there was the huge milk shake attached to the back of a bike. The most creative, was the cappuccino build on top of a bike. The race was a relay race and each team represented some business in town. It was really funny to watch... The milkshake made it around the course in surprisingly good time. As did the cappuccino. The winner of the race was the guys in wigs....

Cappuccino bike

Milkshake Bike

A Dishwasher

We are quite glad to have this little machine in our apartment. We can just put the dishes in before we go to bed, wake up and the clean dishes are already to be put away. No more 20-30 minutes at the sink hand washing the dishes... and then drying them all so they don't have "water stains" on them.

How does your Garden Grow

Our garden grows quite well, thank you. This week we started eating some of our plants... just one strawberry and one pea pod at first, but every day we are getting a few more. Our strawberries are really good... "unheimlich suess" is how my neighbor would describe it or unusually/incredibly sweet (she told me that the strawberries she bought the other day were unusually sweet). The peas are quite good as well.