My Happy Summer at Home Tour

I’m very excited to have been asked to join an astounding group of DIY bloggers for a Summer at Home Tour.

What’s really stupefying is that…

I don’t like summer!

I know, crazy right??

Summer is my least favorite season.  To explain my negative reaction to summer, I’ve lived in the desert most of my adult life.  Now we live in my home town in Oklahoma. The summers are not as harsh, but it’s sweaty a sticky. So summer is still my least favorite season!

My summer at home tour is updated

There are moments here in Ponca, that I do enjoy in the summer season.

Like our times sitting in the adirondack chairs in the backyard makes summer perfect. Lunches taste better eaten outside, don’t you agree?

The awesome window behind us is our bedroom window. During the long hot summer evenings, we lay across the bed and watch the fireflies. Or tornados! We only did that once and I didn’t like that. Actually, we were watching a really bad storm, but the tornado sirens went off!

Another summer pastime is birdwatching, this Scissortail Flycatcher, with he’s long tail, is hanging out a Ponca Lake. The lakes around the area are perfect for cooling off during the humid days.

Flowers grow here! We’re having fun learning what plants and flowers do well for us. And there’s not one single cactus in sight!

The BEST event in Ponca City in the summer is the annual Herb Festival at the LA Cann Gardens. It’s like a flea market, handmade items, and gorgeous plants in a stunning park! We’ve go every year.

The fox is one of about 60 placed around Ponca City. Each fox stands 54 inches. It’s a project by the City Arts to raise money to promote and educations of artists in our community. Each fox is painted by different artists. Why foxes? Because E.W. Marland, a lawyer and oil businessman, and who started Marland Oil Company. He was born in Pennsylvania and love to fox hunt. Oklahoma didn’t have foxes so he bought red foxes from Pennsylvania. Thank goodness he wasn’t a great fox hunter! The foxes in our neighborhood are decendants from his fox hunt days. We see them often.

Marland’s home is down the street from our house. Ponca City now owns the mansion and many events are hosted at the mansion.

This is our little fox in our backyard painted by me! It’s 14 inches tall.

We do a lot of bird watching, from the inside or outside of the home. This hummingbird is feeding from our lavendar.

This spring we did a refresh of our kitchen. I’ll share more on my next post. This tile wall was the “dramatic” part of the refresh.

This summer we went to a Oklahoma Thunder game. It fired up my lost passion of basketball! Plus one of the cheerleaders is my cousin! As I write this post, they are in the final playoff with the Pacers.

This is me at Wentz pool. Wentz pool opened in 1930! It overlooks Ponca Lake and has castle inspired cabins to rent. The big tee and golf ball is the Wentz Golf Course. Mike and I still need to add a game of golf to our summer events. In Arizona, we play golf several times a week, but we lived in the mountains and the heat wasn’t completely unbearable.

This is Lake Ponca looking down from the columns at Wentz Pool. Lake Ponca is another fun place to swim and cool off. There are little cabins around part of the lake that people own. In Arizona, water with so precious, you couldn’t have cabins on any lakes. And I do understand that.

Check out my past summer at home tour here

You can see touches from those past perfect summers to our Arizona cabin porch in my effort to survive this dreaded season.  I will share a cherished and strange family recipe perfect for summer.  Although my son believes the recipe is to be served between Thanksgiving and New Years.  Who raised him! 🙂

Of course, I will have a simple quick summer DIY project.