The Tournament Is Over

These are my husband's Knock Out roses.

The Ray Avery Easter Tournament finished up last night. This was put on by our Local High School. The last game was between Ayden-Grifton and South Lenoir. South Lenoir won, and I'm happy with the outcome. Why, you ask? My cousin's son, Adam Williams, is a star player on the SL team. And as the saying goes, "Blood is thicker than water." And since I had no grandchildren playing baseball at AG now, I felt it was okay to pull for SL.

I had two grandsons who were good in baseball and I was proud of them. I remember playing softball with my cousins when I was a child. I always remember someone saying... "I'm taking Ann's last strike". They would choose me for their team, but if I hadn't hit the ball in the first two tries, I had to give up the bat to the team leader who might hit it or miss it. Anyway, I guess you get the point that they didn't like my batting..ha ha!

Back to the knock out roses.. Knowing how my husband likes them, our friends brought four more they had rooted, for his collection. Thanks William and Wertie !!

Roses Red

My husband finally bought himself a couple of knock out roses. He had hoped someone would give me one last year for Mother's day. (they are not my favorites) I didn't get one. He told everyone so I thought sure some of the children would get him one for Father's day. One DIL said she looked for some, but the ones she found had bugs in them and the store refused to sell them. So she got something else.

These are his new knock out roses.

The next photo of roses is an old Jackson&Perkins Blaze rose.

We bought these bushes back in the late '60's. We lived in town when they were purchased. We moved to the country a few years later and moved the rose bushes with us. When we built here in '71, the bushes moved one last time. This is the only one left.

This next bush started out as a hybrid yellow rose.

Over the years the canes died back and the red rose roots began to spring up. I think I had two yellow rose buds last year and even that little sprig is gone this year. Oh well, these wild red roses are pretty too!