This and That and the 4th of July

 First of all, belated Happy 4th of July. A lot of people celebrated but a lot of other people are holding their breath, wondering if our country can survive the idiot. We will, but so much damage has been done. 

Leave . the . cherry . trees . alone.

Kosovo celebrated our 4th in a big way. They always celebrate our holidays, because we saved them. 

Update on the UTI. My healthcare comes with MDLIVE and it was free! I filled out the information and received a call from a doctor. After several more questions I was prescribed an antibiotic, which my hubby picked up at our local pharmacy. I started feeling better after the first dose. I only take it for 5 days and I'm not having any bad effects, so I'm happy.

I felt well enough to go shopping later that same day. We went to Oshkosh. Hubby bought me another orchid. I have now scored two new birthday orchids. I think we are at a limit for now.

It cooled off! The noisy A/C is OFF and windows are OPEN!! What a wonderful day. We are staying home and enjoying a "do nothing" day. Hubby has the rest of the week off (company July shutdown) so we will probably do something, maybe tomorrow.

Here are my new orchids:

We bought this one on a trip to West Bend. This was my birthday gift from hubby.

Huge pink flowers atop a small plant. I didn't know I could love pink!

Yesterday we went shopping in Oshkosh and we found this one at Pick 'n' Save. The flowers are Peloric. Look at the extra petals in the centers of the regular petals! It gives the effect of jewels because of the added sparkle. Unusual!

Amazing flowers

It has 3 flower spikes!

And mottled leaves!! It is some kind of hybrid from a cross between Phal. schilleriana and something else. It might be scented.

It makes up for my sadness of this dying one, that may or may not have this name, but it might, so I gave it the name to give it hope to live. It's the purple one.

That's it for today.