| Growit Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 12:01 pm: |   |
OW DJ! Poor you. Are ticks a big problem where you live? My son had one on his leg once when he was little.(it actually fell off in our bed one morning...Yuk!) but apart from that (touch wood) I have never seen one (apart from the cat having one when I forgot to use the stuff on him) or had one on me.
Love the pictures you have been posting on here. The house looks so wonderful now. Hard to believe it is the same building.
At some point I need to catch up on your journal. I feel like I have started reading a good book and have had to put it down for a month or so.  |
I don't know if they are a big problem, but we are sure seeing more this year than in previous years. I attribute part of that to the fact that my husband takes his dog for a walk around the barn, through the hay. I mowed the hay there the other day, but we have so many rodents and wild animals passing through that I'm sure it won't really make much difference.
Ick. That's what I am afraid of, that my husband tracks them into our bed and they're going to head for me. For all I know, that's where this one came from.
Thank you. It is so amazing what a difference the paint job made. I just love it every time I see it. Not really looking forward to finishing it, but can't wait to finish it. LOL.
LOL. It'll take forever if you read what you've missed... you'll end up behind on all of the new posts. LOL! |
May 15, 2008 (Thursday )
(continued from before)
Google Image Search
* +"moon garden"
Here's another good rainy day link:
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/Design/
The edges of the Kingsblood Tulips have begun to darken. They have lasted a long time. The Muscari is setting seed. I'll let it go this year and maybe try collecting seed some other year. I am trying to cut back on growing things. LOL!
Despite that last statement (*snicker*), I want something besides hay to grow among my stepping stones, if possible. One idea is Woolly Thyme (Thymus pseudolanuginosus). Something cool for the shade garden might be Brass Buttons (Leptinella squalida (aka Cotula squalida)).
May 16, 2008 (Friday)
It is grey and 56 degrees this morning (7 AM). I forgot and left my celery and Pak Choi out overnight. Oh, well, it's not like they haven't experienced 40-degree temps before. I need to remember them tonight.
Google Image Search
* +"garden bench"
A hummingbird is flying around the lilac tree outside my office window. That's one of my favorite lilacs, but it needs to be whacked back. All the good stuff, leaves and all, is way up at the top. I can't enjoy it unless I'm upstairs in the plant room.
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Turns out I have been to the Fine Gardening web site before, but they must have added a lot of new material since the last time I was there because it took a while before I came across something I recognized. Isn't that the garden mag with a ton of advertising in it? Too bad their mag can't be more like their web site.
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I am trying to keep my mind off of my tick bite by coming up with some way of inexpensively edging my beds. An edger would be expensive, but at least it would probably do a nice job, even though I'd have to do it every year. Now I am considering soil cement (a mix of mostly soil, a little Portland cement, and water). I first heard of it when someone on the Internet was thinking about using it for the floor in their horse barn. So far I've read that it should be sealed, but it seems like that would be okay since I'd probably hide it with some of my big rocks anyway. Hmm, need to use enough cement to make it frost-resistant, too. ........ Maybe I will just stick with an edger. ........ An interesting point, Fine Gardening mentions using vinegar products to keep weeds out of crushed rock paths. That's what I was going to do with the coop path... plain old vinegar... might as well try it out on the crushed paths. Would still like to replace the side door rocks with wood, maybe create a sort of porch there.
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Oh, good! It's raining! I didn't want to make my leg any worse by walking around to water the gardens.
My husband came home early to check out my tick bite. His first remark when he saw it was, "Oh, wow." It is developing a sort of burned patch in the center, just like when I had the deer fly bite. If it looks worse tonight or in the morning, we will go to the hospital. I'm not going to wait around like I did with the deer fly bite. Or like he did with his tick bite when he probably almost died in that hotel room in Texas.
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We all took a nap for an hour or two. Everyone else is actually still asleep, so I went to check the mail... in the rain. The alliums have poofed open and I think I saw some buds on one of the peonies. I'll have to take a closer look next time I walk past them.
I guess I won't be whacking back the lilac tree anytime soon. It has a teeny tiny nest in it with a teeny tiny bird. At first I thought it was a hummingbird, but it looks too big for that. I will have to look some other day when the windows aren't spattered with rain. |
May 17, 2008 (Saturday)
It is 52 degrees this morning (7:30 AM). It stopped raining just a little while ago and the clouds seem to be moving out finally. I drained my cell plug trays and let the chickens out, except for Roo.
My bite feels better today. It is itchy and looks veiny, but in general I think it is getting better. That's a relief. It was hard to sleep last night, so I am looking forward to better rest tonight.
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I browsed the flowerbeds this morning. I think the Kazanlik Rose has a lot of flower buds on it. That will be so wonderful. I didn't see flowers on it last year (its first year here), so this is very exciting. The Shasta Daisy 'Alaska' has a ton of flower buds. I counted three lily stalks in the allium bed. Hooray! That has to be the three Casa Blanca Lilies. Last year's Joe-Pye Weed is coming up, so I have high hopes for that. I think I saw self-sown California Poppies. That's a huge and unexpected deal if that's what they are. I have at least a couple of unidentifiable things. I don't know if they are things that I planted last year and came back, or if I sowed and forgot some seeds this year, or if they are just weeds. We shall see. Four of the remaining Canterbury Bells have mushroomed since the last time I saw them. A fifth one is lagging, so I doubt that it will live, and I think a sixth one had already died. The slacker and the one that didn't make it looked like they'd been attacked by something very early in the season. The Black Parrot Tulip flowers are very small this year. I might divide them at the end of the season and put them someplace where I can see if I can multiply them, along with the Rembrandt Tulips. I really don't like the pink-edged white tulips in the Rembrandt batch. They don't even qualify as Rembrandts in my opinion, and the whole patch is throwing my Kingsblood and Duke of Wellingtons out of whack.
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I pulled weeds out of the violet patch, transplanted the two hyacinths to the chicken coop path (don't really care if they make it or not), dug up some grass along the edge of the square plot, transplanted a couple more buttercups from the lawn (found a few more to do next time around), and trimmed dead twigs off the roses.
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I started edging the square plot. Actually, I'm almost done with that. I just have a section to do along the back side of it... I'm waiting for the ants to clear out. Also, there's one part back there that I'm not completely happy with, so I'm going to fix it. I can't believe how much I did. I wish I knew how long it had taken, but then again, maybe not... I still have the huge iris and allium patch to edge. (Maybe it has something to do with the three donuts I had for breakfast. LOL. I just loaded up on another, so we'll see how much more I can finish before the day is done.) As for the part I don't really like the shape of, I had an epiphany... At first, I'd had the brilliant idea of joining the square patch to the Vinca bed, but then thought that wasn't such a great idea because I'm always walking between the two beds because the faucet is near there. A bit later, it occurred to me that it's not like I don't have a ton of stepping stones around here... I could just make a little stone path through there if I combine them into one bed. Woohoo! That sounded like fun. More work, but fun. I still need to edge the grass that has grown out over the edge of the driveway, and when I finally get around to it, I think that I will be joining the allium patch to the driveway. I don't particularly like mowing along there and having more flower space is really my preferred mode of living anyway. Oh, which reminds me. I think I found (i.e., created) space for the hyacinths that I'll be getting this fall. I could probably put all of them there, but I think I'd prefer to have two patches, so I still need to find another spot.
New Potential Spot for Hyacinths
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Maybe one donut wasn't enough. It took an hour and forty minutes to do a little more edging, dig the grass out to form the new path through the merged beds, place some rocks for stepping stones, and pull some grass out of the Vinca. I think I've dumped the wheelbarrow six or seven times today. Ugh. I'd like to come up with a nice idea for the Vinca bed. The grass that grows up in it is annoying, but the Vinca has been there since before 1954, so I'd like to leave it there. I thought maybe I could downsize it and put a big urn in the middle of it, with classic things like Love-Lies-Bleeding growing in it. I am done for the day, but I'm going to eat another donut just to stay awake until the chickens are ready to go to bed.
Starting to Merge Beds
New Path through Merged Beds
I may or may not buy some mulch tomorrow for the beds I've been working on. Depends on what the day is like.
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The chickens are in for the night. I moved Roo's water bowl up a rung. We'll see if that keeps him from kicking hay in it and pooping in it. |
May 18, 2008 (Sunday)
It is sunny and 58 degrees (7:15 AM).
I let the girls and Roo out. Hawk has full reign inside the coop. Moving Roo's water up a rung seemed to help. The bowl only had a couple sprigs of hay in it this morning.
I fertilized the Fuchsia basket and some ferns. I used my new rock path just for the fun of it. I did the same thing yesterday, just so that I could try it out.
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I finished edging the Vinca and trimmed it to make it more even. I started to dig out along the allium bed, but that is really compacted. I think I need to water it down for a night and try again. I finally edged the ant portion of the square plot. I have Cilantro coming up in there. I noticed that yesterday. I really need to come up with a new name for that bed. It's definitely not square now. I'll use "square plot" to refer to the original square section, "pea pole" for the extension, and "Vinca path" for the new area, but as a whole...?
Hmmm. I will have to remember Lamium maculatum 'White Nancy' for flower boxes on the west side of the house.
It's a good thing I intended to sow some annuals this year. I think that instead of just directly sowing them somewhere, I will grow some in cell plugs (to guarantee that I'll have something to fill in the new flowerbed areas).
Vinca Path
* Nasturtium 'Empress of India' (12)
* Amish Cockscomb (12)
* Tassel Flower (12)
* Harlequin Marigold (24)
* Snapdragon 'Black Prince' (24)
* Calendula 'Pacific Beauty Mixed' (24)
I need something that will enjoy the potential hyacinth bed, too. It's sort of shady. Don't think I have anything that would like that. I'd also like to add a flower patch behind the Spiderwort, in front of the dog room. That spot gets pretty hot in the summer.
Dog Room Patch
* Sunflower 'Arikara' (6)
* Tithonia 'Torch' (2)
* 'Yellow Peruvian Zinnia' (12)
* Hopi Red Dye Amaranth (3)
* Scarlet Runner Beans (12)
I almost forgot about the hanging baskets.
Hanging Baskets
* Nasturtium 'Empress of India' (18)
* Amish Cockscomb (12)
* Marigold 'Crackerjack' (18)
* Love-Lies-Bleeding (just transplant seedlings)
I need to pot up my cucurbits today. I guess I will go do that before I do anything else.
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I prepared six pots and proceeded to pot up my squash and zucchini. I was going to pot up three of each, although I had four squash and five zucchini. Somewhere along the lines, I decided to pot all of them up and managed to maybe mix up one zucchini and one squash and possibly misplace one squash altogether. I have no idea where that pot went. I ended up potting 20 cucumbers, even though I only planned for 10. I didn't expect them all to sprout since I bought the seeds at the beginning of last year's growing season. I had thought I'd use the extras for myself, but that's a lot of cukes. Same with the zucchini, but I think I will have spaces here and there for extra things, so maybe it'll all work out in the end.
Things could never be as simple as all of that, of course. The whole episode started with a short trip toward the veggie beds to get some potting supplies. That was quickly interrupted when I saw that one of the Rhodies had escaped and was wandering around the veggie bed area. I put her back in the pen and started on the pots. I didn't get very far along when I heard some wind chimes suddenly crash together. I turned around and the chicken was out again. I put her back, went back to work, and heard the same noise again. I turned around to see where she'd escaped to this time, but she was sitting on top of the gate, wobbling back and forth. I put her in the pen and went back to work. She did it again. I put her back in and moved the food and water canisters in case she was using them as launch pads. I stood and watched her eyeball the gate, the wind chimes, and the chicken bracket they hang from. When I was satisfied that she had determined she could no longer escape, I went back to work... and it happened all over again... wobbling back and forth on the gate. This time I put her back in and also moved the lean-to. After that, I went back to work potting up cucurbits and managed to pot up everything with no further escapes. Success.
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I went outside to mow. I finished the section with the flowerbeds in it and then mowed about six passes in the other section. Then the blade came off the mower. The bolt had snapped. That was interesting. I don't have a spare and the mower store is closed today, not to mention that I don't have any way of getting the rest of the bolt out of the mower, so that was the end of that. All I could do at that point was use the hand clippers to trim along the edges of the beds. I like the way it turned out.
Grassy Path
A little annoying side note... I passed by the cucurbit tray and noticed an extra pot in the zucchini section. I figured out that one was a cucumber and put it where it belonged. I just happened to recount the squash and zucchini section after that and I still have an extra pot. What in the world? I do not know how that is possible, especially since I was missing one to begin with. Now that one has come back? Plus another one?
Allium Bed
Kingsblood and Duke of Wellington Tulips
Black Parrot Tulip
Rembrandt Tulip
I guess I finished the yard work just in time. It is raining now. I had to run back out and put Roo in his cage, leaving the girls the option of going in and out of the coop if they want to during the rain.
So far, I think the flowers around here are doing a great job of blooming until the next batch starts. The Crocuses led into the Daffodils, the Daffs into the Tulips, and now the Tulips into the Alliums. I am hoping that the Alliums lead right into the Irises. This could be the perfect year. I'd like to get some more Kingsblood and Duke of Wellington Tulips for the front beds, but I'll hold off until fall of next year so that I can see how well they return next spring. I am thinking that even if they come back miserably, I might actually buy some every year. I never thought I'd want to do that with tulips, but these have been really fantastic.
Google Image Search
* +"hanging basket" |
| Valia Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 08:01 pm: | |
Sorry I didn't get back to you on this, DJ. I have a new job, writing the
"City Beat" column for the local weekly newspaper. This involves
attending City Council and other meetings in several small towns and
writing them up. With the current economic conditions creating havoc for
the multitude of developers who have been creating potential communities
here, there's a lot going on. Our own city manager departed by "mutual
agreement" with our council. Half the City staff has been laid off and the
Council members are out reading the water meters themselves. A nearby
town, one of the largest in area in the U.S. -- over 50 square miles -- had a
5-hour Council meeting Thursday night, and I had an 8 AM deadline on Friday
for that article. I've had time to make quick responses to posts as I cruise the
GB forums, but not to do anything that requires actual thinking.
Gerry's ponds must have been lined, but you couldn't tell. Rocks and vegetation
masked it quite successfully. I don't know what the lining was. It may have
been concrete. The closest hill north of town is called Cement Mountain, and
there used to be a Lehigh Cement mine and production facility nearby.
The water was city water, piped in , and, yes, there was a recirculating
pump, but it and the piping were cleverly hidden in the rocks. The only
thing that didn't look completely natural (besides the little frog
sculptures) was some concrete that coated the little fall between the two ponds.
The drop was about 5 inches, and it extended over a distance of maybe 15
inches, maybe more. I think it was meant to look like rock worn smooth by water
over the passage of time, but it didn't quite succeed. Still, it looked nice. He
built a couple of small curves into it. It looked like a waterslide for
little frogs.
Your rocks are probably quite different than Gerry's. I grew up in New
England, and don't remember ever seeing rocks like this. They were very
blocky, some small, some large, some thick, some thin, but all with at least
two surfaces that were nearly parallel. They were laid horizontally. They
were beige with rusty areas.
The two pools were quite small and irregular in shape. The top one was long
and narrow, maybe six feet long and three feet wide at the widest part. The
bottom pool was almost round, maybe five feet by four feet, again, irregular
in shape. The width of the rock borders varied quite a bit, which affected
my perception of the size and shape of the pools, so I'm really
wild-guessing here. It was pleasant to sit at the bottom of this
arrangement, because it was topped with flat rocks and high enough so that
you could be comfortable.
That's about all I can remember. |
Ooooh, how exciting! Congratulations! Is that newspaper online?
Now that is some creative thinking in action. I like that.
Wow. Sounds more like you write for the "City Zombeat". LOL!
Wow, that sounds like quite a pond. I like that it was made so that you could sit at the edge of it comfortably. That's a nice touch. That part about the frog waterslide and frog sculptures is hilarious. I'll try to not do that. LOL! Thank you so much for the detailed description. I guess I'll have to hide my leftover path rocks underneath the nice rocks, if I even use them in the pond. They don't even remotely look natural. I'm tempted to just bury them and forget about them. LOL! I need to get out and pay more attention to what the rocks and water look like in their natural setting around here and try to imitate that.
That pic of Cement Mountain is beautiful. (I can say that because I don't have to look outside and see snow myself right now. Haha!) |
| Growit Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 12:52 pm: | |
Kept reading about rocks DJ and came up with this site. Hopefully it will give you some good ideas.
I have caught up with most of your journal now so here is wishing you a belated Happy Mothers Day! |
| Growit Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 12:53 pm: | |
Doh!!! Forgot to put in the link [OoGBoO]
http://www.wildgingerfarm.com/BuildaRockGarden.htm#Berm |
Thank you, and right back at you. 
ROFL!! |
May 19, 2008 (Monday)
I forgot to check the temperature earlier this morning. It is sort of overcast, rather cool (60 degrees), and breezy right now (9 AM). ........ Eek. I was going to plant out my celery and Pak Choi today, but I just checked the forecast. Possible small hail. I need to remember to move all of those seedlings into a sheltered spot before the storms come. I'm surprised it didn't hail yesterday. The temperature dropped drastically with the rain that moved through.
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I ordered a Senior Prom Rose. Actually two, one for me and one for my best friend who just bought a new house. We've known each other since high school. We went to senior prom together with our dates and everyone came over for a graduation party afterwards. She loves pink, so this rose is right up her alley, and the name is apt. It will be a nice little sentimental thing in my garden. Now I just need to figure out where I'm going to put mine. LOL.
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I need to take a walk over to the barn to look for some outdoor knickknacks. Besides the bike, I think I've seen one or two old milk cans out there, and maybe an interesting cubbyhole cabinet. The sawmill blade is a two-person object and I don't know where I'd put it yet anyway. I could retrieve the little green stool, too. It's kind of cold today, though, so I think I'll make my trek some other day.
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It is sprinkling now. It looks like this will be the pattern until Friday gets here.
I continued yesterday's Google Image Search this morning and came across a pretty picture... from Cottage Living of all places. Since I never finished my original visit there, I browsed their site today. Very nice, and now I've ended up at:
http://www.sunset.com/sunset/0,20334,,00.html
Coincidentally, Sunset's main page had a link to a story about using the crushed rock just like I have. So now I've been sucked into the rest of the site. ........ This site wasn't very inspiring until I came across their outdoor dining article. Duh. I forgot that I had wanted to put the old dining room table out under the Maple Trees by picnic rock, and that I had considered putting the crushed rocks down underneath it. I need to remember that and think about it.
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I think it is going to be c-c-c-cold tonight, so I have brought most of my seedlings and plants in for the night. I wrapped plastic over my dahlia tubs after I brought them in. If any mouse gets into them and eats them down to the ground again (they have resprouted since the last time, except for Winsome), I will set traps on top of traps and kill every mouse this side of Boston. |
Moira, thanks so much for sharing that rock link. My crushed rocks aren't nearly as pretty as any of those, but the colors of the trough garden gave me an idea. I am hoping I have enough crushed rocks to put down under my table and still be able to layer some on top of a few planters (or something like those troughs) to make the space more attractive and garden-like and tie the whole thing together. If I could put some matching planters around the playground, then it would really tie everything together since the table will be right near it. Very cool! A use for them at last. Good job! |
| Flowerfreak Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 08:44 am: | |
ROFL |
May 20, 2008 (Tuesday)
It is 44 degrees and partly cloudy this morning (7:45 AM). I put the cell plug trays out this morning, but kept the tender perennials inside. I didn't see any chewing damage on the dahlias, so that's good news.
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I eventually dragged out the tender perennials (except for the dahlia tubs) and watered them. I also weeded the veggie beds and watered them. I discovered that some Pompon Dahlias and carrots have come up. That was nice. I think I accidentally pulled some Swiss Chard, though, thinking that they were weeds. Some of my parsley is missing. I don't know why that is. I also don't have nearly as much spinach as I had planted. I blame part of that on whatever dug holes in that bed. The peas and Mesclun are coming along, as is the cabbage family.
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I started Calendula 'Pacific Beauty', Yellow Peruvian Zinnia, Amish Cockscomb, Nasturtium 'Empress of India', Marigold 'Crackerjack', Foxglove 'Alba', Canterbury Bells, Tassel Flower, Marigold 'Harlequin', Snapdragon 'Black Prince', Tithonia 'Torch', and Hope Red Dye Amaranth. I also started the rest of the Chrysanthemums.
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I am behind on a couple of things and I have too much planned for Friday, so I'm going to break up the upcoming planting chores and do them on separate days.
This Week's Planting Schedule
Wednesday, May 21
* direct sow: carrots
* transplant: celery, collard greens
Thursday, May 22
* start inside: muskmelon, watermelon, hardshell gourds, giant pumpkins, lettuce (round 1), Ipomopsis, unknown Nasturtium, H. appendiculum, sedum, Aquilegia
Friday, May 23
* direct sow: both green beans, sunflower, wheat
* transplant: cilantro (round 1), tomato, squash, zucchini |
| Stormdancer Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 05:41 pm: | |
Big Sign that reads: MOUND THE CARROTS DJ
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May 21, 2008 (Wednesday)
It is 67 degrees and sunny, but it still feels cool (9:30 AM). I only found two small clay pots and a rusted camp pot in the barn. No sign of the small milk cans I remembered seeing in there. I wonder if someone came back and snitched them? Not like it's the first time they've taken something since we bought the house. I remember the granite porch step in the lilac trees behind the house went missing after we did the walk-through but before we moved in.
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I have transplanted the celery, collard greens, and Pak Choi. I wasn't going to plant the Pak Choi until Friday of next week, but I figured I might as well get it over with since it has already been exposed to weird temps for so long now anyway. Aside from that, I came up short four celery. Not a big deal.
The playground should be here tomorrow morning. *sigh*
The tomatoes are outside acclimating. I forgot to set them out a week early, so I don't think they will be ready for transplanting on Friday... oopsie. I suppose I should set the squash and zucchini out, too... double oops. Well, great... I can add the Cilantro to that list, too. Obviously I forgot one aspect of my schedule. Ugh.
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I sowed the carrots. I was going to mound them (thank you for the reminder, Karen! LOL! ), but there just isn't enough soil to do that. I guess it will just have to be baby carrots this year and a special carrot bed next year. |
May 22, 2008 (Thursday)
It is 54 degrees and cloudy right now (8:15 AM). It rained a bit last night, so things are nice and moist this morning. It made for a bit of a mucky mess when I went over to mark out the playground area again. I had thought that I had messed it up when I harrowed over there, but if anything, I only snagged one line. This morning, all of the lines were all over the place. Some of them were dragged off toward the rock wall and I didn't go over there with the tractor, so some animal must have snagged the lines. I didn't see any tracks, though.
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This is great. The playground set isn't anywhere nearly as obtrusive as I thought it would be. It actually looks just fine out there. (But then again, I have a thing for shades of orange. LOL!) I don't know if I mentioned it before, but my son decided against the spiral slide. He only went down it once at the store and decided it was too scary. Luckily, it can be added on later if (when!) he changes his mind about it. Anyway, we made up for that by getting the super fast slide. He landed right on his bum the first time down. LOL. I'm sure that will happen more often on dry days. It is still sprinkly today, but that's not stopping him from playing.
New Playground
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I meant to mention yesterday that I saw the first flax flower of the season. I have a second one today, but they are both asleep because of the cloud cover. I saw a flower spike forming on my oldest Lupine. I also saw edges of yellow peeking out on one of my irises. It won't be long now. I think the peonies I have found around the yard aren't from the ancient one. I think they are descended from one of my modern ones. I checked out the leaves in the modern peony patch and saw some that sort of match, and noted that one modern peony has scads of babies all around it. Self-seeded? Glad I didn't accidentally mow them down.
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3:15 PM and the sun is finally coming out. Still only 57 degrees. I hope that changes quickly. We had hot grilled cheese sandwiches and hot chocolate for lunch. Too chilly for this time of the year.
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I have been weeding around the old rhubarb patch. It never went above 57 degrees, but after the wind died down, it felt relatively nice in the sunshine. It is already 6 PM and I haven't planted any of the seeds inside that I should have. Because of that, tomorrow will be a very busy day. I think I will have to do some of it on Saturday. |
| Valia Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 04:56 pm: | |
http://www.hvjournal.com/index.php |
| Seil Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 06:58 pm: | |
DJ, you can hardly see the playground and it's ORANGE! I knew it would be OK. Loved all your tulip pics and the pics of the house and garden. All my roses and pots can't compare to all you have to take care of. I don't know how you do it. |
Anne, thank you for the newspaper link. Oh, my gosh, you have so much to write! I don't know how you're going to go to all of those meetings and get those articles written up in the wee hours without falling asleep in the middle of whatever you're doing. You must be sooooo tired and busy. You'd never know from what you wrote, though... that was a great article!
Seil, thank you. Glad you liked the pics. I think that you have it worse than I do. I don't know how you drag all of those pots in and out when the seasons change. Ugh! All I've had to do was plant a couple thousand bulbs. ..... Hmmm. Now that I hear it said that way, I think we both have it bad. LOL! At least if I quit planting bulbs, nothing bad would happen. But if you quit toting pots, something bad would definitely happen! |
