I bought a couple of quart pots of lantana on Sunday at Wal-Mart. I really didn’t have a place for it, but it’s only an annual, so I thought I’d just find a place for it amongst the perennials. Hah. Tight squeeze; hope it doesnt grow too enthusiastically! In with the pipevine. Beside the water […]

I did some accidental gardening; just weeding and moving (almost all of) the rest of the plants out of the patio flowerbed. Just a few coneflower and black-eyed susan left to go). The yard doesn’t look much different, but I did a pano anyway. Yeah, I plan to deal with the grass (or lack thereof) […]

I finally got around to weeding the fence line flowerbed. I’d done part of the front last weekend, but got kinda lazy. Finished today, though! Holy crap, that’s a long flowerbed. I might transplant some more out of the patio flowerbed, but for now, I’m in my lounge. 🙂 Zinnias coming along nicely in spite […]

Too tired to do much, but…nasturtium bloom! Hostas out front are blooming. Meh. Yellow trumpet creeper looks like it’s going to bloom.

Not much, but our deer are either stupid, or trying to kill themselves. Top of the Mortgage Lifter tomato…neatly nipped off. Dumbasses. Silver Spotted Skipper on Buddleia. Fat bunglebee on Italian red clover. Thought it was an Eastern Tailed-Blue, but I didn’t see butt-fluffies, so I dunno. On bachelor’s button. The rosemallow sure knows how […]

Bastards ate all of my morning glory plants yesterday. Even the oak leaf weeds in the pot! Evidence. Deer track. In good news, tropical milkweed. Goddamned Japanese beetles are going after my zinnias. They may have numbers and pheromones,  but I have a bucket of soapy water, fueled by unadulterated hatred. Yesterday’s kill: 18. The […]

Since Tree Dude got rained out, I spent the day on me (and the MLBs, who needed fresh nectar and clean feeders). I did a pedicure, tested the darker shade of foundation I got (Almay TLC “Warm”), ironed a few tops and jeans for the rest of this week, did “Biore” on my face, tidied […]

I may have taken the day off work, but I didn’t take the day off work! These have nothing to do with that sentence, but portulaca blooms are beautiful (if short-lived)! Second year I’ve grown Italian red clover; first year I’ve seen a flower. Mexican sunflower crowded it out last year (and at 10+ feet […]

Didn’t finish the laundry or get the concrete done, but we did the lawn, I spot-cleaned the carpet where it needed it, and I cleaned up and watered my houseplants, so I’m okay with today’s accomplishments. Blob on floor beside chair is Miffy, newly emerged from thunder-induced exile. This one is definitely a Common True […]

We didn’t do it last night because the radar showed rain was imminent. We got up and started preparations this morning at 0800h, but I think the sky saw us and decided it was time to do this for 2h (still hasn’t completely stopped). embedded by Embedded Video My flowers needed water, not to be […]