I haven’t done much this week except plant random seeds here and there, but would’ve posted these on Thursday afternoon…if the database server hadn’t been down for two days(!!) Black ‘toonyas! I saw these and bought a whole flat because they’re so cool. They look actually black IRL; a bit purple in the photo. I […]

It was hot in the sun, so I certainly didn’t feel like digging grass out of the NoMo flowerbed, but it was lovely in the shade, so I comprised. I didn’t do any heavy work, but I did do a little. This morning, I pruned the Tornado Honeysuckle, and found several pieces near the ground […]

I marked out the NoMo flowerbed this morning, and planted two Red Heart Althea, two Royal Red and one Black Knight butterfly bushes. I hated to cut down Grey Stick, but it didn’t make it. 🙁 Purple bee balm closer to the front. More Veronica and a few Blue Hill Salvia in the Bee Happy […]

I’d hoped my Luna moth would be a guy because I love their giant “antlers”. She wasn’t a guy, but she did even better by being a girl and attracting a guy! It was rainy and crappy, but I went out yesterday after work, wandering in search of a place to put my bee hoce, […]

Well, two, but the second doesn’t yet exist, so I’m calling it one flowerbed left to plant. I finished the fence line yesterday with just enough of both dwarf butterfly bushes and scarlet pumpernickel seeds. I actually had one butterfly bush left, but I put it in the rectangular bed by the house. That’s also […]

I finished tired, hot, sweaty, dirty, and scratched up, but I finished! I hate weeding and clearing dead stuff from that goddamned flowerbed, but it looks so nice when everything is in bloom that I have to do it. I planted four more dwarf butterfly bushes, so that’s ten, and most of the way down […]

I’m not yet ready to tackle weeding the last half of the fence line, so I’ll catch up on…stuff. On Thursday, I asked The O to recommend a girl-sized chain saw because Tree Dude never showed up, and the other place never returned my call. He recommended that I not buy one because I’d use […]

I got the expanding foam yesterday, so I made a proto-floatie, just to see whether it would work, and how much foam I’d have to put on what size piece of leftover pond liner. Not the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen, but that wasn’t the goal this time. It works just fine, and that’s all […]

Assuming they even survive, I’ll be dead by the time they amount to anything, but they were free, and even the biggest sequoia began as a tiny stick. White paint: American redbud Blue paint: Washington hawthorne Purple paint: Sargent crabapple Orange paint: White flowering dogwood (in the edge of Sarah-Flah’s garden) Red (pink?) paint: Purple […]

I finally sucked it up and paid NDA shipping to get my fishes for the 55g. By the time I did, they were sold out of the glowlight tetras I’d wanted, but they had (the equally pretty and much less common) ember tetras on sale, so I got ten of those. Ten serpae, ten ember, […]