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 […]

Freshly showered, in my lounge with tunes via WiFi and Bluetooth,  a Chi Chi’s Skinny Margarita and new Riders sandals that probably won’t be white for long, paid for with Amazon points. Waiting for the rain that kept us from doing concrete, but needed by my flowers, so it’s okay. It’s all good. Also found […]

This has nothing to do with the title, but it is Parview’s first wheel bug! I got some edging blocks and made a non-plastic flags border for the Virginia snakeroot. I’d rather natural stone, but these aren’t bad, and they weren’t expensive, but they do allow me to mulch my little green guys. I also […]

I’m off for four days and I have no dirt to dig, haul or mix. No seeds to plant, no plants to get in the ground. Weeds to pull, and we’re going to try to get the trellis done, but I feel like a lady of leisure! In the meantime… Rosemallow leafing out nicely. 544’s […]

My second pawpaw is alive! Just a few leaves,  but alive. That’s all four of the trees I practically killed.

This isn’t the “Oh god, no,” but it is kind of cool. P left it on the Bistro table for me; he found it somewhere. I think it’s amusing. I’d been aware on some level that Osage Orange fruit were hairy when they were small, but never really thought much about it. I’m underwhelmed by […]

P came outside in the morning as I was having coffee on the patio, and he had my binoculars. He told me where to look, and at first, I thought I was seeing a dead groundhog. Dunno why I thought “dead”, but I did. Nope, not a groundhog, and very much alive! Every time I’d […]

I put some more coneflower seedlings in the perennial bed, and added a few more bags of mulch (went to Walmart after work and got 8 bags). Only one more plant to go in there, but since it still looks pretty much the same, I didn’t take a picture. I did, however, take a picture […]