Last weekend, I purchased some small garden fencing to try to protect my flower beds from Murphy. Specifically, I wanted to fence off the prayer garden where one of the aroids I planted last fall actually came up. I figured I could go to Fred Meyer & pick up on this sale they had since [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Sounds Like Work to Me!
Posted in gardening, tagged peony. peonies. tree peonies. garden fence, weeding on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What I am doing tonight…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It comes with sound effects. Hic! Bvvvvbbbbb. Awwweck.He’s holding his head up pretty well and he sure would like to crawl.
mouthfull of fist.
I couldn’t get him to smile for the camera, but he is full of smiles for Granny.
He has a lot of funny stories to tell me, too.
Memorial Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Memorial Day on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t do anything special to celebrate today. I didn’t even put the flag out – of course, it was raining cats, dogs and puddles. I just didn’t want to stand out there in the wet and I didn’t want to have to hang the flag to dry afterward. Lazy, just pure lazy. I did [...]
Color!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flowers, garden, Hull vase, iris, peonies, rhododendron, vases on May 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
We had a brief interlude of sunshine on Saturday, so I did a bit of gardening – and a bit of flower picking. My theory is this: why have flowers in your garden if you can’t pick them? I try to garden with that theory in mind, and it is one of the reasons I [...]
promises kept
Posted in gardening, tagged flowers on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We went from hovering near 70 degrees (F) (21 degrees C) to a humid 95 (31) degrees. The change happened between Thursday and Friday of last week. Tonight, we are dropping back into the 70’s.
The change caused a sudden profusion of blooms in my yard -all those promises suddenly came to life. Unfortunately, the excessive [...]
Stranger Danger (Adventures in parenting someone else’s kid)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Every once in a while, I am reminded that I did not raise Chrystal. Today was one of those days. Today just happens to be her mother’s birthday anniversary: 49 years ago my little sister was born. May 15, 1959.
The first reminder that Chrys is not my child came in a statement about the weather. [...]
promises
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The weather has been colder than normal and the flowers I am used to blooming by May 1 are not yet open. The flowers that were open have faded or are fading rapidly.
That’s what my camellia looks like, only a lot messier and a lot browner. The flowers are slippery on the grass and ugly.
The [...]
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