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twoeleveni didn't sleep well the past three nights. no idea why, but now i'm completely exhausted. that's probably not helped by all the local trees going at it with typical enthusiasm. i imagine if there was only a two-week period during the year when i could get laid, i'd be equally excited by the prospect.
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this planting season has been all seeds; no new bulbs, roots, tubers, or mature plants.
i mentioned that i planted some seeds in a small bed at my local park; i forgot that i'd included perennial alyssum (saxatile) in the mix too, in the hope of keeping the weeds down for good.
i sowed sunflowers and yarrow in my main bed, along with annual alyssum. i'll toss in some toadflax (wild snapdragons, more or less) tomorrow. my other front bed ended up with the gaillardia i'd started indoors, along with a variety of cupid's dart (catanache) that's white with purple centers. the picture on the packet looked interesting, and everything else in my main gardens are hot colors, so why not?
we have an ugly streetlamp in our front yard. the pole is horrible black plastic, and it looks awful. i've put up trellises around it, and tried different climbing plants to mitigate the uglitude, but none have been great successes. this year i'm trying annual sweet peas -- couldn't find any of the perennial kind -- and hollyhocks. maybe they'll do better.
i put down grass seed on some bare spots in our lawn, ahead of rain last week. that was a brilliant idea... except that we got so much rain -- about seven inches over three days -- that it all seems to have washed away. time to re-seed. *sigh*
last fall's f'ing deer did a number on my blueberry bushes. two of the bushes seem barely alive, with only a few leaves on them. grr. OTOH, i saw one deer a few weeks ago, and it was practically skin and bones. maybe the hard winter starved the others.
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i was entertained by this collection of pictures of hearses and their amusing license plates. now want to get a white hearse and get a vanity plate for it reading "PALE HRS". i'm a sucker for a good double entendre.
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this planting season has been all seeds; no new bulbs, roots, tubers, or mature plants.
i mentioned that i planted some seeds in a small bed at my local park; i forgot that i'd included perennial alyssum (saxatile) in the mix too, in the hope of keeping the weeds down for good.
i sowed sunflowers and yarrow in my main bed, along with annual alyssum. i'll toss in some toadflax (wild snapdragons, more or less) tomorrow. my other front bed ended up with the gaillardia i'd started indoors, along with a variety of cupid's dart (catanache) that's white with purple centers. the picture on the packet looked interesting, and everything else in my main gardens are hot colors, so why not?
we have an ugly streetlamp in our front yard. the pole is horrible black plastic, and it looks awful. i've put up trellises around it, and tried different climbing plants to mitigate the uglitude, but none have been great successes. this year i'm trying annual sweet peas -- couldn't find any of the perennial kind -- and hollyhocks. maybe they'll do better.
i put down grass seed on some bare spots in our lawn, ahead of rain last week. that was a brilliant idea... except that we got so much rain -- about seven inches over three days -- that it all seems to have washed away. time to re-seed. *sigh*
last fall's f'ing deer did a number on my blueberry bushes. two of the bushes seem barely alive, with only a few leaves on them. grr. OTOH, i saw one deer a few weeks ago, and it was practically skin and bones. maybe the hard winter starved the others.
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i was entertained by this collection of pictures of hearses and their amusing license plates. now want to get a white hearse and get a vanity plate for it reading "PALE HRS". i'm a sucker for a good double entendre.