My timer is on 13 minutes today from whatever I was timing previously. Let's see where my stream of consciousness takes me for the next 13 minutes.
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| Not from my yard but from our early morning walk in Frederick last week. The coneflowers in our yard are being eaten by some hungry insects as soon as they bloom. |
It's a quiet Sunday morning. Ward is still sleeping, and I miss having fussy cats yelling about their breakfast being late - no matter what time it is. A peek out the window reveals puddles in the driveway. Glorious puddles! We finally had real rain last night - over an inch. Hurray! The thunder started to rumble at bedtime, but I didn't mind because along with it came a real downpour. With the heat and no rain, we've been watering, trying to help the plants cope. For the first time ever, we emptied our entire rain barrel. Now, they have gotten the deep drink they deserve.
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| Also, from our walk. Our Black-eyed Susans haven't bloomed yet. |
More storms are predicted for the afternoon. I think it will be a good day to focus on things inside. We've been using early mornings to work in the yard. We're making good progress on the two-page list we have. Trees have been trimmed, flowers planted, beds edged, bushes trimmed, beds mulched, and plants watered. Despite attention, some plants, including the grass, look pretty stressed from the heat. The heat has turned much of it brown, and the twice-a-week mowing has turned into no mowing. That's one reason we have had time for some of the other yard chores. I have a feeling that last night's rain will change that.
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| Another picture from our walk. |
In the garden, I have pulled the broccoli and peas. Ward built a nice frame around the broccoli to keep the cabbage butterflies out. Didn't work. They found their way in anyway. Luckily, we got good heads off the plants before the caterpillars started feasting. The side shoots were not so lucky. Oh, well. It was getting too hot for the broccoli anyway.
I also pulled the pea vines. We got a good crop of peas this year with a couple of meals, and I froze some. We have small zucchini forming and many green tomatoes. And true to form, the deer found the tomatoes and carefully pruned the top 1/3 of all the plants. If that's all they do, that's okay. I'm willing to share. Like I have a choice. :)
Well, there goes my timer.
Until next time...
Hooray for rain! So great for your yard and plants. I also enjoy a rainy day if we've been having lots of sunny weather--I find it soothing.
ReplyDeleteYour coneflower and water lily pictures are so pretty!
We enjoyed the storm and rain last night and didn't mind that it kept us up past our bedtime. That's not always the case. :) I don't know how this park keeps their flowers so pretty no matter what the weather. I guess they put more effort and money into than I do.
DeleteYay for rain! I wish it would rain here in the summer rather than in the winter! But, I mustn't complain, because we had a lot of rain earlier this year. Sounds like you are busy in the garden! I really enjoyed seeing the pictures of the flowers and the color combinations of the plantings are lovely. Enjoy your Sunday at home. :)
ReplyDeleteWe are busy, but it is only in the early morning or late evening trying to avoid the heat. I've tried planting coneflowers and black-eyed susan's together for an interesting color combination, but the insects and critters won't cooperate for them to bloom together. I moved some to a new bed this year, so we'll see what happens, but so far the critters are winning.
DeleteI get why you speedblog. My posts take hours to write, review and add the pictures.
ReplyDeleteYou posts are quite long and cover a lot of things. One of you posts would take me days to write. If I didn't speed blog, I would overthink everything and never post.
DeleteAll beautiful, love the flowers. And we here are to get some sun this week.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping for blue skies and sunny days for you this week.
DeleteI'm glad you got some rain. We're supposed to get some today, and I hope we do. The plants are struggling.
ReplyDeleteWe could definitely use more rain - especially since the temps keep climbing into the high 90s. But such is weather. You get what you get and you figure out how to handle it.
DeleteWe finally had a good rain today! Kind of messed up Ripley's celebration i guess, but I think no one will mind much because the rain is so badly needed.
ReplyDeleteIt's so nice that you know about where we live! It is rare to come upon another blogger from this area.
I liked your tour of the town. If I had heard that about Vail Furniture starting as a casket company, I had forgotten it. If my mother were still alive, I think she would have been another blogger in the area. She really embraced writing in her retirement.
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