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if things go well today i should be able to get a garden weeded and planted today if i go all out. then rains in the forecast for several days which means i may not get much more planted. hard to say as rain forecasts are not always accurate... not what i want here, rain delays, but weather...

i think those pink clematis will fade towards more white as the blossoms age, but they are still beautiful. :) we have the same type here. irises can sure take over in the full sun. :) just for grins, i thought they looked like a big fan tail goldfish... i don't know why, but Mom did not...

*whew!* was getting worried about the thistles that are about to bloom and so i rang the neighbor who owns the field and he said he was just getting ready to mow the problem areas. i told him i was very glad to hear that and would kiss his feet. :) not having all those thistle seedlings...

so glad to hear as i recall some years ago you were really struggling with the gardens. :)

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she's looking so happy. :) i'm so glad it is working out.

a term heard in recent years has been "rage quitting" a few moments ago i was pondering "rage gardening", which is probably a more extreme version of dirt therapy...

this may be a tough topic for some people here so i'm putting that right up front here, drug addiction... in scanning the news headlines i came across this article: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5414476/fentanyl-gen-z-drug-overdose-deaths i knew things were bad but i didn't know how...

i found out by experiences on the road for several years that i sleep best when i sleep in the car. hotels, tents, visiting friends all have their downsides and it takes several days of being someplace before i can sleep very well. which makes sense too because spending a lot of time in the...

some plants don't really like to be disturbed once planted. also i'm not sure but they are probably full sun kinds of plants and you may have too much shade for them there? though of course after transplanting you'd not want them in full sun until they've recovered... the term transplant...

like chumps or chomps... glad they helped with the aphids. we have so many of the various lady bugs around here that i rarely see any common aphids on any plants. it's the gray-green aphids that show up on crucifers that nothing we have around seems to go after (because we don't grow many of...

omnivores... like us...

that artist has a fondness for the schnoz...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_grackle '...When grackles are in a group, they are referred to as a "plague".' they are a big black bird, rather pretty in the sun, but not very quiet and also not very nice to other birds.

finished planting the ex-strawberry patch and then weeded other gardens and pathways until i was tired enough to call it good for the day. simple day and peaceful and nice outside. what helps a lot with the peaceful is that the grackles are gone - they've had their babies and left. :) the...

rains just starting to get here. good timing. :)

some kind of daisy?

good luck! deer often eat those here, do you have deer around?

it can make you stretch your noodle to use some new words or to even make up others... hmm, what would it be for something new and entertaining? new? smootchual. when you meet someone new and the feeling is mutual and you end up smooching... note that both duckduckgo and google come up with...

Sunday i almost finished planting the newest bean garden (which is the ex strawberry patch). i'd grown beans in this garden before, but it has been some years since then. it was overdue for renovation as the strawberry plants were old and weeding it was getting to be very time consuming so i...