Tiger Lilies
The tiger lilies are in full bloom right now. There's the sad, short ones around the perimeter, however ... those were cropped by deer roaming the neighborhood. Still, tiger lilies: Tiger Lilies - 2014
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Cool July
We've had several days of unseasonably cool weather. I'm not complaining, mind you. But all the same, it's weird. Temps in the early mornings in the high 50's, and barely breaking into the low 80's. Who'd a thunk? But they let me take Lexi on a two mile walk this afternoon without arriving back home as a sweatball holding a dead dog. The garden, it fares poorly. I gave it virtually no attention in the days leading up to Marcia's surgery, nor in the weeks that followed that event. Bugs have killed my zucchini plants, the tomato plants are small-ish…
Continue reading...Feel the Power
Outage Reported: The power outage in your area has already been reported. We anticipate having your service restored by 7/14/2014 7:45:00 PM. Generators are good. We just had a big thunder storm, lots of lightning and noise, with half an inch of rain delivered in about ten minutes. Just as it was wrapping up ... flash, sputter ... power is out. It tried a couple of times to spin back up within the first two minutes, then nothing. Given rain and a sump pump, I figured I might as well spin up the generator. Now everything except the air conditioning…
Continue reading...Improbably So
A relatively lazy day for me today: just shopping, laundry, and coffee roasting. Yard stuff consumed the Saturday. Hot and muggy, still tonight, but storms are coming, and cooler weather is (unusually) due by mid-week (yay!) The garden is starting to produce some tomatoes and more peppers to join the zucchini and cucumbers. Maybe first salsa next week! Marcia's doing great. Up and down the stairs like a champ ... a hobbling champ, but much progress every day. She may be done with the cane by the end of this week, too, which is stellar. In my tiny elective time,…
Continue reading...Summer Arrives in Force
Yeah, we're making mid-90's and up this time of year (both temp and humidity), although that storm gave us a couple of nice days in the mid-80's, Friday and Saturday. Marcia news: She's mostly tapered off her pain meds, with a plan to be fully off by week's end (or earlier), and driving, too! She got fed up with the walker by Friday, and put it to the side. Now she's using the cane everywhere, which is much better for her in several ways. Her gait is better, and she leans less on the cane than she did on the…
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