Woo, yard work! Moved some lilies of the valley and other misc. to the front yard, swept up most of the maple pollen and flowers from the driveway. Now I'm ready for lunch.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - May 10, 2015 6:10:23 am PDT #26092 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - May 10, 2015 6:54:28 am PDT #26093 of 30000
Flowers acquired. It really started picking up as I left at 11. Including people clearly leaving thought to the last minute.
Connie Neil - May 10, 2015 7:45:29 am PDT #26094 of 30000
brillig
My furnace came on last night. Not on, May!
-t - May 10, 2015 8:06:00 am PDT #26095 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The weather lately has reminded me of the first spring after we moved back to California, when my sister went around singing My Girl with the words changed to "when it's cold outside, it must be the month of May".
sarameg - May 10, 2015 9:51:58 am PDT #26096 of 30000
[link] First six are pots & lilies of the valley.
Calli - May 10, 2015 10:29:16 am PDT #26097 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Lovely, sarameg!
Jesse - May 10, 2015 10:50:27 am PDT #26098 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Pretty!
Beverly - May 10, 2015 11:00:24 am PDT #26099 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Spring is here. I have a little electric oil rad in my bathroom, because the forced air never reaches that corner, and life's too short for an icy toilet seat. I unplugged and put away the rad this morning, took down the storm window and opened it up. We've actually got the bedroom window that faces on the woods open with the fan pulling in cool air, and the box fan in the front window pulling the cool through the house and exhausting the warm. Is comfy!
One of the best decisions we ever made, when H yanked the elderly, ugly shrubs from in front of the house, we offered the azalea as a wedding present to the neighbors. Now we get to enjoy it in all its glory amid the garden across the street, and we don't have to clean up after it. Their red geraniums and rhodies are amazingly healthy and gorgeous.
Our containers are in. Most of the herbs overwintered, including, for the first time, the Russian sage. And the wire baker's rack, discarded when the relatives cleared out a deceased neighbor's house, has taken up residence on our porch. We spent pennies at Home Despot for slate-patterned ceramic floor tiles for the shelves, and the mended Buddha rests there now. H found a matchstick shade *precisely* the width of the piece, I whitewashed it yesterday before we hung it, and it looks good as a backdrop. I may take it down and freehand some bamboo and some brush-speckles of brown and blue. Or, not.
I need to scrub the pollen off the furniture and floor. Maybe this afternoon.
Beverly - May 10, 2015 11:03:04 am PDT #26100 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
So pretty, sarameg! I love the washtubs and the cat pot holders.
-t - May 10, 2015 11:13:57 am PDT #26101 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Butternut squash fries and beet hummus for lunch. Not bad at all.