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Now, not just "Yard" piddling but piddling of all kinds.Archive for June, 2006Three Sisters
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
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They just keep blooming. I’m going to put more in the front planter. The Gerber Daisy is one of my favorite plants but for it to do well you have to find the right spot. I have 3 in back that are the same size as when I planted them 2 years ago. |
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Putting plants in their place ! |
| I already have a Ninja apprentice standing gard in the back, Ninja Mother-of-Thousands. HiiiYa |
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Scientific Name: Bryophyllum daigremontianum Synonym: Kalanchoe daigremontiana Family: Crassulaceae Common: Mother of Thousands Origin: Southwestern Madagascar Care: Heat is OK but needs a little shade. Regular watering. Avoid frost. Poisonous: All parts of plant are poisonous if ingested. I have had one of these off and on for years. It has a bloom which I have never seen but look forward to. You can see blooms here. Baby plants develop along the leaf edges. You can see some in the silhouette above. Read what others say about the plant at this Dave’s garden page. One comment recalls a great aunt who would pin a leaf to the kitchen window curtain and without water or soil it would grow babies along the edge. Neat. |
The You Grow Girl forum is fun, especially this thread where people show “What’s going on in your garden?”. Of course there is the You Grow Girl site itself with numerous hints and tips.
This is really such a great idea from “This Garden Is Illegal”, i.e. photograph and identify/describe every weed in your yard/garden. Some time ago I had the idea of identifying every plant from the largest to the smallest but I like the idea of starting with weeds. Hanna stopped thinking about it and did it. Good going Hanna.
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| Went to Mom’s today and planted bamboo in the woods. Got really hot, can you tell? I changed into a dry shirt and underwear afterwards. It is really nice to have dry underwear. Kurt took the picture. | ||
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Mom is going to be really surprised when she can walk in the woods again. She broke her hip and although she is now walking with little aid she is still not steady enough for uneven ground. She is one tough old lady and an inspiration. The carpenter finally added the rails to the front porch. | |
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| Just before going to Mom’s I noticed my Fox-Tail fern blooming. And after taking those pictures I shot over the fence at my north-side neighbor’s most unusual tree. | ||
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I play Spider a lot, the one that comes with Microsoft Windows. I have a method, one that I developed over a period of time that works well for me. My current score is 28 wins, 0 losses, with one saved game. I had 22 straight wins before I saved the one game.
I use Spider to sort of keep tabs on how my mind is working, something that concerns us “getting-old” people. I also play computer games. I heard that mental activity helps the brain age better. I don’t remember where I heard that. |
| I typically work awhile, get tired, then go cool down while playing a game. This work-awhile, play-awhile approach seems to work a lot better for me than the way I use to attack chores, i.e. kill myself one day and recover the next. It also helps me manage my exhaustion, heat, and fluid levels better. | |
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| I know this tree as a Popcorn Tree but others know it as the Chinese Tallow Tree, Candleberry Tree, Chicken Tree, or Florida Aspen. Fancy-pants plant- geeks know it as "Sapium sebiferum", but not me. see Additionally, most people know it as a pest. It is on the same list of invasive plants as water hyacinth, torpedo grass, and kudzu, i.e. the plant mafia. It propagates prolifically. Birds help. | ||
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| The bamboo is gradually coming back after the devastation of Katrina. The dragon fly seems to be watching. | ||
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| These three plants seemed to be dead after last winter. I let them be, except for watering and watching but I am not sure the watching helped. And surprise, THEY’RE BACK, more or less. I learned a long time ago not to give up on plants. (I’m repeating myself, I think I featured these before.) | ||
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| Here are a couple different type ferns and other plants I pulled out of the woods at Mom’s. I’m thinking about featuring only plants from Mom’s in the small alcove shown here, just in front of the boarded up windows.
I have been using plastic nozzles for some time. I have a problem with them breaking, their fault or mine I don’t know. In any even I bought this metal one, that’ll show them. NOT. When the hose is in the sun for a bit the water gets really hot. I have to hold on carefully until the hot water flushes; it is a 75 foot hose so that takes awhile. |
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| Took this coming to work this morning, same trees as in the Monday blog. They are about 3 blocks, depending on how you define a block, south of my house on the same street; but in the opposite direction I normally take to work. I used the Digital Rebel instead of the shirt-pocket Casio Exilim. The light in this shot is much better. |
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This was beautiful, but the photo just doesn’t show it. The larger version is slightly better but I think there is too much back light.
I’ll try this with morning light, maybe tomorrow morning if I get up early enough (my class starts at 8:00 ) |
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Salad, non-sweet tea, and topped potatoes.
Toppings:
cheese
mushrooms
onions
cauliflower
Nice lunch break. |
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Eggs with asparagus.
In the photo, see the Allfruit, how it is smeared. That bothers me, I don’t know why. It did not bother me when I ate breakfast but does in the photo. When I look at it I get a restless feeling, like I need to do something about it, now, right NOW. Strange. |
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| Yesterday was our 42nd. Neither one of us remembered until today when Jeanne dated a check. Oh well. We were married in 1964 after being engaged for 4 years. She was worth waiting for. Her name is pronounced “Jean” but I most often say “Jean_nee”.
The picture is from the February archives, but I like it. |
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1. Pork Loin 2. Speckle butterbeans with okra 3. Fried green tomatoes 4. Wokly broccoli 5. Sweet potatoes 6. Cantaloupe (cantalope for you southerners) 7. Diabetic cheese cake 8. Sweet tea Nothing with added sugar, just Splenda . |
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I didn’t eat any cheese cake. I saved my sweet potatoes, added another half-potato, added margarin, and had the best desert ever. |
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