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Car Envy

Ever seen a Maybach? Ever drove one? Ever even heard of one?

Boy are they gorgeous! Hmm, maybe Mom and Dad will get me one for graduation (hey, if no one tells them I graduated a long time ago, maybe they won't remember).

Thanks to Jim, at Parkway Rest Stop, for making me drool.

Nothing Left to See

Once you have seen this, really, you've seen everything.

Now, not only is a Swiss Army Knife a must if you are lost in the jungle, but if you are lost in the concrete jungle as well!

Thanks to Ravenwood (who knows when he started posting again - it was just a fluke that I checked the link).

L&L Experience

Besides the rain that we had Wednesday night thru Thursday morning, we have had delightful weather. It has been in the mid 70's (even close to 80) at work. That translates to about 8-10 degrees cooler at home. The main thing is that it has been dry.

I should be able to plant some stuff this weekend. Unfortunately, before planting the new dalilies, I have to dig up masses of orange daylilies from around the fence (I want to alternate colors - I should have thought of that about 3 years ago!).

(Red Volunteer Daylily)

At this stage, the established daylilies are about 3 feet tall, which will make digging them up a chore. Hmm, maybe I will cut them back beforehand. I don't want to kill them because I have people that want them (maybe I should get them to come dig them up). I messed up when I mixed in the daffodils with the lilies last fall; now I have to try to make sure I get them separated and back in the ground instead of just digging up a mass of lilies and plopping them into buckets.

Well, I guess that is a live and learn experience anyway.

Whoot, Whoot

24 hours of no rain.

Only a chance of showers today.

Only a chance of PM showers tomorrow.

We're supposed to get in the mid 70's both days.

Does life get any better than this?

Potting Up

Yesterday, while it was raining (I know - redundancy - what day isn't it raining?), I potted up 40 lillies and 10 burning bushes. The lilies were of several different kinds and a mixture of daylilies, oriental lilies, double orientals and hybrid lilies. That is the long way of saying that yes, that meant I used 50 pots (and about half a bale of Pro-Mix potting soil).

Miss Lucy Lily (picture graciously provided by Thompson and Morgan)

I can't plant anything outside. If I tried to dig a hole, it would just turn into a pond, so I won't even try. Hopefully it will dry out some for next weekend so they can be transplanted then!

Flowers and Showers

From a previous post, Bod asks, "What are these foam flowers and cotoneasters of whence you speak?" Okay, okay, that is not exactly how she put it, but close enough.

My apologies! I don't think I have ever brought those up before, so I should have put up links. I will rectify that mistake right now: Foamflower - although not necessarily the exact type I have (close enough though); Cotoneaster - horizontalis is the type I have.

WS found another flower - not something I planted, but a wild flower - Pink Lady Slippers. We have two large colonies of them in the woods. In the woods they will stay as these are not something that transplant well and I believe that it is illegal to dig them up anyway. Regardless, it is nice to have mother nature provide us with a secret garden!

Gone Missing

Chan, over at Weekend Pundit has asked me to pass on the message that Blogmosis is having problems - making his blog unreachable at this point. He is currently looking at alternate solutions. I will keep you posted if he gets a backup site running.

Drainage Problems

I haven't linked to Chan for a while, but he has a post up about clogged sinks that just begs to be linked to!

Another Rainy Month

In a gardening newsletter that I recieve via email, for the northeast reagion, the tip for the month is:

June is one of the busiest months in the garden. Each day there’s more blooming and more to do—including watering thirsty plants. Before you turn on the hose, read this month’s tip about watering.

What a hoot - that we should need to water. Between the double digits of precipitation in May (a record-setting month for much of the state), just under 4" of rain last weekend, and the 1 1/2" of rain we got yesterday (still raining, so don't know what the real total is), I believe the plants are all set for water. Additionally, we are slated to get another system of rain-makers on Friday and Saturday.

All the plants seem to be enjoying the rain; flowering in my gardens right now are: iris, gas plant, oriental poppies, perinnial batchlors buttons, chives, phlox (still!), honeysuckle bush, cotoneaster, pansies (apparently some potted ones seeded into the flower garden), bleeding hearts and weigelia.

The hostas are not only loving the rain, they are loving the accompanying gloomy skies. They are reacting by getting bigger, faster, than they have ever done before. Astilbes also look like they will have an outstading year.

Us humans aren't enjoying it som much as most days are gloomy and dark, and we only get 1 or 2 days of warmish weather a week. Tuesday was the warmest day of this week - mid-sixties. Last night I was contemplating turning the heater back up (it is always "on" since the boiler supplies our hot water).

I just worry about the bulbs (daffodils and tulips) as all this rain might be causing them to rot in the ground. However, if we get a break in the weather, I have so many things to plant, that I won't have time to check on them.

Guess I will find out next spring!

In the 100 Percentile

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Yeah, I know it's only 8th grade math, but I wasn't a math major either.