It's Ketch-up Day

 

Hoping your weekend was fun and your week will be rewarding. We were going to go into the mountains but had to cancel due to rain, which I might add the weeds are loving. Heh. What's the weather like on your end?

Critters and Growing Things

In prior years, tomatoes have grown in the mulch pile. This year it's potatoes, which I relocated. We'll see how it goes;)

AND from Philadelphia

Hope you're having a great one.
 

 

It's Tuesday

 

Kitties on the counter

Bad kitty

My weekend project: Rocks:)

 Yay. My Lilac Bush is blooming.

Iris pics. 

 

 This woman finds an abandoned parakeet in NY City.

*The little guy went through six hours of chemo last week.

 

Got blooms? Working in the garden? Got bad kitties? A parakeet friend?

Fall Gardening and Promised Pictures

My gardening shopping genes went into hibernation for the hot months of summer then fall rolled around and I made my annual pilgrimage to the Growers' Outlet  in Pineville and those shopping genes, which used to be much more focused on shoes, have kicked back in and I'm binging on mums. For me they make fall worthwhile.

My shopping cart (buggy). Do you recognize what's in it?

Another picture of my white mum that I planted last year. Looks like two there, but only one. Someone with four paws, who shall remain nameless but not blameless, walked through it. 

A little bit of gardening trivia: Mums supposedly have a better chance of survival if planted in the spring instead of the fall. I ask you, can you even buy mums in the spring?

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The baby hydrangea is trying to bloom. Do you think he'll make it before it frosts?

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Pictures, as promised, of the lovely and talented Diane Wolfe.

Happy Mother's Day

Here's a freebie for all the moms (and anyone else who wants a copy).

http://tinyurl.com/gardens1

Reading, Butterflies and Living Wills

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed. Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

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Perennials that attract butterflies: Aster, Bee Balm, Coneflower, Dame's Rocket, Hollyhock, Phlox, Sedum and Verbena. Are there any more perennials that you're aware of, we can add to the list?

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Living Will

Last night my kids and I were sitting in the living room and I said to them, "I never want to live in a vegetative state dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens just pull the plug."

They got up, unplugged the computer and threw out my wine.