This is the view out my front door, thanks to the neighbor who is having a new deck/pergola built. It doesn’t bother me at all to have a Honey Bucket nearly in my yard, but the thought of its tilt does make me feel queasy. The guys go in and out of it without any problems; they must not have any motion sickness issues!
Although I lesson planned in an actual book for 37 years, I’m very disorganized and random with my plant buying. I don’t estimate how many flowers I need, figure out where I should put shade/sun lovers or use any logical rationale whatsoever. I buy what I like and mostly what I know grows well in my flower beds. Petunias and geraniums are a given. I prefer two toned flowers or unusual ones. I love lantana and coleuses (got three of each); I bravely bought an impatiens which don’t usually thrive. I have an embarrassment of riches since I have three family-owned nurseries, gorgeous ones, 5-10 minutes away from me. One of them (Watson’s) is too pricey for me, so I went to a small one, The Garden Hose, run by a retired school bus driver from my district. Then I headed up to my favorite hardware store because they have potting soil in bags I can carry. I’m a weakling!
I think I’ve gotten this coleus before; the colors and leaves are irresistible.
John always looks at the prices of things whereas if I want something, like this colorful coleus, I buy it no matter what. I probably only spent about $80 for my annuals and that included a bag of potting soil; that seemed like a good deal, right?
I call this the Plant from Outer Space. although it does have an actual name. It’s unusual and two colored, so it went in my cart!
The back side yard that no one sees is the only flower bed without plants, but as you can see, I’ll soon have some bearded irises to admire. I’m not quite sure what I want to put in this area.
In tales of the weird, John and I were talking about his former girlfriends (he’s had a lot); being curious types, we looked up Paula on-line; she was the one before me. Yesterday, Facebook suggested her as a friend for me! LOL I don’t think that would be advisable, do you? She’s very pretty though, in spite of issues between them that caused a break-up. I wish I didn’t sometimes get insecure about my relationship with John; luckily, most of the time I’m rational with a dose of realistic thrown in. Like every couple, we’re also independent individuals and have lived different lives. Can you believe that it’s been almost eight years?
By the way, the arrangements for Ireland are complete: all the flights (and SEATS), as well as the hotel reservation for the night before our tour. Aer Lingus has been outstanding, but we can’t say the same for British Airways which made us pay $80+ dollars to choose aisle seats on our long leg from Seattle to Heathrow. What a racket! My friend and I aren’t conversant with the phonetic alphabet that the employee wanted us to use for our booking reference; we were like deer in the headlights. Our minds went completely blank! As usual for me, I can’t come up with the useful phonetic alphabet, but I can sing the Greek alphabet from my long-ago University of Washington days. I can also conjugate French verbs in many different tenses and moods. Speaking of French, Older Daughter discovered that the guy who got the Montreal job is from Montreal and is doing a post-doc in Paris. As she lamented to me, “I didn’t have a chance.”
This is so not true, except that I am scared of geese. And also bears and cougars. NO ONE IS SCARED OF AN ORCA THOUGH. Geeze. *rolls eyes*
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