It was a beautiful sunny day here in Redford, although a tad chilly.
I went out at lunchtime to Lowe’s and bought a pot of petunias for the clay pot on the stump at the Wild Garden. The Wild Garden is still filled with the lily-of-the-valley leaves (the lovely little flowers are about all gone) and ferns. I did check (again) and the trillium I transplanted from Mom’s New Baltimore house (with Hannah’s help) did not come up (for yet another year). I’m going to have to face it: They’re not coming up!
After work, I put the petunias in the pot, filled the rest of it with garden soil and watered the hell out of it. Then I put the pot back on the stump and took a picture for you. Since I had the camera anyway, I also took a photo of the porch rail planter. Both will look a lot better when they fill out.
I talked with Jake for a while. He had to give a presentation to some colonels and I was curious how it went. He said he thought it went well, but he still has several tight deadlines to meet. Sucks to be him!
I was going to try and work on that window box again. But, since it’s still chilly and the weekend is supposed to be in the 80’s, I decided to wait for better weather. Instead, I warmed up some ribs and an ear of sweet corn for my dinner.
I watched TV until I fell asleep around 10:30 PM.
Gardens are looking nice! Regarding some of your posts finding different types of beverages - check out tart cherry juice. Supposed to be the new super antioxwhatchamacallit thing. 32oz bottle of concentrate (1oz per 7oz water) was like $17 at Kroger.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip. I'll tell you what, though. I usually drink a glass or two of buttermilk, apple juice or V8 juice at night when I get home. But, I can;t drink more than a half a glass of that cranberry juice. Whew! Puckers you right up!
ReplyDeleteWell, they say to mix w/ 7 oz. I take a std 16.9 oz water bottle, mark water level, measure out 2 Tbsp of water and then fill back up to mark w/ juice. Less puckery but still good. Need to find a pie recipe for it.
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ReplyDeleteHope you and Melissa have nice visit sorry I am not able to be there but it's a helluva commute. Enjoy your weekend:) I have to deal with the pool it got opened and is full of green algae and needs to be brushed and vaccumed but it was 90 yesterday and too darn hot to work outside!!! Enjoy your weekend!!
@ Jake: Cherry Pie sounds fine!
ReplyDelete@ Amy Pool Boy Petersen: I don't envy you opening the pool. My neighbors have been working on theirs for a couple of days now and I remember all the time and money Jake and Carla used to spend on theirs.