Lupin Ho!

I'm rich! In Lupins anyway....they're such showy flowers it's just silly they aren't used as currency. Just goes to show how twisted a world this can be. Canada would be the most rich and powerful country in the world.

May 29th

I've been needing a new weedwacker and after some talk with my boys the last couple days I stopped at Blowes on the way home and bought a Troy Built 4 cycle 28cc Super Bronco. Works great, quiet, takes attachments like brush hogs, blowers, chainsaws and the like and with a bit more use I'll be in shape enough to use it for more than ten minutes. I've done minimal damage to most desireable plants and NO personal injury other than a bit of rubbery feeling in the wrists.

I'm really praying for rain now.....water collection system empty...The weather people say rain on the weekend
I'm trying to figure out how to do this from my new Blackberry curve. The menus are all different from pc and I'm used to typing with all my fingers...still feels like my fingers are too fat.
Todays pictures are of new blooms on the silvermound (I'm now told by Sarah that it is Taurus Cerastium and not silvermound) and the soon-to-bloom purple Iris.

Snow in Summer

Purple looking Iris

Week Three Porch Shot

May 28th

So, I've been taking pictures of roughly the same spot in the yard in order to monitor plant growth and plan for any potential farming contracts. These two pictures are the first and second of the garden monitor program. Clearly there has been growth, and perhaps less clearly, mulch added.

Memorial Weekend

It's been a pretty layed back weekend so far without the youngins. They keep me motivated sort of like company makes you pick up around the house.....so I'm doing some laundry, changed the litter boxes, went grocery shopping and I may even vacuum....tomorrow. There's something to bask in with a beautiful day like today and another day off tomorrow. The chillins will return from Canada tomorrow and will take some time to review the gardens' progress (one white Iris has bloomed already).