Garden

It is started---tomatoes are in, radishes are planted. Lot of work to do yet.

Who writes this stuff?

For a long time my pet-peeve commercial was the "changed bee". You know, for the nasal spray. The "I'm a changed bee" got me because he's NOT a bee. Bees are brown and make honey. YELLOW JACKET hornets are yellow and black and eat meat, your food, the dog poo on the ground...yeah, he's a "changed" bee alright!

Now comes another nasal commercial, the one with the lady with the stuffy nose and the little men in white coats. Now, the next time you see it, watch when she says, "I can smell the roses!" Those aren't ROSES lady!! And what's with all the little man-butts flying up to her nose? Just what is she smelling? hahah

Who writes this stuff and why is it always nasal commercials?

I want to leave before they fix it

I found out our street is first in line to be fixed next spring. I do NOT want to be here. The noise, dust, parking the car at the end of the block...ugh!!! Yeah, I know the street is full of potholes and needs to be fixed, but...

Tuna Truce

I guess a bowl of juice from a can of tuna can call a truce between two (sort of friendly) rivals. Normally Macey and Sophie hiss and swipe at each other, but when I set a bowl of tuna juice down for Macey, Sophie joined in. Heads together, they shared and not a single hiss!

Garden

Here are our tomatoes, peppers and basil started from seed. Four Better Boy tomatoes, 5 bell peppers and two basil plants. I just planted banana peppers but they aren't up yet. It sure is hard to find banana pepper seeds.

We have other seeds that we will plant directly in the ground---radish, cucumber, zucchini and cantaloupe. We also have dill and chives. I bought rosemary and thyme plants because they are perennials. And I bought bachelor's buttons and cosmos.

Bachelor's Buttons and Cosmos, Bright Lights Mix

I chose the orange and yellow Cosmos because I thought the more familiar Cosmos colors would blend too much with the colors of the Bachelor's Buttons. Also, I was looking for sunflower-type colors without actually planting sunflowers. I love them, but so do the squirrels.

My mom always planted bachelor's buttons because I always loved them and asked her to plant them. Ahhh----bells of Ireland, I don't have seeds but that's another I always asked my mom to plant. I loved the green flowers and they always attracted green inch-worms (caterpillars), which I enjoyed playing with (when I was little!!)

Green inch worm and Bells of Ireland

Now go to my other blog, Violet Obsession, to see what came in the mail today :-)

Rain

We've been getting lots of spring rain this weekend. Thankfully no severe weather like they had down south. Dinner was roast chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy, veggies and cranberry sauce. Yummy.

We have tomato and pepper plants started from seed. Nothing beats home-grown tomatoes!

Last night we watched the remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still". We didn't much care for it. It seemed to turn into an environmental statement, and it was plagued by inconsistencies and scenes that, well---were just dumb.

That's about all the news for today

More Stuff

I haven't felt much like writing because I don't have anything to write about, other than we aren't moving this year. So I am basically busy with work and my violets and all the other things I do every day. We are having a decent spring this year, more warm weather than expected. The snow ball bush will be blooming soon and the crabapple tree is coming into bloom now.

I bought myself some comfortable shoes, didn't even need to break them in, on sale at Cabela's. I don't normally shop there, there are kind of expensive. I am having a hard time finding some decent tops. I just want some casual tops to wear around the house. It seems like clothing is made with skinny arms and fat middles. Once I get it to fit my arms, the waist part is flapping in the breeze. Relaxed fit they call it. I do like some of the clothes at K-Mart.