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Lowes had all their leggy Coleus on sale for $1.50, so I bought them all. Yup, ever one. Now my landscaping will be oh so bright and cheerful :) Bought a couple of majesty palms and 4 resin pots, also 50% off. Oh sales are so great! of course we also go the obligatory top [...]

    The moon started losing more and more of itself to our planet and then, suddenly, it was orange. C and I ended up being awake at 5:28 and 5:10 respectively. I just woke up, not sure what got C. So he got up and said it’d begun. At that point we figured we [...]

having flow by with nary a wink or a smile. The oppressive heat has been unrelenting, never keeping us from the yard work, thanks to the availability of a cool oval of liquid blue. Flutterbies have been abundant; as have biting bugs of all sorts, evidenced by my mottled body parts.

The front driveway area is starting to look done. The steps are finished and, by the Porsche, I placed some of our larger shade-needing plants in pots. Trying to see if they’re gonna like it there. They form an awesome wall keeping the eye on the driveway til we want them to look around to [...]

to see Scott at his new educational abode. After parking at the main building, a beautiful turn of the century (19th) cupola’d thing extending from the street back about .25 mile, we got directions from a woman with a name tag. Found out later, just ’cause someone’s got a name tag doesn’t mean they know [...]

we did  two steps of the back walk up front. Then we jumped in the pool. Mind you, earlier in the day we cleaned out under the oak bush, Corey cleaned up the rocks on the trellis steps and we cleanup up the other side of the front patio area, planting irises and liriope along [...]

Well, they were walking up and down the driveway as I was making coffee. Yep, walking. Amazingly, and it worried me for a sec, Mila was nowhere around to scare them! So they walked up and down, picking at something on the cement, til they walked out of my line of sight. Wonder if they [...]