I understand your pain. Yesterday, I got my hair cut and the stylist gave me a lovely blow dry, finishing it with hair spray. My next stop was at an unenclosed shopping center. Normally, I park at one end and walk to the other and back, checking in at B&N, Pier 1, Home Goods and Staples. It was sprinkling, but I didn't want to hassle with an umbrella. Unfortunately, when I exited Staples, it was pouring buckets. By the time I reached the car, I was soaked to the skin. I couldn't even get a comb or a brush through my sopping wet hair because the hair spray was acting like concrete. I needed to go to the grocery store, but I gave up and went home because I looked and felt like a drowned rat. We ate cereal for dinner. LOL!

yes they are Molting give him a few weeks and he will look better than get more pictures I have the same feeder as you it help keep the grackles away

Seeing your chooks makes me want to get a couple of them, nothing nicer than a hen scruffling and talking as she goes. Grandkids have changed towns now and Henry has planted the chook yard with veges, so I guess I had better resist the urge. Your plants are great and wasn't the rain wonderful, better than all the hand watering . Marion

They are excellent pollinator plants, blooming from early summer through the first hard Frost, providing a long season of nourishment. I would plant them where nothing else will grow, full sun and not much water if any. I've seen them growing on the west side of the house next to a heat radiating brick wall, I've seen them growing at gas stations where nothing ever gets watered, and I have my own little story. Several years ago, someone was to come dig some Mexican petunias for her own garden. It was so hot, and I wanted her little garden project to be a success, and I was afraid if she dug them up in the heat she would be too tired to plant them. So I dug them up for her lol. Put them in a wheelbarrow, spritzed them with water, and covered them up with a wet towel. She never showed up. So I took them to a hot, dry spot behind the garage, in full sun, where I had been thinking about making a compost pile.. I laid them on the ground, covered them with a little soil so I wouldn't have to watch them wilt & die, and said "rot in peace, amen". I now have a really nice, healthy little stand of them out there behind the garage, and they bloom their heads off all summer every year I put the compost pile somewhere else.