Sorry, Glenda, I thought it was you. Now I can't find where I read that either. Our henbit started blooming back in the fall! Usually, you know, it sprouts in late Novemeber and stays teeny-tiny and low to the ground and you hardly notice it is there. Then, it starts enlarging in Jan. and blooms in Feb. This year, it sprouted early, grew and bloomed in the fall. I guess the really cold spell when we went down to 6 degrees froze it back and it all disappeared. It only started sprouting again about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and hasn't bloomed yet at our house, which means it is 'late'. It is blooming at some places in town though. Our spring bloomers are late and slow to bloom this year, but I don't mind. My plum trees were trying to bloom most of February and every time they buds were right on the verge of opening, we either had snow or a night in the low 20s and that slowed them down. Now, the buds are fat and ready to go and I expect blossoms any day now, especially since our forecast high for today is 74 degrees. Oddly, the redbuds aren't even thinking about blooming and normally they'd be about to bloom too. The weird Winter weather is giving us a weird period of awakening here, in terms of the plants. My heavily mulched garden beds don't have many weeds but the pathways have tons of them....because the pathway mulch is only grass clippings and it all has decomposed into compost. From the roadway, it looks like I have a really flourishing veggie garden that has narrow rows of green veggies and very wide paths. Unfortunately, what I actually have is mostly bare wide veggie beds that are well-mulched and mostly unplanted, and bright green pathways that need to be weeded. I can't weed them now because it is too wet...as in standing puddles of water in the pathways. I noticed on Sunday that the bermuda grass that regularly invades my garden by creeping under the fence and crawling across the top of the mulch is already greening up! I am not ready for that bermuda grass to green up. I am going to try to dig it out of the western end of the veggie garden today because that's where my heavy clay meets the odd band of sugar sand, so I ought to be able to work in that sandier soil. I truly hate bermuda grass. I did notice that in the pathways along with the winter grass and winter weeds there are some self-sown chamomile, lemon balm, catnip and other volunteers, so I'll dig them out of the pathways and put them up into beds someplace. Dawn

Here's a W1 during the Steam Smoothing portion of the Shirts cycle. Steaming is clearly audible at 11:00 minutes. The video says: "A video of the first "Shirts" (and a few stray socks) programme in the Miele. The Twindos got everything nice and clean, and using the stains option successfully removed some tough make up stains. The Steam Smoothing at the end seemed to work a lot faster and more furtively than my previous machine - steam was flowing out of the detergent drawer!" Here's the matching dryer steaming at 2:25 minutes. "Tried the "Steam Smoothing" programme in my Miele TKR 850 WP dryer today and very pleased with the result - no need to iron! These shirts were previously in the "Shirts" programme in the Miele washer which smoothes them with steam. This programme in the dryer sprays them with further water before drying. The dryer uses water for this from the condensed water container - since water is drained out directly to the sink I've had to purchase some distilled water to put in this - the manual strongly advises against using tap water high in lime content, which mine is. At the end you'll see the shirts came out relatively wrinkle free- certainly fine for work wear. I might still iron a special occasion shirt thought ;)"

No I didn't know about that site...interesting. I've not ever gotten the queen bee as I usually quit once I hit genius, and when I look at the next day's answers, there's always something very obscure in there that I'd never get. I find I struggle as there are words that I never realized are a single though compound word. Most often those seem to be the pangrams as in yesterdays and today's. I've sent in to add words to the acceptable list but I don't think they ever have. For example, I think toto should be a word as "in toto" meaning in total. I'm also surprised yoyo isn't a word...unless a trade name. Today I tried for agonal, which is a word, a medical term, but it wasn't on the list.

Connections Puzzle #142 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Now look, I could swear I had entered the right combination for yellow, but I guess I didn’t. Never heard of two of the blues, it was a look-up of one of the words that, by chance, led me to a clue of the category.