FALL COLOR THREAD - 2022
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Comments (1203)Thank you all very much for your kind thoughts and wishes. They are very much appreciated. Lou’s Doctor called and said they were doing another MRI scan. The last one showed something in the base of his brain. They are querying whether it is a residual pocket of infection from last year. Lou absolutely refused to go to the followup clinic after the PICC came out at the end of January. The psych geriatrician suggested,after Lou shouted and swore at him, we apply for an emergency Power of Attorney, so we could have Lou admitted as an involuntary patient, but the Psychiatrists said no, he would just refuse to talk to them and oppose any suggested treatment as usual. He has Rights!!! Sorry, I am being a b—-h! so still status quo! Kristine beautifol photos of Azalea and your clematis too. So happy your eyes are healing well. My hope is for an uneventful recovery and improved near and distance vision so I can draw my non existent eyebrows evenly when I do my face, They usually end up uneven and patchy. Very annoying! Carol, Melissa and I haven’t laughed so much in ages as we did at the AITA column. We decided that we wouldn’t be ’embuttered or margarinised’ by our current problems. I agree with the general idea that orange cats have one brain cell among all of them. We had one once,a stray that followed Melissa home from school not without encouragement IMO. He was beautifully tempered but… dumb. We had a lot of Trash basket events and paper bag ones too also head stuck in can. but he was good company. Diane, enjoy your break and come back refreshed to battle the internet gremlins. Ive battled a few today, I’ve lost several items before I could submit themand some photos wouldn’t load, so I keep trying. Trish I hope you are keeping well. I had an episode 3 weeks ago my pulse was 122-125 for about 20 mins but it settled and has been fine since. It was a comparatively quiet day too, don’t know what happened, gave me a scare though. We are quite settled in SIL’s rental, it is near Olivia’s school, and there is a big grassy backyard for Harry.who has decided he is an indoor dog unless some one will go outside and play with him. There is a clump of Naked lady( Belladonna lilies) a choko vine on the fence, a Dolichos creeper mounded in a corner an olive tree more bushy than treelike and a potted banana. My favourites though are the 2 4 o’clock plants smothered in grass beside the back doorstep. Thats the garden! Dolichos creeper Choko vine Naked Lady stalks Olive bush and banana 4o’clocks Sniffy and Fluffy(white) Max is baby sitting 2 bunnies, Sniffy is getting fat I think she’s pregnant. luckily the owners are picking them up tomorrow. ;-) I never knew rabbits could be so noisy. Harry will miss them though, he lies in front of the cage and watches them a lot of the day.Max has a rabbit of his own, Peter and a guinea pig Cotton tail, they are both still quite young. I have no photos of them, they are in Max’s room because Peter is an escape artist and needs to be kept safe from Harry. I miss home though, the garden looks dead and dry and most of my new plants have died. I cancelled my rose orders because I do not know what the next few months will bring or even where I’ll be. I have ordered Spring bulbs to put in pots, I’ll try Seaside’s lasagne idea and I have Sweet Pea seeds for pots and Phlox too, so all is not lost, Spring will be bright for us yet! Melodye...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - July 2022
Comments (10)Well, one lone brave deer has pretty much eaten my photo ops. Some nights I hear him right outside my bedroom window on the patio, munching away. I turn on all the lights, and he doesn’t care. I have to get my old body out the front door before he feels the need to leave, and he shoots right up the driveway. So much for 2022. Today I had an exciting discovery—23 large monarch caterpillars on one single swamp milkweed. Then three monarchs were flying around gathering nectar. Either it’s been a sparse monarch year or I’ve just not crossed paths with them in the garden, but today was a joy. I do have four things for pictures that the deer has not eaten. He seems to be very choosy about hostas, which confuses me. But, he is consistenly fond of all daylilies, The area above used to be boring standard wintercreeper. The deer actually helped me out with that area several years ago. He ate the wintercreeper in mid-winter so much that in spring I could actually find the main trunk, cut that sucker out, and remove all wintercreeper. Behind the hostas is a wisteria, but it has not bloomed. Got it from a neighbor. Two daylily flowers that amazingly survived Sir Deer. Glamour Girl or Coral ?Flame? phlox just starting to come in. ’Hercules’ phlox is also here but is barely holding on in both areas of the garden where planted. Lavender is nearing the end of its show....See MoreWhat's for Dinner #402 Summer/Fall 2022
Comments (80)I don't take photos of my food much anymore. I've had to eat rather austere lately due to economics (inflation is kicking our food budget's butt!) and also add weight loss and IBS management in the mix. Neely I envy you your seafood! Even most fish is out of reach of our budget right now . . . we get panfish from friends in the summer. I do eat shrimp once in a blue moon, but it isn't much a part of my diet anymore for calorie and cholesterol reasons. Lately can't even get good prices on salmon and even tilapia. I won't eat Atlantic salmon but sometimes we get it from Iceland or Chile. Not lately. I can't afford fresh Pacific salmon. We eat salmon patties made out of canned Pacific salmon. Crab I can only dream about . . . We do have good Lake fish here but I relegate that mostly to summer when I am up by the Lake and can get it fresh. Lake Michigan is "the Lake" around here. The best food to come out of my kitchen lately was pumpkin cheesecake that hubs made for Thanksgiving. His secret recipe apparently. Great breakfast of buttermilk pecan waffles that I made because hubs weekly home made yogurt turned out watery. https://younggoodsandeats.com/buttermilk-pecan-waffles/ We are also enjoying Thanksgiving left overs and Missing Egg Salad for lunch, made with tofu and yellow mustard, tumeric and my green tomato hot dog relish. Tonight's dinner was really good, brussel sprouts were on sale at Aldis so I made braised sprouts and served them over shell pasta, taking my inspiration from Chef Jacques Pepin. I am actually a person who thinks brussel sprouts are a treat, when sauteed. I'm linking to the recipe, but I used vegetarian Italian sausage, not meat sausage in mine, and also dolled up the sauce with sauteed onion, some Mrs. Dash garlic herb seasoning, lite soy sauce for salt, and a couple dashes of white wine and pasta water plus Parmesan and Romano cheese to make it creamy. Yum! https://jp.foundation/video/medley-of-brussels-sprouts-sausage-and-beans...See MoreFall color - RBG rock garden today (Oct. 25 2022)
Comments (8)I am late to the party here, but Woody came up with the great idea to meet in the RBG. I had been in the renovated rock garden once, shortly after it opened, and at that time it had a lot of maturing to do. This time is was just perfect, the perennials had filled in nicely, while the old bones of mature trees and rock formations are still there. I didn't take any pictures, but Woody shows one of my favourite groupings: the Anemone 'Honorine Jobert' under the river birch. 'Honorine Jobert' would be on my short-list of favourite perennials. Hard to beat that elegance in pure white and clear yellow. Mine is still blooming today, proving that we have not had a frost yet above ground level. It instantly turns to dirty brown at the first touch of frost on the blooms. To improvise on Henry Wadsworth: in a good year it is very, very good, but in a bad year it turns horrid ;-). I am looking forward to seeing the early spring bulbs in April! Coming, Woody?...See MoreBillMN-z-2-3-4
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