So. September. The forecast for the month says only one day of 101° and, by the end of the month, highs in the 80’s. Sounds great! This fall could be one of the least hot. Hopefully. Back in early spring, we had the sprinkler system guy come out to check all the sprinkler heads. I think he replaced a couple of sprinkler heads, and he ran each of the stations for a few minutes. Everything was fine. Then, all the springtime rain, and the summer rain, meant that we didn’t run the sprinklers until last week. And, the cooler weather made doing yard work really pleasant.
I’ve seen some different attitude about overalls these days. For quite some time, all overalls, short or long, had tasteful (or not so tasteful) big rips in the legs, a sort of fashion statement, I guess. I did wear those overalls, but only in my yard. And mostly in the back yard.
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- My overalls are quite a mishmash, but all have a variety of rips.
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- I added some patch-like things over the largest of the holes, and added a little length.
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- These are the newest overalls at Target. Nary a hole or a rip. Thank goodness I won’t be embarrassed by my out-of-style overalls, as I’ll be wearing them in backyard.
In other outdoor news:
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- I know I’m not supposed to let the chives bloom. But, they’re so lovely. And, at least one of them is really determined to forge its own way ahead.
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- Seems like summer must be over; Target is going to great lengths to get rid of the bug spray. I don’t know. I’m not sure we’re mosquito-free just yet.
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- I don’t know if this tree, around the corner from our house, just dropped an excessive large limb, or if a tree professional (?) was taking down the large limbs of a tree that’s been lost from last February’s bitter cold weather. Whatever happened, it’s been a disaster. It’s been like that for a week now.
Last summer, I bought some Turk’s Cap plants: three pink ones and three red ones. They did all right, until February. Everything on that side of the house was really slow about rebounding, but everything did. I had planted the Turk’s Caps alternately, red, pink, red, pink, red pink. When they finally began to come up, ‘way into spring, they weren’t blooming, and I didn’t know who was who, and there were just three of them. When I visited the greenhouse where I’d purchased them, I asked if there was a way to know which were which, the owner said that the red ones had larger leaves and were sturdier, so probably, the red ones were coming up. As you can see, they have grown sturdy and strong, and there are lots of them. And they are all pink.
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- The turk’s cap. growing REALLY well. And, they’re ALL pink.
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- Coriander, growing in some gardening shoes that I cannot get on my feet.
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- And a bunch of other herbs, which have made it through the summer pretty well.
O children of Zion, be glad
and rejoice in the Lord your God;
for he has given the early rain for your vindication,
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
the early and the later rain, as before.
The threshing floors shall be full of grain,
the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Joel 2:23-24 (New Revised Standard Version)
And there will be herbs for cooking, and flowers for fragrance, and ferns for beauty, and trees for shade.
“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8:1a)