Day Tripping

On Uncle's dime. George went to Moutainburg, down in Crawford County, censusing yesterday. I went along to tell him what to do. It rained most of the day, but we had a good time. And, on the way back we stopped by the nursery at Hindsville and bought more bedding plants. I already had more plants than I knew what to do with, and now I have some more. I got several flowers and 4 cucumbers. All are planted or muddied in now.

It is foggy and about 60 degrees at 7:30 am. Weather man says more rain, no sun today. Tomorrow the sun is supposed to be back. I will welcome him, until I want rain again.

Not dead

Just otherwise occupied. Last week end we had the babies. Emmy was here and took them for a ride.

I have been working in the garden and in my flowers in the evenings.

George is back censusing. He trained 3 days last week, then went to Boone and Newton county on Thursday and Friday. Today he goes to Mountainburg in Crawford Co. He is now a traveling man.

It is 6 am and drizzling rain. I hope it clears up, but it does not look promising. It was dry and I asked for rain. We got rain and I now ask for sun. We cannot be satisfied with what we have, always wanting what we do not have. Then we get what we ask for and want what we had again.

I am suffering from mildew.

Iris

This is an Iris I got from Patsy. She said I got the one she got from Ruth Jones. Actually, I got about a dozen of these. They are beautiful.

Betty asked about digging up Iris. You can transplant Iris almost any time of year. Spring and fall are best, but most of my Iris I dug up when I happened upon them and they nearly always recover completely by the next year. I have dug many even when they are in bloom. Just cut off the blooms before transplanting.



This is a peach colored iris that the renter left here about 10 years ago now. It has not done too well because the Lilac has overpowered it. I have cut back the Lilac to give the other things here more sun. I have one of Patsy's little pink roses here and it was not getting enough sun. It should take off now. Even with the Lilac shading it, it bloomed for about 2 months last year and that was the year I dug up the sprig from Patsy's old yard.




This is a yellow Iris at the east corner of my gravel area. It is panted between two yellow roses and the white spirea I got from Patsy. I don't know if I got it from Patsy or if I bought it. If I bought it, I think it is the only one I have bought until I got those 6 for $2 at the garden sale last week.

I went by Patsy's and delivered the present Helen got for her. She was looking good. We had a nice visit, because it took me a while to get her present set up. She liked her present. I enjoyed visiting with her. Oh, and happy birthday Patsy. I sort of forgot to say that while I was there.

Breakfast with the neighbors

Rain and more...

So far a half inch of rain, and a little hail.



Yesterday, George tilled the garden and then I hoed out the rows. It looks great. The hail did not seem to hurt the tomatoes.

I have had cornbread and radishes 3 times in the last week. I have lettuce and onions, but it is the radishes I like the best.




This is one of the iris I stole from Patsy last year.





George has dozens of birds on the feeders tonight. Yellow, red and blue.

My flowers

This is a planter I fixed for the table on my deck. I bought the plants from the German's and put them in a basket I had. I found the metal tray and the water can at junk / yard sales yesterday, 75 cents for the metal tray and 25 cents for the can, I think. There is also a very small wire tea pot in the planter that I got for a quarter. This looks alright now, but in a month or so it will be beautiful. It has a red germanium in the middle, a variegated sweet potato vine, a white petunia, a lacy plant with small white flowers that I do not know the name of and probably other things I have forgotten.


If you enlarge this, you can see the yellow iris and the white plant I dug up form Patsy's place last year. The white bush is not a bridal wreath as I thought but it is another form of spirea plant. Then there are 2 roses, yellow I think, and the rose of sharon here.



This is a shrub I bought last year. It starts with a W. and it is supposed to get big and bloom all summer. In the other corner is a forsythia I got from Patsy's old yard.



This is the front steps with the small planters with red and white petunia's. In the large pot I planted red daises I bought at Wally world yesterday, and some white petunias, one of those big leaf plants that is red and green, caldium or something like that. Then I planted some mint that I got at the sale yesterday. $3 for 2 kinds of mint.

Here are my seeds, Shasta daises, black eyed susans, thyme, painted daises, dill and some other things. They are doing pretty good, but the dill is not up yet. I planted it later than the others.

This is Patsy's little pink rose. There are 2 here and one down by the lilac in the middle of the yard. I have three here, but I moved one down by the mail boxes. We will see if it lives there. These little things bloomed last year for months until frost and did not get much bigger than they are here.

To the right, is a cutting of a bleeding heart I stole at wally world yesterday. It had broken off in the storm the night before. I put rooting harmone on it and we will see if it grows. If it grows, is there anything you want me to steal for you and see if we can get it to grow?

This is some of the stuff I dug up and planted down by the light pole at the corner of the yard. I have to be careful what I plant here, because it is hard to water this far from the house. You can see on of Patsy's roses in the middle. I am not sure what color it is. Most of this I stole from Patsy.

This is a new bed I planted to the east of the deck. I have all these flowers in the garden and I wanted more space for transplants by the house. I think I will look for more edging around the yard and extend this to the end of the trailer.

This is stuff I planted by the mail boxes. Again, I do not want to have to water this often, as I will have to haul water down here. I planted Shasta Daiseys and cone flowers that I bought and iris I got for $2 yesterday. Then I have some stuff I got from my yard and the flowers I planted.

This is another view of the light pole.

These are watermelons and cantaloupes I bought yesterday. The cantaloupes must have been under the drip line, because they look rough today and the watermelons look find. I got these at Wally in Harrison. Nine seedlings for $3.50.

This is the back of the mail box in the pasture. I planted iris, rose of sharon, a piece of patsy's peony that has been growing in this pasture for 20 years.

More mail box.

Garden with flowers and potatoes.

Chair and $2 table.

Lamp I got for $3 yesterday. I am painting it black and getting shades to match for it and the other pole lamp I have in the living room. With matching shades the will look good in here.

Other side of the garden with tomatoes, flowers and strawberries. The strawberries do not look to promising.

The fountain in front of the deck with the red and white impatiences.