Tuesday Things

The privot is turning colors with soft pastel colors. I planted this to partially cover up a meter. It has to be trimmed to keep the numbers on the meter visible but it does cover it up mostly.

 

I checked the closet below my water break in the bathroom. I thought everything was ok Today I opened the closet door and smelled mold and mildew. So now I have a new project as the very back of the wall got soaked up. I foresee where I am going to have to cut out drywall along the wall and replace it after it has been dried. We lost some minor artworks and  I found some grandparents photos that were also stored in the one portfolio that had been damaged but not destroyed. 

 

I have things strewn out on the floor to dry them out. Each was wet on the bottom edge and in some cases it didn't ruin the painting. The girls are probably going to be tossed unless Della wants to go it and layer new pastel on it. 

 The North Shore painting of mine has a black spot. I am going to let it all dry and see if I can save it. 

It has been a slow drizzle day with dampness and a wet deck all day. I went for groceries this morning and avoided getting wet but right now one would be wet if they went out into it. We need rain so we are not complaining.  Thanks for checking in today. 

Fall Things

 The neighbors maple tree grew up fast and is tall. It is bigger than he expected but we enjoy seeing it most of the seasons. The  willow tree in the background is rarely seen from our house but from the neighbor's backyard I got a good view. The new neighbors may not want the clothes line and we will see. If they take it down we will know that they don't plan on using it. 

 Across the street from our front yard we get to see this wonderful clump birch. It is probably too big as it covers up the whole front of their house but we do get to enjoy it. 

 I did more seed harvesting this morning. The two zinnias are not dead but I wanted those two colors of them.  Hopefully the seeds will still form after they are picked. 

 The redbud tree is now turning yellow. It is colorful with the contrast of the dark bark and the green and yellow contrast. 

One single leaf on the burning bush is announcing the future color of the bush. The bush has grown larger this year unlike its stunted growth the last two season.

It has been cool all day. I worked outside for a shorter time today and the sun really didn't show itself today. We may bet rain tomorrow.  Thanks for checking in today. 
 

Sunday Afternoon Report

 

 

 

 It is a sunny day with a mild wind. It is still cold as our temps didn't get to high. It is fall coat season.  Neighbor guy is busy mowing his yard this afternoon and has a cap on to keep his ears warm. The leaves are turning but it isn't as great of show this fall because of the mild drought that we are in. My mums never looked so good as the do this year. They have taken over the garden area and my goal was to take them out of the area. I was going to dig them and move them or throw them away. Mums are great but they don't only make the garden area good only at the end of the summer season Tulips need to grow there and I am trying to get the hostas to grow there. If they hadn't bloomed so well I would have yanked them out sooner.  It is the story of being a gardener and things also growing where you don't want them to be. 

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Cloudy All Day

 It looks like a magical tree with fairies living among its branches. It grows in the far corner of our property and it can not be seen from the house as the blue spruce covers its view. It is a pussy willow tree, not a bush, and it has grown up to be a big problem.  Parts of it die out every year and it being a softwood tree, things fall down out of it often. I will be paying a company to come and remove it. I haven't heard when they will come but I am all ready for them. I don't like taking down trees but this one spreads out onto the neighbors yards. The one with the pool probably won't miss it with the leaves falling into his space. 

 The backyard view, looking down, you can see the red bud tree turning yellow. The cottage garden is slowly changing as I clear away plants for the winter. The zinnias have been through two days of frost so I am sure that they will start turning brown. When on the main level one doesn't see all the nieghbor's junk and bright blue pool. It is funny how Ben's yard is filled up with so much and John's yard is kept palin and simple with not things outside to clutter. 

 I finally got my cupola raised up taller a few days ago. I had made a six inch tall platform to put under it to raise its height, probably a month ago. I didn't go ahead and put it in as it would caused harm to the flowers around it. Now things are dead on the south side of it so I laid it on its side and added the lift. When I laid it over I had forgotten that the peak isn't attached to the square base. It makes it easier to handle. It is heavy as it originally was a real cupola from my garden shed at the old place. It had rotted at the base and I removed it so it wouldn't fall. When I took it down I decided to move it to the new place. It was all one piece then and I almost fell off the roof with it as it was heavy. I had to end up dropping it to the ground but that didn't do that much damage. 

 The roses are doing well in the fresh water and goblet. It is nice to be able to enjoy them inside. The frost is going to take them all out soon. 

 I mowed my neighbor's yard one more time even though she is soon to transfer ownership of it. The realtor told her it should be kept neat right up to the closing moment. I think that will be the last time I will need to mow it. I have my back yard mowed up from yesterday's work and I now have all my grass treatments down on the grass front and back too. I put things away today into the shed as if winter is coming. I did finish clearing the tomato vines today and even got the sunflower stem out of the ground, after soaking the roots with a couple of gallons of water. I have a lot more to bring in but anything that I can get done before it snows will be the better. 

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Frosty Friday

 Rustic and very old but it still looks good. I moved it away from a tree that will be cut down soon. I moved it from the old place where it hung from an apple tree. The birds don't like it so much as the hole is too big for nesting. 

 

While cutting zinnias to take inside I had two of these butterflies visiting the blooms. I would have thought that two nights of frost and freezing that they would be gone. 

My glass jar was an old milk bottle from years gone by. I have two of them and they work well for flowers like this. The zinnias are almost all spent but I did get this good cutting. 

 

While out yesterday working in the yard I found another healthy hardy geranium that I had to rescue. Having good buds and leaves means I do have to plant it in a pot and take it inside.

 

 

I found a red metal bucket with a plastic liner that really did fit the bill for these two plants. I think they went into shock having rich potting soil on their roots. 

 

One lone marigold was in bloom and I just had to take a shot of this. I think it is the only one of this color among all the other marigolds of different colors. 

 

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I removed my screen barriers around my tomato plants and this guy was immediately in it this morning. He was upset that I was out there picking tomatoes so he   went up the hill and got away from me for awhile. If I get my act together I can clear the rest of the tomato plants now and put away everything. I had an appointment with my Endocrinologist nurse practitioner in the morning so I didn't get much work done this morning. I did spend an hour mowing when I got back. Tomorrow I will get stuff done with the full morning time to work. Thanks for stopping by today. 

Thursday's Things

 A cold start in the morning with almost freezing temps. It did frost and freeze water even though the temp was at 34 degree F. 

 The full sunrise has to include my neighbor's house as the sun keeps shifting in the scene. We warmed up to a high of 59 F. today. It didn't seem so cold compared to that morning temp.

 I had a few roses that just were not bothered by the cold. I am not sure if we will be so cold tomorrow morning.

 The pink rose just keeps showing off with its new blooms. When things finally shut down on the rose I am going to prune back a lot to get it under control. It seems to be splaying all over this time of the year. 

 The new fence gives me a great background for the rose as it hugs the fence which probably keeps it warmer this time of the year. 

 The new knock out rose has a couple of buds yet to open. It hasn't done so well this summer as we went through drought again. If I had watered it better it would not have taken such a bad hit. 

 

The knock out roses are ready for me to trim them back for the winter. I have it on my list to do but it will have to wait until next week. I  have a doctor's appointment in the morning and that seems to ruin the whole day.  I had to clear some brush, a bush, today so the people who are coming to take out one of my trees won't worry about damaging it. I just trimmed it to the ground.  I have the bid for the tree to be taken down but don'[t have a date as to when they are going to come to take it down. I will show pictures later of what that is all about. I didn't plant the tree and it has sprawled all over and has dead parts in it every year that needs to be trimmed out. 

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Middle of the Week

 I got the shot even though it is a bad shot. I was going to go outside to work and the bluejay was having a great time at the bird bath. I had to shoot through the sliding glass door and yes it looks like an impression of the bluejay.

 

I took the time to pick the last of my tomatoes as it will be freezing out there soon. I didn't get all the vines taken down yet but it will happen soon. I know that some of the tomatoes won't ripen but I bet most of them will. They are small but they still taste good. I have brought in the last of my potted plants that were on the patio as it will get too cold soon. When the wind from the north keeps blowing the Canadian air will nip it all. 

My morning shot was not so great but I always keep an eye on my favorite old time silver maple tree. It shows the tree is dropping leaves. The one broken branch that hung on for two years finally came down. I am thinking the tree is at least two blocks away and it always shows up on my horizon in the morning.  I owned six silver maples on my old place when I first bought it. As the years went by they came down from the weather or from the hate of the city. The last one came down when we had a derecho wind storm and it broke into many parts hitting the house. When I sold the house there was one volunteer younger tree growing in the back yard that I wanted to grow there. 

 I am a sucker for keeping hardy geraniums over the winter. This one was growing in the front yard and it looked too good with multiple buds on it. I pulled it up by the roots and found an antique pot to put it in. Cleaned it up in my downstairs plant workroom, bathroom, and it looks great. It is the only one that I have with this color. The other three are red ones. I wish I had a sink in my work shop where I could work with my plants. 

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Tuesday

 

 

The colorful sunrise evolved into the soft clouds. With 40 mph winds from the north the clouds were moving around continually. 

 As the sun rose it made our neighbors trees glow to a brighter color that usual. The photo was shot through screen wire so you  get a special texture on the view. 

 My Thanksgiving cactus is putting out a few blooms. There are other buds on the plant so I will see more color. As this blooms I am busy bringing in my outside flowers. We will have frost or freezing tomorrow night so I bring things in a few at a time until they are all inside. I have tomorrow to get the last of them inside. I have a large pot of begonias that I will maybe bring in tonight after supper. 

I went for groceries today and the wind did blow. It was up to 50 miles and hour at times. It almost seemed like it was going to suck my groceries out of my cart as i went to the car. I dressed warmly. The pumpkins are half off now and I saw two young boys in shorts trying to pick out pumpkins to buy out side the store entrance. They were dancing around to keep warm.  I really hate getting use to  the cold. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  

First Day of the Week

 It was a trend for a while for mugs to have this shape. I had one other that had decorations of Paris on it. The Paris was one of my favorites and I had it at school where it got knocked over onto the concrete floor.  The cup has floating coffee beans on it on the background. 

 I am still collecting seeds as the flowers eventually die out. I like to sew all the collected seeds in the spring and then rearrange them to make the be equally spaced. It was a good year for them as we got just enough rains to keep them gone. 

 

The sunlight made them more color full as the morning was damp and the flowers seemed well watered and vigorous. 

 

The indoor garden has new blooms as I had of period of not watering them. They love to be dry for awhile and then they bloom when they are watered. 

 I collected seeds of this color of glory this morning. I will probably collect more later as I like to have too many seeds rather than too little. I got two projects done today so it was a good day.  I have a tree that needs to be removed and I finally got the process started. It is Monday and we are having spaghetti and homemade meatballs for supper. It will be a good finish for the day. Thanks for stopping by today.

Gone Fishing

 It isn't a great shot but I like how one can see the whole shape of the moon in shadow. The camera didn't want to focuse either part of the moon. I got a glowing small dipper. 

The Japanese iris leaves are coated with moisture from the heavy dew. I don't know when the best time it is to trim back the leaves but I do have do it. 

 The rain and morning dew has the rose bloom being really soggy. I see in the shot that there is another bud yet to open on a better day. 

 I filled this plastic tub with water and fish. Now I have to net them all out and dump the water.

 For a few days I spent time dragging the net around and collected guppies by large numbers.  I have lots of guppies now as they really multiplied in the tub. 

 I also had bought two feeder goldfish. They were hard to net as they would hide in the greenery and the mud in the bottom of the tub. They did double in size while growing out in the wild. 

We ran into friends at Panera Bread today and had a fun time catching up on things. Usually we schedule but it just happen that we chose the same place to eat after church. We have had a cooler day today which they say is our normal fall temp. I worke a coat to church and I was glad that I did. Fall is here now qnd snow will fly sooner than I want it to.

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