Tuesday's Things.........

The dark buds really don't help one to know what color the iris will be. This probably ia more of a red-brown iris as the camera doesn't pick up red colors accurately.  This iris sat about three feet back from it's present location.  I moved it away from a forsythia bush and out into the sun.  This is the second year that it has bloomed but only two stalks of buds came up this year instead of the three that came up last year.  I may move the back portion to another location in my garden.

 

 I keep taking pictures of this wiegela as the rains have made it really bloom.

This small rose has many buds on it and they flowers are really nice.  It has many blooms and if I keep them cut back they will bloom most of the summer.

I took a shot of the new sprouts from the leaf starts.  I am not going to rush into replanting these as I want lots of roots on them before I move them.

The old traditional iris is starting to bloom.  My neighbor was given this also and it bloomed earlier than mine.  Her iris did not survive the rains and the winds and they looked like a hurricane had hit them. I am glad my waited to bloom later.

It is a bazinga day at school for me.  Each day some group of students sneak in and treat a teacher's room to a special hazing.   The Spanish teacher is gone the first two hours.  When I, the sub, entered the room I had to remove a criminal yellow tape from the door.  When I walked in,  every student desk had been flipped upside down but all neatly still in the right location.  He also has his desk covered with balloons.  Since I have only two classes today before he returns the kids are going to sit on the floor and also leave the balloons in place so he can see it all when he returns.  The students like sitting on the floor anyway even though a couple are sitting on the desk while it is upside down.

Bazinga is a friendly honor to the staff.  I am not sure that it is students but I suspect if it isn't, that a staff person had to have student help to accomplish this.  In order to teach sit-in's of the sixties last week, one of the staff social studies teachers had one, in the neighbor's classroom, unannounced.  It probably wasted five minutes of class time but these kids don't know what sit-ins look like unless they watch Occupy people today.

We awakened this morning to the sound of our furnish running again.  It was 50 degrees F. last night and won't warm up to 65 degrees today. Thank you for stopping by my post today.

Sunday's Blooms.......

The pink wiegela keeps putting out great blooms.  The bush has grown so large that it is banging its branches against a window every time the wind blows.

This is the iris that my parents had planted on the south side of their garage.  I moved it up here and it seems to be a very hearty iris.  I don't know it's history as they moved from one property to their last property and they could have moved it with them. 

This is my favorite iris in the bunch out there. I like it's light purple almost blue color.  It is doing so well right now but we just had a downpour rain. I am sure it took some damage.  I have a few cemetery iris yet to bloom and the one very dark one that blooms wonderful flowers. I also have a red brown iris that is going to bloom in the next couple of days.

Monday is coming.  I will be back at school tomorrow. I spent two hours mowing on Saturday and did not get done. I spent half the time, changing oil, cleaning up the air filter, cleaning the spark plug and finally messed with a failing cable that allows the mower to run. The mower kept dying and I would fix the next thing thinking I could keep it running. I want to throw that old mower away but won't probably until the end of the season.  There is a functioning mower behind all that stalling of the machine.  I will just keep messing with it to keep it working.

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Thursday's Things....

My pink wiegela is blooming profusely because of the rains.  It has more blooms than I was expecting because of the freeze. Can you see the freeze damage?

A blurry picture of something exciting.  My wife had told me she was watching a mother cardinal bring a young one to the feeder.  Last evening in low light I sort of captured it.  It is proof that we have youngster cardinals.  Yesterday afternoon I received mail from my wife saying there were two of them at the feeder and no adults.  I suppose they are about to be left on their own now.  This is the first time ever I have seen cardinal young.

The discussion at the noon lunch time at school was how we had hostas the are larger in size now that they normally ever have been during a normal spring.  We decided that we experienced what it was like if we were in a couple of growth zones further south.  The 80 degree weather in March is what brought this to happen.

A future project that needs to be done is seen before you.  I am dreading it but it is time.  The red tree is planted too close to the pear tree.  It doesn't straighten even though I have pruned back the pear tree.  The work involved to move the red tree is digging out two different roses, a peony bush, many daffodil bulbs and maybe even a hosta.  I know I have seen Roger on "Ask This Old House" dig up and move things.  The problem is, he does have a hearty, strong crew in the background or on camera helping with the work. From what I have seen him do I don't have to take all of the roots and I will need to prune it back on top some after it is moved.

I should really move it in the next few weeks so I can beat the heat.  I don't know where I am going to plant it.  I will have to water it a lot just to get it to work. Maybe I will move it ten feet towards the camera which would look like good spacing and would allow it to grow straight with the proper amount of light.  I guess I need to walk the estate and see where a nice accent tree could be placed. Did I mention that I am dreading this project???

I promise to find the name of the tree by the time I move it.  It is buried in my blogs a couple years back and it does have a name.  The small flowers in spring are neat that it puts out each year.

I am subbing for many people today.  It is an ok think.  I am not bubbly about it, as moving from to room to room gets to be unnerving.  The entire high school is off to see a movie that shares it's thoughts about bullying.

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