Maybe I should buy a vase or two?

Since we were supposed to get a hard freeze last night, I brought in some of the surprise flowers in. (It only got down to 32.0 according to my Oregon Scientific weather station and there was a good breeze to keep frost from forming.)


Unknown tulip and grape hyacinths in a classy plastic double shooter from the Jack Daniels distillery.


Redbud sprig and juniper pruning in a glass champagne flute.

The only sure thing about it is that it will change.

It was beautiful Saturday. We were mowing the grass and cooking out on the back deck. We had snow showers this morning. St. Louis weather.

We put in for our Colorado elk tags last night. We both went for cows in mid-November instead of early December this year. If we get drawn, we'll be out of town for at least the first week of Missouri's firearms season. We should know on June 9th.

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld

It has been fifteen years since Kurt Cobain died.

This gets sadder to me as the years pass. I used to love pictures of him when he was young and full of teenage angst.

Now I love the pictures of him and Frances Bean.

Surprise flower

I didn't plant these bulbs, and I don't remember there being quite so many last spring.



Surprise!

This is under the eaves on the south side of the house. Grass & weeds don't even grow there. I have no idea how these bulbs are hanging on.

Bret Michaels

Hey, Mom, remember in fourth through eighth grade when you told me I was too young to be in love with Bret Michaels?

Turns out, I'm not! I'm really too old. Who knew?



I cannot watch this show. I don't want to see my teen idol with a hair piece. I want to remember him the way he was, as an 8 x 10 pulled out of MetalEdge and taped to my wall.

Garden update

The marigolds (Crackerjack mixed colors) were probably planted too soon. They really need potting up, but I'm not going to do it. The snapdragons (First Ladies mixed colors) were probably put in at just the right time. They are very slow growers.



The cauliflower (Snowball X) looks great outside. It is doing better than the broccoli that was planted out a week earlier.



I also have some potato rosettes coming up now.



My lettuce (Salad bowl) only had a 50% germination rate inside. I did get the six plants I needed to put outside this week, but they were from three cells and had to be separated instead of thinned. I will see what happens, but I already have my eye on some very nice looking Black Seeded Simpson plants at El-Mel.

My Swiss Chard (Neon Lights) did even worse. I've only gotten 17% germination on them, and they've been in the seed tray since March 7th. They're scheduled to go in the ground Saturday, so I know I'll be purchasing plants elsewhere. I've only seen regular white stemmed chard so far, but maybe I'll be lucky and find some colored stem variety at Parkview Gardens.

What kind of fool am I?

Today I taped a small note under my colleague's optical mouse that simply said, "April Fools!"

I also sent several order sleeves of completely blank papers around the room.



This I did this at home.



Dennis found it hilarious, but it really made Chris mad. Especially when he found the hot sauce on the cookies.