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I don't garden like I used to, though I have hopes that will improve. But this song? Duuuude, it's like she's been hanging out across the street or peeking in the backyard gate!!. Because that's what my gardening experience has become... for reals.

Well... here's hoping to improvement this year!!

We've had a plum tree, dunno what variety, in our front yard for three years. It's a lovely little tree, with purple leaves, and I thought it was purely decorative. The former owners planted it, and I have to admit, we thought we'd lost it last summer with the drought, but it survived and HOW!!!

Look!


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LOOK!! MY RED RADIANT ROSE HAS BLOOMED!! LOOK, LOOK!!!

*is massively excited*


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At last, I can believe it's spring in Central Texas! It's green again, there are flowers, it's starting to get uncomfortably warm, we've been able to have the windows open for two weeks, and haven't had to turn on the heat at night for one! It's wonderful!

And now, I believe I promised y'all pictures!
( Green is a wonderful color! )

Took the kids to get their hair cut yesterday. Mr. Manzie's was so thick, a jungle expedition could get lost in there, and it was getting wild, cowlicks standing up everywhere, hair going where it wanted, especially in the back. Grandma's Crazy Cajun Hair gene had definitely struck again! In fact, I warned Sherri, our regular hair whacker, to be ( Read more... )

Very well, actually!!

*pauses to squee*

We've got tomatoes!!! And wee peppers!! And pears!!! The pumpkins are coming up and the sunflowers, and I've got FOUR moonvines coming up! WOOT!!!

( Image heavy, since I'm posting photos of my garden so... beware!!! )

Well, after weeks of eating virtually everything in sight, the Impertinent Daughter had a growth spurt and is probably within one to two inches of being as tall as I am ( Read more... )

What a day.

Ran some errands, though I found to my great irritation when I got home that I had forgotten to pick up rooting hormone for my rose cuttings, and teflon tape. It doesn't help that our local WalMart is remodeling, so you can't find anything. I swear, it's like going on a treasure hunt every time I go in, and not the fun kind. Half ( Read more... )

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It's raining, it's pouring ( Read more... )