Garden/PatioI spent most of Saturday afternoon cleaning out pots of dead plants and dirt (20 something of them - some of them very large) and hauling around bags of dirt. I spent most of Sunday being sore. But the good news is, my patio is mostly cleaned off and looks a lot better and I am ready for a fall garden ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God.That movie damn near killed me with happiness and joy and squee ( Read more... )

President Carter, I love you an awful lot right now.

Gardening

About.com’s most recent landscaping newsletter was all about Goth Gardening. Perfect for Halloween! It includes a section on ”black” plants (most of them are actually very dark red or purple). And references to getting an Addams family look to your garden. I started looking for ( Read more... )

I don’t have much of a weekend movie update this week. I only had two Netflix movies to watch and one of them was a badly messed up Project Runway disk that I had to send back with a messed-up-disk report. Even after two cleanings it would only show me parts of episodes 5 and 7. I was pretty sad about this because I was looking forward to those ( Read more... )

Last night I watered my garden the minute I got home, before going inside. I disturbed quite a bit of wildlife by doing it, but they seemed forgiving. There was a dark brown moth. I think it might have been one of the ctenucha moths that are towards the middle of this page. Although it might have also been a skipper rather than a moth. I have ( Read more... )

Sad news - The giant fuzzy black caterpillar didn’t make it. He was in exactly the same position on Sunday and showed no signs of creating a cocoon, so I went outside to look closely and check on him and he was definitely not alive. Poor little big guy! I don’t know what happened, maybe he was already not alive on Saturday or maybe he tried ( Read more... )

Lady Bird Johnson passed away today. She was a wonderful woman, and responsible for a great deal of natural beauty in our state, and throughout the United States.

Wikipedia article about Lady Bird Johnson

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, which she co-founded with Helen Hayes.

ETA:

MSNBC ArticleThe Johnson family has requested that ( Read more... )

Due to the amount of rain we've had this month, my garden is now seriously overgrown. I was going for that sort of barely-cared-for but not neglected English cottage garden look, only north Texas style, and I think I've got it. But last night when I was trying to come in through the patio gate, the coleus, sweet potato, and angelonia were so big ( Read more... )

This is the first of three pic spam posts I'm putting up today. I've separated them so those of you who like cats but not gardens (and vice versa) can avoid pictures you don't care about.

( garden and flower pictures )

Spamming, because I am sleep deprived ...

The get-rich-slowly feed has an article on how to resist impulse spending today ( Read more... )