Ahhhhh.
I just spent awhile puttering out in my garden. I didn't do a very good job of dead-heading my verbena, but that's because of the bees that LOVE my groundcover there. Still, the front gardens are looking nice. I put in some marigolds along the back of the big garden-- I finally gave up on the zinnas ever showing up in the gardening stores. Anyway, they're not as nice as the zinnias, but they are doing well. They're just not as tall.
I have two big pots on the back porch. I put a daisy-ish plant in each one along with a white superbell. (Think cascading petunias with smaller blossoms) They went opposite directions. One of the daisies is a nice, compact plant, but it doesn't blossom as much. The superbell is nice, but held in check by the bigger daisy. The other daisy went very tall and rangy looking, with lots of smaller blossoms. The superbell had lots of room, and it is HUGE. It's climbing on the daisy now. Probably will kill it eventually, but it's such a gorgous plant that I'm not sure I care,
Anyway. The point is, I had time to putter in my garden. In the morning, so I'm not scorching hot. The kids are in day camp! Hooray!
OK, Sean's just in morning camp, but it is still nice to have a quiet morning. I've been trying to do fun stuff with him when I pick him up. Preferably fun stuff near the kids' museum the camp is at, so I don't have to drive so much. Monday we stayed at the museum until Ian got out. That was fun, but it was three and a half hours. Granted, we spent some of it eating lunch and watching the planetarium show, but it was also a lot of climbing in their four level play area. It's definitely not built for people who are 5'6"-- I have bumps and bruses from running into things-- especially one very twisty tube slide. Every time my feet catch, something new bumps into the wall. Yesterday wasn't as much fun. I had originally planned to have a healthy lunch at Subway. When we got there, the Subway turned out to be right next to a Little Ceasars. I'm a softy, and I have no will-power when it comes to pizza. We got one of their always ready $5 pepperonis, found a park and had a picnic. Then he had to go do grocery shopping with me. (The not so fun part.) Today, I think we'll play at the museum for a little while after lunch, and then when the sun is less intense we'll go to the water park near the museum. I've been saving that for these last hot days.
Not sure about tomorrow. Friday, Sean doesn't have camp. Ian does, and they are taking a field trip to a cave nearby. I think we might pack a lunch and go down to the aquarium in Cincinnati since we have all day.
They're doing more camp next week. (Hooray!) Then we have one full week before we're hoping to go down to TX. We're roughly thinking the 6th-ish through the 16th-idh. As always, depends on the flights. It also depends on my mom's impending knee surgery. It's an arthroscopic procedure, so the recovery time isn't supposed to be too bad.
Must go move the hose. I'm trying to water the backyard a bit before it gets too hot.