Musings

Mostly we had a misty-moist day, although we had some actual rain in the morning. The precip weighed down this pansy-planting…but it’ll be back after a half-day of sunshine.

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Hmm. Got any rum?

Nope. Bourbon.

That’ll do!

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Hey, Bud! Proud of you for sneaking by that cold snap!

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Ivy survivor.

BTW, this wall of horizontally laid, treated-wood beams is over six feet tall, and the ivy is about two feet up from the base. How? [And it’s the only one.]

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I ventured out mid-afternoon to make Vitamin D, pushing up my sleeves a bit and waving my hands while walking into the sun…until I had to turn around.

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I saw an iPhone ad recently that portrayed changing the focus on an image from a foreground object to background one, and back, and thought, hmm, I should try that. Turns out: 1) you have to do the changing on your phone and not on the image downloaded to a laptop (like this was, for posting); and, 2), the image has to be in focus to begin with. Still, I know more now!

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It seems to me that it’s flirting with failure for fruit trees to bloom in December, but this is probably an ornamental plum/peach/cherry/something that doesn’t set fruit anyway, so…the tree “thinks:” why not? Let’s go for it!

When I placed this order on early Wednesday morning, Amazon promised delivery on Thurs/yesterday by 10 pm. Not. Then, the promise was updated to today by 9 pm. Not. Now, Amazon’s enlisted UPS to get it to us…and are promising it by the 19th…and if we don’t receive it then, far more of this page was allocated to telling us how to wrangle a refund. Har.

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Yeah, I know they’re a little wilt-y, but they’re still fine purple pansy specimens. Enjoy them, or watch “The Librarians” (so silly, also it came out so long ago).

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This is from the other day when it was sunny, as today “an atmospheric river runs through it”…which means we had intermittent rain and ongoing murkiness.

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Privet is an invasive species here. This specimen is on its way to recreating the hedge that was on this property-line, and may manage to reestablish itself.

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