It’s always wildflower time on this property and right now, Rocket aka Dame Rocket (sometimes referred to as wild phlox) has started blooming all over the property. Yesterday, as I drove around running errands, I could see it everywhere.
It’s really lovely and the scent is heavenly.
Fleabane is also blooming right next to the house.
The unopened flowers are pink – isn’t that neat?
I woke up feeling edgy and blue today. It’s another gray day but I don’t think that had anything to do with it. I’m trying to shake it off because I certainly don’t want to go through the entire day feeling that way.
Yesterday was a busy day with lots of errands. After I returned home, I mowed the lilac side of the lawn and the back forty. Then I potted some plants. Needless to say, at the end of the day I was very tired. I fell asleep twice while watching the television – missed the entire last segment of Rachel Maddow!
A bit more mulching today and some weed-whacking and the usual watering of the plants and seedlings. Rain is on the way for tomorrow.
I’ve been noticing that the grass in the corral isn’t growing nearly as well as it used to. Then it hit me: we don’t have a dog anymore and the dogs routinely ‘fertilized’ the corral.
Sigh. Missing my dogs and my husband.
Profoundly sad about the heartbreak of Manchester. The world we live in has become a world I do not recognize; nor do I want to.
Happy Wednesday.
The Manchester bombing broke my heart. We do not live in a good world right now. Oh yes fertilizer helps grass a lot. I know you miss Don and the dogs. It must feel even lonelier there without either of them. I know I needed a new kitty to help me feel less alone. I miss Charlie and always will but Annie is a sweet girl. We are still having rain here but maybe some sunshine tomorrow? The birds are crazy at the feeders. I’ll need to fill them again soon. Take care and try to shake off the blues! Hugs!
I’m trying, Linda!
Hope you shake off those lows. I’m a little down too, Claudia. I’ve been having dreams about my husband. I wake up discombobulated. But I’m trying to stay busy and focus on the very happy fact that my younger daughter will be home for the summer starting tomorrow.
Oh, those dreams must be bittersweet, my friend. It sounds like your daughter’s homecoming might be just what you need right now. xo
The weather is not helping with my mood. It is again, cold and damp…it is the 24th of May isn’t it? Manchester is very much on my mind….my son works up there quite often. The heartbreak those mums and dads are feeling….unimaginable. I only have one more patch of garden to de-weed…and plant…then I am done, for now. Hope you are able to climb out of your blues…enjoy your day! ;)
I know! Sunshine, please? I think we deserve it, don’t you?
Thanks, Donnamae.
Claudia you must be exhausted, I can hardly keep up with you. Sadly Manchester United has taken on a whole new meaning, sadness. Hoping for the sun soon, why is it two days in a row of overcast skies seems like a week!
It helps to keep busy, Mary!
I was just watching the local news and they said we have had precipitation for 20 out of 24 days this month. Still cloudy and misty again today. I am beyond tired of it. On the bright side, the wrens are still trilling in the yard, and that does make me smile. The rain and clouds must not make them cranky like it does me.
I think the news and the weather impacts our lives greatly. The news for the past week has been beyond terrible. I don’t know how to feel good in this political climate. Then the news of the vicious budget numbers they unleashed yesterday was like a chop to the knees. Well, not-so-much if you are a millionaire….. but I don’t know many of those.
Hope you find a smile somewhere in your Wednesday, Claudia! They seem harder to come by lately.
Too much precipitation, Chris! The news is so depressing on every level. It does impact us, even if we’re not really thinking that it does. Weather, too.
I hope you feel better soon Claudia…it is hard to keep your spirits up when so many horrible things keep happening…as always I ask my self that same old question….why?
I worked outside and that helped, Nancy.
The Manchester bombing is awful and heartbreaking to watch. All those beautiful young people lost or injured. Hope you feel better. Your Wildflowers are lovely.
Marilyn
Heartbreaking, indeed.
Hi Claudia and your friends,I just want to say a couple of things about the threads running through this post. I must Give KUDOS to DT for keeping his promises. He promised many times that I’ve heard, to help The Really Rich get Really Richer! and sure enough he is! I just may lose my job. He will also help the poor get poorer.
Also I took my vacation last week, because my sister and her husband,take me with them,
we always have so much fun working in the yard of my brothers farm,clippering the Llamas and goats. Having a wonderful time out in the countryside near two rivers!
long story short (if not to late) It rained, stormed, and SNOWED everyday!! Im not talking about a few flakes but inches of snow stuck to roads so….My vacation is done now. {]:^{}
I just wanted to mention if you take vitamin D routinely,take a couple of extra on days that are bringing you way down.if not run out and get some! My Doc. say’s that 99.9% of people who don’t take vitaminD, need to. I used to test so low that, I had to take 50,000 IU prescription strength. I hope someone out there in Claudias blogland feels a bit better because some how
something we read among us helps someone ! Especially you,Claudia XOXO
Is there any reason why you should not get another dog Claudia? There’s one waiting for you I know.
No reason. And we will. But we are dog lovers who have always known that we will ‘know’ when it’s the right time. And right now, with Don away for another month and half, and our trip back across the country together at the end of his run, plus my going away again for 5 weeks in August/September to work, plus a trip to England if we have the time free…it just isn’t the right time to bring a new member into the family.
Glad to hear it, and how sensibly you’re approaching the whole thing. Still hard though, this companionless time.
Yes, it is. That’s for sure.
Wow! What weather for your vacation, Judy! I’ve been outside working so much lately – for hours at a time in the sun – that I think my Vitamin D is fine. Maybe not in the winter, but right now? I’m outdoors, unless it’s raining, most of the day.
Thanks for the reminder though – we can all benefit from your wise words!
I am so glad that you have the oppertunities to be out side I think your pretty well set for the next few months . – judy –
xo
I hope as today went on that maybe you were feeling a little less blue by day’s end but, yes Claudia, how can we not be preoccupied with thought…how can our hearts not go out to those taken needlessly; such senseless loss…and there’s really no answer in the flowers or the birds or the butterflies except to feel the sun or hear the rain and smell the damp earth, selfishly glad to be alive…clinging to hope…
Beautifully said, Vicki.
I live in England Claudia and of course the news is dominated by the terrible and tragic events in Manchester. As a mother and grandmother I cannot begin to imagine what those poor people are going through whose loved ones have been so cruelly taken from them. My husband is taking two of our grandsons to a match at Manchester United’s ground in a couple of weeks and of course I am concerned. Everything within me wants to shut my front door and keep my family close but we must continue to live our lives and not let terrorism win. It’s impossible to get into the minds of such people who carry out these atrocities and neither would I want to – it must be such a dark place. We have heard many stories though of the love, bravery and compassion of strangers, of all faiths and none, and it is those people that I want to take into my heart and mind. Love will conquer hate.
I couldn’t have said it better, Valerie. Thank you for your words. Love WILL conquer hate.
Beautiful pictures Claudia, and your description of the sadness of Manchester is so true.
Where do you hope to travel to in your visit to the UK ?
Siobhan
London, for sure, and I know that Don (the ultimate Beatles fan) wants to go to Liverpool. The rest we’ll figure out when we actually know we’re going!