It was a beautiful day Sunday so I decided to take some photos of the yard. Please excuse my first attempt at “garden photography!”
Our daylilies have started blooming, even a stray that ended up in the would-be compost heap. The yellow cultivar is ‘Going Bananas’, which from what I understood from the tag is the improved version of ‘Happy Returns’. It has bigger blooms and sets flowers for a longer period of time.
The pink/mauve one are ‘Always Afternoon’. To save money on plants for our retaining wall, I purchased 3 pots of daylilies and one pot of iris. I was able to split them before planting and covered almost the entire area with them. They looked pretty bad last fall after they were planted, but they came back and are doing wonderful! D is especially happy since he saw how small and chlorotic they looked last fall.
We also have a small rhubarb, garlic, and then the iris’s that haven’t started blooming yet. Can’t wait for my lavender to get bigger next year! It’s so puny right now…
First time growing garlic. We love garlic and can’t wait to try our homegrown bulbs!
I will definitely need to divide that hosta next spring!
I just bought this little rhubarb this year at the annual Master Gardener’s spring sale. So far with the garlic right there and the occasional cat living under our deck, I haven’t had any pest damage! I did recess a tuna can in case I needed to flip it over and fill it with beer to get rid of the slugs, but amazingly haven’t had to do so yet. Wondering if it has anything to do with it being a slightly raised bed.
Cute, stray daylily. Probably ‘Happy Returns’. And my terribly weedy “garden” I keep putting off cleaning. May always comes and goes so fast!
When I went to retrieve the mail today, I could hardly get it all out of the mailbox. A small sample that I had requested had finally showed up, but that wasn’t the problem. Five magazines and catalogs were jammed in there. That’s enough. I’m tired of getting coupons and offers that are enticing me to spend money on things I don’t need! The ones that immediately come to mind are AmericanTV, Guitar Center, Home Decorator’s Collection, Country Curtains, and JCPenney.
I went to Catalog Choice and let these companies know that I don’t want their mailings. They do the hard work for you and the service is free. Currently there are 1,138 merchants that participate in the program. If a company does not participate, Catalog Choice tells you know how to contact the company directly.
If you’re worried about missing out on your favorite products and deals, there’s also an option to search through a few iCatalogs – catalogs available on the Catalog Choice website.
So then what do you do about unwanted credit card offers? These guys usually send you a postage-paid envelope. I’ve read about someone who sends back the envelope with nothing in it or a note to stop sending mail. Some companies will stop after you send back the first envelope, while others will take a few empty envelopes to get the point across.
So go check out the site. Send back some envelopes. Get rid of some mail so you don’t have to keep throwing it away and wasting your time reading it.
I was just called by my mother-in-law who works at Target. They are having a Buy 2 Get 1 Free on Wii games this week. You can go to Target’s website and click “Weekly Ad” in the upper right corner. The special is on the front page.
The free offer includes all regular $49.99 and less Wii games… over 80 titles to choose from*
The free offer is available in stores only and no rainchecks will be issued. The offer is available from March 29 through April 4, 2009.
I’ve found a great new way to search for blogs! Alltop calls themselves “an online magazine rack of popular topics.” You can do a search by typing in what you’re looking for, search for topics alphabetically, or search through their ten umbrella categories. These categories are: work, health, culture, interests, tech, people, good, news, geos, and sports. Within each category there are numerous topics. When you click on a specific topic, you are taken to a page where the top blogs of that topic are listed. The five most popular articles are listed under each blog. And when you scroll over them, a box pops up showing you the first paragraph of that article… sweet!
It’s kind of addictive looking through all the different topics and blogs. For example, I did a search for “eco friendly” which brought up the following topics: Atheist, Environmental, Food, Green, Pets, Travel, Vegan, and Weddings. Naturally, I click on “Green” and I just have fun looking at all the information! I love it!
I saw this video earlier today and had to share it with everybody. It’s not prudent or practical or a how-to, but it’s entertaining to watch… A woman is “sleep walking” in her bed to Oren Lavie’s somber “Her Morning Elegance.” The video was created using over 3000 still shots. I love it! Enjoy.
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