Here Comes the Rain Again
October 13, 2025
How fun is this?
Of course you can’t see the rain in this picture at all… but it is pouring!
Envased Climbing Roses
September 8, 2025
I’m very happy about the two climbing yellow rose vines we planted 6 years ago (or so). They are incredibly prolific and add the perkiest of views from our living room (if one cranks their head sufficiently to the right when checking out our backyard through the large french doors in the “annex”).
I don’t do it often enough, but when I do go out and cut a few stems, they make such a nice bouquet for the table… no? Perfect when placed in that elegant Baccarat vase Sally gave me last spring, for no apparent reason. (She said it was for anything bad she ever did to me over our 62-year friendship.)
I picked these a few days ago, and as I look at the arrangement tonight, the two buds are now full-aflower. It’s so happy looking.
A Hard Day’s Work
July 28, 2025
Well, let’s say a medium day’s work.
Here, at the end of July, I finally cleaned all the backyard furniture, which is to say:
- removed cushions from the patio chairs and beat the crap out of them with the BBQ spatula (great tool!)
- washed the patio chairs, every nook and cranny
- hung the covers over the chairs and power washed those, then let them dry
- washed the patio table, every nook and cranny, including the underside and base
- shook out the patio umbrella
- wiped down the BBQ
- pruned the bushes around the hammock
- cleaned the hammock and hammock stand
- cleaned the hammock umbrella
- washed the 3 deck chairs and 2 deck tables
- wiped down the deck railings
- replaced the cushions on the patio chairs and re-covered them
Took about 3 1/2 hours!
Then I made myself a smoofie and rocked in one of those clean deck chairs for a very long time, before I moved to the hammock and lay there for an even longer time.
What a great day!
Life of Wry 