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My maturing garden

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Muscari or Grape Hyacinths:

Muscari

I can’t believe how much all of the plants in my garden have grown this past week or so.


I’m starting to think that it’s not just the nice weather that we’ve been having, nor the fact that our winter was fairly mild. No, I think it’s because many of the plants that I grow have been in my garden for four or five years so they are maturing and have good root systems so they are just growing in leaps and bounds because they are so strong.

The photo above is of Muscari. Yes the closest one is a bit blurry but you try taking photos of flowers in my windy backyard garden and see how you do! LOL I took that photo about two weeks ago. The muscari is pretty much gone now – gone to seed actually. I have to go out and cut off the old flowers so that they don’t drain the bulbs strength.

How’s your garden coming along this year?





Small re-design of our enclosed back porch

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I’ve been looking for new blinds for our enclosed back porch. It faces south and it’s just so bright. The room gets really hot with the sun pouring in too, so we must do something.

The room was built by the previous home owners. It has different sized, but large windows on the south facing wall, a window and glass paned door on the east side, windows on the west side – that wall adjoins with our neighbors enclosed back porch so those windows have a privacy film on them, and then the wall that leads to the house is brick.

The actually walls that the windows are in are paneled with a dark wood. I’d like to try my hand at lightly whitewashing those walls to brighten the room … yet put nice white mini-blinds on the windows to cut down the glare from the sun. I think the room would be very welcoming if I could pull it off.

What do you think?

My alarm clock is dying

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For the last few months my alarm clock has been acting up. It’s really old. I think I’ve had it since I was perhaps 14 years old. I’m amazed that it’s lasted this long actually.

Unfortunately it’s on it’s last legs. The sound/ volume knob must be full of dust inside as sometimes when I turn it all I get is this weird static sound instead of the music that the radio alarm clock is set to. So consequently, when I set my alarm it sometimes blasts music to wake me up – as it should, and other times it’s just this light static that does nothing to wake me.

Unbelievably I’ve had a hard time finding a new alarm clock that I like. I can usually set up any type of electronic equipment without a problem, but for some reason this new radio alarm clock that I got defied me. I think it was a Timex – you could set the alarm in two different time zone modes, it automatically knew when Day light savings time took effect in this part of the world, it was supposed to have an FM/AM radio, and it had a one of those built in sound machines that played 6 different types of sounds of nature.

The demo one worked in the store, but the one we purchased did nothing but alarm with a bzzzzzzzzzzzzz every morning at 6:55 am. I couldn’t change the alarm time, and I couldn’t change it to radio or natural sound mode. So back it went.

Now I’m looking for yet another alarm clock. I just want something simple with big numbers that I can see from a distance, a radio alarm and easy buttons so when I’m half asleep and decide I don’t want to get up I can turn it off easily without having to get out the instruction manual.

Why am I having so much trouble finding a simple alarm clock?

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