Month: July 2017

Sunday, July 9th, 2017  —>  26˚C / 79˚F  —>  Clear & muggy @ 7:22 pm in Atlantic Canada — Many nice people have birthdays right around now —

– Sunlight touching the higher branches of a neighbourhood tree at about 8:45 pm on the 4th of July up here. –

— We were walking the dog and liked the effects of sunlight highlighting selective branches high in some trees around us on Nora’s birthday 🙂 – The above photo was taken with a 4x zoom. The wider photo didn’t capture the effect.

– We laid out several pallets to get a good feel for what we want to do with wider / longer deck along the side of the house. –

— This summer has been ‘not so good’ for getting things done outside. My over the counter allergy medicine stopped working and we’ve had quite a lot of rainy days, so I was either coughing my brains out or avoiding getting rained on. But today we finally went outside, looked at what we’ve got here, looked at plans on line and decided that not all of our pallets are wonderful building material for the deck we want to extend – but we wanted to see how they measure up. One thing about pallets is they’re not all the same size, or quality – and the ones we’ve been told are free for the taking quite often get picked over before we get there. But this looks hopeful. We might even be able to do this if I can breathe outside and nobody’s building an ark and collecting animals two by two …. 😉

– Another view of our visualization exercise –

— The thing that looks like a small lean-to / shed amid the pallets is a quick and dirty trash can enclosure to keep the raccoons out of the trash. But even with the pallets not being the ones we will use when we do this, and the pallets also being of several different sizes, this looks extremely do-able.

– Another wild morning sky – this was at 5:44 am on June 30th. –

— Let’s see, one of our favourite late night talk show guys told us that the ‘bad guys’ who were messing up weather patterns with ‘chem-trails’ have been disenfranchised, told to cease and desist – And wow, we’ve been getting a lot of ‘different’ early morning and late evening sky effects since we heard that. This is unretouched – I think the only time I ever saw yellow clouds were out in the Atlantic Ocean – a little too close to the Bermuda Triangle for my jangled nerves at the time.

– One of last year’s plants didn’t make it through the winter – but we saw these amazing ‘midnight sky’ coloured Larkspurs and ‘Yum!’ – they look happy here. –

— We get most of our plants when the ‘garden shops’ that spring up in ‘super store’ parking lots are trying to get rid of stuff they haven’t yet sold at full price. 😉 -These Larkspurs stood up and grabbed our attention and yeah, we love the colour.

– From the street. That’s our local species of cedar tree and the flowers that survived the winter along with the Larkspurs we just added. – Yum? –

— Um, the five plants between the tree and the road here, are , um, baby’s breath or bridal wreath on the left, um, I forgot to its right, the Larkspurs in the middle, a cool plant with I think variegated leaves and small flowers and then a dwarf lilac that’s supposed to bloom all summer.

– And the pansies we planted in honour of my mother are thriving –

— We thought the pansies we planted because they were special to my mother got off to a slow start this spring, but, apparently, they like the weather we’ve been having and seem to be quite happy with the love and attention we give them.  🙂

— Um, That’s probably enough blogging damage for now —

~~~~~ Jim