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Pink Roses in Bloom

Mar21

I love these roses. They turn all different colors, from oranges to pinks to peaches. And the seedlings are spouting forth from all the perennial seeds we planted. Hmm, what will they be when they flower? It’s like Christmas!

I was out in a RUSH this morning trying to get all my cut branches bundled for the trash and finish painting that cart and work on some other garden ornaments before it pours. We’re supposed to have thunderstorms all day, but I managed to get everything done and the painted projects moved to the covered porch before the rains started. Yay!

I was assembling the last of the flowerbeds with my grandson last night. He’s not even 3 but he placed 48 bolts in the panel holes so I could add the wing nuts! We had an adventure with watering though. I fill up his turtle watering can and he takes it outside to water his blue flowerbed. I’m still filling mine up when he returns for more water. It wasn’t until I headed out with him that I saw he’d spilled at least a 1/2 a watering can load of water each time on the dining room floor. lol And when I went out to see if he got any in the flowerbed, he had. All in one spot. So I was teaching him (you know you think kids should know things like this because you knew them when you were born), that the earth is lighter where it’s dry and needs water, and the darker the earth, the wetter it is. But we love our adventures and he was a great help with cleaning up all the spilled water in the dining room. When we got sis after school, we filled up the water cans OUTSIDE. Even grandmas can learn some new tricks.

Off to work on the Highlander book. I worked on it all day. The original was about 82K, but I’m scrapping a lot of the end, which I loved, because I want to go in a similar but different direction. That means grabbing paragraphs I want to keep and heavily revising them. But I don’t get rid of the earlier mss. Who knows if I might be able to salvage it later?

Have a terrific Thursday!!

Terry

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Planting the Seeds of Beauty

Mar20

The HOA had planted these black-eyed susans last year, mixed with marigolds, saliva, and other lovely flowers. I had to stop and take some pictures. They were beautiful. I put out perennial seeds this year that hopefully will make my flowerbed look just as pretty. My salvia are in full strength this year. I can’t wait to see them flower.

Last night, my son-in-law dropped off 10 very sad looking tomato plants and I can’t let them die. I managed to find spots for 3 of them, but I’m still working on making room for 7 more. I’ve tried some out front and they never survived. And out back, it’s hard to find spot that they have enough sun and water. Sooooo, I’m working on putting together another flowerbed, but I don’t think they will last that long. Today, little one and I will put them out somewhere! We both love tomatoes!

In the meantime, I was working on The Highlander’s Nymph of the Woods, a full length novel I wrote about 20 years ago that has had a myriad of changes. I’m making more changes. I like the mystery of the original, but it means the heroine has no voice, literally. So I wanted to show more of the story before she meets up with the hero. I love the story though and I hope it won’t take me another 20 years to revise it.

I’m off to work on it some more before my grandson arrives. We will probably be planting tomato plants together and maybe weeding some. He loves to help. He pulls off the tops of the good grass while I’m pulling up the weeds.

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Mum’s the Word!

Oct29

They’re fading a bit here. I meant to take a photo when they were really bright red, but it was too sunny and the picture wouldn’t have turned out.

So my son-in-law and grandson and their corgis will be leaving soon after my daughter and granddaughter had a GS slumber party. Fun was had by all!

I’m trying to decide if I should pick my bell peppers or not. The temp is dropping to 34 on Wednesday. All my tomato plants are producing like crazy too.

Okay, off to play with my grandson some more.

Terry

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Yellow

Jun24

Two of my photos–gold finch and black-eyed susans.

Been out in this sweltering heat weeding before the neighbors call the yard police on me. 🙂

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Field of Brown-Eyed Susans

Jun11

They were so pretty, I just had to go and take some pictures of them. They were planted at another housing development. I wouldn’t mind if that was how my garden looked!

Off to work! Have a great one!

Terry

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Purple Phlox and the Butterfly

May10

Both images are mine and then I artified it.

We had another 2 inches of rain yesterday and it’s supposed to be raining on and off all day today. I’m going to have lunch with my granddaughter today. Only 2 weeks left of school, so I’ll be having lunch with her next week at school and then that’s it. She’ll be here 4 days a week, two of them with baby brother. Hopefully, I can still get some writing done, though we’ll be doing some fun stuff also.

I did manage to get 1,000 words done on White Wolf and 2,000 on Night of the Vampire done yesterday.

But today is a 2,000 word day on White Wolf, so need to get it done.

Hope you have a terrific day! I’m off to get to work.

Terry

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Woohoo, Getting There on the Book!

Apr2

I only have 28 more days to write, and need 30k for minimum word count, but getting there!

They’re always longer than that, so still hunkering down to get this done on time. Easter next weekend, so I’m having my granddaughter stay overnight on Thursday since she’ll be out of school on Friday. Then all the Easter stuff over the weekend, so I need to keep after the writing too because I can’t make allowances for any days off from word count.

The roses are blooming in abundance. And lots of the flower seeds I put out are sprouting. At least I hope they are and they’re not new weeds. lol

Okay, I’m off to write!

Have a super terrific day!

Terry

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Gerbera Daisy & Coneflowers

Mar30

Do you ever plant something that’s supposed to be perennial but it doesn’t come back? I have a couple of red gerbera dasies that did. But the gorgeous orange–called Jaguar, and the yellow, didn’t. 🙁 So I bought two more red and a couple more orange. I’m sure if I find the right place for them, they’ll come back.

I think I have better luck with coneflowers. The butterflies love them.

I see where these are coming back. I have a couple others that come back every year. That’s what I like–perennials that are perennials. The purple sage is supposed to be also, but I have it in one place where it comes back every year and the other places they were good for a couple of years and then gone. So I want to try them in a couple of more places. They like dryer areas, so I think I got them too wet. And also, though most of these flowers like lots of sun, we have so much heat and sun normally that they do better in some shade. 🙂 The daylilies I’ve planted always come back and they’re bigger and showier than ever. Also, a bunch of the mums have made it.

Okay, so I’ve been gardening, filling up one of the raised planter beds with cardboard, twigs, cypress mulch, shredded paper, and raised bed earth. I want to start planting my chives and other things in it!

I managed to write 4000 words yesterday, woohoo! So that means I’m at 41K, over halfway there! Still have to hit this hard or I can miss the deadline.

Have a flower-filled day!

Terry

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Mauve/Pink Daylilies

Jun19

I think these are my favorite colorwise. They’re so soft with a little ruffled edge, a green and yellow throat. Just so pretty.

So I had to laugh at my dogs yesterday. They are so routinized that they go to their crates for a nap after lunch (because I would put them down for a nap when I put my granddaughter down for one so they wouldn’t wake her) that even when she’s not here, off they go.

Well, they hadn’t even had lunch yet, and I saw them both go into my bedroom. What mischief were they up to? I’ve caught Tanner sleeping on my bed before, a no-no, but of course when I catch him, he’s flying in the air, pretending he wasn’t snoozing on my bed. Nope, here they are. Both of them. Lying down in the crates, heads up, waiting for me to come and give them a treat and shut their crates. Now Tanner will go in there to sleep on his own throughout the day if I don’t shut the door so he will sleep out here with us.

They didn’t move. They just waited. “Come,” I said. “Time for lunch.” And both raced to their training cot where they lie down and wait for me to serve up lunch. “Break,” and they’re released to get their meal. Then potty break and once we’re in the house, they race for their crates. lol Now, it’s naptime.

Hope you all have a terrifically wonderful day.

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Moody Blues–Great Blue Heron Art

Jun7

Playing with textures and a landscape and the blue gray heron I took a picture of. It was fun to create the blue mood.

Managed 2,000 words yesterday and put down bark mulch to try to retard the weeds. And of course, NO WAY was I going to get any more plants. Not with it being 100 degrees heat index. BUT somehow a couple of plants jumped right on the cart that was loaded down with bark mulch and dirt. I have this big depression in one area that I’m always stumbling in, so finally got some topsoil to fill it in.

Yellow coneflowers. I don’t think I’d seen any before. I need to catalogue all the colors I have, but I just had to add these to the collection. So, yep, they came right home with me.

Hope you all have a fun day. I’m off to more errands, will pick up some more bark mulch and back to writing.

Terry

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