Good morning Rounders! Do you remember MD when you were a kid? I do. My mom would buy some of those artificial flower arrangement things when we could afford it and we would make a trip to someone's grave, depending on where we lived, and clean off the gravesite and place the flower arrangement and throw the old stuff on top of the garbage heap of artificial flowers, vases, and funeral debris. Sometimes we didn't have anything to put on the grave, so we pulled weeds. Most of the time I remember that we had a good meal on MD and that's what I associate MD with in my head, not paying tribute to the lost and fallen. We were not a military family, except for one of my brothers and he was drafted. Sometimes when I got a little older we would take a trip to visit my mom's family. I usually got car sickness so those were not good memories, but it was a good time of year to make car trips before it got too hot. Back then you didn't have AC in the car and you could roll all the windows down. Once we went all the way to Ohio and guess who was sick with a flu virus and couldn't enjoy it at all.
Switch back to modern day, 2019, and I'm as patriotic an American as you would ever see. No, I don't visit gravesites, but I say a silent prayer for the fallen who fought so bravely for their country. I'm now reading books that tell our history as a country and what great numbers of men were sacrificed and what women did to help the war effort, and how they struggled and maintained through starvation and many other perils. Nothing that I could do in my lifetime would pay back the debt of living in this Land of the Free, but I salute all of them and am deeply humble and thankful for the opportunity of being a part of it.
Yesterday morning I moved the Poinsettia's and put all three of them in the same hole. I watered them in good, but it's 50/50 if they will survive. I moved a bunch of mulch and spread it around the garden. My Pepper plants were dried up, so I loosened the soil and watered them real good and deep, and even though they were starting to perk up a bit it's doubtful if they will make it. I'm telling you plants cannot take this brutal high 90's heat day after day.
The Lemon Pound Cake turned out so good. I used all butter this time instead of part margarine and that made the difference. Today I will make a small feast to go with. I'm doing laundry right this minute and when it gets daylight I'm going out to spread more leaf mulch. My plants are thanking me this morning because the leaf mulch is like a big shot of vitamins and minerals, plus it keeps the soil moist and protects the plants from the wicked heat.
When I was out front getting the Poinsettia's out a man came walking by with his little dog and said good morning and chatted a bit and he asked me what kind of plant was growing in front of our mailbox and I told him it's some kind of succulent and I don't know the name of it. I asked him if he wanted those 2 plants and he said yes. He is coming back for them today with his golf cart. They are all around this yard cuz I brought some from our other house and every seed that drops makes a new plant. They have a pretty pink bloom on them. I want to put Zinnia's around the mailbox because every seed I've put out there this year did not take. The Zinnia's are the most heat tolerant plant I have and I'll wait until my seedlings get big enough to transplant and move some of them. I'll have to wait until the rainy season starts though. In the meantime I will get that area prepared and put some good compost into the soil. You wait and see. When I start digging around in that soil the seeds I sowed are going to start sprouting. I'd be willing to bet on it. It's all good.
Happy Memorial Day! Peace & Plenty.
Switch back to modern day, 2019, and I'm as patriotic an American as you would ever see. No, I don't visit gravesites, but I say a silent prayer for the fallen who fought so bravely for their country. I'm now reading books that tell our history as a country and what great numbers of men were sacrificed and what women did to help the war effort, and how they struggled and maintained through starvation and many other perils. Nothing that I could do in my lifetime would pay back the debt of living in this Land of the Free, but I salute all of them and am deeply humble and thankful for the opportunity of being a part of it.
Yesterday morning I moved the Poinsettia's and put all three of them in the same hole. I watered them in good, but it's 50/50 if they will survive. I moved a bunch of mulch and spread it around the garden. My Pepper plants were dried up, so I loosened the soil and watered them real good and deep, and even though they were starting to perk up a bit it's doubtful if they will make it. I'm telling you plants cannot take this brutal high 90's heat day after day.
The Lemon Pound Cake turned out so good. I used all butter this time instead of part margarine and that made the difference. Today I will make a small feast to go with. I'm doing laundry right this minute and when it gets daylight I'm going out to spread more leaf mulch. My plants are thanking me this morning because the leaf mulch is like a big shot of vitamins and minerals, plus it keeps the soil moist and protects the plants from the wicked heat.
When I was out front getting the Poinsettia's out a man came walking by with his little dog and said good morning and chatted a bit and he asked me what kind of plant was growing in front of our mailbox and I told him it's some kind of succulent and I don't know the name of it. I asked him if he wanted those 2 plants and he said yes. He is coming back for them today with his golf cart. They are all around this yard cuz I brought some from our other house and every seed that drops makes a new plant. They have a pretty pink bloom on them. I want to put Zinnia's around the mailbox because every seed I've put out there this year did not take. The Zinnia's are the most heat tolerant plant I have and I'll wait until my seedlings get big enough to transplant and move some of them. I'll have to wait until the rainy season starts though. In the meantime I will get that area prepared and put some good compost into the soil. You wait and see. When I start digging around in that soil the seeds I sowed are going to start sprouting. I'd be willing to bet on it. It's all good.
Happy Memorial Day! Peace & Plenty.
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