Yesterday, we went in search of perennials to fill lots of empty spots in our garden at Kennedy's Garden Center in Scituate. It was very busy, but folks were all masked and distancing, so we stayed and filled our cart with a rainbow of colors. T took a vacation day and we planted everything today and are happy, but sore around the edges to say the least. We got lots of plants for the bees and hummingbirds. The bumblebees were immediately happy and busy, the hummers were checking things out and very happy with our old blooming sage plant.
The chipmunks were furious that they were not the stars of the day and that peanuts were not being offered as copiously as usual during our planting. We watched our orioles and catbirds vying for the most time at the grape jelly feeder, totally ignoring us, just a few steps away. After everything was planted and we were enjoying beverages in our chairs, we served many peanuts to the delight of Fan.
I retired from public school teaching after happily spending twenty eight years playing in Kindergarten. Now I fill my days watching cat antics, taking endless...
I originally put out grape jelly for Orioles years ago and found to my delight that the catbirds came. I have yet to get a decent photo of the orioles but my problem as I am not patient enough to sit out there for hours.
What a colorful garden you have planted! This is the year to especially enjoy the garden. Is that a water feature I see? I've been thinning my lilies and lily of the valley but haven't planted any new ones except in the boxes where I put butterfly-attracting-plant seeds. Hoping for more photo opps. @joansmor I often listen to an audiobook read to me by the LIBBY app from the public library when I sit outside with my camera in hand.
@jyokota We have something to download books but I have had a problem downloading it. I need to call and find out how this works because more cars are discontinuing disc players. I also never got my Itunes to work on my new phone. You would think not working would give me lots of time.
@joansmor -- I know what you mean. Often, at the end of a day, I wonder -- what did I accomplish today? Not having work markers means measuring differently and I haven't figured it out. Good luck figuring out the downloading. I love my LIBBY app so I hope you get the library downloading stuff sorted out.
June 18th, 2020
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