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Aug. 17th, 2011 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinThe Boy has commandeered two of his sister's baby dolls and her toy stroller, and is giving those dolls the ride of their lives. Complete with revved-up-engine noises and wild swings around corners. The Miss is not amused.
We probably should have gotten two of the toy strollers, but we honestly didn't expect him to take to the dolls and strollers like that. They're hand-me-down baby dolls, well-played-with, and he latched onto them as soon as the neighbor brought the bag of toys into the house. Odd little unit, my boy is.
Had some rain lately, and it's cooler, so the yard is less crispy and a little greener. The veggie garden would be producing, except that I've got moles in the garden, and they're eating squash as soon as the fruits set. Dammit. I'll probably slip out while the kids are napping and put out poison, so I can get some produce out of there.
I do have a few things blooming, despite the brutal heat the end of July:
* Lycoris squamergia, aka hardy amaryllis, resurrection lilies, surprise lilies, belladonna, or my personal favorite name for them, naked ladies. (And I learned that name as a child, from an 80-yr-old pillar of the community, who said it was an old name for them, no matter how improper my mom thought it.)
* zinnias in abundance, just old Oklahoma Mix, but bright and cheerful and durable
* verbena-on-a-stick
* a last few queen anne's lace
* gomphrena (purples)
* morning glories-- three shades of starred dark purples, and tiny sky blue ones
* the last few daylilies-- "Autumn Minaret" (golden yellow stars on 5' stems), and a lemon yellow charmer that I think may be "Hyperion"
* apple and silver mints, which have pale lavender spikes, and a few last spikes of agastache
* balloon flower (which I should plant more of, because they look delicate, but they bloomed all through the heat)
* seedlings of "Goldstrum" rudbeckia, with smooth clean foliage and sunny golden blooms
* pardencanda, pale yellow this year (it's a hybrid, and the seedlings range from rose to oranges and many shades of yellows)
* white rose-of-sharon
Have been doing mostly cross stitch lately, working on things for holiday gifts and some things for me. Finished Teresa Wentzler's "Needle Guardian" as a needlebook for By, it just wants a snap sewn on. Also dug out a needlebook that I'd stitched for me a year ago, and got it assembled and into the "needs buttons and snaps" pile. Still making progress on Joan Elliott's "Green Goddess". Slow, but progress.
We probably should have gotten two of the toy strollers, but we honestly didn't expect him to take to the dolls and strollers like that. They're hand-me-down baby dolls, well-played-with, and he latched onto them as soon as the neighbor brought the bag of toys into the house. Odd little unit, my boy is.
Had some rain lately, and it's cooler, so the yard is less crispy and a little greener. The veggie garden would be producing, except that I've got moles in the garden, and they're eating squash as soon as the fruits set. Dammit. I'll probably slip out while the kids are napping and put out poison, so I can get some produce out of there.
I do have a few things blooming, despite the brutal heat the end of July:
* Lycoris squamergia, aka hardy amaryllis, resurrection lilies, surprise lilies, belladonna, or my personal favorite name for them, naked ladies. (And I learned that name as a child, from an 80-yr-old pillar of the community, who said it was an old name for them, no matter how improper my mom thought it.)
* zinnias in abundance, just old Oklahoma Mix, but bright and cheerful and durable
* verbena-on-a-stick
* a last few queen anne's lace
* gomphrena (purples)
* morning glories-- three shades of starred dark purples, and tiny sky blue ones
* the last few daylilies-- "Autumn Minaret" (golden yellow stars on 5' stems), and a lemon yellow charmer that I think may be "Hyperion"
* apple and silver mints, which have pale lavender spikes, and a few last spikes of agastache
* balloon flower (which I should plant more of, because they look delicate, but they bloomed all through the heat)
* seedlings of "Goldstrum" rudbeckia, with smooth clean foliage and sunny golden blooms
* pardencanda, pale yellow this year (it's a hybrid, and the seedlings range from rose to oranges and many shades of yellows)
* white rose-of-sharon
Have been doing mostly cross stitch lately, working on things for holiday gifts and some things for me. Finished Teresa Wentzler's "Needle Guardian" as a needlebook for By, it just wants a snap sewn on. Also dug out a needlebook that I'd stitched for me a year ago, and got it assembled and into the "needs buttons and snaps" pile. Still making progress on Joan Elliott's "Green Goddess". Slow, but progress.
