A response in avoidance of the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/180-degrees/

Hmmm…maybe I’ll DO the Daily Prompt today…

Nah.

As promised a couple of days ago, here are some flowers from our garden.

Fancy Daffodils

A series of the same kind of plants, but I can’t remember what they are

Perennial geraniums

The last of the tulips

Cherries ‘a ripening

Climbing hydrangea getting ready to bloom

And the delphinium also getting ready to bloom

A response in avoidance of the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/childhood-revisited-2/

So, yesterday evening, as I was relaxing from a busy day (yes, meaning watching TV ok??), the phone rings and it’s Kevin calling from work.  Apparently, they were all working away when suddenly they heard what sounded like a gunshot (alternatively described by Kevin as kaapow!, kaablowie, or kaablam – and he did describe it to me many times last night).  He went into the spare office (soon to be a second exam room) and found that his bike tire had exploded.  Just sitting there, minding its own business, and kaablam!

At least he wasn’t on the bike riding at his usual break-neck speed when it went kaablowie!  (I much prefer kaablowie to kaablam, although it’s true that I wasn’t there to hear it…)

To calm your nerves now, here are some pictures to complement yesterday’s series of the back yard from the deck:  the back yard from the back yard.  Tomorrow, I’ll show you some of the blooms going wild down there!

A response in avoidance of the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/

The kitty of one of our friend’s died the other day, and so in respect I am not going to post cute kitty pictures in my blog for the next couple of days.  RIP Nikki.

Instead, for today, I decided to look back in the old archives to see what pictures I took one year ago, in May 2014.  And I found some I wanted to share.  Of the back garden and raised beds.

So, these were the new raised beds last year – the first two new ones (we added another 2 this spring).

And now, full of soil.

And here they are this year so far – we already have lettuce in the fridge for our eating pleasure!

And last May we were also adding new soil to the newly dug up back yard gardens (which will change again after the house is painted, meaning all that “grass” (meaning a bit of grass, but mostly weeds) will be gone, and stepping stones and wooly thyme added in.)  Anyway, this is what the back gardens looked like last year (and note also these pictures were taken from the deck before the railing…)

And now?

I’ll definitely have to post updates again because, as tends to happen in gardens, things have grown!

A response in avoidance of the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/baggage-check/

Today, a short story of greens from our garden.

Of a tall kale plant still growing from last winter now cut back to a more manageable size, to a really spicy green (and I mean REALLY spicy) that I don’t remember the name of growing on our deck, to another green, a little more kale-like, growing in the raised beds.

The kale went into the leftover curry stew, while the rest waits patiently in the fridge for eating over the rest of the week.

Here’s about a third of what I harvested yesterday.  Yum!  Maybe I’ll finally get the hang of this eating salad thing.

A response in avoidance of the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/nightmares/

So, I don’t have much of a story to tell today.  Yesterday was busy at work, and the rest of the week is busier – workshop insanity!  As I sit here writing this, all I really want to do is go back to sleep.  But since that’s not going to happen, I’ll just keep sipping my coffee and writing aimlessly.

I’m working on a plan for blogging, just in case you were wondering.  It’s almost a month past the A to Z Challenge, and about time to get back to more than avoidance posts.  You’ll see my plan this weekend as we head into June – can you believe it?  June?!?!?  Maybe it will rain then…

So, for your viewing pleasure today, flowers from our deck.  Oh, and a chair from which to look at them all (re-stained by Kevin.)

Fushia in hanging pots

Marigolds accompanying tomato plants

Flowering chicks and hens (the hummingbirds like this one too)

Tomatillos and tomatoes blooming

Assorted hanging pot flowers – ok, so I was having fun with some iPhone Camera+app filters…so sue me!

Roses gone wild

Lavendar

Thyme

A response in avoidance of the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/the-zone/

After work yesterday I decided to stop at the garden centre.  Hey, it was Friday, and it had been a busy and tiring week (ironic, since it had also been a short week…)  Anyway, I wanted peppers.  I had seen these beautiful pepper plants when Kevin and I had been there last week, and I wanted them.  And a butterfly house (which I did get, but which I haven’t set up yet, so no pics yet).

Of course, I didn’t just get peppers.  I also picked up a few plants to fill some “holes” in the back yard, and picked up a couple of other fun things for our deck.

First, some lavender

Then an eggplant plant.  It will be interesting to see how these turn out!

And finally, an assortment of sweet and hot peppers to go with the assortment of tomatoes already blooming, salad greens, and herbs already sitting out there on the deck.  I’m getting hungry already!