ironymaiden: (don't walk/i love you)
ironymaiden ([personal profile] ironymaiden) wrote2006-05-13 09:35 pm

outdoor life


one early rose
Originally uploaded by green eyed so and so.
last weeks' plant purchases are in the ground, after digging all the weeds out of the flowerbeds out front. i suspect that the one patch of random stuff is probably lemon balm - it looks like mint but smells like lemon pledge when bruised. i'm leaving it for now until i can see it flower and be more sure. (and then, tea!) the rosebush (or is it rosebushes? there are many canes in a formidable tangle) is absolutely loaded with buds and one random open rose.
we bought a grill today and strings of outdoor lights. i have one string up and we'll see if it becomes a new Rodent Highway for the squirrels that live in the garage. as i was digging today i kept discovering buried peanut shells. later when i walked to the drugstore i discovered why - a squirrel was halfway down the tree out front with a peanut half-in and half-out of its mouth. i told it that they were best consumed immediately rather than stored and that it should stop using my flowerbeds. it listened attentively until i continued down the sidewalk, whereupon it zipped back up the tree.

i have a mild sunburn.

[identity profile] matt-ruff.livejournal.com 2006-05-14 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
So squirrels are responsible for the peanut shells all over my garden? I thought it was the Asian contractors who relandscaped the house before we moved in...

[identity profile] boldfeather.livejournal.com 2006-05-14 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Mwah hah hah hah! I am a provider of peanuts to the squirrels! It is amusing to know I am the root cause for my neighbours' annoyance.