Has anyone heard from Laurel / lahgitana? I’ve sent a couple of emails but no response. I’m worried… She last posted July 13, and I last heard from her on July 30.
Oct11
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Oct8
Still blooming!
I still have flowers! Lots of them! I think it is quite appropriate that my late-autumn blooms are lovely autumn colours, too.
Would you like to play a game? Two of these shots were taken on iDJ’s iPhone 4s (by himself) the rest on my iPhone 3s (by me). Which two?
Rudbeckia (black-eyed-Susan), anyone?
Whoops! A little wonky, let’s try another.
Whoops, a little blurry! Oh well.
A bloom size comparison between the Galliardia and the rudbeckia.
What is possibly going to be my last sunflower of the year. We will see, the first plant had buds all the way down the stem.
There’s the goddamn carrot pic I was looking for! Yummy 🙂
And that first tasty ‘mater!
These things are still going, the former mystery plant now identified as Mimulus.
Just to be contrary, my last photo isn’t shades of orange and red, but of a pink Tigrida – yes, these are still blooming, too! Not as prolific these days, but I’m well impressed with these guys.
Oct4
Oh, jazuz, it’s been two years!
I knew it was coming – even though it only feels like yesterday to me due to my wonky time-sense – but yes, my wee blog is two years old. Wow, a bit, and ow, a bit.
I’ve changed a lot in two years. I had no job when I started. I used to get songs stuck in my head every day, earworms, and I’d post about that. Yep, I useta post daily – or even more than once a day! I stopped having a song every morning for a good while, but it is back now. I just don’t bother you all with it.
I actually talked about the dog first, as I knew that the cats would take over quite quickly. Yes yes the dog is cool, but the cats are awesome. My good old man, Spot, and his “brother” Lokii who got two separate posts!
I used to draw all the time. I did it a lot until the job sucked the heart art out of me. My first published drawing was a pun cartoon! I’d forgotten that. I thought my first was when in introduced my best friend, Socks. I miss my art, but haven’t yet found a way to bring it back into my life on a daily basis.
I first talked about plants when discussing my indoor garden. What surprised me the most is that iDJ had no idea that my cactus had such heritage. I’m sorry to report that the lantana didn’t come back this year.
I told a lot of good stories and shared some important personal information when I first started blogging. I don’t repeat myself now, as it is all already here. I understand, now, that no one ever goes back to the start and reads the whole blog. I think that’s a shame – but even I don’t have time to do that now. I used to, before I started blogging! I devoured so many, from tales of retail pain to beautifully ugly comics, that I thought everyone did that! Whoops.
I first showed my face on October 29. Sort of.
I first showed iDJ’s face on the 31st – and this is still one of my most popular Google Image searches. I rocked the making of that costume.
I’ve bitched about my bad back and the medical system here, and my bad skin. Lucky you; you haven’t heard about my bad guts. See? I do have some sense of decorum. My back is better now, by the way. The skin only is slightly better, and that only because I’ve had lots of sunshine this year.
I think I’m about done tooting my own horn. I’d like to end with what I still think is the best sentence I’ve ever written on this blog.
“This blog is me upending my cerebellum and splashing around in the puddle.”
I’m so pleased that over 200 of you have come swimming with me.
Oct2
Hipstamatic leaves
I took a few shots on Saturday that I thought were good enough to share. I have to admit, for a plant-kinda-gal, I really am not sure what kind of tree these leaves came from. Sort of look like maple or sycamore, but I really don’t know.
What I do know is that those perfect circles of death cannot be good. I also know that every tree of this type in my whole town has this disease, whatever it is. I do like how the shamrock looks like grapes in the grass.
I feel a bit guilty for finding beauty in what is probably painful for my arboreal friends.
I love black and white photography. I have a colour shot nearly identical to the last one, but the leaves do not glow like they do here! Maybe I’m just shite at colour pics.
Oct1
It was NOT FOOD.
Oh man. Last night, I ate the Heinz mac and cheese I posted about yesterday.
We were making a roast chicken, and hubby was making himself some roast cauliflower, so I had no ‘side’ handy.
Because I will never like cauliflower. Ever. Sorry, it smells worse than my compost bin on a hot day. It smells like it has been decomposing for a while. To paraphrase Monty Python, it smells as if it is no more. I’m not putting that in my mouth ever again.
So instead I had the M&C (not spelling that out any more, either). Popped the top, scraped it into a tiny bowl, nuked it for 1:30… And it was done. Easy.
Reason it was easy is that it was mostly “cheese sauce.” Despite the tin’s claim, it was not delicious. It rather tasted of nothing. It looked awful, however. Be glad I love you all enough not to have taken a photo.
Have any of you ever gone to a little kid’s haunted house? Where they put stuff in bowls, in the dark, and tell you to put your hand in it? “This is the braaains of a dead man!” “Eeeeeee!”
Yeah, this muck would be great at playing the part of deadman’s brains. Pale, pale yellow – more an ecru or a beige – and more sauce than pasta. And the pasta? Entirely tasteless and squishy. No chewing was needed. Blargh.
I did eat it all, and even disdained putting salt in it – salting that mush didn’t seem like it was going to help. When the pasta was gone, there was a good three spoons of … cheese … left, and I scraped the bowl with a bit of chicken. That actually wasn’t too horrible, as my chicken had flavour and texture. The sauce just made it a bit easier to chew – you know, wetter.
All in all? I’m hoping I don’t get this in my Christmas stocking.
A visual interpretation of what it tasted like:
Still better than cauliflower.
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