Monday, February 26, 2018

longhorns, rodeo duds, and flowers



not every day you see a longhorn grazing on the side of the road

Last Friday was Go Texan Day. That's the day the trail rides come into Houston and camp out in Memorial Park with a parade on Saturday and opening night of the Houston Rodeo and Livestock Show. I wrote about it years ago here and here so I won't go into it again. Or you can read my sister's post here 

that's me on the right in pants, my sister behind me

Rocky poked his head in this morning about 8:30, need to run to Lowe's, will be back in about an hour um huh, it will take you an hour just to get there and back. Two and a half hours later still no Rocky but he had a materials list and is going to start removing the outside siding in preparation for cutting the holes in the wall for the etched glass when he gets back. The vinyl flooring for the kitchen gets installed tomorrow yay and finally! so while Rocky is working on the outside I'll be pulling the refrigerator, stove, and washer and dryer away from the walls to get the last of the old green linoleum up from around the baseboards.

I've been rethinking the tile in the bathroom. Not going to use the pretty hex tiles for the floor of the shower because it would cost me over $70 just for that and I will never see them. Instead, I'm going to do a rectangular inset with them on the floor of the bathroom. I've been looking at lighting fixtures and pedestal sinks on-line. I should have just jumped in the truck with Rocky and browsed while he waited for his estimate.

Was still cool, wet, and overcast this morning but the sun is coming out and it's warming up, and while I am so not ready for the unrelenting heat and dryness of summer, I'm really tired of this wet and overcast. So many things that can't be done outside as long as the ground is so wet.

A few pics around the yard...

this little corydalis, the only one, a gift from the flood


the little red lilies coming on


the one and only daffodil


I moved the daffodils two summers ago from a spot where they bloomed but were getting overwhelmed by the mexican petunias. Not a single bloom last year but I figured it was because we didn't have enough chill hours but no such excuse for this year so what's the dang deal daffodils?




12 comments:

  1. How strange about the daffodils. I always thought they were pretty adaptable. Maybe they're still settling in?!

    That cow (bull?) has some SERIOUS horns!

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  2. I DO love the Longhorn.
    Bathrooms. My sink is hooked up. Time for me to really get to work.

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  3. My cousin Ellis, the Texan, says everything is 20 minutes away. "Twenty minutes now. We'll be there in twenty minutes."

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  4. Never believe a contractor when he says that he will be back in an hour - especially when they go to Lowes/Home Depot.

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    1. Right?! I've been self employed all my life and I've told those same sort of almost lies. it's not that we're lying, it's just that we're bad at estimating all the delays.

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  5. That's one big damn steer!
    Home renovation (or repair) is almost as scary.

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  6. You were so cute & serious! We didn't even know we had daffodils - we saw the leaves, but no flowers last year, but they're blooming now. They must have bloomed the couple of weeks before we moved down here.

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  7. I don't think I've ever seen that corydalis. It's a pretty thing. I'm sure there are oddities popping up all over this year, thanks to plants and seeds being swept hither and yon by the flood waters. I'm pretty tired of wet and foggy myself. A lot of clover's gotten a reprieve this year, since it's so wet people still are reluctant to start mowing.

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    1. the clover is just about knee high over at the shop which will be a real challenge whenever Marc gets around to mowing over there!

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  8. You were dressed to the hilt for that celebration.Like to see your blooms, that lily looks similar in bloom shape to a Toad Lily native here.

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  9. We had a flood in our house in MN. Contractors lie a lot!! I wish I had one working on this re-do, at least I could have someone who would listen to my complaints!! I noticed some daffodils shooting up yesterday. I am ready to see some color out there. My daffodils are in the garden that people keep driving through. The boulders I have there are bigger than one of those concrete parking lot barriers would be. I am pretty sure it is big semi's turning around when they realize they are going the wrong way. I will be putting another camera up so we can get plate numbers in the future.

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    1. Rocky's a good man, not just a contractor but my neighbor. he showed up soon after, didn't expect there to be three other contractors ahead of him for getting estimates. they are hard at work now.

      maybe you could rig up some sort of automatic fog horn to blast whenever these trucks get too close, like a motion detection light only a loud horn.

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