The
goods are packed and the display is dismantled and stacked ready to
load in the car. We leave in a little while to drive to the city to
set up for the Open House. It's an amazingly compact display and if
we put down both back seats everything fits in the trunk and back
seat space. I packed the goods and supplies differently this year and
I think it's more compact than before. I still have to work on the
pricing though but I have all day tomorrow to do that. Then we head
in for the opening Friday night from 6 to 9 PM.
The
two ginkgoes are still bright yellow and still full of leaves though
they are drifting down and beginning to carpet the ground.
The
bluebonnets are coming up and filling in their space in the front
yard and the little woodland violets in the grass in the backyard are
beginning to bloom.
The
pansies and violas too.
I
have a new view to get used to behind the long daylily flower bed.
The neighbor bought an 8' x 40' shipping container for storage and
had it put about 4' off the property line. It hides the previous view of all the smaller storage buildings and will cut off the late
afternoon sun and changes our view of the sunsets but maybe now the day lilies will face my yard when they bloom instead
of her property.
Well, points for looking on the bright side re. the shipping container! What a thing to have so close to your garden. Are violas different from pansies? Did I ask that already?
ReplyDeleteviolas are the small pansy like flowers, what we called johnny jump-ups when I was growing up, the yellow and purple ones. now there are many different varieties in all colors, just like pansies.
DeleteI could never, ever live in a place that had a Homeowners Association but sometimes I wish I could have at least some input on what goes on around me. Mostly the house next door which STILL has a Trump sign up, two years later, as well as the He is Risen! sign which has been there since an Easter about a decade ago. Other than that, I'm pretty lucky.
ReplyDeleteI wish you the best of luck at the Open House. I wish I could be a fly on the wall.
rude neighbor, all of that beautiful open space and that thing is parked right there! You should off to paint it like the landscape and then it would sort of disappear. Or cover it with painted flowers.
ReplyDeleteOr plant a row of morning glory vines along its base.
DeleteIt will be an excellent show. Old friends and new. Old customers and new. Old display and new. Something borrowed, something...
ReplyDeleteOh, well. It will be grand and I can't wait to hear all about it.
I do hope we sell a few pieces. I was thinking about putting morning glories on the fence sections. they are big on round-up though and will probable spray between the container and my fence sections on the property line. I'll have to put some boards along the bottom on their side to keep the spray off the vines.
DeleteGood luck at the show! Placing that container like that seems incredibly rude to me, but I guess it makes sense from her perspective. Or she doesn't like you & wanted to be petty.
ReplyDeletewe get along alright. it was really the only vacant spot at the back of the property. I wish she had just got a 20' one but the 40' one was only $200 more so she went for it. I don't think she realized how big 40' is.
DeleteNeighborhoods with such flexible zoning restrictions were something I never adjusted to when I lived in Texas...the land of freedom. I do love you little spring colors of joy and I hope you can post a photo of your entire exhibit rather than just close-ups.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you're going to have wonderful weather for the weekend. I hope it brings more people out -- and that you have some good sales. I'm glad to see those violets. It's a reminder to start looking for them, along with some of the other autumn flowers. We're so lucky to have this second season, even if it's been interrupted a bit by cold.
ReplyDeleteThe colour of the pansies!!!
ReplyDeleteI'd wonder all the time about what's inside that container. Can you sneek in and plant a fast growing climber at its base?
I believe that shipping container is ripe for a little ninja painting expedition. I'll be right down.
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