More rain on
Friday, almost 1/2”! and we're supposed to get even more Monday
through Wednesday. The rain lilies responded.
I should get out
there and pull weeds now that the ground is soft from all the rain. I
did work on cutting out a lot of the dead canes from the climbing
roses that go up into the crepe myrtle and the oak on Friday before that fierce furious little storm passed through. I got as much as
I could reach with the long handled nippers. There is still a lot of
dead wood up there but I'll need a ladder to reach it.
this isn't even
all of it, there's another smaller pile
The oaks are
starting to drop a few acorns
and a friend that lives down the
highway in Boling told my sister Thursday that he is already getting
ripe pecans falling. Seems a little early to me but what do I know.
My trees aren't there yet.
I've been
working on snowflake ornaments with the modeling glass for the
December open house. I've rolled out and cut and dried 23 of various
sizes so far.
these will
shrink about 15% during firing
I still have to sift and sprinkle the powder and frit
on the base shapes. This first batch will be testing different
combinations, then I'll settle on three or four and just go with
those since these are supposed to be easy mindless quickies. And then
I have some feathers I want to do. Which I was going to start on
yesterday but I needed to print out some stuff first and my printer
rudely informed me that if I wanted to print anything I needed to
replace the ink cartridge. Crap.
I haven't left
the property except for going to yoga or over to the shop for weeks.
I can't remember the last time I went out. To the feed store maybe or
the library. So, grumble grumble, I got in the car and went to the
Evil Empire (though I may have to rethink my opinion since after the
mass murder at the Walmart in El Paso they have barred open carry at
all their stores and apparently are enforcing it) to get ink and of
course they didn't have what my printer uses. So back home and
log on to the other Evil Empire to have it delivered to me. It's that
or drive the half hour through the gauntlet to the shopping mecca in
Rosenberg.
I can tell the
wheel is turning even though it's still in the 90s here...the pampas
grass is sending up it's plumes, the rain trees are putting on buds,
the oxblood lilies popped up literally overnight no doubt triggered
by the rain we've finally been getting,
and it's cotton harvest time.
our version of
snow
Such beauty, Ellen- from the flowers to the snowflakes. I am so glad you're getting rain. We're dry, dry, dry and none in the forecast.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers of the rain are just lovely. I remember being in Texas at cotton time. I asked a woman if I could go across the street and pick a couple of bolls. She said Sure, they warn't her fields.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Photos For Sure - Stay Dry & Be Well
ReplyDeleteCheers
it's been a long dry hot summer so we are glad for the rain.
DeleteI always love those oxblood lilies. I wonder if we could grow those here? I've never looked into it. The snowflakes look great!
ReplyDeleteI love the oxblood lilies too - but then I love most red flowers. And blue ones. And purple ones. Flowers, I love flowers. :)
ReplyDeleteA little rain can produce much beauty. I am glad to read that you finally got some.
ReplyDeleteMore lilies. I am in love with lilies. And welcome to rain, any rain.
ReplyDeleteMy gosh! You have some of those yellow rain lilies! I've seen them a couple of times, but I'd love to see them more often. I just came home to discover we have TS Imelda. Funny that the first thing I thought of was shoes. The path looks east of you, but you'll probably still get more rain from it, and the winds don't look bad at all.
ReplyDeleteI dug those out of a ditch in Houston, probably in my old Heights neighborhood, as I recall, brought a few with me when I moved out here and they've been multiplying nicely. next post shows many more blooms. I also have the small white ones but they are almost impossible to get a picture of as the camera doesn't want to focus on them but they're popping up all over the shop yard though they don't grow in clusters like the big white and the yellow. I thought I had some pink but if so they never bloom.
DeleteWalmart banning open carry is a good move. I too have stretches of days when I don’t leave home. The world presses in.
ReplyDeleteDid you sustain any damage from Imelda? It was pretty amazing how quickly it went from a depression to a storm.
ReplyDeletenope and very little rain, maybe 1/2" over 24 hours. it went east of us, pounded Houston and points east.
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