Let me start out by correcting myself about the morning glory bush. It is in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae as is the sweet potato. Family: Convolvulaceae, Genus: Ipomoea carnea. The Heavenly Blue morning glory that grows on a vine is Family: Convolvulaceae, Genus: Ipomoea tricolor (also Ipomoea purpurea). Sweet potatoes are also in the Ipomoea genus. So I was right and wrong at the same time.
The heavenly blue morning glory seeds I planted last spring still have not produced a single flower though the vines have taken over four of the five fence sections I put up between me and the neighbor in the back but the wild smaller flowered purple common bindweed that's growing on part of the shop yard fence is covered in blooms.
And this Saturday morning it is down right cool outside and low humidity. What a relief. Cooler even than yesterday morning though it's supposed to get to 90˚ today. It's nice to have the door open again to listen to the bird song. Next week our highs are supposed to be mid 80s˚ but it won't get as cool at night.
The afib had flared up again after only a day but it settled down Friday evening and seems to be holding steady right now.
Of course today is the 20th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Down here in Texas it was a distant horror but if I'm completely honest, we, as a nation, have wrought as much horror and more on other nations in our past and did again after. We just thought we were bullet proof. Less than 3,000 died that day and in response we killed hundreds of thousands, sent more than 7,000 soldiers and over 8,000 contractors to die in Iraq, which had nothing to do with the attack, and Afghanistan with over 30,000 coming home mangled, missing limbs and eyes. So which was the real horror. And that's all I'm going to say about 9/11.
Last night was one of my nights to cook dinner and I fixed Italian sausage roasted with apples and shallots. It was a bit late though as grandgirl Autumn FaceTimed me from Ecuador where she is doing a semester abroad when I should have started preparations and then her twin Jade FaceTimed me just as I was finishing eating so I got to see both of them last night.
Well, it's warming up out there so I think I'm going to finish the last dozen pages or so of the book I'm reading and then go over to the shop and finish the edges of the trumpet flower piece, and thank you all so much for your comments on that, and then maybe start on the next mold or maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
I did finally sleep well last night and my dreams were full of me trying to rally people to gather anything that could be used as a weapon like spears and baseball bats and stout limbs and the like and pile them all up to fight some sort of tentacled monster that was approaching and there were two tigers that I had to dispatch that came up out of nowhere which I did with a knitting needle-like thing by driving it into their skulls and what a crazy fucking dream.
A few pictures to end...yellow ginger, coral ginger, and a mass of baby spiders.
Oh, yes, that's a lot of baby spiders. What do they all eat?
ReplyDeleteI don't know. maybe they eat each other.
DeleteWow, is that ever a boatload of spiders!! I fought ants yesterday and the night before. Putting out fresh Terro really brought them out and today there was only a very few crawling around, but a number who had ate themselves to death right next to the bait. I also sprinkled the granular Terro outside to get them before they crawled into the walls of the house. Keeping my fingers crossed that I got them in time.
ReplyDeleteIf I had dreams like that I would NOT be eager to go to sleep. But we definitely are battling a many tentacled monster these days and tigers too.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you got to FT with your grandgirls. I know they must miss you.
My gingers aren't blooming yet but the pinecone lilies are going great guns.
I don't know Mary, your crazy dreams don't sound any better to me. but yeah, I woke up and WTF was that about with the tigers and all, as if I could penetrate their skulls with a knitting needle.
DeleteAlmost all my dreams are nightmares now. Very rarely a nice one.
ReplyDeleteThe ginger pictures are lovely. It's been ages since I've seen a batch of baby spiders.
ReplyDeleteI had an old anxiety dream last night. I thought i was done with them. Not so much, it seems.
ReplyDeleteLovely flowers, and it's a good thing I like spiders because that's a crowd.
spiders are so interesting. I've photographed these baby spiders a couple of times now, usually though they are clustered in a tight little ball. I have no idea what kind they are though.
Deleteyellow ginger, voral ginger flowers are so lovely.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's interesting to see so many baby spiders attached to one web.
I seen these spider clusters before. when they first hatch they hang together in a tight little ball. if they have started to spread out and you blow on the or jostle the leaf they all run back into that ball cluster.
DeleteWhat is the collective noun for spiders? Cluster? Clutter? Herd? Colony?
ReplyDeleteI hope the afib settles, still raging here, had to drop the breakfast dishes in a hurry to meet the floor this morning.
here too. had another day of normal and then back to the afib but at least it's fairly mild as these things go.
DeleteI looked up dosages of the sotalol last night and I'm not taking the max. I may ask the EP about increasing my dose as opposed to going for the ablation.
DeleteAnd you always say you don't remember your dreams! That one was a doozy.
ReplyDeleteOf course you're right about Iraq. Afghanistan, at least, was tangentially related to 9/11 but invasion wasn't the answer there either -- and we completely mucked that up too, in large part because we got distracted by Iraq. We never learn. The Bush administration has a lot to answer for.
Thanks for the clarification on Convulvulaceae vs. Ipomoea!
I almost never have memorable dreams, but last night I was stepping into a fire ant bed. I had my boots on, and their hill was sandy, so they were easy to see, and I escaped with only a few clinging to my boots, and I knocked them off. The end.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know your grand-daughter was in Ecuador. I missed that somehow. Where is she? One of my readers has lived there for years. Lisa's an artist, too, and very well known for her environmental activism. You can see her blog and get her contact information here. There's so much material it can be hard to find your way around, but her posts about her art and birding are splendid.
I don't remember if I had mentioned it previously or not but she's doing this semester in Ecuador. She's in Quinto. Thanks for the link to Lisa's blog, I'll check it out. big storm headed our way so batten down the hatches. it's pretty much aimed right at you.
DeleteThat dream is in Mike territory (he is always doing battle in his dreams & has bruised his elbow and heels kicking the way - glad we don't sleep in the same bed anymore!).
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