bold squirrel, flowers, healing

Zinnias!

I wrote my last post mostly in the morning the day after my surgery and didn’t really get around to proofreading it until the afternoon when it was already published. OMG! So many typos. Now three days after my surgery and I’m ready for it to be healed! I know, I know, patience. It will take weeks to be fully healed and my vision settled. It’s a little better every day, colors are saturated again but I get a grainy feeling off and on and I’m ready for that to stop. I have to wear sunglasses outside even when it’s overcast. In fact I’m wearing them now in the house because it’s a clear blue sky day and the sun is coming in the windows I face and reflecting off the laminate on my desk into my face. I slept off and on most of the day Wednesday after my surgery. Slept a lot Thursday but not as much and even took a couple of brief naps on Friday. 

We’re having cool mornings and low humidity days so the back door is open. First thing I do every morning is fill Cat’s bowl, fill the bird feeder (though I’m out of seed right now), put a couple of handfuls of cracked corn on a paving stone (also out of that right now), and put a handful of peanuts on the ceramic elephant for the squirrels. I missed putting out the peanuts on Wednesday and Thursday though I did on Friday. I keep the bag of peanuts on the shelf under my big work table easily visible from the outside when the door is open and I don’t close it until dusk when the weather is nice. Apparently I’ve been being watched. I was in the next room yesterday early afternoon when I heard a quiet rustling. When I looked through the door into my studio room I caught a flash of a squirrel dashing out the door. This morning the open bag of peanuts was empty except for one nut, the bag had been moved further back on the shelf and there were a few peanut shells laying about. There was only about a handful left in that bag but now I suppose I’ll have to use a clothes pin to close the new bag. We’ll see how clever the little devil is.

I looked out the back door on Thursday to see this.

This is not from lack of water. I’d already cut off two wilted long branches but there was new growth at the top so I figured these older stems were dying back. I have no idea why this Brazilian button is dying and I’m not happy about it. There is one new little plant coming up from seed in the pot so hopefully it will grow and thrive.

Not everything in the yard is pink or purple: developing tomatoes, clasping leaved coneflowers, various daylilies, easter lilies, althea (rose of sharon).

But a lot is: althea (rose of sharon). (I do not know why blogger insists on this type face for these sentences but it will not change.)

And the ginger root from the grocery store finally sprouted!

While I was fixing breakfast and eating the little devil made about 5 attempts. I saw him/her (?) on the shelf under the table and when it saw me watching it scampered out. We could hear the rustling of the cellophane bag while we were eating. A couple of times Minnie chased it out. It managed to get the clothespin off three times, the last time the little bastard tore the cellophane bag (which of course I knew would happen).

Ok, it’s been fun and games little squirrel but that’s all over now. I emptied the peanuts into a ziplock bag and put it on top of a shelving unit further back in the room.