miscellania and day lilies

Well, I have no idea what’s happening with the wren nest in the garage. I have neither seen nor heard any activity since Saturday. No parents coming and going, no baby bird noises. The nest does not appear to be disturbed but I hesitate to peer too closely. Seems it’s been plenty of time for the little eggs to have hatched.

More car cleaning on Sunday. Saturday I did the outside, Sunday I did the inside, even those hidden areas when the doors are closed where dirt and grime builds up. Monday it was glass and vacuum. I did not try and clean the upholstery besides vacuuming. This car has not been this clean since I drove it off the lot 12 years ago. What brought this on? I have no idea.

The last couple of days my suspect email list sent by the spam blocker on my Earthlink account has been inundated. Tuesday, 109 spam emails on it. WTF? Harbor Freight, AAA, various insurance companies, CVS, CostCo, Lowe’s, and more, all wanting me to claim my free gift! Let chance! Hurry before the offer expires! And then there’s all the meds offered shipped right to my door. Today it’s back to the normal +/- dozen.

My determination to do some yoga or tai chi every morning lasted about two days. I haven’t been rolling out of bed until about 8 and you’d think the two hours until I fix breakfast would be enough time but apparently not, not if I want to stroll around the yard first thing, sort through email, read blogs and comment, answer comments or write. I do need to figure this out because I feel so much better and stronger when I do.

So Tuesday morning my stroll included checking on the tomato plants, blooming like crazy but not setting much fruit. The green beans however are.

We finished watching the mini-series Chernobyl, the nuclear power plant meltdown disaster in Russia in 1986. Human arrogance compounded by the authoritarian state that prized unquestioning loyalty, the belief that the state is never wrong, that Russian technology was superior to the point of erasing the knowledge of a known flaw to the operators of the plant, the insistence of the higher ups to get a safety check done under conditions in which it should have been delayed, the refusal to admit how bad it really was to the people tasked with cleaning it up all led to the disaster and the deaths of everyone involved. To this day, Russia refuses to admit how many people died. I recommend watching it.

Here are the promised day lilies.