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.
Codex: Hi Ellen.
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DeleteA brilliant variety of day lilies. They’re not native here but some people have them in their gardens. I haven’t seen any for a long time.
ReplyDeleteI still have some different ones that aren't blooming yet. This yard had a long flowerbed, that I have expanded, that was mostly orange doubles. They are just now starting up. Most of the different ones came from a woman I traded some other bulbs with.
DeleteIf it’s an option for you, it would be great to install a trail cam to monitor the comes and goings at the nest.
ReplyDeleteI should probably get one just because.
DeleteI love your day lilies! I used to have some that were given to me by my friend Sue from her yard before she died and I gave some of those to my friend Lis. Mine have long since died off but Lis's bloom every year. The Sue Suchan Day Lilies. They are like your garnet and golden ones.
ReplyDeleteI am the same as you with morning slowness. I mean, I'm doing stuff it's just not...
You know what? We deserve a few hours of warming up to the day slowly and with pleasure.
I think those wrens may have abandoned that nest for whatever reason.
I googled Sue Suchan daylily and got bubkis. Lots of named ones, lots of gorgeous pics but none with that name.
DeleteThe day lilies are beautiful. I love the variety of colors you have.
ReplyDeleteYou day lilies are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThey are, aren't they? I still have a few more different ones but they aren't blooming yet.
DeleteI am envious of your day lilies!! Mine are not ready yet, but they are all yellow and I want to add some other varieties this fall since I still have a useless hand. Had they done the surgery this past winter I would be using this hand by now!
ReplyDeleteI have one pale yellow with frilly edges to its petals but it isn't blooming yet. I do not have the common plain yellow but I do like them.
DeleteYour assortment of day lilies is astounding. I've lived so long thinking they come only in yellow or orange these are quite a surprise. I especially like the burgundy, or ones tending in that direction. They make me smile.
ReplyDeleteThe double orange ones of which I have a lot came with the house. The others I traded with a woman for some bulbs she didn't have.
DeleteGorgeous lilies. When I arrived here in January, NZ summer, we picked green beans every day. Now it's cold autumn and I am about to return home where the green beans are almost ready, so I've been told.
ReplyDeleteI probably picked the last handful today until the second planting starts to produce. I don't try to put them up. I don't can and they don't do well freezing, come out rubbery and, well, not good so we gorge ourselves on green beans and are usually ready for the plants to play out by the time they do.
DeleteLovely daylilies! Ours have REALLY TALL scapes, but it will be a bit before they bloom. I had an old roadrunner email account (from when we lived in Ohio) & before they finally deactivated it, I got all of those same spam emails. I would go on every few weeks & have a deleting party.
ReplyDeleteI still have a few more different ones that haven't bloomed yet.
DeleteThese lilies are gorgeous...and I love the darker reddish colored ones. They probably look fabulous against the green leaves. You can do yoga whenever it strikes your fancy, and then feel better. You write your own agenda! (Within reason I guess.)
ReplyDeleteMornings or evenings when I go to class is really the only window I have open, at least until it gets too hot to go outside. Between 10 and 2 and 3 and five is when I get all my other stuff done. The last two mornings I've been out doing some weeding and watering while that particular flowerbed is in the shade.
DeleteCodex Shima enaga bird
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
So cute! Thanks.
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ReplyDeleteI hope the little wrens are simply being quiet and keeping well hidden. Nature often keeps us guessing.
Your car must look absolutely wonderful after all that cleaning! Sometimes it feels surprisingly satisfying to tackle those long postponed little tasks.
I smiled at your description of the yoga plans versus morning reality — I think many of us know exactly how quickly the hours disappear once the day begins. Still, even trying counts for something.
And the daylilies are beautiful. After reading about spam emails, dusty corners and tomatoes refusing to cooperate, it was lovely to end with something so bright and cheerful.
Unfortunately the wren nest was marauded by a snake (see next post). I marvel at the car, it's so clean! I love the daylilies but when they stop blooming then it's the doldrums of summer. Too hot to be outside for long.
DeleteI love the day lilies. One of my favorite flowers!
ReplyDeleteWe watched "Chernobyl" too, a couple of years ago -- if it's the same show I'm thinking of, with Jared Harris. It was really good! And yes, shocking how that whole incident was handled (or mishandled).
Maybe the wrens have fledged? Is that possible?
Same show, I'm sure, since what we watched was not a new production. As for the wrens, snake.
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