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Peas On Earth… Everywhere
Posted on | June 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
I have cause to do a happy dance this afternoon. I spent the e-n-t-i-r-e morning cooling my heels (actually devouring Marisha Pessl’s AMAZING first novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics) at the county court house, having reported like the good citizen I am for jury duty. Around lunch time, a nattily attired judge climbed the podium (not exactly like a rappeler or fence-jumper, but with a sprightly bounce in his step nonetheless) to let us know that despite expectations to the contrary all of that day’s cases “had resolved.” He thanked us for our “service” and dismissed us. And that’s it for another year, folks. Is this a great country, or what? I would have been glad to serve, actually. I keep showing up when they call me, thinking finally my day has come, only to have all the perps cop a plea.
And I was afraid it would get too hot too soon for the peas to offer a decent crop this year. Silly me. I give away bagsful every week, and the rest go into salads and stirfries. No, they are not covered with powdery mildew, or fusillarium rot, or whatever it is that plagues peas. That’s merely microscopic condensation from their hour in the refrigerator.
A few more firsts. Optimistically planted a large Costco bag of crocosmia bulbs early in the spring, not quite believing that something so tropical, so exotic, so hot-looking, would actually want to bloom in my garden. And despite my lack of confidence, this is what they look like:
Oriental lilies are everywhere. Ordered the bulbs from Jackson and Perkins, expecting lots of the gorgeous freckled ones with creamy centers and pink-tinted petal edges. Don’t get me wrong, these are attractive. Just not quite what I expected.
I cavalierly tossed a couple handfuls of sunflower seeds into the ground at the fence line in the side yard, where they receive very little water and even less attention. My reward for this neglect is the first bloom, below. Many of the stalks are double the height of the 5-foot fence that separates us from the neighbors, which is a good thing because their (noisy and messy) longterm renovation is well underway to double the size of the house.
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July 1st, 2007 @ 11:50 am
Oi, achei teu blog pelo google tá bem interessante gostei desse post. Quando der dá uma passada pelo meu blog, é sobre camisetas personalizadas, mostra passo a passo como criar uma camiseta personalizada bem maneira. Até mais.