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May. 11th, 2006 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickWe finally got some rain today. It's been a fairly dry spring thus far -- several localities have burn warnings out -- and we needed the rain. I'm not in love with cool, grey days of rain, but sometimes that's what you need to have.
Currently blooming in my yard: The spirea. Lily of the valley and the bicolor smallish iris at the base of the chimney. The small double yellow daffodils and pheasant eye narcissus around the telephone pole guywire are also in bloom but they're fading. The red trumpet honeysuckle on the chimney just broke out into flowers yesterday or the day before.
Mostly for the Philly (and environs) crowd, particularly for those who have yards and might like things to put IN their yards, here are the things I have that I can give away...
* Double light pink rose, scented, healthy. Does not need spraying or pruning. Blooms once. Suckers enthusiastically. The deer like it.
* Rugosa rose, sem-double, purple. Makes pretty hips, lovely foliage, will get about five feet tall. Not especially tasty to deer, does not need to be sprayed or pruned.
* Daylilies, traditional roadside orange and also a darker red color.
* Peonies, white, medium pink, or dark pink. Not overly tasty to deer.
* Daffodils, standard yellow, also pheasant eye narcissus. DEER WILL NOT EAT THESE!! I promise!
* Black-eyed Susans, yellow flowers with dark centers. Tasty to deer.
* Mint. Very tasty for humans, should be grown in a container because it spreads vigorously. Deer don't eat it.
* Iris: Gerald Darby, I. pseudocoras, japanese iris in purple and white, standard purple german bearded, two smallish bicolors. None of these are very deer-tasty.
* Lily of the Valley
Mom's scheduled the Boat Adventure with the boy for Thursday next week, weather permitting. The boy (this would be my nephew, Duncan) would like to go on a real sailing ship WITH SAILS. Mmm-hmm. Also, he would not like to go just with my mom (Nana) because he feels that she would not be able to haul on rigging in the event that such a thing would be needed. Nana inquired who he thought they should take along for all rigging-related activities and other general emergencies. Duncan said "We can take Aunt Jessica." (That'd be me. I am not entirely sure why Duncan came up with me sans prompting, but Mom swears this is true. At any rate, I can't disagree with his assessment. I am way more rigging-oriented than she is.) One of the beauties of being self-employed is that I can take an entire day off work to go ride on a real sailing ship WITH SAILS with the boy and my mother so's to be available for any rigging-related activities that there might be.
I do not think that the Chesapeake near Annapolis is anywhere near as exciting as, say, rounding Cape Horn or whatever like in Master and Commander, but what the hell. The boy has clearly seen at least one movie with a tallship, but we've discovered that it is not possible to get a ride on a tallship for a boy of four-and-a-half. However, we are doing the best we can with a not-a-tallship (It's a schooner) real sailing ship with sails. Perhaps, in the fullness of time, we will be able to send him out on missionary work for FSM and let him get some tallship experience there, spreading the truth to others as a pirate-missionary. That'd work. (I would sign up to be a pirate-missionary if it meant sailing the world in an authentic sailing ship with sails, especially if we got the flowy white shirts, hats-with-feathers, swords, and tight black pants to go with the ship.)
In other news, brother-the-younger was reading internet personals (no, I don't know why) and thinks I would do well to date RMS. Er. No. (It's annoyingly geeky that I immediately gnu who that was.) News flash for brother-the-younger: I don't date. Meaningless fucking is more my speed -- it hurts less -- but these days I'm not terribly interested in pursuing that either. Thanks for the thought, though.
Currently blooming in my yard: The spirea. Lily of the valley and the bicolor smallish iris at the base of the chimney. The small double yellow daffodils and pheasant eye narcissus around the telephone pole guywire are also in bloom but they're fading. The red trumpet honeysuckle on the chimney just broke out into flowers yesterday or the day before.
Mostly for the Philly (and environs) crowd, particularly for those who have yards and might like things to put IN their yards, here are the things I have that I can give away...
* Double light pink rose, scented, healthy. Does not need spraying or pruning. Blooms once. Suckers enthusiastically. The deer like it.
* Rugosa rose, sem-double, purple. Makes pretty hips, lovely foliage, will get about five feet tall. Not especially tasty to deer, does not need to be sprayed or pruned.
* Daylilies, traditional roadside orange and also a darker red color.
* Peonies, white, medium pink, or dark pink. Not overly tasty to deer.
* Daffodils, standard yellow, also pheasant eye narcissus. DEER WILL NOT EAT THESE!! I promise!
* Black-eyed Susans, yellow flowers with dark centers. Tasty to deer.
* Mint. Very tasty for humans, should be grown in a container because it spreads vigorously. Deer don't eat it.
* Iris: Gerald Darby, I. pseudocoras, japanese iris in purple and white, standard purple german bearded, two smallish bicolors. None of these are very deer-tasty.
* Lily of the Valley
Mom's scheduled the Boat Adventure with the boy for Thursday next week, weather permitting. The boy (this would be my nephew, Duncan) would like to go on a real sailing ship WITH SAILS. Mmm-hmm. Also, he would not like to go just with my mom (Nana) because he feels that she would not be able to haul on rigging in the event that such a thing would be needed. Nana inquired who he thought they should take along for all rigging-related activities and other general emergencies. Duncan said "We can take Aunt Jessica." (That'd be me. I am not entirely sure why Duncan came up with me sans prompting, but Mom swears this is true. At any rate, I can't disagree with his assessment. I am way more rigging-oriented than she is.) One of the beauties of being self-employed is that I can take an entire day off work to go ride on a real sailing ship WITH SAILS with the boy and my mother so's to be available for any rigging-related activities that there might be.
I do not think that the Chesapeake near Annapolis is anywhere near as exciting as, say, rounding Cape Horn or whatever like in Master and Commander, but what the hell. The boy has clearly seen at least one movie with a tallship, but we've discovered that it is not possible to get a ride on a tallship for a boy of four-and-a-half. However, we are doing the best we can with a not-a-tallship (It's a schooner) real sailing ship with sails. Perhaps, in the fullness of time, we will be able to send him out on missionary work for FSM and let him get some tallship experience there, spreading the truth to others as a pirate-missionary. That'd work. (I would sign up to be a pirate-missionary if it meant sailing the world in an authentic sailing ship with sails, especially if we got the flowy white shirts, hats-with-feathers, swords, and tight black pants to go with the ship.)
In other news, brother-the-younger was reading internet personals (no, I don't know why) and thinks I would do well to date RMS. Er. No. (It's annoyingly geeky that I immediately gnu who that was.) News flash for brother-the-younger: I don't date. Meaningless fucking is more my speed -- it hurts less -- but these days I'm not terribly interested in pursuing that either. Thanks for the thought, though.
