Month: June 2026

A very striking colourway compared to the regular purple ones that we have closer to the front entrance, and are twelve inches shorter. These Champagne Irises are quite large, though smaller still than my neighbours which stand about three feet tall, if not more so. While we don’t yet have any hanging baskets or potted plants in the two new urns we were gifted last fall, I think once we take the time to fill them, things will really pop! Around here. My fruit trees bloom very briefly, if at all, so can only add more green into the mix. But after seven months of cold snowy winter, I will take greens over Grey’s, whites, and all that drab brown.

Luckily it is Wednesday, Hump Day, middle of the week day all ready! Busy week so far, with the bulk of the craziness still left to come. It took me two days and two attempts to cut all the grass at my inlaws place, and it was hot, dusty, and unpleasant both days. But I got it done, and just in time to do my own today. Such luck! I hope to hear about my Echo SRM-230 at some point tomorrow, because that’ll be the two week mark since I took it in for servicing. If not I’ll need to pop round and see what’s what. Though with all this sun, and heat, and no rain the grass isn’t growing have as crazy as it was just a couple of weeks ago. We don’t irrigate and keep it artificially green, so it is expected that it would slow down a fair bit. No surprise there.

I have heard about one big project that’s coming up, so that’s great to hear. I can plan for that early next week once all these extracurriculars come to an end, or just about. Had an interesting visitor at the farm the other day, but I’ll tell you about that tomorrow.

And don’t they look lovely? I pruned the woody portion back in April to get rid of a bunch of dead limbs, and some recently snapped bits from the two fat raccoons that plague our property at certain times of the year. I think the blooms look fuller this year, but I am biased. A couple pops of colour added to the garden as the last of the tulips fade in the late spring heat. What we should have done was plant things that bloom one after the other all season long so you’d get colour and vibrancy in the garden beds all season long. Instead we get a few early on, and then it is mostly just green, until the orange, and yellow Daylilies bloom. Possibly some purple flowers on the hostas. Some white bits on a plant I can’t recall the name of just now. And a spreading ground cover with tiny magenta flowers on it. I guess it’s not too bad we do have a little bit of colour. Fall is best because the Dahlias really get going in September. Plus we usually have some pumpkins or gourds that add the yellow fruiting flowers to the mix.

Didn’t take long to get here did it! Vroom-vroom says the clock. In the blink of an eye we will be neck deep in July, with all that that entails. once things ramp up it feels as though you have to hold on for dear life, or else get left in the dust. The bugs have begun to appear, ready to feast upon our exposed skin at every single turn. Inescapable. Cool mornings followed by hot afternoons lead the way towards summer on June 21st.

Of course this means that I have already one child at home sick with a cough, and a congested nose. Can’t close out spring without a bug running through the entire family first! Be on the lookout for sniffles, runny noses, coughs, and spring time colds coming your way — fast.