Monday, June 27
Jun. 28th, 2022 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A sunny day, and not too hot.
Our lilac bushes are still blooming, and they are FULL of happy little pollinators. I sat underneath one of the bushes for a while and just listened to the hummmmmm.
I have poppies blooming. These are plants that I moved when we tore down the trailer, and they never bloomed in the old flower bed. Last year I got one flower, this year I have already had two, and it looks like there are several more buds. More than I have ever had! I love the tissue paper quality of the petals, and how they look with the sun coming through them.
I went to town with a few goals in mind. I got special cat food for Jones at the vet's office.
I found some black cord for a project at the local farm supply store, and I visited with their store cat.
I went to Winner's and found a pair of "running" shoes that will do for general wear around home and to the riding barn on clearance (my current pair have developed a crack across the sole), as well as a pair of nicer rubber shoes for rainy weather that would do for going to town, and good cotton underwear.
I spent some time at the pottery studio glazing/decorating some existing pieces. I didn't throw anything today.
I went to the grocery store, and bought a few garden items since they were clearing the plants out. I got two Valentine cherry trees. We have historically had poor luck with cherries, even the hardy ones, though it is well documented that they SHOULD do well here. Many of our neighbors have big cherry trees. I am going to try planting these in a different part of the yard and see if they do better there than the other site.
I also got some clearance annuals to fill some planters, and some perennial daisies, since it looks like mine are not going to come back in the new location.
In my evening phone call with my Sweetie, he said one of the managers invited several people out for supper at a steakhouse in a neighboring town about 45 minutes away. Turns out the manager wasn't buying the meals. Usually when management invites people somewhere for a meal in a fancy steakhouse, it is because THEY are buying. So my husband drove for an hour and a half, bought an expensive meal that was worth a week's worth of groceries that he NEVER would have bought on his own unless it was a special occasion, and got to bed about two hours later than he needs to get a full night's sleep on a work night. So, I guess this guy just wanted to go eat at this fancy steakhouse and didn't want to be alone? What a jerk. Likely everyone that went assumed it was management picking up the tab.
I learned that there is something called parahawking. It combines paragliding with falconry in which Birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermals. Parahawking was developed by British falconer Scott Mason in 2001
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say this is not so much a "sporting event" as a thing this one guy is doing, and maybe five other people in the whole world.
https://www.outsideonline.com/gallery/parahawking-closest-you-can-get-being-bird/
A sunny day, and not too hot.
Our lilac bushes are still blooming, and they are FULL of happy little pollinators. I sat underneath one of the bushes for a while and just listened to the hummmmmm.
I have poppies blooming. These are plants that I moved when we tore down the trailer, and they never bloomed in the old flower bed. Last year I got one flower, this year I have already had two, and it looks like there are several more buds. More than I have ever had! I love the tissue paper quality of the petals, and how they look with the sun coming through them.
I went to town with a few goals in mind. I got special cat food for Jones at the vet's office.
I found some black cord for a project at the local farm supply store, and I visited with their store cat.
I went to Winner's and found a pair of "running" shoes that will do for general wear around home and to the riding barn on clearance (my current pair have developed a crack across the sole), as well as a pair of nicer rubber shoes for rainy weather that would do for going to town, and good cotton underwear.
I spent some time at the pottery studio glazing/decorating some existing pieces. I didn't throw anything today.
I went to the grocery store, and bought a few garden items since they were clearing the plants out. I got two Valentine cherry trees. We have historically had poor luck with cherries, even the hardy ones, though it is well documented that they SHOULD do well here. Many of our neighbors have big cherry trees. I am going to try planting these in a different part of the yard and see if they do better there than the other site.
I also got some clearance annuals to fill some planters, and some perennial daisies, since it looks like mine are not going to come back in the new location.
In my evening phone call with my Sweetie, he said one of the managers invited several people out for supper at a steakhouse in a neighboring town about 45 minutes away. Turns out the manager wasn't buying the meals. Usually when management invites people somewhere for a meal in a fancy steakhouse, it is because THEY are buying. So my husband drove for an hour and a half, bought an expensive meal that was worth a week's worth of groceries that he NEVER would have bought on his own unless it was a special occasion, and got to bed about two hours later than he needs to get a full night's sleep on a work night. So, I guess this guy just wanted to go eat at this fancy steakhouse and didn't want to be alone? What a jerk. Likely everyone that went assumed it was management picking up the tab.
I learned that there is something called parahawking. It combines paragliding with falconry in which Birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermals. Parahawking was developed by British falconer Scott Mason in 2001
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say this is not so much a "sporting event" as a thing this one guy is doing, and maybe five other people in the whole world.
https://www.outsideonline.com/gallery/parahawking-closest-you-can-get-being-bird/
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Date: 2022-06-28 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-29 05:24 am (UTC)We can have SOME fruit trees, but in Alberta we are limited to only very tough trees that can survive our winters. There are a few hardy varieties of apples, cherries, pears, and plums that grow here, and berry bushes that are tough. Some grapes.
British Columbia and parts of Eastern Canada have more fruit trees than the prairies.
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Date: 2022-06-29 03:02 pm (UTC)Well, I'm guessing the peach trees in Georgia are uniquely suited for that state? And of course, Georgia is quite far from here.
I just googled fruit trees in TN and learned that a variety of them can grow here, but pear trees do the best apparently. That said, I've never seen a tree here laden with fruit. I suspect they aren't indigenous? I've only had experiences with picking fruit off trees (or seeing trees with fruit) 3 times in my life. Once was when I lived in Germany, and I found the fruit trees there delightful. Once in Nebraska on a visit to x's family. And once in Louisiana I climbed a lovely tree and discovered that it was a fig tree with ripe fruit! It was delicious!!
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Date: 2022-06-29 08:19 pm (UTC)It's strange that you don't see much for fruit trees, given that the climate in Tennessee is pretty mild. Maybe you just don't see them in town much? It's not like I see a lot of heavy-laden fruit trees here as I drive around, but once you go into people's yards in the country you see the trees.
Do you notice trees with blossoms on them in the spring?
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Date: 2022-06-29 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-29 11:11 pm (UTC)I love the big hardwoods that grow in your neck of the woods. We sure can't grow those here!
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Date: 2022-06-29 03:06 am (UTC)Are your cherry trees sour cherry or sweet?
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Date: 2022-06-29 05:26 am (UTC)The two new ones I bought are Valentines, which are similar to Nankings.
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Date: 2022-06-29 07:53 pm (UTC)They are perishable and expensive, but there's nothing like a good cherry crumble in midsummer!
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Date: 2022-06-29 05:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-29 07:09 am (UTC)I was kind of ticked off at my husband for just going along with it, since that is what my husband tends to do instead of saying no. He never even asked if it was going to be paid for by management, or anything.
Like there weren't any good steak houses in the town where they are all staying? They had to drive 45 minutes for a meal they had to buy themselves?