Got three more flower baskets in the back yard finished this afternoon. I just picked a mix of plants and flowers that like shade, since this is under the pine tree and gets very little direct sunlight (only in the late afternoon for an hour or so). Things are starting to look good:
Another week and a half and the garden goes in.
Litlebritdifrnt
I bought those EXACT circular on the wall baskets today, which I will plant with flowers this weekend. I am running out of room to plant all of the flowers that I am buying, I have no choice but to go up.
Cathyx
Looks good John.
Cathyx
You know, you’ll have to keep watering them, don’t you? More often as they get bigger and it gets hotter.
lamh35
Anybody watching the “Bin Laden” special on NBC rock center with Brian Williams? I was just wondering how it was
Constance
The wall baskets look great. A Land More Kind Than Home arrived today and I’m taking it and my glass of wine to bed at 6:45 p.m. Started it with dinner and I’m already hooked.
andy
The crabapple and cherry trees are in bloom here in Brainerd, MN. That’s about two weeks early, and this year I’m taking a shot at infusing some vodka with them.
Living in an apartment, I do all my planting in containers. I repotted my chives and planted some radishes too. I was a little worried about the radishes since the last snow covered them, but the seeds germinated just fine and they’re chugging away. I’ll have to plant another pot of them tomorrow so I can have a nice radish-green soup and sandwich a couple times a week.
the Conster
@lamh35:
It’s amazing. Wow, it’s so great to see and hear competence and leadership by all involved. Obama is coming across as just so masterful, smart and impeccably prepared.
/obot
Raven
Here’s our lil flower gig today.
Arm The Homeless
@lamh35: I have been watching it. I was struck with how excited Hillary gets about her job. The story she told about having to hide her emotions at a wedding was very interesting. She seemed so into the re-telling of it.
lamh35
@Arm The Homeless: So the interview was not just with POTUS? Did it include all members of the “team” in the situation room that day?
garbo
So much accomplished in the last couple of years, John. The fence looks great. You must feel very satisfied with all your efforts.
I’m looking into some planters that sit over a deck railing. Wondering if anyone here has used them? They sort of look like a pair of shorts. Anyone? Bueller?
Arm The Homeless
@lamh35: Yeah, its been mostly Hillary and Obama, although Joe gets some face time. I was surprised that Panetta wasn’t on more.
EDIT: I enjoyed the setup for it where they talked about Clinton launching 75 cruise missiles at OBL, and then they flashed back to Bush on the rubble-pile. It doesn’t get much more blunt than that … “We got him”
lamh35
@Arm The Homeless: Did they mention the seal team?
Jerzy Russian
@Cathyx:
Many nurseries here (southern CA) have drip irrigation systems for their hanging plants. Perhaps our blog host can take this on as his next project.
Mouse Tolliver
I’m sure everyone will be shocked — SHOCKED! — to know that George Zimmerman made disparaging remarks about Mexican’s on his old MySpace page, which was recently discovered. And a North Carolina senator’s wife said her husband’s anti-gay marriage bill is about protecting the “Caucasian race.” The hoods are coming off.
Libby's Person
I notice that this post was “filed under ‘Black Thumb.'” Sorry, Cole, you don’t know from Black Thumb. I always say, when it comes to growing plants, I’m really good with dogs. Anyway, the baskets look great, and I’m looking forward to seeing pictures of the garden once it goes in.
It was nice to see flower boxes. It’s helping me cool down; I’m steamed after reading about some stuff that’s going on in some local races. Durham NC is usually a happy place for a Democrat, but this year is different. There’s an influential group with a history of having nasty people running it who are being supported by a new PAC started by a large developer who has been working hard for a couple of years to get permission to build a luxury development on land that is within the ‘critical watershed’ of a reservoir lake. It’s a long, sleazy story; let’s just say that the County Commissioner candidates that they are supporting are in the pocket for the developer. I don’t think I need to say anything other than that the Chair of the local Republican Party published a column in the local paper in support of those candidates, and saying some very negative (and very misleading) things about the four candidates being supported by the local Progressive organization (one of whom is a friend of mine). I’ve heard people from the unpleasant group talking to voters heading into the early voting polls, making very nasty insinuations about the four good candidates. This may be par for the course in lots of places, but not here. What makes this even worse in our very progressive and tolerant town is that the unpleasant group is African-American, and has a lot of influence in that community. They have introduced race into an issue (the lake development) that has absolutely no race element in it, and are creating really bad feelings among groups that have traditionally been good allies.
Sorry for the rant. It’s one thing reading about this sort of thing happening someplace else. It’s quite another to see it happening here, to people I know and respect, perpetrated by people who I also know, and don’t respect at all. (I saw one of them con a sweet old black lady out of $18 after she voted for Obama in 2008; he’s a real piece of work. Grrr!)
burnspbesq
At the risk of sounding like a Philistine, can I just say …
120 million dollars for a fucking painting?????
Suffern ACE
@burnspbesq: Well, the recession ended earlier for some people.
clayton
@John Cole — You are waiting a week to put in the garden? Here I have been nervous about not getting things in sooner. Different climes. I have tomatoes on the vine — not yet red but bigger than I expected. I have a friend who is already getting ripe ones. Cucumbers are running well and I put in okra last weekend and will add more tomorrow.
@lamh35: This is just more to all of your comments and those who have responded to you — is this on regular tv? I never turn it on to NBC, so I thought maybe it’s on cable? I’ll look for a link to a video, but if any of you have one, post it, pretty please? I watched the Frontline thing last night. I’m still just in awe of all of the baskets Obama and Co. have been juggling. It’s hard work cleaning up after Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, but damn, Obama and his team don’t get enough credit, ever.
Mnemosyne (iTouch)
Since it’s been uncharacteristically cloudy here in So Cal all week, I decided to whip up some Chili Mac. It’s bubbling away on the stovetop as I type.
Zagloba
I just had some Foxwatcher at the bar tell me that the reason we’re hearing about Junior Seau is the liberal media trying to drum up sport for national health care so those poor schmucks at the NFL won’t have to pay for their players’ poor choices after retirement.
burnspbesq
@Suffern ACE:
“Well, the recession ended earlier for some people.”
If you can afford $120 for a painting, the recession was a spectator sport.
lamh35
@clayton: It was on NBC Rock Center, but I read that it will be rebroadcast Fiday on MSNBC
lamh35
@clayton: It was on NBC Rock Center, but I read that it will be rebroadcast Fiday on MSNBC
Arm The Homeless
@lamh35: Obama made sure to make the point that they were the tip of the spear, but no, not much time was spent on the team, or the history. They did have some computer generated scenarios, but nothing really explaining the nuts and bolts of the action.
rammalamadingdong
I have fence envy
Yutsano
Berries macerating in fridge for work tomorrow. Had to sacrifice my plans for the Korean chicken wings because of time (I have to go in early). But I’m making tzatziki too, so it’s not all bad.