Catching Up With Yard Pics

I hope I didn't post these before.  They were on my list of pictures that were not inked through.  But if they aren't new, enjoy them agin, LOL! 

Daylilies...

Maltese Cross perennials...  

Yucca in bloom...

Heirloom tomatoes.  They are indeterminant, so they need tall cages.  Putting cages on containers is awkward.

Pole beans and corn.  I was probably too late this year.  But maybe I'll get something by the end of the season.

This is a 5' kidney bean-shaped pond.  The sweet flag loves it.  There are a few lillies in there too.  I think the 3 goldfish died.  But it is hard to tell.  I think I meed to pull the plant pot up, drain the pond and  see if there are any fish left at the bottom.  I will have 3 trashcans of aged water to refill it if there are any.  Otherwise, I will just buy a few cheap ones next May and start over.

The Stella D' Oro lilies bloomed briefly, but it has been very dry for a month and they have not re-bloomed since.  They are hardy and will come back next year if not in a month.

And it has been hot here.  Not as bad as me places, but harsh for here.

101F.  Haven't seen that for a decade!  And that was in the morning.  I think it got hotter but I didn't think to take a picture a 2 PM.  I watered the tomatoes, corn, pole beans and 4 young trees.  It was like standing in an oven.  

I am reminded of an old joke:  "A starving coyote was chasing a terrified rabbit.  And they were both walking..."

A Funny Story

I was reminded of this because of Daylight Saving Time.  It doesn't involve that directly, but it does involve time...

I shared one apartment with 2 other guys.   I was actually the person with the lease, but I was broke, so I found another broke guy to share the large bedroom with me and a guy with a good job to take the smaller single bedroom. 

I'll call the guy with the good job "Jim" (well that was his name).  His routine was to return from work, eat a TV Dinner, and drink Colt 45 beer until he eventually passed out in bed.  Got up every morning where to all accounts he was very good at his job as the Parts Manager at a car dealership. 

One Saturday afternoon, he had been drinking beer since morning (watching someone get up at 8 am and guzzling a beer is stomach-churning) and sat in a chair just waking up at twilight.  So I pulled a trick on him. 

Since he needed to get up around dawn, and dusk was about the same, my roomie and I pretended to be leaving for OUR jobs.  And roused Jim and told him he was going to be late for work!  He panicked and rushed out of the house.  Give us some credit here, we made sure he was actually functional and sober, just accepting our actions based on half-light. 

When he came back, realizing it was getting darker not lighter outside, and we were both sitting around watching TV instead of leaving for work ourselves, he was stunned. 

We cracked up.