Rain is good

Particularly if the lawn has been mowed the day before.

And one gets to transplant little zinnia seedlings.

And weed out flower beds, switching the nasty big flowers from front to back.

And sprinkle some fertilizer on the garden, just as the thunder starts to rumble.

And run off down the road with a shovel and buckets and bags to purloin wildflowers from the ditch :-D

Ma's haul today?

-more Spiderwort
-two False Rue Anenome (and contrary to the spell-checker, I did NOT mean "pneumonia" or "genome")
-about seven rootings of Wild Rose. These will be tricky. Once they are established they will last forever...it's just so hard to make them live at first.

All this delicious rain will help.
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In other news, we finished The Two Towers last night and will commence with Return of the King this evening.

Now, Ma's not a professional reader, but I do try to distinguish between orcs, Gollum and the rest. Even so, too much of an orc or whiny Sméagol is hard on the throat.

And if there is elven text to read, I just run through the syllables real fast, thinking high and noble thoughts and hoping the kids don't notice how lame it sounds.
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In non-news, I'm sure we can ALL REST EASY, now that the whales have slipped out under the Golden Gate Bridge. Lots and lotsa of peoples were watching the ongoing drama and as Ariadne Green, 57, of Vallejo described, it was "a profound religious experience," just to catch a glimpse of them.

*sigh*

But the humpbacks have presumably escaped back to the ocean and one can't help but wonder how the major networks will be able to fill out the last five minutes of their evening news slots.

I'll worry about that later.

Right now I'm still basking in the afterglow of my face-to-face encounter with ditch roses.
 

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