It was DEFINITELY a year of change for the backyard, which meant that vegetable growing took a bit of a back burner.
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Fourth Thursday in November and Stuff
Happy Black Friday! Stay the F*CK at home, All Y’ALL!
Continue reading “Fourth Thursday in November and Stuff”Did I used to be able to come up with witty post titles or am I kidding myself that was ever a thing, I wonder?
I don’t know where to start on this blog post, so I picked a random generated word to prime the ol’ pump. Word: Water.
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Nice weather is HERE!
I am typing this with the windows open and a 64 degree breeze blowing through the room; it’s heaven. I imagine this relief of the oppression of the hardest to endure season is the same northerners have at the arrival of Spring.
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My uncle once wrote me this sentiment in a letter: “Enough bitching about our weather. Let’s bitch about your weather.”
Let’s.

Red Flowers and More
Oh yeah, I forgot.

I also forgot about the blue flowered Salvia gaurenetica, the dark purple May Night salvias, and the red flowered fire spike and dwarf bottlebrush. And so, and I say this full aware of the absurdity of it, the ONLY flower color I don’t actually have in the back garden as I was talking about on the last post is peach. Peach… literally one of my favorite flower colors. Sigh. What ya gonna do, man. What ya gonna do.
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Whelp.
Yeah.
You know my old soapbox about staying home and staying safe? I still feel that, deeply. But considering I just flew to and from Florida for work means there should be a big ol’ hypocrisy asterisk on the side of said soapbox.
In my defense this was a required onsite for me to test out my product on a massive construction project north of Tampa.
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