Happy Father's Day

All of my geraniums are blooming right now, including the small section I accidentally broke of of the ivy geranium in the hanging pot on the front porch.

At first I thought it was kind of a freak of nature that the color was different. Then I remembered I planted two different colors in one pot!

The day lilies are all blooming right now, I love them so much. I just wished that they lasted longer. I would love the yard to be a sea of color all summer long.

Summer

This is a complimentary funny meme to the one posted last week.

We actually had a decent day today except for the chilly breeze. And I ended up spending most of the day inside taking not one, but two naps because of my cold. I had a such a bad sinus headache virtually all day. I've got Vicks Vapo-rub all over my chest, and will be in bed within the hour. Cheers.

This 'n That

Tom Cat and the Snapdragons

Today was my first day of overtime this summer, and after I got home from work I potted these snapdragons.

So the story with these, is that they are, if I remember correctly, "dwarf" Snapdragons. At the end of the summer in 2011 they looked like goners, so I just took them out of the pot and threw them on top of the compost pile. The following spring they bloomed, but were still pretty small, and I just left them where they were. Then this spring, much to my surprise, they started to look pretty healthy, and much bigger.

They started to bloom this week. I hope that I didn't do too much damage in the process, but I extracted them from the compost pile and put them in this large pot. And they are definitely not dwarf now, they are at least two feet tall. I love these vivid colors. I hope they survive and bloom for awhile (I'm keeping my fingers crossed).

First thing yesterday morning at work, we found out that our teammate Katie was burned out of her home Thursday night in Ferndale. Thankfully no one was hurt, but she and her two daughters and boyfriend are now in a hotel for who knows how long. We don't know how much of her belongings she was able to salvage. Something like that would be devastating to me. Thank goodness for the Red Cross stepping in to help.

Spring In The Pacific Northwest

Or this is how it feels sometimes when you are wearing your favorite turtleneck sweater and long pants with socks, and you realize it's June 3rd.....

Visit to the Vet, and other adventures

Boo

Boo

Boo had her first trip to the vet for her annual exam since I no longer have a car. She did pretty well on the bus I have to say. I gave her two of the relaxing treats about a half hour before we left. She did pretty good; no yowling at all, and only a little bit of meowing here and there. I talked to her a lot to try and keep her calm. She was even relaxed enough to purr while the vet was handling her.

When we left and walked to the bus stop a block away I saw on the schedule that the next bus was 15 minutes yet. Well I knew I could get back into downtown in the same amount of time, so off we went. She got a little tour of downtown with a hip-level view. The walk was not hard at all, but she is 13 pounds, so I kept having to switch hands so my arm didn't get too tired. She was happy to get home, and we ended up taking a nap together with her curled up across my arm. Little bosom buddies.

On Sunday when the sun finally came out in the afternoon I got out and mowed the lawn. It was really funny, about 5 minutes after I finished, I came inside to use the bathroom. When I came back out into the kitchen I looked out the window in time to see the two bucks in front of Dave's house next door. They were about 25 feet apart and they were both doing a squat pee. Synchronized deer peeing, not something you see every day!