Harmony

I mostly just coexist with slugs until they attack my food. It’s just garden tax.

As soon as I have more flowers!! Right now it’s hellebore and heather and a few snowdrops. My camellia is getting close and daffodils are coming.

Ugh sorry.

It’s been so weird this winter here but opposite reason— my snowdrops are blooming and daffodils are coming in and it feels so early. We didn’t have a freeze until mid January.

These are our dogs: Millicent Smoky Mayhem (Millie, Silly Millie, Big Buttski Muttski) is our big brown lab/GSP and Lucille “Loony Tunes” (Lucy, Licky Lu) has the white tummy and sock

Those are adorably whimsical.

A shallow bowl of water with hellebore flowers floating in it. They are sort of star shaped in shades of pink, maroon, mauvey-purple and white with a hint of green.

My hellebore are blooming and they are really lovely. The garden is almost ready to turn over for a new spring season and that makes me happy too, even though it means a ton of work because I’ve let it get wild over the winter.

Oh how nice to have a whole area for them! Mine are just jammed in amongst other stuff so I have a pop of color in the winter, along with my purple heather.

I hope they are lovely!!

Thanks! I saw it somewhere on the internet years ago but it’s one of the best ways because they generally face downward.

A messy garden bed covered in leaf mulch with some snowdrops peeking through and blooming and a few hellebore in the very front and back of the bed.

Depends! I’ve seen huge ones. My larger ones are 16-18 inches tall and maybe 18-24 around. The smaller ones are just 8-10 tall. They bloom on new growth so you can cut them back in the summer. This is one of my more established ones in the back. The older blooms are turning green/beige.

I love those. They are all from the same plant— just varied by bloom and age.

Oh wow. Yeah, I want more that have that pink edging. My mom has one and I love it.

A large shallow ceramic bowl with multiple flowers floating face up. They are shades of purple, pink and white with yellow spiky centers.

Closer up of a deep purple 5-petaled flower with yellow stamens standing up in a circle in the center

Closer view of a white blossom with some bites chewed out of it and a chartreuse center

Some double petaled blooms in pink with dots of darker maroon spreading out from the center.

Hellebore season! The slugs are obviously finding them popular as well, but it’s a small price to pay to have blooms in midwinter. #bloomscrolling 🌱 #flowerreport

Hope you feel better soon!

My general rule of thumb is Tylenol for headaches and fever, Advil for inflammation and muscle pain.

For stubborn pain you can alternate them every few hours so they sort of layer; just don’t exceed recommended dosages.

I’m here for both!!! Schism! Schism!

A view looking up the beach at large rocks on the sand near a high bluff. In the foreground, grasses and calla lilies are exploding in vibrant green in front of a closer craggy rock.

Went down memory lane for a personal project and came upon this picture from years ago that was really worth a second look. Calla lilies on the bluff at Bandon, Oregon. So soothing. I can almost smell the sea air. #bloomscrolling #flowerreport

Who could resist such a persuasive argument? I’m in.

I’m the most basic bitch American and I use all three of those almost weekly.

No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again.
And nothing above is hyperbole.

God, but you are not a leader for this time.

I’d tip my hat but yours is much better.

We were poor farmers (I presume) in Europe (Ireland and Austria) who became poor farmers and factory workers in the Midwest before migrating West. Nothing fancy, that’s for sure.

More like Opesec

This is so fabulous.

I think of a deck as a separate structure like you could take it off without damaging the structure of the house, unlike a porch. Our back deck is covered. So maybe people would call it a porch. We call it the deck.

It absolutely is. We have dinner out there in nice weather and it’s so nice for hanging out. We built it so we could have an outdoor space that was safer for gathering earlier in the pandemic. No regrets!

You can do it! We started with all lawn and dug this out and put in the flagstones and by we I mean my partner did that.

A shaded patio in a front yard with a small rose arbor and a chair and bench with a yellow cushion on it.

I have this! A flagstone patio in the front yard, surrounded by flower beds. And we sit out on it in the warm evenings and wave at people walking their dogs etc.

Oh! Maybe that’s what I have in the front. I never call it anything because it’s basically just a few stairs. But I love a stoop.