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Post by Kimby on Jul 8, 2023 16:41:03 GMT
Can you imagine how gorgeous my rock garden would be if ALL 18 corms had produced stems like this? I have 6 clumps with 4 known varieties, all prize-winners, plus a clump of miscellaneous unknown varieties.
I sure need to figure out why 17 of 18 take the year off every year. My neighbor’s irises did fantastically well, so I know it can work if I get the details right.
I amended the soil, mulched, and fertilized, and keep them watered but not overwatered. Someone tell me what else I can do, please!
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Post by Kimby on Jul 8, 2023 16:35:28 GMT
Thanks for the spellcheck. I knew it was related to Germans, but assumed that Jerry was spelled with a G because German is.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 8, 2023 5:00:32 GMT
New iris ALMOST bloomed before we left the cottage for a few days. I hope one or two of the buds wait for my return. “Celebration Song”
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Post by Kimby on Jul 8, 2023 4:56:47 GMT
Poignant story, Bixa.
I added a cell phone image of the ATV/garage fire to my post above.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 8, 2023 1:50:09 GMT
ATV ? All terrain vehicle ? Electrical ? Yes, ATV is all terrain vehicle. Sometimes called ORV (off-road vehicle) though that can include jeeps and the like, too. The exploding ATV was a “side-by-side” which has a bench seat for two, instead of driver and rider straddling the machine like a snowmobile or a jet ski (aka PWC = personal watercraft). Some side-by-sides seat 4 on two wide seats. ATVs and the other “crotch rockets” run on gasoline engines, and besides the vehicle’s built in gas tank, usually strap on one or more 5 gallon Gerry cans. Fuel for an impressive fire.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 7, 2023 12:22:09 GMT
Wordle 748 3/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jul 6, 2023 14:29:21 GMT
Wordle 747 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jul 6, 2023 3:53:45 GMT
Update on the almost house fire: it was the ATV that caused the fire. It was new ably 50 miles on its odometer. Had started making funny noises. Bring a holiday weekend, he couldn’t take it back to the dealer. Plus his grandkids were visiting for the weekend and wanted to ride it. Understandable. You never expect something like this to happen.
Shoulda parked it further from the house.
At least they have a large pile of spare shingles to repair the roof with.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 5, 2023 14:35:57 GMT
Wordle 746 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jul 5, 2023 13:23:09 GMT
Not a personal trauma, and not petty, but I AM feeling traumatized.
Last night we were driving back to the lake cottage after the Fourth of July fireworks, and were just cresting the hill of the mile-long peninsula our cottage is located near the tip of. We saw a big dancing orange glow near, very near, one of our neighbors’ houses, and thought “those guys are nuts to have such a big bonfire so close to their house.”
Then it registered that it was NOT a bonfire, but a small vehicle burning ferociously, mere feet from their garage door! And the loud noise we had heard moments earlier was not fireworks, but an explosion. We stopped the car on the road and while I fumbled with my cell phone (no glasses, no signal, hands shaking) we watched horrified as the flames leapt higher and licked at the eaves of the attached garage and people raced to back other vehicles out of harms way.
The flames had engaged the soffits and it appeared that there might be no stopping it before it took over the whole house. We heard shouts “Get everyone out, now!” and lots of shocked profanities before racing home to call 911 on the house phone. (As we expected it had already been called in, but it took awhile for the fire trucks to arrive.)
It was now after midnight but we were way too excited to sleep, and since terrain blocked our view of the imperiled house, we got back in the car and drove back to see if they got there in time.
They did. No flames and five large fire engines with flashing lights on the access road. Since we are in a fire district served by volunteers it was encouraging that the house wasn’t lost.
This morning we will walk by to see what we can see. We don’t know these neighbors as they only recently purchased the house, but I imagine we’ll get details through the grapevine. The burning vehicle had the shape of an ATV and could have had extra gas cans strapped on the back. Later in the season when the grasses have dried out, something like this could sweep the peninsula, but thankfully it’s been a wet spring and everything is lush and green.
I’m still shook up. A house fire is traumatic, even when it isn’t yours.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 4, 2023 22:23:49 GMT
I’m pretty pleased! Wordle 745 2/6 🟨🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jul 4, 2023 20:47:12 GMT
This past winter was tough on a lot of plants. Our “new” boxwoods flanking the garage didn’t survive their second winter. Yet the 3 well-established boxwoods along the front walk look great.
We took the receipt for the dying boxwoods back to Home Depot, and they gave us credit towards two new upright boxwoods. (We had complained about and photo-documented the tiny rootballs and chopped-off roots that the plants had when we turned them out of their pots to plant them, and they said to give them a chance.)
The new ones look quite nice. Hope they continue to do well.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 4, 2023 19:21:11 GMT
You are made of tough stuff, Kimby. I think I would be disheartened if I got only one flower a year. Well, Pink Boogie did have 9 blooms on that one stem, lasting over a week. And Celebration Song has at least 4 buds. And they all have lush green blades to look at.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 4, 2023 19:18:21 GMT
I’m bummed that it looks like they might need dividing already, and most haven’t ever bloomed. What am I doing wrong?
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Post by Kimby on Jul 4, 2023 17:57:13 GMT
My aspiration for the rock garden this year is that this lone stalk will bloom before the deer find it! It’s called “Celebration Song” and is supposed to be apricot and pink when it blooms. (Unless I botched my record keeping!)
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Post by Kimby on Jul 4, 2023 17:51:40 GMT
I realized I forgot to post the results of last years iris crop: ONE stalk out of 18 corms planted. And a different one than the first summer’s bloomer. Its name is “Pink Boogie”!
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Post by Kimby on Jul 4, 2023 16:43:25 GMT
Waiting our turn for Yellowstone season 5 and This is Us final season, we are watching Killing Eve season 4. Mr. Kimby isn’t real into it, but it’s entertaining. Seeing Villanelle as a wanna-be Christian is a departure, but never fear, she reverts to her true nature pretty quickly.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 3, 2023 13:23:20 GMT
With Global Climate Change, we are having to learn new weather words, like “Heat Dome” and “Polar Vortex”…I’m sure there’s more weather types that many of us never used to experience till recent years.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 3, 2023 12:43:19 GMT
Wordle 744 4/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Coincidentally, just as I guessed the answer the announcer on the TV used the word in a sentence.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 2, 2023 14:21:01 GMT
Shoulda used my 2nd word first! Wordle 743 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jul 2, 2023 14:14:46 GMT
We are still masking up in airports and on planes. Otherwise not at all. We are 5X vaccinated (4 Moderna and 1 Pfizer bivalent booster). So far as we know neither of us has gotten COVID, though both of us had colds a couple months ago, our first colds in over 3 years, thanks to the precautions everyone was taking for COVID. We each took a home test and tested negative. My doc later said we SHOULD have taken a 2nd test 48 hours later. She also said that IF we do get COVID, even if it’s mild, we should call her and get set up with Paxlovid to head off potentially bad symptoms or “long COVID.”
I imagine we will mask up on our flights for the foreseeable future, since we don’t want to develop COVID at our destination and bring it to our friends or family. Or be unable to board our return flight.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 2, 2023 1:37:14 GMT
Kerouac's wrong squares are white instead of black. Who knows what it all means?! There’s a setting for light or dark mode, I think.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 2, 2023 1:36:04 GMT
Me either K2. But there was nothing else to try. Wordle 742 5/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jul 1, 2023 1:09:13 GMT
Bixa, why do your scores have an asterisk?
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Post by Kimby on Jul 1, 2023 1:07:56 GMT
Me too! Wordle 741 3/6 🟨🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My second word was better than the actual word!
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Post by Kimby on Jun 30, 2023 23:59:01 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jun 30, 2023 1:56:55 GMT
And here I am, “impressive” at 3. Wordle 740 3/6 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jun 29, 2023 4:06:11 GMT
Wordle 739 4/6 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jun 27, 2023 14:51:38 GMT
Me, too. Wordle 738 4/6 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on Jun 24, 2023 13:12:37 GMT
Woohoo! Wordle 735 3/6 ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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