Toddler rules.

oh yes...toddlers do rule the roost this way...

......................and 

....................................boys never grow up as they think this way forever.

Geography lesson

I feel like such a dunce. While in a recent drama "theory" class, the teacher was reviewing the history of drama and it's beginnings. And she was talking about different countries and their styles of drama. She talked of African drama and I immediately thought of Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Nigeria and the Congo. And then I asked about Egyptian drama and I was looked at funny and was told it was African drama. Yeow...my mind never connects Egypt with being African. The teacher laughed and said that not everything African is Congo-like. I guess Egyptian things are bigger than life to me...and oh so interesting that I just don't lump it in with being African. I actually had to pull up  a map to see where it was. I guess I need to review geography a bit more huh? Not my best subject in school anyway. I just figured out the whole Great Britain /UK thing, thanks to a great interesting article on the web. But don't ask me to explain it.

All but one

 I started to bed down the yard for winter. I got the first of the beds in the front done. They look sooo naked. But I did leave one plant in a pot. The popcorn plant. I still smells so good. It has been a werid year for plants and it grew really tall but had no flowers. Lat year one grew multiple flowers on side stems but this year..nope...just grew tall. But the leaves smells exactly like buttered popcorn when crushed. MMMMM.

Here is a before and after photo.

BEFORE the cleaning.....

AFTER.....

SIGH.....and summer end......

Back Garden Giants

I thought the castor beans in the front of the house were huge until I happen to really look at the back forty. This is a garden where nothing...literally nothing, is done to grow things. We pile leaves about 4 foot high every fall and in the spring...when the leaves are packed down to about 2 feet high, we spread them apart and put in plants. Mostly my neighbor and I put in tomatoes.  We dont weed  and only water maybe twice if it is 3 weeks or more without rain. The canna you see are volunteers. Right down the middle we pile the year end weeds and tomato plants and viney squashes if we planted them. We don't get much yield from viny stuff cuz too many garden critters chew on the squash or melons. But the tomatoes grow like gangbusters. I also throw left over canna on the pile that I dont want to keep along with the other stuff I chop down in the fall. I guess the warmth of the decomposing stuff keeps the canna from dying out. They usually dont winter over in the ground.

This year I planted some castor beans and some voo doo plants. The voo doo didnt do well. I will take pics of them later. But OH MY...the castor beans must be well over 10 feet tall. I gauge that cuz I am 5 foot and they seem about twice that or more in the picture. Don't' forget to click on the pics to see full size.  Maybe keeping the bottom leaves pulled off forced them taller.

I think I live in the wrong state.

I was browsing and came across this map. NOW I know why I am overweight...I just live in the wrong state. I need to move to Colorado!

Castor bean giants

My castor beans LOVE the heat. They are a weed in Mexico. No green thumb needed for these. I canhide in them..hehehe

Tomatoes and dead grass

We cannot keep up with grass watering. Way too expensive to water the whole 3/4 acre. But the tomatoes are doing fantastic. They get the water.

The jungle still grows

 My gardens are loving all this heat. But then..I have a green thumb and it seems everythings grows for me.

Growing like weeds

IN spite of our heat wave, I have been able to keep things watered and they are looking pretty good. Not the jungles I will have in a month..but getting there.

 Now very big yet but the castor beans will take over by Sept.

 I love this combination of daisies and yellow Asian lilies growing around each other.

 Did you know I love yellow flowers?

 Fever few, red yarrow and lambs ear are a nice contrast.

Hair-The Donald's

Once again my curiosity ran wild. I again wondered about Donald Trump's hair. So I did some web searches. I found this pic and wondered if it is the true hair.

Personally, I think it is faked. Why? Cuz I really think someone with his billions would have hair transplants done and the best money could buy.

I also came across this link showing him thru the years.

Donald Trump-years

To me this show a guy that either wanted to be unique with his hair style, or he had a very smart mind that would let him cover up hair loss as he aged. Maybe he didn't know then he would be rich enough to buy hair...good hair. I also came up with this diagram on how he combs his hair.

Oh so much speculation on his hair. And surprisingly that he might run for President,,,his hair is again  more in focus than his campaign. Seems people are more interested in that than his platform. 

Personally, I don't think he has the experience for it. In my opinion he lacks knowledge in areas of military and foreign policy. But maybe he has it but never shows it. He didn't get to where he is today by being stupid...that is for sure.

And I found this link with video that shows once and for all..he DOES HAVE his own hair with the hairline to prove it. Proof to me anyway.

Proof of a hair line

It is only a year or so old too.

And finally....my opinion on how to fix the US.

Seems to me that The Donald, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Steven Hawking plus a few other deep thinker should be able to figure out how to get us out of debt and make every American better off and with health insurance. They show they have the brains to make money and to find the people to do what they need done.

Better yet...why is the President now asking for their advice?

Oh yea...running our country is complicated and more than I probably know, but...we do have the manpower...or I should say ...brain power...we just don't use it.

Wild Thang!

Actually a wild black hare hair. Now this is a strange thing. Let me start at the beginning.

This morning I was blow drying my hair and I noticed a black hair on my arm. I grabbed to take it off and thinking it  was from whatever,like maybe the neighbor's cat and got on my clothes  since it was jet black and course and sticking straight up on my arm.

WELL!!! Let me tell you I let out a yelp when I discovered it actually attached to ME! I ran to get my camera to get proof. I think it is growing on me. ROFL. pun intended and maybe I should name it. I even got a close up of it.

BTW, before you ask, the scar if from when I was a kid and rollerskating in a friends basement and  ran into the furnace.

And for those that have forgotten, you can click on any pic and bring it up full size.

The secret garden

There was an eye sore in my back yard. I tried  many different things and it always looked a mess. Finally last year I dug out everything and left it bald. Needless to say..weeds soon took over again. I didn't take many pics of it either. Here is one from 2009 and a bald one from 2010. In the first one you have to really look to see it cuz I hated that area.

But now..it is finally looking pretty good.  Now I am proud to take pics of this hidden area. A secluded corner easily forgotten for many years. I used to also have brambling, roaming, blackberry vines there too. Then I thought a nice mix of ground covers. Naw...always looked like a jungle. And now? Ahhh...a place to relax in.

Back yard newly weeded

Nice fresh beds in the back and the herb garden not overgrown..yet!

I really need to get a few plants for a few places, just not sure what yet.

This last one is the pool-less long back forty. No close up of the back gardens...too many weeds.

The jungles have started

Ah...finally rain stopped long enough to get thing planted. Soon it will be a jungle everywhere but for now...neatly contained.

I think these irises plain got tired. Seriously, a combination of wind, rain and the shade of the evergreens made them lean a bit too much.

Herb garden revamped

Now the herb garden got a make over too. I took out some I never used, like the sage and took out the pole in the middle of the raised concrete bed. The long pots on the lower right are gone now..they went to the plant exchange. Many cages are moved about too. But at least the bed is ready for planting. The cages keep the bunnies from eating stuff and also the squirrels from digging up newly planted things. They like the easy digging for their peanuts that the neighbors give them. I wish they would just eat them and not hide them...grrr... Bare now but in a few months...a jungle.