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Outside My Window ~ 7.5.09
Outside My Window…is cloudy and about 75 degrees. I think we are at our forecasted high for the day. They are predicting thunderstorms and rain….possibly one to two inches of rain. It is a bit eerie…..the “quiet before the storm” eerie…..outside right now. Kind of still, quiet ~ no activity in the neighborhood at the moment which adds to the eerie feeling as well. I am thinking…I’m going to need a step-ladder to see my sunflowers if they keep growing like they have been. The Lemon Queen sunflowers I received from the Great Sunflower Project are gigantic! They grow at an amazing rate, especially lately. The flowers are now beginning…
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Finally……
Finally….. I completed the corner of the flower bed on the side of the house yesterday. That one little corner took as long to do as the entire rest of the bed! Part of the reason, I was digging up a lot of small tree stumps and one very large red tip bush stump. The bush died some time back but the stump has held fast for several years. But yesterday ~ success! Yea baby, I feel like Hercules…..or I guess I should say Herculita. 🙂 Before……as well as the bush stump (see white arrow), all of the little Mimosa tree stumps needed to be removed. I don’t know how these trees keep…
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The Great Sunflower Project
Here is a great way to get some free sunflowers for your garden with very little effort. The Great Sunflower Project will send you a packet of Lemon Queen sunflower seeds if you sign up to volunteer. The nice thing about these sunflowers, they can also grow in a pot on your deck or patio so one doesn’t need a large garden to plant them. In exchange for the flower seeds, they are asking volunteers to collect some data on the number of bees that visit your flowers….. Twice per month, we will send you an email giving you the preferred sampling weekend. If you can’t watch your sunflower on one…