October 18, 2008

• The days are flying by again. I just never seem to catch up with everyone anymore, My own life is not that eventfull.  Rain has been coming in waves, seems every othder day it is here, and I was beginning to feel housebound. Surprised Elmer when I told him I wanted to go to the store with him a couple of times This is not a usual thing for me as I really do not like to go grocery shopping.  I did want to look at the fruit – it is getting harder now to find any edible ones I like as the Summer fruit is just about all gone, and the last of the peaches he got for me were either chalky or rotten in the center.  I managed to find a couple of mangoes that look good, pears hopefully good – still a bit green, so have to give them a couple of days to see if they ripen OK, and a couple of small papaya. I’ve eaten one of them – yummy!
  While I was there, I spotted some potted plants, and the yellow Lilium Hybrids (friends think their name is Pollyanna) caught my eye – I have the orange ones which I love but not the yellow so I just had to pick one up!

  Unfortunately, they did not have any that had unopened buds, so these only lasted a few days, and I see this morning the flowers are done. Will have to find a place for them outside now and hope they come up next Spring for me again.

  As it has started to show signs of freezing on some nights, Elmer has put away our fountain. It just looks so empty in that spot, so, after talking a bit, we decided to go out and look for a “simple” cheap birdbath to put their for the winter. Hmmm not that easy to find. We went to several places, and most of them cost even more than our fountain.  But, while in one Nursery I spotted this, and just had to have it too….

  Almost purple? A different color than the red and salmon ones I have.  They are strange – depending on which light they are in as to what color they put out. I thought I was seeing things last night when they showed up red in the Livingroom lighting – the first thing I did this morning was to check just to be sure I had not imagined this color LOL  Sure enough, in the sunlight they were back to what they are supposed to be!  There really is a big difference between them and my others, which have started to flower again now they are back inside and in their true winter home in my living room.

  Back to looking for that bird bath – we ended up at Canadian Tire as a last resort, and there on their shelf was one box left of a very different kind than we first thought of. Cheap too!

  Beleive it or not it was actually raining when I took this. Elmer put it together and we had it out not long after we got home.  The base is for holding potted plants, the big section holds water, the next tray is for birdseed, and under the roof is a Solar lantern – neat! It is made of heavy plastic, and we can move it easily when needed and the fountain is to be put back there. Now we are waiting to see if the birds accept it.

   

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