Flowers

 With autumn on the way I have been thinking about bulbs and perennial flowers.  Last year I planted some tulips and crocus in the driveway triangle.  We were pleased with them, but there weren't enough.  I went onto Amazon and have some more in my cart to buy.  There were rabbit holes involved with this process and I have more research to do before I finalize the purchase.  One of the rabbit holes sent me looking for a blue lily of the valley.  My ex husband's grandmother used to have some in her yard and they were pretty.  Flowers, in general, are a nice happy thing for today.  Other happy things include:

• Talking on the phone with TF about lots of things.  Minecraft, she is feeling better, and flowers were some of the happy topics for today.
• When talking with TF about the flowers she reminded me to check the reviews before ordering.  So happy that I did that!  My $80+ order is half that now.  Again, more research will be good.
• Candy corn--my guilty pleasure for the day.
• The stars were beautiful just before one this morning as I left for work. 

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Currently reading: Backpacking: A Hedonist’s Guide, by Rick Greenspan and Hal Kahn.

Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.

Roses

Keziah and I tried to leave the tiller that we got from my aunt at a repair shop today.  I asked the nice repair person to look at it and he said he wouldn't touch it.  Most likely he wouldn't be able to find parts for it, etc.  He did give me the number of someone who might be willing to try.  We'll try to get it to them next week.  I'm starting to question whether trying to repair this is worth it.  If they can fix the tiller, it will be worth it.  Other things I am happy for today:

• The repair shop was in Derry, NH.  While there, I stretched my legs by walking from the car to the beginning of a rail trail and back.  What I found at the trailhead was a bike repair station.  I hadn't seen one before and I think it is a wonderful thing to offer, especially on a trail like this that people can travel along for miles.  

There is an air pump, a place to hold the bike,
and tools that are attached and hard to steal.

• Our roses are blooming!

I also noticed the holes in the leaves.
Something is eating it and I will try to spray them this weekend.

• On the ground by the cherry tree, I found some kind of a hornet's nest.  The Lens app leads me to bald faced hornets.  Further internet reading implies that if a person gets within three feet of the nest, the hornets will attack.  I got within three feet and the nest was on the ground when it probably should have been on the tree.  This leads me to think that something (maybe a skunk or bird?) has solved this problem for me.  But the nest is cool looking.

• I made an attempt at thinning the weeds by the iris, lily-of-the-valley, and other roses this afternoon.  There is another plant that I am not remembering from last year that is coming up too.  I look forward to seeing what it is.

Really, there are less weeds.

Lens thinks these are lily-of-the-valley. 
It resembles the lily-of-the-valley, but is bigger.
There are no flowers yet, or I missed them.

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Currently reading: The Burgess Book of Nature Lore, by Thornton W. Burgess.

    I had misplaced this book at the bottom of my latch hook bag.  I crafted, then read.

Thank you for reading, stay safe.