Hello everyone! I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend. It was a quiet one around here and nothing wrong with that. I got a chance to pick up some pretty papers at JoAnns. I know, I don’t need to be buying more paper but I can’t resist sometimes. I did quite a bit of reading for my HR coursework and I also managed to finish a book. My fun reading seems to be going at a snail’s pace recently but I’ve got some good books on the nightstand so I’m happy about that.
We were going to go to the annual Spring plant flower sale at the Wildflower Center but a lot of stuff is coming back from last year’s planting efforts so we decided to wait and see how things look later in the Fall and maybe we’ll catch the sale that happens at that time.
You can see lots of color in our backyard. The mini roses towards the back (we’ve had those for several years) are blooming and I’m loving the yellow Coreopsis flowers. Unfortunately I think our Mexican Butterfly Weed didn’t make it through the cold temps we had earlier this year. Bummer. On the other side of the yard is our succulents area and that is looking great too.
On the television front, we really want to catch up with the newest season of Bosch but we are waiting until we can finish Fortitude or otherwise we’ll just do a binge watch of Bosch and forget about anything else. I am also interested in The Terror based on the Dan Simmons novel (which I have not read) but being that it’s also an arctic setting then I think we’ll save that for the summer when I know we’ll be wishing we were in the arctic! Ha.
That’s about it around here lately. I hope you have a great start to the week and more book talk soon!
I do love a quiet weekend! I feel like I haven’t had one of those in a very long time. LOL Every year I think we should work more on our yard and put together a better garden, but it always passes with nothing being done. One of these days . . . Right now though we have a broken fence and the neighbor’s dog is taking full advantage of coming and going as he pleases. He isn’t the most friendly dog, and so, as much as I love dogs, I don’t like to be out there too much knowing he’s out and about. Our neighbor hasn’t answered our attempts to reach them about the fence–and their dog. It’s getting to be ridiculous. The wind keeps blowing down the portion of the fence that has fallen, even with our attempts to prop it up.
I loved The Terror by Dan Simmons and the combination of fact and fiction! It sent me off on several reading itineraries. Coreopsis is a favorite of mine–they are so cheerful, and I love the way they move in a breeze. Roses, the old fashioned, sturdy, and disease resistant kind, are also favorites. My grandmother grew the pampered varieties, but my favorites are more hardy. 🙂
Glad that you guys had a nice weekend. And I’m also glad that wind has died down. The oak pollen is out of control around my house. I’m not usually sensitive to it, but the last couple of days have been not so good with my throat and head. Lots of drainage. Our yard is coming out nicely, though I’m thinking we may lose a couple of plants. I never know what they are called, but we have to replace things now and then. We are using drought resistant things and lots of our things look more like plants in the desert. Some make it each year – some don’t. However, we like the idea that we don’t have in-ground sprinklers. Have a good week, Iliana!
Your garden is so pretty! Mine is under 16 inches of fresh snow from the weekend blizzard. I am going to give The Terror a try too. Hopefully it won’t be too gory or scary–I’ve read and loved the book so I am curious!
I had a lot of tickseed coreopsis when we lived in Nebraska, but boy did the rabbits love it! We used to cut our butterfly bush back to about 2 feet in the late fall. Maybe that will work for you next time around? We’re still enjoying The Bridge, although it certainly is dark. Saga is a great character, as is Martin!