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12 comments:
Welcome to Hump Day! I love it when the week goes this smoothly! I'm still playin' catch-up from the weekend so nothing new there.
I've got three other colors covered in my Gazinia plantings. I never knew anything about them prior to now but they seem to be fairly easy and a flawless addition to the plantings. I don't know how long they will last but time will tell on that I guess!
We're going to be pushing highs in the upper 80s and possibly 90 through the rest of the week. It would seem that summer is indeed here!
Have a great Hump Day and stay COOL!
Carl, I love the colors of those Gazinia's - wonder if they are related to Zinia's ??? Did someone propagate them and say "GAAAA - Zinia"... :) ??
Anyway, it's a beautiful morning!
Carol - The Gazinia is an
Annual native to Africa & the Zinnia is both Annual & Perennial & is native to South & Central America. They are separate species but are both from the Aster (Asteraceae) family. The Gazinia is called an "African Daisy". They both are attractive to Butterflies and Hummingbirds and they both do very well in full sun. One difference is that the Gazinia flowers close at night. I had to look all that stuff up when I got them because I had never heard of them.
If the weather was any more fabulous I'd swear I was somewhere other than the Swamp. Ten o'clock in the morning, 70 degrees and brilliant sunshine!
So, WAZZUPWITCHOO? I can't think of a single thing I HAVE to do but there's always something. Maybe I'll just play hooky and go for a drive that just coincidentally ends up somewhere for lunch. Now that I've written that out it seem like a perfectly logical thing to do.... :o)
Well it's 1:30 sunny and 84. Still has some room to climb but I doubt we hit 90 today. Rain moving in later this week and we need it!!
Carl whats for lunch?
Have a great day
Mariposa, glad you will get some rain!
Carl, let us know what you had for lunch. I do go out with my sister-in-law for lunch every few months. We have been going to the Claim Jumper but their menu has changed and their offerings are sort of strange now. Turkey sandwich with avocados on wheat-berry bread is not what I think sounds good. I know, I know, I'm fussy and have the palette of a 4 year old but why not offer a traditional turkey sandwich too? They were nice about it the last time and put mine on sourdough bread, and gave me some dill pickles. They also charges nearly $10 for that sandwich!! That is clearly wrong!!
Carol - You had me until you hit the wheat-berry bread!
Didn't sound good you either?? I think it would be good as toast...maybe.
Carl, so what did you end up having for lunch????
I'm fixing BBQ Teriyaki chicken over Jasmine rice for dinner.
Carol - I went to my favorite Burgerville (Canby) and had a couple of their small cheeseburgers (with extra spread & a pickle) and a coke (to go). Then, I went to Burger King & got a small order of onion rings (to go) & went down to the park & sat in the shade & ate. It was kinda nice with just me & a couple of squirrels to share the quiet. The down side is that I ate so late I've killed any desire for dinner although your Teriyaki chicken over rice sounds good.
The upside of the trek would be that I filled up with gas in Canby & saved 13 cents a gallon from what it costs out here in the boondocks. :o)
Carl, I really do love Burgerville ("inconveniently located for most of America") hamburgers.:) I sure don't have them often, think it's been over a year. We (unfortunately) have a Burger King very close to us. I don't frequent that often either, sigh. I wish we could just eat what we love and not pay the price (doesn't everyone).
Funny about how the media is cheering about gas at $3 + a gallon. I think it would be something to cheer about if it got back to 1.98. Or how about when we were teenagers and it was .26 a gallon??
Canby has both within a few blocks of each other so it's just a matter of whatever sounds good on a particular day.
When I was a senior in high school, I had a part time job & pumped gas at 29 cents a gallon and I made about a dollar an hour. Now that seems like a completely different lifetime. I know it doesn't help but if you factor in inflation, the 3.00 per gallon price might be about equal in dollar value. A brand new Olds sold for less than $3000 in the mid 60s and a comparable car now is in the 30K region in pricing.
The cheeseburgers & coke I had today for lunch at a cost of $4.53, would have cost way under a buck in the early 60s. The almighty dollar keeps getting to be worth less and less....
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