Julia and I have spent the last two days at our 50th college reunion. That would be at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. It was one of those cluster events, featuring our classes and the ones right around us.
The blog officially has the rare week off.
At the reunion it was good to see friends. They would be old friends at this point in several ways.
I can show you a few Shirley poppies that dazzled this last very busy week.
I like this picture with the flower and the bud.
Odds and Ends
I know there must be a mathematical formula about weeds. If I have 200,000 weeds that grow an inch each week, how many 5 gallon buckets must I fill to reach the break even point?
I just received my new hosta order. I have four new hosta I picked out in December. At first glance I am not sure where to put them. They really should get in the ground today. A truly organized person would have the places already picked out and prepared.
Julia and I will be back with you next week with the usual complement of news from the garden and the kitchen.
Be safe, and pray for peace, and the end to all guns.
Philip
3 comments:
I wish I could have come for the reunion. I feel like a baseball player on the injured reserve list.
DF
Reconnecting with old friends and classmates, and having a bit of fun, refreshing memories, is not a bad goal. Sometimes I wonder if it's not better to drag the present into those gatherings - better to remember some people as they were.
IMHO, your math problem leaves out vital information. What kind of weeds? Are we talking simply hoeing/pulling off the tops or pulling out by roots? Grubbing out dandelions and thistles by the roots take up far more room that taking the top off chickweed. And growing only an inch a week?!? I'd say in an inch a day is more realistic, and even then most weeds would far outpace that after a good rain. Maybe my weeds are overachievers? And lastly, and perhaps most influential on the answer, once the original weeding is done, do we assume the weeds grow back? Unless we can assume the weeds give up after one weeding, the answer is you'll never have enough buckets.
Gorgeous poppies, I wonder how many we'll see in the photo contest next winter.
This comment comes a week late, since I didn't get home from the Grinnell reunion until Monday, June 6 (needed to visit the aunts in Des Moines before flying out), and was too exhausted (blame the Atlanta airport) to approach the computer.
Gotta say it once again--love those popples!
At the reunion, I did have a few conversations about the war, and the baffling constellation of Ukraine/Putin/GOP, so I think that it wasn't absent from people's minds. You just weren't in the right place at the right time.
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