Sunflowers Part 2

This evening I arrived back from hydraulics training at Storrs to find the sunflowers have begun to sprout! To me, the early arrival of sunflowers is a spiritual sign.

The sunflower seeds were planted 8 days ago 3 varieties (listed as planted from east to west): Russian Mammoth (could grow to 8 ft), Rainbow mix (pretty small) and Italian White (about 5 ft when mature).

The Russian Mammoth package said 15-20 days to sprout but these mammoths sprouted in 9.

Photo of Three sprouts !!! (not including the weed in foreground)

















Hebron sunset, neighbor's garden sheds in foreground



















Planting last weekend was a row of veggies: zucchini, carrots, spinach, watermelon, marigold.

Part 1 - planting of the sunflowers - has to be a future post...the picture disk is at the office.

What did you mean by Ferdydurke?

Gosh my last post might have sounded a bit gloomy. A wee ache is all.

A Haiku for what was not a Mensa moment:





My dreams for this weekend were crushed

when I pulled my back trying to lift manure

The garden will have to wait

because I am a Vertebrate


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Surfing the internet over the years, I have saved images that I find to be artistically interesting. This morning, I filled a barrel with manure at the dairy farm then tried to lift in to my Jeep. The barrel didn't budge, but I pulled my back. The cows were all, moooo, moooo. I emptied my barrels then went home and lied down.

In place of the garden-tilling blog that did not happen to day, here is my collection of Cool Art by Others.........

More Blog Soon

Posted from the office

The house move was all good cheer & a perfect day. Before the day was thru, the TV was up and running with the Kansas vs. Davidson game, and the four of us went through a Heineken minikeg & a growler of Berkshire Brewing Pale Ale. And the neighbors came by with welcome cake.

It might be a week before the next post, because of the move & DSL will not start at the new home of The Histories until next Tuesday!