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Very late, this video. But it has Humuhumu drawings in it, and snippets of garden flora and fauna.
I got back from DC this morning. The trip home was the smoothest flying experience I've had in a long time. I guess no one leaves the USA tye day before Independence Day. Both flights weren't even half full. I walked out of the airport, got on the shuttle bus to the car park, and was driven with a grand total of one other person to our cars.
I've had a grand total of about 9 hours’ sleep since Tuesday. It was also 9000 degrees in DC. Okay, touching 40 C, but with the humidity it was “feels like 45 C” which is just brain-meltingly hot. Discovering that the DC metro is air-conditioned may have caused us a disproportionate amount of joy. I think it was a successful work trip but only time will tell.
I seem to have been a little obsessed with the flowers in our garden this month, which have been blooming spectacularly. Our bank holiday weekend in Norfolk comes out rather well, too, thanks to the weather!
- Do you like to spend time outdoors?
Yes! I like walking, hiking and swimming outside. I don’t get to do any of those things often enough, but when I do, they make me very happy. - What is your favorite flower?
Whichever ones are currently in bloom. Right now it’s the tulips, and an iris just opened so for a few days it will be them as they're ephemeral. The roses are getting ready to go as well, and all of our rose bushes are bursting with buds this year which is nice to see. - Any favourite warm weather activities?
Gardening for hours, and then sitting on the lawn afterward with a refreshing cold beverage, admiring my handiwork and planning what to do next. - Have you ever kept a garden? If so, what did you grow?
Yes! I’m not really the architect of our garden. The layout is all the bloke’s handiwork. I like weeding, trimming, and helping out the flowering plants and veg he chooses. - Do you know how to swim?
Yes, but not particularly well. I do wish I’d had proper swimming lessons as a child. Both my children swim very well because of their lessons, and Humuhumu has done lifesaving courses too.
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There is a lot of wildlife in here, and for some reason both Keiki and my voice feature quite often.
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I can't quite believe how much has happened this month. At least 60 days of stuff were packed into June's 30. And now we're halfway through the year. Dear Time, Please slow down, Love, Me.
The box had to sit in the dark for three months for the mycelium to form inside the black plastic, but once released, the mushrooms grew to edible size in just over a week!
Here's what they looked like just before harvest:
(You may have to click the top image through to Flickr to view the time lapse video. For some reason the YouTube version uploaded as a short and I can't work out how to get to the embed code.)
[A small project to get me to post again, and deal with backlog of photos I have.]
The central flower bed in our garden is a riot of colour. This cosmos flower and its friends are major contributors.
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"Stop laughing, human. I'm going nowhere near that armoured rat."
Hedgepig continued to browse the seed bonanza in the garden for at least an hour with a brazen nonchalance that must have been infuriating to our resident feline.
One of the many things I haven't had time to write about in the past few months is that the bloke dug a pond in the garden. It's just large enough for a few plants, a handful of snails, and two goldfish, Flippy and Not-Food*. It took Sir some time to notice that there were fish in the pond, but now that he has, it's Channel 1 on Cat Telly every day.
* Short for "No, Mr Heron, go away. I am not food."
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