Apropos of Nothing...

Sleeping pills. Yum.

(Trazodone, yum. Better than cheesecake, less fattening.)

I hate sleeping pills. Used to take them, tried all different sorts. They all make me want to die. Weird, huh?

I have no trouble sleeping. I just can't do it at night. One of the reasons I worked nights for so long.

So, are you happy then with not sleeping at night?

Works great for me. I just with the rest of the world would get with the program. Sheesh.

Oh, I caught the latent tattoo lust, all right. Snort! They can remove tattoos, you know. They use lasers.


Pony, if you ever want to reverse your diurnal cycle and join the ranks of the daylight folk, just get a treatment light. It will do it for you. But if, as summerkid asks, you are happy being a night mare, then what the heck? I just find it easier to garden by day.

Yes, you were probably a druid. Among other things.

I am dedicated to sleeping tonight. completely dedicated.

Pony if you want those siberian iris, better come get them soon. If you don't want them, that's okay, too, just let me know not to keep any back.

Oh yes, sleeping pills. I frequently wish I had them. Or maybe a mild narcotic. That would work, too.

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I agree with Pix that life is best lived during the day. This from someone who would wander up by the wood stove at age 4 & find my dad, reading & warming himself.

And I think that insomniacs are escapists to a certain extent. My happiest times of life jolted me out of bed in the morning & made me GO to bed at night in anticipation of what the day would bring.

Yay, ants in the cat food again.

At least they are eating well.
When I have insomnia, I would like to be an escapist. I'd like to escape from my insomnia. On the other hand, when it hits, I sometimes do some of my most creative thinking. Or maybe I'm actually hallucinating from lack of sleep. Probably that's it.

I'm not completely nocturnal. My natural pattern seems to be sleeping from 4 AM to 10 or 11 AM. It's what my body always feels happiest with.

I do sometimes go to bed earlier, if I'm really worn out. (tonight is likely, I'm pooped.)

Melissa, I don't have anyplace for the iris yet. I got the orange/red/yellow bed done today and planted all those things I had, but haven't got the materials for the blue/pink/lavender/purple bed yet. Those are purpleish, right?

What kind of colors are the smaller crocosmia you gave me? I can't recall. I planted the Lucifer already, but not the little ones.

My Odontonema cuspidatum and Colocasia Black Magic arrived today. She threw in a little Syngonium 'Pink Shrimp' for free. Cute little thing. No idea what to do with it, though.

That's pretty freaking nocturnal.

People who rise to greet the day are happier than we are, I would posit that as fact.

Here's the dog they should procreate instead of goofy shihtzudawdles: Some gal from down the block was walking a dalmatian/shepherd/St. Bernard cross. It is a jaw-droppingly beautiful dog.

Houseplant. Just pot it up.
Okay, before I go to bed (always just one more post...) You can get the iris another time. I have more in another bed what I haven't done yet.

All the crocosmia will work together. Red, orange, yellow

The crocosmia mixture was Emily MacKenzi and Solfaterre, and Lucifer.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.google:en-US:official&hs=xF0&resnum=0&q=crocosmia+emily+mckenzie&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=FfGpSrCiLouEswPx9tH6BA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.google:en-US:official&hs=tvK&resnum=0&q=crocosmia%20solfatare&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

There were also very likely some bulbs of Gladiolus byzantinus. Those are fuschia colored blooms. At least I think there were some in the mix. It's hard to know for sure when they are all brown.

Houseplant. Ruh-Roh. Well, I can try to find a place that it'll be safe from the Insane Cat Posse. Wish me luck.

Darned bulbs all look alike to me. They oughtta wear nametags.

I'll put the rest of them in with what I already have planted. Thank you! :)

I am not nocturnal but I married one.

I love to get up with the sun, but am not so fond of the time of year that I still have to get up and it sleeps in.

The puppy is having meatloaf this morning and is in puppy heaven.

Pixy and Pony, I forgot to mention that I think that Pixy may be on the right track, and Pony.....I can SO envision you as a druid!

The puppy didn't deserve meatloaf! She chewed up another electric cord yesterday, the one that enables the big awning to go in and out!

I have way too much to do in the garden again.

Guess I will just dig up ivy this weekend.

Puppy heaven is a very special place.

Puppies and small children find bliss in things we take for granted every day.

I don't usually watch/listen to the news as I find it depressing, but heard this this morning:

In New Jersey, Princess the camel resides in the Popcorn Park Zoo. She predicts with high reliability the results of football games. She has boycotted predicting any Philladelphia Eagles games this year in protest of their signing Michael Vic as QB.

You GO Princess!!!!

I stumbled out into the rec room this morning and found my cats staring at the woodstove. I thought nothing of it- my cats are weird.

Then I heard a noise. From inside the firebox.

The glass is very dark and hard to see through, but I peered in, and there was something moving in there...

I slowly opened the door just a crack, and out shot a soot-covered sparrow, who then proceeded to fly madly all around the rec room. Those big fake ceiling beams make great bird perches, by the way.

I grabbed Tracy's fishing net, and spent the next half hour chasing this danged bird around the room, tripping over apoplectic cats at every turn.

And I hadn't even had coffee yet.

Caught him, photographed him, and released him.

The cats are furious with me for not giving him to them.

Pony that bird owes you big time.

Summerkid I too love trazodone.

A great DVD series to watch - Slings and Arrows, a very clever and funny Canadian sitcom.

Here's the other shot I got of the little sooty bird:

How come there are no squirrels in the PNW?

Feel free to come get mine. I have hundreds. Please. Take them all.

OMG my back hurts. I just went and picked up a free barrel composter. Had to dig out the big heavy concrete anchors. That wasn't so bad. But getting them up into the truck... yikes. My back did its pinchy nerve thing when we were trying to get the second one up, my knees buckled, and I hit the ground... I almost knocked over the sweet little old guy that was helping me lift it. How embarrassing. :(

I have to go pick up some more broken concrete in a little while. I think I have a hot date with a bottle of Vicodin tonight...

I am a tattoo
My skunks ate all the squirrels in the NW and probably my crazy old cat too
I don't sleep; I fugue which is also squirrelly

Apropos is a pretty cool word.

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You can have my three varieties of squirrels, too. Would save on bird food!

My migrating banded pigeons are back through again. Having them go will also save on bird food.

All the birds are starting their migratory phase.

Fall is wonderful, but it just won't last!

My puppy and her friends are trying to rid the PNW of squirrels one bite at a time. Would post my pic of her showing off her very first "prize" to momma, but figure it might offend some people.

Think I would rather have squirrels than skunks though...

Cool dirty bird Pony!

Used to have to watch where we stepped when we opened the door, cuz SCAT (Sam, Charles, Andy, Taylor - our sons' names) would leave his cat offerings at the door.

Definitely squirrels rather than skunks any day.

Our town's Septemberfest will probably have to be rain-delayed tomorrow. In 33 years the only other rain delay was last year. Too bad. Parade, fireworks, etc. It's just not the same.

Possums eat slugs and snails

Next week a local nursery is having an Oktoberfest party.

This weekend is the 27th annual Vancouver Sausage Fest at St. Joseph Catholic school. It's a fundraiser.

I haven't taken any pictures of my garden since July 12th.

There is a HUGE orb weaver spider and web in my Hole Mole Hosta suspended from the bloom scapes. There used to be 4 or 5 webs and spiders. I think I know where the others went...

Oh, did I miss those pigeons? Deborah who owned this house talked about them, but I don't have any feeders up. Why? Danged Deborah's husband packed them all up & TOOK them. Seems wrong.

Seems wrong to me too. Feeders are a habit for the birds. It takes a couple of years for them to be well patronized. You should get at least one feeder up soon so you don't lose your customers. The bird forum has some good ideas on el cheapo ways to get a feeder going if $ are tight.

It is almost balmy tonight. The task at hand is to help Rarejem collect daylily seed that she has purposely propagated. (over a glass of wine.)

She freeks when an earwig pops out of the seedpod. Hope we don't lose a lot!

Feisty is to hot this evening. 92 degs now. A/c turned on to accomodate the little princess.

Love that cat. If I get another one it will have to be a big orange female.

I just made Sharon and Julie's salsa for Tracy. He had me add jalapenos and some yellow peppers, and substitute fresh green chilies for the canned ones. He loves it. :)

Too bad I can't taste it without DYING. hehe.

Well, my sellers have certainly been punished for stealing the bird feeders. They were absolutely wiped out by Hurricane Jimena in Mulege, where they had just finished rebuilding their dream casa. Wiped out, demolished, devastated, everything ruined because the roof was ripped off & 19 feet of water hurled itself through the house & 2 palm trees fell on it.

I'm beyond sick for them -- this was supposed to be their new start after having a bunch of very bad things happen to them -- the collapse of the construction industry for one. They barely sold this house before the vultures swooped in, and then walked away from at least 2 properties that I know of. It was just a bad time to get caught overextended & with too much money sunk into the building of an oceanview spec house.

Summer, we were about to cross post, but I read this before I sent mine and I wanted to express sincere sympathy for the people who sold you the house in a seperate post. Life is just not fair sometimes, and it sounds like they are going through one hell of a "bad" section of it. Hope like crazy that they find a silver lining!

All seeds harvested and no tossed seed pickup due to earwigs. And I don't "freak"....I just screetch and throw the entire cup of seeds I have collected. There IS a difference.....

92 degrees...that's just not right at night in the PNW. I would be flat on my back in the AC too.

Puyallup Fair started today. Love the fair. Hate the traffic. Adds 1/2 hour to my drive home at night. Exactly how many weeks must I suffer this?
Pphhhbtttttttt!

My first "official" date with my husband was a trip to the Puyallup Fair. In 1991....GAAK!....that was a long time ago! I still have the crappy pictures from the little photo booth there. Gads...I was wearing pink! What was I thinking?

We watched bats for an hour or so tonight and it was really awesome.

Pony, Glad he liked the salsa...have had it for breakfast every day this week. Made it once with real chillis, but was a dummy and didn't take the seeds out first....burned my face off! Now I use the canned to prevent making that mistake again!

But here's an upside -- they want to get the $#@ out of Mexico for now and guess what! I still have one Airstream trailer up for grabs! So they have asked for that in lieu of the remainder of the down p'ment that I owe them, and they are going to tour the good ol' U.S. for awhile, lick their wounds, regroup, and come up with a new plan. Who knows, maybe after a break, they'll want to rebuild in Mulege.

So they feel humbly grateful to have this option available & I am thrilled to hand over the Airstream rather than pony up cash.

Putting this house in my hands took a miracle & the energy will continue to flow both ways, it seems.

Wow, Summer... that's hardcore. I'm so sorry they lost everything like that. Yikes. Glad it's working out with the trailer, though.

Yeah, I have to fly back to Chicago at the end of this month & they are going to meet me there so I can show them how everything works.

I couldn't live in an area like that that is in the path of hurricanes -- apparently Mulege got socked by John too.

Enjoying this thread. Summerkid, please let your house-sellers know that my sympathies are with them, as well. They surely have been hit hard. I keep hearing that the economy is rebounding. Tell that to all the people without jobs, without healthcare, and without the houses they used to own . . .