My Kingdom for a Horse

 Ackshully, some money for a person to plant my new gardenia.  Not quite a horse and not quite my kingdom, but...

I have texted the person who did some of that for me the year before but I haven't heard from him.  I am guessing that is my answer.  I will wait another two days and then I will text my lawn mower man for any possibility that he might know of someone I can hire.  I need the gardenia planted but I also need weeds pulled in the bed where the bushes go, and  I need new ground cloth and mulch.  All of my camellias and gardenias suffered terribly and to the death in the 0 degree weather with the 11 inches of snow one day following those 4 days of sub-freezing temps.  Everything died.   All of my azaleas died the year previous of a fungus.  And the man digging up the root balls, of course, ruined the ground cloth.  Wish me luck.

I think while I can still find the kind of gardenia I want, not the pointy flowered one,  (I prefer the white rose-looking one) I had better get another--- and they aren't cheap by any means.  But I had better get another while I can find the type I want.  Still have to find someone to plant them however as I mentioned in the beginning. 

Wanna see two of my boys?  I'm on the opposite side.  We all went out to Calhouns while the one from NC was here a few weeks back, and you will see my supper.  I had just gotten started with it.  Digging in the coleslaw, I was.  They had BBQ. Mine was fish and chips.  It was good too. 

Had to copy and paste here as Google no longer lets me use the usual method that is on the blog. 

Still raining and chilled here for the most part.  Liked to have frozen to death last night in bed as I was silly enough to wear a light short sleeved gown.  Not tonight.  Going to have to get warmer for me to give up the flannel.  

Come see me.  I'll be waiting. 

Face of the Earth

 I fell off the face of the earth it seems.  Just there are so many things going on that it's hard to think of anything else.  

The cat is better now~ but she was in an "emergency" type of way.  Two dear friends in the Cat Blogosphere, John and Laura came to her assistance for which I am truly eternally grateful.  Without them, she would have become extremely ill. 

Now I seem to have a turn at being under the weather but no one escapes.  :-  It'll either get better or it won't.

It's chilly and raining again.  This is the rainiest place in the US  outside of the State of Washington there is, I do believe.  Here I am sitting with you guys (coffee for me, anyone??) and I need to start my cleaning routine.  I will in 15 or so minutes.  Going to try to put a picture in here again.  See if it allows me this time!  Sheesh.  

I have a lot to say, but most are even more uninteresting as it is about how Katie or I are doing.  Can you say BORING?!   Just wanted to keep my hand in.  The secret is I don't feel like house cleaning so I am putting it off till I can't think of anything else to do instead.  

Katie needs to blog and tell that her results are in.  She does have some problems.  But thanks to the CB, the most urgent things are fixed for now.  We will get started or try to...you know cats...very soon.

Nope.  Still not allowed to post a picture except the header.  I took that out in the field.  Indian Blanket flower. 

I took a blogger's word and cut and pasted this Indian Blanket flower I took a picture of. Nikon DSLR.  I put it as my Header as you can see but I was experimenting with getting a picture into the blog now that Google won't allow it.