tiny tales
“Did you know the shamrocks grow from bitty bulbs?” I asked the checker who fussed over the plant as she scanned it. “Have you ever grown them?”
“No,” she shook her head from side to side.
“You can pick Oxalis up at the garden center in spring and tuck them in your outside planters…I’ve always had good luck.”
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Barkhowlbarkbarkbark!
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Barkhowlbarkbarkbark!
Henny took up her protection perch at the front window and warned all rabbits, birds, and woodland creatures that she was on duty.
We’ve been working on distractions that don’t involve peanut butter to break her early morning, alarm-sounding tendencies. Yesterday we tried a treat rich game of sit, come, hold—sit, down, hold—come, sit, down.
As soon as the game was over, Barkzilla went right back to her post and she was not quiet about it.
This morning…Henny had aspirations for a different game.
She ran upstairs and instead of grabbing an old slipper nobody cares about, she snagged one of my Keds—dirty, but otherwise in fine shape.
The chase was on!
Henny had aspirations for what we might do…a fine choice.
After the game, she was rewarded with peanut butter. We are hermetically sealed together in the new, unfinished studio.
Quiet…
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Where are the muses this morning?
Most likely outside playing with the woodland creatures.
They are wondering about the word hermetically…
:)
I shall be on the lookout for oxalis, since a quick search yielded that most varieties like part- or full-shade. We have a planter in back, built of cinder blocks, that spends most of its time in shade, except high summer (it’s only a foot from our south-facing house). I keep trying plants, hoping to find ones that like shade AND will overwinter. So far I have chives as my only reliable plant. Could be much worse!
I think I was born with a dictionary in my hands! Or at least in my genetic makeup..."
Today it's not a dictionary, but the impetus is the same. So, today you wrote about the white oxalis and I wondered if our blue ones were also "oxalis." Shamrock leaves and the blossoms match, but Google informed me that "they are not from a bulb or corm." They are "rhizomatous" and grow from seed!
What I liked in today's newsletter is how you used the oxalis to initiate conversation, with encouragement for the checker to give one a try. A good illustration of a "living" plant!