I went for a walk as far as the pond, and had it to myself. No frogs leaping, no ducks, no turtles. Just me and the windblown trees and the water
I wonder how these plants will fit back in the house when it's time
Underfoot is always interesting, not many nuts down this year, but here's evidence if what used to grow there
Back home, there's an industrious spider, whose web wasn't visible until the sun shone through it and I noticed how big it is. You can see filaments all over the tree
See her there?
Signs of winter planning here, coleus started in water to be potted up for a houseplant soon. The parent plant is outside, leggy and a bit awkwardly shaped, so I think it can stay out.
I started it from seed last year, then brought it in to continue as a houseplant, taking it out again this summer. So its descendant is now to be an indoor plant again.
This afternoon's peace was broken into by Gary and the other neighbor and another discussion about the doors.
At this point everyone's a bit loud and irritated about them, one neighbor also shouting, she talks in a shout, about a couple of other only slightly related grievances.
We did reach a conclusion about the doors and Gary escaped by driving off for lunch. I escaped when the other neighbor finally wound down..
I find her wearing, permanently angry and aggrieved, no doubt well meaning, but to an old lady who lives quietly alone, so loud. She's one of those TV on all the time people, constant noise suits her. I probably take her too seriously. Retired teacher, maybe not enough to take up her energy these days.
Happy day everyone, from a quiet home, just crickets and me!
Some people are definitely tough to be around for any length of time, no doubt about it.
ReplyDeleteFortunately it's usually limited. Even a few minutes means I have to recover though.
DeleteBeing around people is far more exhausting to me than actual physical work in the yard.
ReplyDeleteToo true! Emotional tiredness is greater than physical exertion.
DeleteYour quiet life is often interrupted by at least one whirling dervish! Those plants on the patio will take all the space in your living room for themselves.
ReplyDeleteFortunately the giant palm type plants live down the street.
Deletemuch as I loved my sister, she was much aggrieved by life. things most of us just shrug off would make her irritated or angry. she wasn't loud though. I guess I missed the post/s about the doors.
ReplyDeleteThe doors are a continuing saga, you haven't missed much. Yes, I used to notice Pam would get a bit of outrage going once in a while. You're more easy going.
DeleteI don't understand people who live with the TV on all the time. I couldn't stand it. That's a very impressive banana! We leave ours outside over winter -- it dies back but always leafs out in the spring.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they leave it out too. It would be a struggle to get it in at this point.
DeleteBeautiful pond
ReplyDeleteBeing around water is healing and relaxing.
It's tiny, but powerful! Healing is exactly right.
DeleteI'm sorry about your neighbor and Gary, though he sounds a lot more pleasant and helpful. There are a lot of aggrieved people here who seem to take their anger out on others online. Makes me glad I stay to myself.
ReplyDeleteYes, he's a great friend, and very tactful with the other neighbor to whom he's close. I do try to avoid people who thrive on outrage without actually addressing their problems.
DeleteSome people need a background noise. I understand it but don’t need it all the time.
ReplyDeleteMy Tv isn't on unless I am watching, and then it's not TV, it's Nexflix.
ReplyDeleteThat neighbor sounds hard to take. Good thing it’s only in small doses. The door situation is ridiculous. What a waste of all your energies.
ReplyDeleteThe door thing has been protracted by Gary's attempts to take care of three at once, a good idea in principle, derailed repeatedly by the other neighbor. He's very attached to her, a complication right there! I could write a play about the door saga. Thrills, spills!
DeleteI lie how you keep the cycle going with your coleus plant.
ReplyDeleteIt's a cooperative plant. I like the idea of working with it like this
DeleteFor a moment I wondered if you'd adopted a banana tree now that Ms. Ficus has moved to the library. Whew! Those coleus starts are thriving.
ReplyDeleteThe pond walk would have been a calming antidote to loud neighbor discussions had your day been the other way around. It looks so refreshingly peaceful.
Chris from Boise
The banana is down the way, I'm glad to say. I think I'm out of patience with people who discuss endlessly instead of just doing. For them it's a social experience, for me really boring. My spectrum is showing!
DeleteThat's such a lovely pond setting. You now have me wondering if I could sneak out in the dead of night and help myself to a piece of a beautiful coleus in front of our building. I wonder if I could manage to get it to start and, better yet, survive.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely go for it. They're not hard to start from cuttings. Gardener's larceny.
DeleteI have a gorgeous red tinted and curly coleus outside right now. I'm thinking about grabbing it and starting it for some winter beauty in the house too. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteLovely walk around the pond. Loud people. Well, I don't have that here now, the noises that break silence are overhead planes or farmer's machinery in the fields right now.
Definitely go for the coleus. You'll be glad in January.
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