Star wars, flowers and paperwork

 First, wishing you a good Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you

My day started with an hour and a half taking pictures and sending them of documents for the HOA. 

My phone often drops the Wi-Fi then I turn to mobile data which is very slow, then Wi-Fi comes back and confuses everything. But I eventually got it done and hope there aren't objections.

Walking today was all about flowers, and a golfer who was amazed when I tossed back his ball which he knocked way out of bounds. He was so grateful! But I always toss back golf balls on my path.  

You can smell the honeysuckle from a distance. I know it's an invasive but in spring it's lovely 

Here's a neighbor's clematis

Home again and the honesty is just booming

 

As you see, both sides of the gate

The sweet William is coming along, too.

My Japanese maple is doing a whole lot better now that Gary's butterfly bush is no more. It was crowding and shading the maple. Its color is much better this year.

Down the street a dogwood is getting heavy equipment attention 

They used to just prop up a ladder, but I suppose this is safer for the operator.

Happy day everyone, plow through the paperwork of life then get to the flowers.

Sad news and other less important things

Last night Catalyst, our blogging friend who right up to a couple of weeks ago, posted all kinds of material, including his weekly Friday funnies, died peacefully, family around.  I'll just excerpt the post his family wrote

He read and commented with great good humor in this blog, nice guy. And as a tribute, here's a sample of the Friday Funnies he posted on the 13th, his last.

I'll miss him. He brightened a lot of Fridays with corny humor. His wife Judy died recently, very suddenly, and I wondered if he would be long after her.  If you want to check into his blog, the family is inviting photographs, and I left a message.

Handsome Son showed up promptly early this morning, and we arrived at the medical arts building in good time. In, saw doctor who assured me I was well enough for the bone density injection, which happened quickly, and we were out by 9:30. 

Too soon for the post office, so we came home for cake and tea, and for Handsome Son to unload a bunch of freecycling I'd promised to do for him.

He took the parcel of knitting with him to mail when he left.

Then lunch, and I was wiped out, sleeping soundly, to be woken up by Gary knocking on the window, wanting help with pruning.

I'm a scorched earth pruner but he's more cautious. Anyway we managed to separate out the entwined branches of a rose and a butterfly bush which had planted itself.

He's willing to cut out tiny little twigs near the ground!  Then he wondered if I wanted to prune the sage in my deck. I declined, usually just give a lot of it away in summer and that keeps it in shape.

So today is another day when rest is elusive..

Evening online with friends. 

Meanwhile, in resistance, I've messaged all my MOCs to stay firm against pressure to reopen the government without the ICE and Border patrol restrictions. 

Now that chaos is unfolding at airports, it's the chance to let the gop be blamed and pick up the pieces.  And it's up to them to navigate and manage T***p's obstruction. 

 

On happier fronts, I've been checking on those UFOs I receive. The cowl was a finish and that's gone to the Sock 'n glove 'n whistle Ministry now. 

Here's what I think I'll do next, finish this sock and hope I have enough yarn to continue with the second sock.

Happy day everyone, try to rest. Or prune, if that's what comes of it.