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Guess what? Iiiiiit's PLANTING TIME!

I've just gotten in from an afternoon of planting things in the yard with dear ol' Dad. I think it's shaping up pretty well. We needed to replace some plants that didn't survive the winter (or were annuals, but I doubt it. They were woody) and fill in bare spots. The ranks of the new inductees include another hosta, two mint thingies with pretty white-ish leaves and purple flowers, a lily-of-the-valley, another bluebell, an agapanthus, some salvia, a dianthus to replace a carnation that took a nose dive, and finally, in the realm of impulse buys, a foxglove and a lemon thyme. I'm in love with the lemon thyme. It smells really nice. I'm hoping if it fares well, we can get an English thyme to go with it.

We've also planted the sunflowers. I hope they do okay, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. I think we waited too long on putting the ground, so they're looking pretty scraggly. But, we'll see what happens. I put a few more seeds into the beds we made, so hopefully something will grow.

That reminds me, though, that I still have the pumpkin seeds I saved from last year. I need to do something with those. Well, I have freshly empty seed pots now, so, punkins ho!

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Oh, also, items from yesterday:

--You know those duck crossing road signs that have the mother duck and the little baby ducks in a row behind her? They need to make one for geese as well. Traffic on a road we were on was slowed down significantly by a family of Canadian geese trying to get across. I think I squeed almost the entire time we were waiting for them to pass. One of the adult geese was in the front, with all the little baby goslings following in an almost-perfect row, and the other parent bringing up the rear. Too damn cute.

--I also went on a manga binge, and got the first volumes for three different manga. They all looked interesting, and I couldn't decide on just one, so I figured, well, what the heck. XD So I got volume 1 for Earthian, which looked like it had an intriguing story, Mushishi, because what I saw of the anime was right up my alley, having a very biological premise, and Genbu Kaiden, a.k.a. the Fushigi Yuugi prequel. I'm not quite sure what to think about this last one. I got it because I really enjoyed FY, and was always a little curious about the stories of the other two miko. But on the other hand, I'm worried it'll be a little like watching the Star Wars prequels--you already know that it's not going to end well. But, we shall see!