I thought the Hibiscus didn’t make it through the last winter, but it bravely grew up through the Gregg’s Mistflower and managed a bloom.
This front flower bed gets the most sunlight of anything in our yard, but it still isn’t enough for the Gregg’s Mistflower not to get leggy, or for the hibiscus to grown to its full might. We are, again, considering different options once the summer is done.
I recently rearranged some baskets in the house. I had a large square basket that used to live under the utility sink full of rags. I had a stack of dog blankets and towels that the basket was more suited for, so I put the rags in an old egg basket. Izzy the cat is miffed that I messed up one of her (many) nap spots. She tried to lay in the new rag basket, but did not care for it.
She doesn’t fit, so she does’t sit. And she is now mad at me.
I wanted to make cookies and my youngest wanted to make brownies, so we went looking for a brownie cookie recipe (the cookie brownie recipe will be for another day.) We found a recipe that called for piping the dough onto the cookie sheet to make perfect circles, which seemed intriguing. It was a fail. The cookies did not spread into perfect circles, but stayed in their piped form.
I think that I didn’t whip the sugar and egg together well enough. The “cookie” was grainy. They also didn’t taste all that great. Back to the drawing board.
We made a melon ball fruit salad, which leaves a good amount of melon still stuck to the rinds. We took the emptied melon halves out to the chickens.
The hens were immediately interested, and when I went back the next day, the rinds were completely cleaned out.
I was surprised to see a large splash of purple outside, and even more surprised that it was a couple of passion flowers blooming from a vine I thought was dead.
While guiding the questing vines in a direction I wanted them to go, I also saw a Gulf Fritillary caterpillar.
Passion vines are host plants for butterflies, and my vines don’t usually grow faster than they are eaten.
Critters and Craft 