Making Up Names

We had a great time at the Indy 500! No wonder it's called the greatest spectacle in racing! We've been to the Kentucky Derby before, but this blew that away. There's nothing like having a car fly by you less than 10 feet away at over 220 mph. (And did you know that they use ethanol fuel and recycle all the tires?) I tried to upload a slideshow of our pictures from the event, but it's not working. If you'd like to see them, here they are on Imageshack.

We spent a quiet evening at home for our anniversary. We needed to relax for a while.

Yesterday I got back into the swing of things. I started by doing a check of everything. There are now pumpkins and sweet corns growing in the corn bed. Some melons popped up. We have good looking hot peppers on very unimpressive hot pepper plants. The peas are almost at the first crossbar of the pea trellis. The green beans are getting blooms.

The vining seeds have sprouted along the fenceline. The bunny has been kept at bay....

Things are good!

Aren't these just so gorgeous? Love them! Don't have a clue what to call them, but oh wellsies! If I do find out what they're called, I'll call them that, but otherwise they are going to now be called 'Oh Wellsies'.

They're by the road, right next to these.

Matt says these are a weed, but I always think of weeds being an offensive plant with nothing good to offer. Obviously this plant has interesting purple cones and therefore couldn't possibly be seen as offensive, one would think. Then, I realized that most weeds have pretty flowers and blooms on them. I shall call these 'Coneheads'.

Yesterday I thought it would be a perfect time to weed our swimming pool area, which is just a big ring of deep sand. Things like to grow in it. It took me 4 hours (!!!!) and I sort of got lazy at the end and let some stuff go. Here's a really interesting "weed" that's growing in there.

Isn't that a great flower?! It closed up when the sun got too hot in mid-afternoon. Now this one, I'm truly clueless about. If I don't find the name of it, I'm calling it 'the Neato plant'.

Today is the best day to get the tilling finished finally and that's the plan for this evening. I need to get my sunflowers, broccoli, cauliflower, and squash in immediately. Immediately, I say! (By the way, have you seen the Miracle Fruit yet? -See? Anyone can make up names.)

High: 77 Low: 47, sunny; Lunar Phase: Waning Crescent, 34% of full.