Yesterday was not raining so we headed out early to dispatch the remaining five day lilies. The root system on the last one we dug up was unbelievable. It had satellite clumps of roots. There were no shoots above ground, but the main root ball had sent out other masses of roots. I'm pretty sure it was intent on world domination. Thursday Junk and Dump will come and haul them away. That will be good.
It was good that we got it done when we did. The atmospheric river of water arrived this morning, it's supposed to rain until next Thursday. It's all good, we have stuff to do inside. After finishing the digging yesterday we took the 82 inch long curtains back to Pennys. We thought we'd try 96 inch curtains. We unpackaged one of the panels this morning, and they are going back. They look pretty monolithic on the small sliding glass door. So, we're back to online shopping, local brick and mortar has bupkis in the way of 84 inch curtains with back tabs or pinch pleats. Grommets are no bueno because they let in light, which is what we don't want. It's always something.
I took these two pictures on the last ride.
Google sent me this photo. It appears that it munged the above two photos into a panoramic version. I did not ask it to do that. Apparently Photos feels free to rummage around in my account and do stuff with my pictures. I'm not sure I approve of this activity.
Today the sprinkler guy came to blow out the irrigation system. It's kind of weird, they hook a compressor to one of the sprinkler hose bibs and put air through the lines until no more water comes shooting out. We can't use those two hose bibs until spring or the system will be full of water again, and if there is a major freeze we'll have broken pipes. In AZ we used the irrigation most of the year so we never had to do this. The guy did something with the valve box, all we know is that he took the cover off and did not replace it. We wonder if he did something in the box that needed to be undone, but he forgot. Houses should really come with an owner's manual. We left our new owners in Tucson information on stuff that they needed to be aware of. Most of what we know came from the nice neighbor across the street.
So there you go, all the lilies are deceased.
Curtains and rugs, I find them so tricky. You've swapped desert s for lakes. Such a different landscape.
ReplyDeleteGood riddance lilies. When we had a house I tried curtains from everywhere and it took forever to find some that I liked. And that was when there was no shortages. Good luck with your hunt.
ReplyDeleteI've never had curtains except in the bedroom and those weren't curtains really put just some cloth hung up over them, put etched glass panels in the bottom half of the windows for privacy. This house where we live now out in this rural area (though we on a small neighborhood, I have two half acre empty lots on either side of me) came with mini-blinds, sheers, and heavy lined drapes, like being in a cave. first things those curtains and sheers came down. we kept the mini-blinds. I prefer to fill my home with natural light. The only room without mini-blinds has clear textured glass in all the bottom panes.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.....houses should come with owner's manuals!
ReplyDeleteThose are gorgeous photos! I know nothing about sprinkler systems but I do know TOO much about frost free bibs. In that they are finicky and have cost me a lot in plumbing repair.
ReplyDeleteI've received e-mails from Google Photo saying my photo has been published, but I've never opened anything assuming it was a scam of some sort. I have to wonder if they are playing around with mine as well - not that mine are nearly of the same caliber as yours. BTW I like yours far better than theirs.
ReplyDeleteI also agree it would appreciated if the house came with a user's manual. There are things about this place I wish I'd known when I bought it.
Those are gorgeous photos. And no, I wouldn't want google photo messing around with my photos without my permission.
ReplyDeleteIf you want a good photo storage option, choose Amazon Prime. You get unlimited storage with your Prime fee, and the photos are stored in full resolution. There's no limit on size stored. Or any fees other than the Prime fee. And they send snapshots of photos taken in a given time period.
ReplyDeleteHow curious about Google and the photos. I've heard of Google messing with other people's photos, too. I'm not sure I'd like it if I didn't give them permission first.
ReplyDeleteGoogle sends me notifications about "enhanced" photos they've doctored up, and they also create little albums...one all of photos of Paisley, one all of photos of our home under construction, etc. Their algorithms are getting very Big Brotherish! As for the curtains, it may have been cost-prohibitive, but if the first ones you bought were the right length, you could have bought a second one. I have had to deal with that center support bracket on curtain rods numerous times, so you just have to buy two curtains. Hope you can find ones you like.
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