WILDFLOWERS

While vacations are nice, cards on the table, I do miss the gardening when I'm away, although it does give a nice break. While gone, it is amazing to return back to see just how much things can grow and how fast. This this summer I choose to expand the wildflowers garden. Backstory. Two summers ago, I had an 8ft Eastern pine taken down as it was leaning terrible and worried it might hit the townhouses next door if a bad storm came through. In the past autumn, I had a huge burning bush removed that was next to where the pine had been, so I expanded the wildflower garden, added a stone walk in the middle, and also choose to move the Cassia and some sages and Allium to also fill in. I cannot believe how great the garden has done!!! It has also doubled the amount of honey and bumble bees visiting and now attracting butterflies. Some of the wildflowers have gotten taller then I! When I'm down their dead heading, the bees don't even seem to bother me. The garden has a number of things. Aster, Daisies, Bee Balms, two kinds of coneflower, Borage, poppies, Hollyhock, Cosmos, Dalhia, Zinnia, Blak-Eyed Susan, baby breath, Sulphur Cosmo, Mexican Sunflower, ( which at this point is almost as tall as me now) Oakland Mariposa Lily, Butterfly weed, Queen Anne Lace, White Campion, Sweet William and many others yet to bloom.

Mind you, this was just the wildflower garden at the end of May...

And then as two weeks ago!

IN THREE WORDS

In this feature, I'll share a weekly guest with you all, and you tell me in only three words what come to mind.  This week...the fabulous...

In Three Words...

Fran Lebowitz

STOP THE CAR.....

I got infuriated again! As I was reading Six's blog the other day he expressed concern about the democrats in a comment back to another reader. I agreed with him and this is yet another reason why...

Just the other day Democrats in the House stopped an Israel funding bill. Well, around 1/2 of them did. The other half are just as happy to go on record that they're as corrupt as Republicans. Only one of the GOP reps voted no: Thomas Massie. Speaker Hakeem Jefferies, whom I'm no fan of, voted to continue funding Israel and the war criminal Netanyahu, as Israel continues to fund him. What you're seeing is a party in shambles presenting a completely divided front on a major issue before midterms. 77% of Dem voters are tired of wars, and voters support stopping to funding Israel, yet only half of the Dem representatives support what their voters want.  And leading "progressives" like AOC say they'll support Jeffries as Speaker if Dems regain then House. That means that regardless how AOC gripes about Jeffries, they're willing to have him block any Anti-Israel legislation from coming to vote in the House. Half of the party is voting with republicans. Have the party not noticed who is winning the latest election primaries? True Progressives... and the party of voters is telling the party what they want in representatives...and they won loudly opposing Irsael and Netanyahu, like Zohan Mamdni did. Yet the party ignores these candidates. And I still say that is one aspect that cost Harris the presidential seat. She refused to break with Biden and refused to take a stand. You can't vote for funding the war and yet oppose it.

GLAMPING POSTCARDS

My walk of shame walk back to my site at 6am.

Some glamping postcards! Last weekend found me at the Woods campground hosting the Drag Me To the Woods weekend, where everyone who wanted to do drag could do so, and then hosting a huge dance party in the clubhouse that night. Over hundred people donned drag! It was a good weekend as usual in this slice of gay fairy land.

Fort Dix, the naughty bath house, or as I call it, the head shed! I wouldn't know ANYTHING about what goes on in there of course.

The drag party and just some of the queens! Yours truly is off dead center in the black and sky high piled blond wigs under the left Woods sign. Never mind two wigs on and it was over 90 degress!!! But some of these guys were a hoot and we camp queens helped them with drag.

And then there was this tall, towering drink of water! I asked how tall he was, and he said "Well Madam, I'm 6'9" tall. I said, " Well...never mind the 6 feet,, let's talk about the 9 inches." You'd be surprised how much room there was in that little tent for two. If that was" roughing it", I'll see him again!!!

This Novus team is always there at the Woods on weekends, sponsored by the campground and they do free HIV and STD testing, and mind you supply free PREP if you can prove your signed off to take it! I think it's great and nice to see many taken advantage of it's services.

This was about the time I had a nice pew , sat and contemplating and was thinking how I will hate going back to work after such a long vacation. But here it is Thursday and I all most made it!