Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to tell you how bored I am. You may remember me from such posts as “Caulk And Vernation”, among so many, many others.
Here I am in a characteristically sun-drenched pose.
You may notice a kind of exhausted or apprehensive look in my expression.
Things here have been very weird indeed.
There are a lot of crocuses in flower now. This is one called ‘Ladykiller’, which is a pretty weird name, apparently inspired by a 1930s movie.
And there are so many snowdrops I can hardly keep track.
This is Galanthus plicatus.
There was a very weird snowdrop flowering here last week. The guy I live with said he thought this was one called ‘Trym’.
He told me he doesn’t like things like this at all. Not one little bit. Like less than zero percent. He knows that a few people go nuts over stuff like this, but he’s not one of those people.
So he’s going to give it away.
The first colchicum has appeared. This is Colchicum bulbocodium, which used to be called Bulbocodium vernum.
Mostly, though, I’ve been watching paint dry. I can’t begin to tell you how exciting this is.
The guy I live with has been so stressed out by the news that he decided to paint the inside of our house, which requires a lot of moving things around, and taping walls and stuff, and possibly way too much thinking about things.
He has a lot of paintbrushes, which he takes very good care of.
His grandfather taught him how to paint, and I guess he’s very good at it, and I know he likes painting a lot, but seriously, watching someone paint, and then watching the paint dry, is very, very boring.
Just today he blocked off the living room window so he could paint around it, which I found very upsetting, because I like to look out of that window, and bark at things that need to be barked at, but he left the front door open just for me.
It was like 67 degrees F (19.4 C), so having the front door open was normal, but I was very glad when all the tape was removed, the curtains were hung again, and the guy I live with signalled “all clear” for me.
So that’s all I have for today. A lot less gardening, and a bunch of boring painting.
Until next time, then.
the miserable gardener 
Orange has become a popular color to paint over. You are fortunate that you can not see it.
The guy I live with said that the paint manufacturer, Benjamin Moore, says the main color of our kitchen is a “light creamy orange”, but it sure doesn’t look like it to him. More like a kind of very light brown or tan. It’s called “Wheatfield”, so maybe a wheat color.
Well, technically, brown is a shade of orange. (Brown is technically a shade or a composite color.) You probably should not tell him that, though. Rhody is a very light brown or tan, so that makes it totally RAD! The interior of his Roadmaster matches.
The guy I live with says you can make brown by mixing yellow, blue, and red, too.
The kitchen certainly doesn’t look orange.
Blue combines with some of the orange to become black, which provides the shading. (Orange is the base color made from red and yellow, and some of it makes black with blue because it is its opposite.)
Uh huh.
Painting and listening to current affairs/ news talk shows on the radio is one of my pleasures in life!
The guy I live with likes to paint, a lot. It’s pretty boring to watch someone paint.
But I can see that it’s a lot of work.
Maybe I should think about painting my living room to compensate for the bad news. Hope it helps sooth the mind of the man you live with, Mani. Soon enough more flowers will appear to help us feel better…once we adjust to the stupid DST. Happy Monday.
Thanks; same to you. The guy I live with has now painted the kitchen, except for a few things that need to be touched up (he couldn’t find his can of spackling paste but eventually found it), and three walls of the living room.
The hallways, up and down the stairs, will be a challenge, but he’s painted them before.
He says it’s weird for it to be light out at 7 p.m.
Nice to see the crocus & the snowdrops! And I’m always so happy to see anything come out of the ground after a long cold winter, that I’d probably be happy to see even the ‘Trym’.
Also, painting sounds like a terrific antidote to the deluge of current events … it’s a great way to focus one’s attention, and it’s a reminder that one’s efforts can make a difference. Good luck with your project.
There have been snowdrops in flower here since last October, crocuses too, but it’s nice to see the main flush of snowdrops now, especially after all the snow we got a little over two weeks ago.
Painting is fun. The guy I live with likes the precision of it, though his painting life has been made much easier by buying a roll of Frog Tape. He used duct tape, instead of the regular blue tape he mostly uses, to push down the carpet below the baseboard, and Frog Tape right above the baseboard (there’s less leakage of paint than with the blue tape).
And he says probably no one will notice.
Mee-yow wee love ALL THE flowerss poppin up Mani an Guy!! Wee still have 3 feet of hard snow covurrin our wee garden an front lawn….wee wuud even like Trym to show up heer! Pace yoreself Guy an enjoy yore painting….Hopefully yore paint driess well an lookss grate! Mani you look lovelee on ‘yore’ couch!
***nose bopss*** BellaDharma an ((hugss)) BellaSita Mum
Thanks. We might get some rain on Friday, and maybe some snow too.
Wee nose wee will get sum more snow…wee sorta waitin fore it Mani…. 😉
We are, too. Or maybe rain.
It’ss allwayss liek this inn March issn’t it??
It’s usually wetter than it’s been this month.
Mee-yow wee hope you fet more rain or snow then!!!
It would be nice. Much better than “fire weather” warnings, which they say we may get, or maybe out east on the plains, early next week before maybe it snows again.
It snowed here a teeny bit this morning, and rained too. Not much,
“Fire Weather” soundss scarey Mani!! Iss not even Spring an you mite have Fire??? NOOOOOSEE!! Glad it snowed; wee purray fore rain fore youss’!
Thanks; these days when a storm moves in and it’s windy, we often get “fire weather” warnings, but our forecasts are for all of eastern Colorado, which is a very big place. About 35,000 square miles.
WOW! Collyrado iss ginormus Mani an Guy!!! Pleese stay safe OKay?
Yes, the state is pretty huge. The guy I live with says that eastern Colorado is like one-third of the stae, with the mountains another third, and the “rimrock country” on the western slope being another third.
We’re closer to the mountains than to the plains. The mountains are about five miles to the west of us.