Thursday, February 12, 2009
Have had days of spring like weather here in deep south Mississippi. Yesterday morning the tail end of that terrible tornado weather only gave us some gusty wind and a little rain. Otherwise it's been sunny and warm.

Every day there have been billows of smoke clouds to the southeast, where the government is doing their controlled burns of the forests--this is the time of year when they do it.
I get the urge to plant something in weather like this. I saw a net bag of "Miss Saigon" Dutch iris bulbs at the store. These irises have a petal that looks like a yellow tongue stuck out, and on each side tall purple petals sticking up. I was hooked, and bought them--even tho I have no flower bed, and no one to plant them for me. But I'll coerce someone to put them in the ground for me. (I hope.)

Last year I planted a plastic box full of seeds--radish seed on one end, lettuce on the other. Even tho I watered and nursed them along, and fretted over them, they grew spindly little stems and finally expired. I got not one radish or salad out of them.

If there were plant police, I'd have been charged with PAAM (Plant Abuse And Mistreatment.) I must have done something wrong. I vowed to buy lettuce and radishes from the store from then on--but those Miss Saigon irises I couldn't resist. Bye y'all, susil