Hi, Granny! I’m still here. I’m in the same biz as Garden Girl, so I’m gearing up for fall up here in Wisconsin, too.
Hi, GG! :) Pansies, Mums in all sizes, decorative kales, whatever perennials are still blooming such as rudbeckia, aster, perennial grasses, hydrangea, etc. are all flying out of my garden center. People are getting in the mood to plant again for fall. We had GORGEOUS rain this past week; nice and slow and steady; up to 4” in some parts, but it was a good soaker after the drought we’ve had all summer.
My pumpkins, squash, gourds, Indian corn and corn stalk bunches will be arriving in two weeks, and then we turn the place into a Fall Festival with pumpkin carving, baked pumpkin treats of all types, scarecrow making, etc. I love Fall in Wisconsin.
As for the stock market, I’m not worrying. We have to lose 5,000 points for it to be as bad as The Great Depression was. And besides, I live on a dime already, so it won’t effect me much...other than making my weak dollar/contrarian investments grow, grow, grow! :)
Gotta play both ends of the field, don’t ‘cha know! :)
It is wonderful when a needed rain comes, in the desert you can see the plants respond.
Ocotillo always rewards a good rain with a few almost tiny leaves and red flowers, then they fall off and you have cactus till the next good rain.
It is never good when the gov starts messing with the money/stocks and supplies that we need.
I have no idea where this mess will take us, but it will no doubt mean higher prices and more job losses.
Everyone needs to plant food, in even if just in the wash tub in front of a sunny window.
Hey ladies!
It is somewhat cooler here today. At least you don’t feel like you’re stepping into a sauna when you go outside. We dodged a hurricane two weeks ago. Here on the coast of NC, all we got out of it was wind and some salt burn, not much wind and not even any rain, altho the middle of the state nearly drowned. They needed rain, have been in drought conditions for a couple of years.
Pansies won’t be ready for another couple of weeks, and the first set may not make it if it stays hot. OTOH, they bloom all winter here, until about the end of May.
As for the stock market, I don’t have any cows. Oh, wait... LOL