So someone sent me a pair of "bacon socks" this week LOL! It was another rainy day, last of the month, & I had to use up fuel points or lose them ($1.00 off/gallon). Seven gas cans - pretty darn heavy when full. I was limping up the steps after a trip to the gas station/all the heavy lifting & saw an Amazon package by the door - Amazon? I hadn't ordered anything from Amazon so what is going on? As soon as I opened it and saw the socks, I knew who had sent them to me - we'd had a conversation on 'all things bacon' last Saturday ... both the 'gross' (bacon-flavored lip balm, bacon flavored chocolate mix ... truly ghastly - this person gave me some a couple years ago) and the "cute" - bacon socks & bacon Band-Aids. I'm glad he got me socks - I'll wear them at Christmas ... toes/cuffs are red, so they'll be a conversation starter.
Garden news - nothing going on. I DID get out earlier in the week and assaulted/murdered our forsythia bushes. Well, they're hard to kill, but I did cut them back to 3-4 feet (from about 12 feet & totally overgrown) and hauled away 6-8 trailer loads of branches. The bushes were so overgrown, I couldn't get around them with the mower in places and they were growing into each other (despite being planted about 15 feet apart) and some Crape Myrtle trees. Mom had been "snipping" them into a rounded shape - every place she snipped had grown 4-8 more little branches - then she'd snip the next year & that sprouted, so the bushes were nothing but these little "baskets" of branches sprouting - it was a MESS. All gone ... probably no flowers next spring, but I'll be curious to see what the bushes do. The Brown Turkey Fig is next, but I did look at a couple of videos on how to trim them up, so the bush should still be 'happy' when I'm done.
Looks like lots of "inside" time today .... one seed catalog from Pinetree Gardens to look through for the 100th time .... I'd love to order "one of each" LOL!