Flower Porn

Wild violets growing
between my house
and the neighbor

  Spring has barely sprung, and today an assortment of bright colorful sales flyers of flower porn for the fall planting season arrived.

   Cruel, it is.  Heartless.  Addictive.  And of course, I had to order something.

   An assortment of 35 daffodil bulbs to join the few volunteers in my side yard.  A variety of colors of tulips (35 bulbs) and finally, a mix of 30 allium colors.  It was a modest order considering that I really wanted one of everything.  But I'm learning to pace my addictions. 

   Gracie was snoring quite loudly on the tub by the office window, and Charlie was pouting on the futon because he made the mistake of abandoning it to protect his cookies from being stolen by Gracie who could care less about his cookies, but I suspect used the opportunity to instead steal his favorite spot.  Charlie turned the tables on her with his "Intruder Alert" bark he uses for the UPS man to scare her upstairs and get his spot back.

  The UPS brought some highly anticipated items to help me corral the clutter on my desk and become more organized (bwahaha hahaha hahaha not!).  But to be honest, I was more excited about getting these items than I was a filing system.

  This is a small decal, no more than four inches tall that I've placed in the door frame between my office and the dining room where I can see it from my desk.  I spotted it on Zulily and it made me laugh so I ordered it.

  I used to have a small plaster "fairy" door that I would keep along the baseboard in my guest bedroom back in Florida just in case my nieces ever visited.

  Fulfilling my dream of having a library in my home ... sort of ... I also ordered these wallpaper panels from Amazon and put them on the door to the storage space in my bedroom.   Eventually, I still hope to have a small library and have begun to collect books to read again.  

   I put out three bags of mulch over the bulbs I planted a few weeks ago.  Rain is forecast again tomorrow, so it needed to get done today.  I also refilled the bird feeders since a red-bellied woodpecker was annoyed with me.  I've been watching "couples" at the feeders and the variety of courting behaviors.  The male downy woodpecker fluffs up his red top feathers so that he looks like he is trying to imitate a rooster.   The female purple finch has not yet picked a winner from the several male suitors she has and is quick to chase them all off when they start to crowd her.

   I suppose I should at least start trying to be organized.  It will be an early night since I was up this morning to wait for the plumber to fix the hot water heater, and I'm already tired and starting to procrastinate ...