why is the rum gone?

[cornerofmadness]

because I drank it all...killed a whole bottle of that making mojitos with my aunt and mom after the viewing. The funeral home was unbearably small and hot. However, I met my aunt's granddaughter for the first time since she was like in grade school. She's a writer too. She was THRILLED to have someone to understand what that's like as well. We talked for a long time and I'll give her my email tomorrow so she can write me.

and now, flower spam. Most of them are my mother's (granted I'm the one who planted most of them)


Lilies

The morning glory was NOT doing well back in OH so i moved it here and it's happier Mt. Fuji

Since he usually ends up stuck with trimming...Dad hates my roses

solid white fuschia

Jackamandi clematis

clematis

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i think so

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Wow, those flowers look REALLY nice.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. i had mor ebut they got washed out

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

I like the last 2 pics. I've never seen flowers like that before. Though being in Arizona, I'm not even sure they'd grow here. I'm used to seeing cacti blooms.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

those are clematis and thinking back to when i was stationed in Tucson...probably not. they require a fair amount of water. You guys are probably in triplet digits already and i'm not sure the poor clematis could handle that

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

Luckily, I live up in the mountains so around the area, it's been hitting in the high 80s and low 90s. Phoenix is in the low 100s. Count in the fact that we haven't had any rain, a lot of things are dying off. They've started warning hikers of mountain lions coming down from the high country because of it. The only sad thing is that Phoenix has already had about 5-10 kids drown already and summer has barely started :\

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ah that's not too bad. it's that around here. I have friends in Phoenix. I haven't been back there in years either. I wasn't much for the desert, to be honest. and that is sad about the kids

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

I'm not much of a desert rat either. I was born in Wyoming. It was snowing on my b-day (May) ^_^ It's a little miserable for a snowbird. And the kids in swimming pools thing is really getting out of hand. It sounds cruel but I'd wish they'd hold the parents accountable if their kid almost dies/dies in a swimming pool. The laws for the fences aren't written well and only cover parts of the city. If they can ban smoking in all the bars/resturants statewide, why can't they get a pool law the same way?

And I just looked up the clemitas...yep it'd die here. If the heat doesn't get it then the cold will... *grumbles* Why can't I have pretty plants like everyone else!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't worry about the cold. It gets and stays below zero for much of the winter here in PA but i do think the lack of water and heat would zap a clematis

nods to the fence law and/or use some common sense. I've lived into apt complexs with drowning deaths. One was in the natural lake which they almost drained until the renters protested. Sorry, a drunk adult falls in this is NOT our problem. Tragic yes but stupid and why drain our lake because of him. Had two die in the pool in my Madison apt. Neither could swim. Also adults (well teens) and that was fenced...

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the heats always been a problem. It even killed my pansies. I'd go after your morning glory but nearly all the species are illegal here (go figure (http://www.azda.gov/PSD/quarantine5.htm)). I even have the government working against me.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nods. I've spent a lot of time as a biologist removing invasive exotics. Morning GLories probably count out there.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I'm an Arizona rat (Phoenix) transplanted from Wyoming, myself. I was born in Cheyenne. I'd rather be living up in the mountains, as well, but life takes ya strange places...

There are flowers in our yard, although they're dying back in the heat - roses and larkspur and various others. The vinca are still in bloom.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i had trouble with roses in Florida too

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

LOL, you're from Cheyenne too? Didn't you hate it when all the people from Colorado would come up for the Frontier Days and look at you funny when the tornado sirens went off? Though my favorite had to be watching I-25 freeze over and the semis simply slide along the way...

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Ah, sadly, my folks relocated to Arizona before I could notice people staring at me funny, but I remember Frontier Days (and my little bandanna dresses) and the mountain men and the WINDS and the snowdrifts up to the second floor...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hee, i used to work once a month in Cheyenne

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I love clematis. Some day, I'll plant some. Yours look really beautiful.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. those two have been there for years. I'm pretty impressed with the rose myself

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that funeral home better rethink their ways and turn the AC down to at least 70. Funerals homes should always keep it crisp, especially when they have bodies in state. Not only is it better for preservation, it also helps to keep mourners from passing out.

And love the flower pics; pretty!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'm not even sure it HAD A/C

thanks

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

rum is good

[trixiefatcat.livejournal.com]

We have got to get you a place with a yard.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes someday