Welcome to My New Garden

It's tiny but I like it. This is the reason I haven't been doing much of the bloggin.

Let's see - from right to left and back to front we have:

BACK ROW
**??? - a white, tall perennial
**a bunch of baby pink impatients
**Russian Sage -purple flower, about 12" high perennial
**Hosta - this one's green with white border
**sunflower - which I hope will get enough sun but since it's Rene's favorite flower, I had to get it
**another bunch of baby pink impatients

MIDDLE ROW
**a half ring of baby pink and salmon impatients annuals
**a dark purple petunia bunch, also an annual

BOTTOM ROW
**periwinkle veronica which is excellent groundcover and is recommended for the edge of beds

Then I put up a fence and some butterfly stakes along with a cute "Welcome" thingy. I'm totally buying a Garden Gnome to put in the corner, as well.

The white thing to the right is where I'm going to *try* to grow some red peppers, chives and basil. Under the white things are: wet newspaper, covered with bags. This helps kill the sod so that it's easier to pull up and turn loose. After that, I'll add the planting soil and some mulch and wait while my seeds grow inside before transplanting them...

Such Fun!

This Week in WTF - Brett Michaels Is Awesome

Did you see this? After Lip Synching his way through a Tony Awards appearance, Brett Michaels linger too long in the glory of the stage and TOTALLY WIPES OUT because a scene drop goes BLAM! on his head.

Here's the link but it will get pulled from terms of use, I'm sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvEIEVaagVE

If it doesn't work, just google "youtube brett michaels tony awards".

The awesomeness knows no bounds.

Observations during BBC's P&P

**How does Colin Firth look older in this than he does now, it seems? I think his face is thinner now-a-days and that's why.

**The Jane actress is not as pretty as Jennifer Erhle, not even close. But maybe if she didn't have to have parted-down-the-middle curlequed bangs she'd look better? Ohm you know what, yes. I remember seeing a nice photo of her--yes, here. The Google image results.

**And Mary - are we to suppose that she has autism, though somewhere early on the spectrum?

**I still just love how Caroline Bingley later played the treacherous fiance of Colin Firth in "What a Girl Wants".

**Oh, and look, there's Maria Lucas, AKA the girl from the British "Office" AKA the woman who was the TV gf of shortlived real life bf from my youth.

Fun times!

Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice AND ZOMBIES

I just re-read Pride and Prejudice in preparation for reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which I hear, on NPR, is actually a clever spin off of the book. Some of the other spin-offs out there are dreadful beyond all belief. I read a Mr Darcy one last year. Turbull, jes turbull.

I think I'm going to get a copy this weekend or so, and I will let you how it is when I'm done. In the meantime, my fiction kick continues. I picked up Middlemarch today, which is so many people's favorite book, and might start that soon.

Shakespeare in the Park Boston 2009 - A Comedy of Errors

It's baaa-aaack! Shakespeare in the Park, or more accurately, Shakespeare in the Common, will return again this summer. The play for this season is "A Comedy of Errors" and the show runs from Jul 31 to Aug 16, starting at 8 PM, at the Parkman Bandstand.

I thought to look this up because Anne Hathaway is on Jimmy Fallon (improving every day!) promoting her stint in NYC's Shakespeare in the Park production of "Twelfth Night".

Anyway, I shall see you in the park some night this summer, okay? I'll bring a pic-a-nic-a.