I took the two flowing tops back to the store where I got them, but found out they don't refund your cash. Instead, they gave me a credit. That would not be too bad, but they just don't carry enough in my size, so I ended up taking a new purse as part of the credit. I suppose I'll just look there every time I'm in town to see if there is something else I can use for the rest of the credit. Once I've spent all the credit I'm due, I won't be shopping there in the future. Not my favorite kind of policy...
Before I went to the store, I potted up the pretty flowers that I bought in Toledo. Now, I have five 'railing planters' each planted with a combination of three flowers. I have a sage-colored vine in the center of each planter. This plant has small leaves and a very good trailing habit, so they should 'flow' nicely down the front of each planter. I also put in a bluish-purple trailing verbena and a violet-colored flower that has a more spiky habit. I set them all on the floor of our deck, to give them a chance to gain strength and recover from the transplanting process. They all got watered well, along with the fiber basket where I planted a plant with spreading and trailing blue flowers. That basket is now hanging in a folding wrought iron stand that I've had for a very long time but have never used. It's really quite pretty standing in one corner just opposite the door from our bedroom where I can easily see it when we have the door open to the deck.
I still have one more railing planter to fill, and I think I will get some other kinds of plants for that...maybe some impatiens, since there are several places where the deck railing is in the shade much of the day. Then, I still need some flowers to put in the two large terra cotta pots that have imprinted designs on their sides. They are larger, and I hope to put them on the front porch, but right now David is using them to hold the fencing for the outdoor duck pen steady next to the garage. Once the ducks and geese have all their feathers and can stand to be outside all the time, they will be moved into our 'chicken tractor' and I can have my pots back... I'll probably buy the plants pretty soon, though, and will put them into smaller clay pots until I can transplant them into the larger ones.
After my planting was done, and after I got back from taking those tops back to the store, I fixed David and I each a 'mint julep' to get ready to watch the Preakness. Of course, mint julep is the Kentucky Derby drink, but I had not researched to find out what kind of drink is standard for the Preakness. David looked it up after the race was over, and maybe next year I'll get the ingredients ahead of time so we can fix those cocktails then. Now, I need to find a recipe for the drink that is classic for The Belmont Stakes...in three weeks. Wouldn't it be great to have American Pharoah win the triple crown? I'll be cheering for him...what a great race today...in heavy rain with a very muddy track. But, he apparently enjoys running in the mud...perfect day for him!
Now, I'm weary, so I'm heading to bed. I still have to wash the windows in the library so I can put on the screens...it's getting warm enough that we need to be able to open windows in each room, and those windows are the only ones that aren't ready for that....maybe I'll do that tomorrow...
Nite, all!
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