We've been entertaining almost every night for the past week. If it's not entertaining, it's a business meeting at home which entails, well, some sort of entertaining (coffees, teas, drinks, chocolates, sweets, etc) till late hours, certainly later than I am used to. And it's not over yet. We've looking forward to entertain my sister and her friend tomorrow night...
BUT, today was MY day in the garden... after a business meeting which lasted all morning and ended up with a potentially good partnership. But after the gentleman has left, Frances and I attacked the garden centre and came back with more than 180 seasonal flowers! Geraniums, Allisums, Colliuses, Salvias, little purple fluffy things, Snapdragons and Alternanthera... so Arif and I went and planted all of these things in their respected places around the garden, watered them, tinkered some more in the garden till about 6pm.. it was tiring work to be sure, but it is that kind of tiredness that makes you feel that you actually accomplished something! So I won't complain about the gardening this afternoon. I enjoyed it a lot, and hope to do some more of it tomorrow.
For now, enjoy this picture I took through the Cassia (scrambled egg tree) looking into the front garden. Once I get my "proper" Canon camera (I hope!) I will take another picture from the same place and you should see the plethora of colour and texture that should have taken good hold.
The season has started!
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So what do you do if you're bored out of your wits in the office? Cruise of course!
First finish reading all the news, blogs, etc then what do you do? Flickr! The Explore feature is fantastic and it never ceases to amaze me to see the talent and eye for photography some people have. Then what? Well, the game I have is put any word that crosses my mind in the browser's address bar and see where it takes me!
Today, I put "Viagra" in there and of course it took me to the famous Blue Pill site, and wouldn't you know it? The first thing you're faced with is another of those silly questionnaires... as there is nothing better to do, I thought I might as well answer 6 simple questions and see what happens. Sure enough I answered the 6 questions, and am absolutely happy to report that, yes, my virility, libedo and sex-drive are all a-okay, as you can see form the result bar above, but the proviso is:
What changes for goodness sake?Your answers show no signs of ED. Be sure to talk to your doctor if your condition changes. Your doctor can suggest effective treatment options like VIAGRA.
I won't need these magic pills for quite a few years (I hope!), but it also reminded me of that time that I found THREE of these Male Ego Boosters in the safe of the Dubai hotel room as I was checking out!
and I'm not really complaining. In fact I'm enjoying the sense of pain! I know I know, but I'm no masochist really, it's just that contented feeling that you have worked hard and have given it your best and hope that things will turn out well, as I'm fairly certain they will, fingers crossed.
I spent the whole of Saturday in the garden, doing this:
Apart from the petunias, I've got tall grass which I placed at the apexes of the curves to provide backdrop.
Of course, I had to redo the complete drip system as well as move the sprinklers a bit inside. Unfortunately I have had ot cancel one which was right in the centre in front of the jar, but I'm sure it's not necessary as that patch is now serviced by 10 sprinklers so I should still get good coverage.
I've also planted some yellow and orange marigolds in other flower beds, but offset them with the shocking red and purple petunias. I hope the effect will look okay, if not, then I'll yank them out and put a different variety.. it's still very early in the season to do this!
