I love coleus for their watercolor-like ruffly leaves in a rainbow of colors. This year they are doing exceptionally well. I just pulled out the Sevin to combat the Japanese beetles that are munching on them and some of the other tender plants. So what’s this experiment? I am breaking off small pieces of my different plants and sticking them in a pot of wet soil. I did the first one by accident as some leaves had broken off when I was repotting the plant. It took root! I found a few baby coleus under the chestnut tree in old potting soil, so I potted them up too. I am hoping to start a bunch of them so I have them for the wintertime and next season-hopefully.

I did 3 hours of gardening yesterday-Bri trimmed the forsythia out front which were way overgrown and I raked up one side of the cut branches. The township also had just come along and ‘trimmed’ about 2 feet of our yard along the road away. They did this all over the place. I guess it makes it easier for the mail people to get to the boxes. I also tied up tomatoes and hoed around some of my gardens. Since I took an interest in the veggie patch, Bri has been more involved too. I had left it up to him the last few years as I was fed up with putting so much work in it and not getting much out of it anymore. He bought 5 more huge pepper varieties today at Walmart. I did buy more plants. I was hoping for better prices though. The plants that were discounted were clinging to life by a hair. Why do they wait so long to put them on sale? I bought a Paradise rose bush and a few plants for around the pond area and another coleus!

Our main reason for going to Walmart was to exchange my under the counter radio/CD player that was in the kitchen. The one we bought last year (thank goodness we saved the box!) had melted underneath in one spot. I do remember smelling plastic burning at one time. I was afraid to use it! They did give us another one-the same one, that’s all they sell.

We watched the concert for Diana tonight put on by her sons in honor of what would have been her 46th birthday (I am 18 months older). I was surprised it was only broadcast for an hour. I like Elton John and Rod Stewart’s ok, but they sing the same old songs all the time. It would have been nice to hear something new from Elton. The most enjoyable parts, seeing Princes William and Harry and seeing film footage from when Diana was a girl. She certainly looked like she lived a privilege life. I had read that she complained about being the third daughter of a mother and father who wanted a son. Also, her mother and father separated when she was 10 or so.

Anyway, it was a gorgeous day-no heat. I was trying to sit under the chestnut trees but they are dropping their ‘flowers’ for a better name of those messy things. At this stage, fireflies mate all around these trees. Nature overload!

I hope to get mom one day this week. And Sean got a A- in his night school class.