Happiness is.....Orchids In Bloom

My south facing window.  Just now.  Cloudy.  But almost every one of the orchids is in blossom.  It's like a small carnival.  I did something right!!!

I spent time just before starting this post, getting rid of old photos in the picture file.  House keeping. I think that might be what I do today.  I woke up tired.  Too many dreams. And now, too many thoughts.

The deer came-at some point--and chewed all the rose stems out in the garden bed.  The stems that held flower buds.  Gone.  There is so much for them to eat in the woods--which are almost 100% green with fresh leaves.  But they come up and into the landscaping and eat my carefully tended roses.  Another year with no roses.

Clouds.  We have vague promises of a light rain.   But definitely mosquitos.

G had the soaker hoses going in the vegetable garden yesterday as he weeded the paths.  Soaked the blueberry bushes and the rhubarb patch. I watered the grapes heavily when I was down there the day before.  He pulled up three cart loads of weeds and rogue raspberry canes.  The cart is pulled into the woods by the lawn tractor.  Used to haul things and only rarely to mow things.

The pepper plants and the tomato seedlings are in the wagon, in the back yard.  I just ran out to check to see if the deer had eaten them over night.  We have a canopy over them and sheets of shade cloth waving in any breezes.  Enough, I guess, to keep the deer away.  I tie small rocks into the corners of the cloth.  To hold it down--not much but enough.  Enough to make the deer shy away as it ripples in the breezes.  Foil pie tins on long string works to give deer second thoughts.  Flying and flashing in any breezes.  

I was reminded of driving through Pennsylvania on our way to visit my dad in Ohio.  And the deer on the highways.