All in a Garden Green

Sunset tonight was beautiful... Finally. Took the top photo with just normal photo settings, changed shutter speed a bit to get the colors right. Beautiful. Soft oranges and pinks mixed with blues...

My camera, however, took the bottom one on the pre-programmed 'sunset' setting. WOW. Nothing like how the sky actually looked, but darned impressive.

I missed my Bela Lugosi daylily blooming... gah. Came home too tired, didn't even hardly glance at the garden. When the sky turned orange tonight and I went outside, I noticed it. Beautiful, deep, velvety purple, too late to get a photo. I think Wednesday or Thursday will be my next chance, assuming nothing eats it.

Food strangeness last night was Coffee Jello. Really quite good. Just coffee, but... jiggly. Very silly. Everybody also seems to really like the Kohlrabi, which is good, 'cause we've still got quite a bit of it. Finally convinced my boss to try a bit at lunch today, and he said it didn't taste like anything... meh. Too bad, more for me! Vegetables that look like Sputnik are fun and delicious! Rainier cherries are also delicious... I think I still like Bings better...

Somebody broke into the store last night at work... didn't take anything, didn't break anything, don't know if they even entered the building, but the door had very obviously been forced open when R got to work this morning. Scary. Door has been fixed, and bolted solid now at closing, we hope. This is why it's not a good idea to keep cash in the registers overnight. The computer and registers themselves were still there, perhaps because they would look a bit too suspicious being carried down 302 at 2AM. Agh. Don't want that to happen again.

Co-worker A blamed it on the chipmunk that's been hanging out down there... we had a bumper crop of the critters this year, and there was one little guy that simply would not run away if approached. Too close, and he would hide, but he became used to humans very very quickly. I don't think rabid, but definitely non-fearful. I suspect s/he is the one that appears to have taken up residence inside the closet. /sigh. Little critter... you're very cute, but you simply cannot stay. S/he fits under the door to the closet, but can't under the main door, and after spending some quality time together on Friday (rainy day, down there all by myself... I named it Squeeky-Boo.), I finally managed to get it on the outside of the building, and running (hopefully) away to a new home, not in the closet...

Incredibly cute and intelligent, chipmunks... apparently they're pretty popular as pets in England/Europe. Have to hand-raise them from kits, and even then, they're still pretty crazy...

Finally got around to organizing these... We've had some absolutely beautiful sunsets in the past week. Even today, after it POURED and gale force winds blew any remaining leaves off the trees, the sun came out just in time for a late afternoon rainbow and light play on the remaining clouds. (More sunset and pretty frosty leaves in the set under the link)

Today was cold and wet. The first thought I had when looking outside this morning and saw dark gray clouds and pouring rain was 'darn... the power went out, and the battery backup failed on my alarm clock... I'll just have to stay home and have cocoa and be warm under quilts all day.' Unfortunately my sense of not wanting to abandon my coworkers (and the fact that I like to, y'know, eat and have somewhere to live) won out, and into work I went... I spent the first half of it on a trailer, in my leaky raincoat and boots that are not quite waterproof anymore, up to my knees in balsam fir, chopping away with a pair of loppers, which were getting steadily gummier and sticky from all the sap. Ran home at lunch, tossed soggy coat, raincoat, and hat into the dryer, set on thermonuclear, had soup, found dry boots, worked back into (mostly) dry clothes, and back to the shop I went. Indoors for the afternoon, chopping the balsam limbs into smaller bits, and now I smell like a Christmas Tree... Stayed mostly dry... The saving grace was that it wasn't 5 degrees colder out... misery, right there. Thursday, we are off to the Mall to stuff planters with all the lovely balsam bits. Too early for the holidays, if you ask me...

It is, however, time for hot Cocoa. I'm off.