I am still in recovery mode from the dentist, and although I am feeling very much better, I do not feel 100%. I am aware that something is not quite right!!! Oh well, guess I must just keep myself busy and hopefully I will forget. I return for a nerve block and crown on the 18th and 26 May, so I hope that will then be the end of it all. Nigel arrives on the 25th for a few days, so I have at least something to look forward to.
Today I have dug a new flower bed where we had some peonies growing out of the lawn. They pop up every year, but they have been so overgrown with weeds and long grass, that I thought this year I would allow them to breathe a bit. They must have been planted years ago, in what I presume was originally a flower bed, but it had been allowed to grow over. When we first bought the house, there was no sign of the peonies and the grass had grown over the top. The first I knew about them was a couple of years ago when the grass had been too wet to cut. I saw these plants growing faster than the grass and I then discovered what they were. Obviously they are very hardy, as they have certainly taken a few knocks. As they are all in bud now, I hope in the near future I can show you a picture of them in full flower. Last year's hailstorm hit them for six!
I also heard my first cuckoo today, so spring must very definitely be here.
Photo credit http://www.treehugger.com/cuckoo-bird-photo1.jpg
I'm normally a sane and rational person - after all, I'm a mechanical engineer, and not prone to fits of hystrionics. That said, your visiting spider would have had me shrieking while standing on a chair, quaking in fear. Thankfully, I have many sons who will remove such visitors for me!
ReplyDeleteI don't think we have cuckoos here. My grandmother had a wonderful cuckoo clock, but I think my mother sold it.
I am pleased to hear things are going better Diane.
ReplyDeletePoor bunnies. :) They sure are going to be mad at you!! :)
I only see now that I am not listed as a follower although I am sure I did it a while back. Sorry about that.Oh well, added myself to your list now.
ReplyDeleteHi Marjie, I have to say I used to be like that with spiders in S.Africa, I guess being on my own here so much I have had little choice but to sort the problem out myself. I do not like them though!
ReplyDeleteMy parents also used to have a cuckoo clock back in the 40's or 50's but I have no idea what happened to it. I seem to remember it was Swiss made.Diane
Hi Joan, Good to see you are a follower, thanks. I hope the bunnies are going to be mad at me! LOL Diane
ReplyDeleteYour peony bed will be quite lovely when the flowers come into bloom. They are a gorgeous flower. I'm glad to hear you are feeling better. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings...Mary
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary, I will take a picture when they are in flower and put on the site. Have a good day. Diane
ReplyDeleteLove it with the cuckoo bird! We heard them all the time in the woods behind the house when we lived in Germany. They made me laugh so many times!
ReplyDeleteLove peonies also. Ours are about a foot tall now and I'm looking forward to their fragrant blooms as I'm sure you are also!
Don't like that spider inside though! I just killed one yesterday after it drove the cat crazy watching him crawl on the wall.
Hope all goes well with the dentist in the future and that you're doing better! Have a good day!
Pam - I love hearing the cuckoos, but I hate it that they leave their young for another bird to rear, and the young of the real mother gets kicked out. I guess though that is life.
ReplyDeleteI am also looking forward to the peonies coming out, I have quite big buds so it will not be long.
The tooth is still very sensitive but...... Diane
I like very much the cockoo picture.It's so common, but I haven't ever been able to shot a good image...
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear your tooth is feeling a bit better. I am not a fan of spiders either - ugh!
ReplyDeleteHi Andrea, I find you can always hear the cuckoo, but it is rare for them to be easily seen. I have not got a telescopic lens (only my zoom) so birds are not the easiest for me to get shots of! Diane
ReplyDeleteHi Pam, The tooth is ceratinly having its moments! I just hope I can hold out until the 18th and the nerve block. As for spiders......... I thought I was very brave taking this picture! Diane
ReplyDeleteInteresting and kind of sad with the cuckoos! I didn't know that, thanks for the info!
ReplyDeleteHi Pam, The Cuckoo is a brood parasite, it lays its eggs in other birds' nests and leaves the host birds to incubate and rear its young. Dunnocks, Robins and Meadow Pipits are frequent host birds. Each female Cuckoo specialises in using a particular host species and will lay eggs with similar markings to the host bird's eggs, and the young Cuckoo will imitate the begging calls of the host's chicks.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Cuckoo nestling hatches, it instinctively pushes the other eggs and nestlings out of the nest.
That is amazing with the cuckoo birds! They are definitely a unique bird and they certainly have it all figured out. Thanks for the update, I really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteGlad it was informative about the cuckoo Pam. Diane
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