It's 60 degrees in New York

[momsalive1]

I rushed around to get my handwashing done today so I could hang it out. It has that fresh air smell, though its now inside to dry. I knew it would sprinkle all day, but I just had to get it out for a while.

My snapdragons are still pretending it's late summer. They are from seeds I saved when I moved from Ohio. The plants I took them from lasted two and three years, laughing at single digit temperatures. I planted them here in early fall, much later than I intended, and I figured I'd blown it. They put on a lot of green since then and have already shrugged off a few frosts.

We are hanging lights on ground level this year. I had the idea while I was out there to turn tomato cages upside down and cover them with lights. Hopefully they will look like little trees and not upside down tomato cages. And! I put them over my plants to keep them from the deer next spring. I also put out various other garden trellis things to hang with lights another day. I couldn't have dug them in without this weather.

**beams**

Am I supposed to be writing something?

**gets another cup of coffee**

Comments

[msb66.livejournal.com]

Like we said - writing helps get all your chores done...

so I could hang it out
So would that be on your super-dooper newly hung washing line, by any chance?

[momsalive1]

Absolutely! I want to give it as much exercise as possible before winter really gets here.

I wonder what it would look like with lights?

[andien.livejournal.com]

All sounds very cool.

We do the very restrained *one string of white lights around a tree* thing - but then we're British and middle class, anything more and we'd die of embarassment! *g*

[momsalive1]

Lights, lights, lights, more lights, can't have too many lights, especially the little white ones. Maybe your restraint is related to a need for a quiet, dim room when you get back from all those holiday parties?

[andien.livejournal.com]

More like related to the husband's mantra of "this is a house not a pub!"

[lanyn.livejournal.com]

LOL! I Like the idea of the upside down tomato cages! I've got a bunch of those myself that might look rather nifty... provided you say they came out okay!!

[momsalive1]

Very, very lifelike. Ready for stars on top if I can figure a way to do it.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Christmas lights look good no matter where they're hung. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[momsalive1]

That's encouraging! And it doesn't matter if they look like hell during the day, right?

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

They always look lousy during the day, so don't even worry about it.