One thing – Pursue Your Wildest Dreams

This one deserved a blog. It is an example of a “pretty, and great reminder, but does not match me”.

I love the saying, and it is a very cute design, but … I like coffee cups that can go in the dishwasher. This one technically can, but .. dishwater seeps into the plug in the bottom (because it was supposed to be vacuum sealed, which I really don’t care one whit about). When we pull it out of the dishwasher, and turn it upside down and put it away in the cabinet, I forget it will have trapped water. When I go to use it, even when I think all the dishwater is back out, it is not, and it leaks out some more, all over my shirt, before a conference call, which is not my “wildest dream”.

Go forth encouraging saying coffee mug and find someone who likes to hand wash coffee mugs.

Hybrid – harvesting seeds

Where do I separate daylily seeds from pods?

Outside on the Traeger of course 😉

Well, most recently, that is.

Because if I don’t, the pod will sit on our clutter hot spot, the dining room table, for maybe days, and then I will deliberate – Save the pod? Or just the seeds? Is this thought related to save the clothes tags until you wash up the clothes the first time? Should I save the pod until the seeds germinate? Oh, the things I do!

Discipline, GF!

Separate the seeds from the pod, gather the seeds, put them in the envelope that is already labeled, put the envelope back in the safe storage space (not the dining room table ;)), where they will be joined by siblings until all seeds are gathered, and put the pod (which you, on purpose, out of discipline, left outside on the Treager) in an enticing place in the garden, to be eaten by – whatever eats empty seed pods. Bugs?

Clutter prevention 101, or is it 2 by 2? Or 19 by 19? Because that’s how many viable Purple D’Oro seed pods we got this year.

And now there are 5

Plus 1

Because a plus 1 is fun. Right?

OK, I will stop 😊

Hybrid – bonus

Oh boy! I was afraid of this! My garden blog ideas got together for lunch with my decluttering thoughts, and collaboratively raised a question. A very small one in the grand scheme of things, but nevertheless …

“Are these seeds worth putting in an envelope and saving for next spring’s planting?”

There – it’s out there.

These are seeds from a 2 year old, first year blooming daylily that enticed pollinators, and then enticed the bunny, probably “Gigantus Bunimous”, to try it’s luck at midnight dinner, and, alas, must have been driven away, or preferred something better. It was left on the ground 5 feet away from the daylily, but I knew where it came from because I was watching, hoping, the pod would produce viable seeds.

Remember, I am a gardener, not a landscaper. I rescued that seed pod from being breakfast for the squirrels, and put it in the seedling box, on the off chance it was mature enough to somehow produce viable seeds. And seed it did produce. But they do not look viable. And they are sitting, where? On my clutter hot spot – the dining room table.

Discipline!

Will they go in an envelope, or out to the garden for critter enjoyment?

Look closely.

One thing – this one got shuffled a while

Day 4 is a common thing, and something we personally tackle annually – company logo items, often tied to good memories. It falls, however, in the categories of limited space and keep what you love to use. Drinkware that leaks, drinkware that is not easy to clean, drinkware we don’t reach for, it goes. Just like keychains we don’t need, totes we never use – you get the idea. Even if we have fond memories of the experience.

We brought one of those pieces of drinkware up north. I have super fond memories of the time I was with the company whose logo is on that drinking glass. But I never use it. I loved my time with the people and company, but I don’t love the item. It goes.