ok, so mdaddy was kind enough to weedwack the brick walk yesterday, and water the hard to reach places while i was at work...the walk was looking like a weedwalk, a bushier and far less attractive alternative to a thymewalk.........i have been watering faithfully every morning, as i am determined that the garden will still look good when our guest arrives..........many plants are beyond hope or beyond their bloom cycle, but phlox remain and a few other perennials.....and maybe the trellis roses will rebloom if they get enough water........we travel after work today to morristown, tenn, where ecw's next oldest brother has a hiltop home....all of ecw's siblings will be there........it should be interesting.....or amusing, which ever comes first is good enough for me.......

last night our neighbors set off numerous large fireworks.....they must have cost a bundle as they were sizable and impreessive and could not have been legal in this state........i have heard tales of trips to tenn for illegal fireworks.....i don't undertsand the desire for explosive pyromania.........i saw the first one, then decided i needed a hot bath more thna i needed pyrotechnics.........another 4th come and gone.......speaking of patriotic things.....i heard on npr yesterday that igor stravinsky was once arrested after a performance in boston because his orchestration of the star spangled banner changed the phrasing.....and the ploice considered him in violation of a statute that forbids tampering with patriotic/historic artifacts.........only in america