Today’s high is only 77°F (25°C). In fact, it looks like the seventies are stayin on a while. The way most people are happy about warm winter days, I’m always happy for cold fronts in summer, cause a bitch can breathe. As a bonus, it’s raining today!
Some pics from my shade garden:
One day when the sun was beating down on us, I stopped under a tree and admired the public hostas.
As you know, what with being a forest creature and all, I am most content in the shade. I cannot take the sun.
I said this to my companions.
“Lemme just sit a spell with my friends the hostas. They understand me.”
“What?!?” Moo asked.
I clarified, “You’re like the lilies. You thrive in the sun and the heat. It makes you all pretty and happy. I’m like a hosta, too much sun will ruin me.”
Sassy said, “In that case, I’m a houseplant.”
And oh how we laughed and laughed!
Happy Friday Everyone!
joeyfullystated 
🙂 It rained here, too, although it’s supposed to clear up a bit later today, heat up a bit today, then cool off for the next days. I’ll enjoy that. Have a fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend, Joey.
janet
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Oh good! Thanks, Janet, you too!
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Funny post and pretty pictures. It may be in the 70’s but the humidity is in the 100’s. This bitch is having a tough time breathing. So on days like today I am with Sassy. House planted with the AC on.
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Oh dang! Well it’s a nice night for porch sittin, now that’s it’s dry. Breathe easier this weekend, my friend 🙂
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Good one, Sassy! You’re clever to have come up with this analogy. I’m a shade person, too. I wilt quickly in the sun, and need lots of liquids to survive. Happy weekend.
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Thanks! You too 🙂
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🙂 Oh she’s a quick wit! Loved that comeback.
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Me too! I cracked up! 🙂
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🙂
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Funny to see this post from you, because I actually thought of you yesterday when I saw our Ohio weather was going to cool down for a few days. I thought, “Joey would love this!” Me, not so much. 😁
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Well, rest assured, Carrie, the heat will definitely be back soon 🙂 It’s delightful you thought of me!
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Such a great quip. IS there such a thing as a beer plant? That’s me.
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Hops, barley, wheat… You like the breeze blowin, I spose 🙂
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Not so much. I like life on the cool side, but wind gets to me after a while. A gentle breeze is okay.
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I love hostas. I had several different varieties when I lived in PA. They don’t grow well in NC. 😦
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Oh, I’m glad you’re a fan, too!
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I’m a houseplant, too. It’s raining lightly – and I’m inside, waiting for the watering can. How I wish I could go out!
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The rains stopped here — I hope you got to get out?
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Haven’t gone out in a couple of days. When I tried to go for a bike ride, it was hot, humid, and too many things went wrong. I quit – and husband put the bike away because I couldn’t. I think it’s the antibiotics wiping me out (known side effect), and they will be over in another day. Will try again then. It’s no good if I go out and the humidity melts me immediately.
I refuse to be stuck inside, but I’m also prudent when I’m extra tired.
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Better safe than sorry. Being good to yourself is essential.
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I’m sick to death of the rain, but hells yeah for the lower temps.
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UH HUH!
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Heeee! I’m a couch potato!
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Excellent! Five stars for participation! 🙂
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Happy Friday back atcha. A little sun is enough for me too. So, pro-hosta in the nice cool shade.
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😀
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I’ll take 77 in the shade, any day. I enjoyed this post (as I always do). I love your honesty with respect to nature. I hope you have a warm shady weekend.
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Thanks so much, Dan 😀 You too!
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Oh, such humor! That Mama & girls!😂
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Family tradition 😉 xo
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One of my daughter’s is definitely a hothouse flower, another a house-plant, my husband a hosta or maybe a crocus because they come up through snow sometimes. I’m definitely a lily. Love your analogy, Joey. I will now categorize all my human friends in this way. You have the best imagination!
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Thanks! If your husband can be a crocus, I wanna be a tulip! 😀
Thanks for playin along!
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I’m still jealous of your garden!
Enjoy the cool(er) weather. It was in the 90s here and the humidity is unreal.
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Bleh! You best houseplant then *nods*
And thanks! 🙂
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That Sassy sure is funny!
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❤
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Happy Friday to you as well! I’m with you about the heat. Ugh.
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🙂
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Hahaha, I love that! I am a houseplant, too!
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I sincerely cannot deal with your heat! Buncha cacti people out your way 😉 Stay cool!
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I am all blimpie from the heat. And sticky. And crabby. So, no, not cool.
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😦
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I love that girl! I have two things to say about this. First, I have two hosta gardens. I like them, too. Second, you need to read one of my very early posts and you can hit me afterward, I’ll probably deserve it: https://wordpress.com/post/mainepaperpusher.wordpress.com/1802
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Well, the strangest thing happened. I clicked the link and it kept sending me to my own drafts, with a title I don’t recognize. So I put the link in my browser and it said it can’t find it. Then I gave it to my daughter to try her computer, and same thing, not found.
I am sad.
Could you maybe try again?
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Here is the link. I wonder if the one I sent was wrong. Hmm, it certainly wouldn’t send you to your drafts! Weird, indeed. Let’s try again: https://wordpress.com/post/mainepaperpusher.wordpress.com/5271
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Invalid post address.
Now, the other day, some links to Instagram didn’t work on my site and then they showed up randomly days later.
Would you consider giving me a title or a date, and maybe I could just search your site?
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Sure, it’s the Unique Blogger Award-Snark version. I’m going to try a link one more time, just in case. Maybe if I pull it up a different way. https://mainepaperpusher.wordpress.com/2017/06/28/the-unique-blogger-award-snark-version/
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She gets her quick wit from her mama. Hostas have beautiful flowers when they get around to it.
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They really do. I’m glad you appreciate them, too.
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Mmmmm, wish to put me your ferns on the wall and inhaaaale. Look at that green!! Right now!
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Ah nice! Yes, they’re fabulous — I love them so!
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HAHA! I think I am a houseplant most of the time, too! Enjoy your cooler weather 🙂
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I’m loving this cooler weather. It got way too warm way too fast earlier this spring. I do love the warm sun on cool days though…
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I prefer the shade as well! This heat wilts me, lol. Usually, I stick to the house when I can. A/C and ice cream when available.
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Yes!!! Absolutely A/C and ice cream time! 😀
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So that a “bitch can breathe”…please send some of that cool air eastward !!
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I’ll whoosh/wish it to you now! 🙂
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Haha!
Speaking of bitches, you’re making this one jealous.
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Cause cooler weather? High today 74. Lows overnight in the 50’s. Few more days of this 🙂 Maybe when it leaves here, it’ll go there?
*giggles*
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Yep…sigh.
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lol. I’m with Sassy! However I do love some good 70’s weather and I really do need to start a shade garden since I only a small square in the backyard that get sun. 🙂 The girlie was complaining about the heat today walking back to the room from the boardwalk. She was seriously debating the efforts to go surfing. I was thinking “girl, you really are a Virginian now!” lol.
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Yes! Omaword, I have that all the time with my kids. I usually tell them they’ve still got too much Georgia in em, though 😉
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Oh, why don’t we live closer? I dug up some beautiful green blue hostas this morning and several are three feet across. I have them in buckets, a wheel barrow and a cart. I wish I could give you the big giant one so you could sit right next to it and relax. 🙂
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Oh my goodness! I passed one of those on Monday and marveled at it. I noticed it had no blooms — do they not all bloom? Or is it just not ready yet? I’ve got more hostas than you can shake a stick at, and I’ve divided and divided — but I don’t have any monsters. I’d be grateful, but that’s a long way to tug a wheelbarrow!
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Most of mine have blooms with some very short and others pretty tall. The bees love them. Once they are done, I cut them off because I can’t say I really like the looks. One friend picked up three big hostas this morning, and I delivered the four biggest ones to another friend this afternoon. They were so big I had to put each one into one of those large black plastic construction bags. Biggest hostas I’ve ever had. Wish I could have shared. 🙂
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Oh wow! I’ll keep an eye on the mammoth hostas, see how they bloom. I cut my stemmy things off too.
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Love hostas! And Sassy had the last word 🙂
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🙂
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I think I established very early on that I’m not a good gardener. A really bad gardener, actually.
I thought I just didn’t like hostas – horrible plants. Now I’ve learned from this post that I’ve maligned the poor dears by having them planted in the baking southern exposure. Small wonder that right about *now* they start looking like hell.
The things I learn ….
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Oh Joanne. Oh. Just .. Oh. It’d be funny if it wasn’t sad.
Yeah, move the hostas to the shade. There are varieties that can endure a lil more sun, generally, the lighter in color, the more sun a hosta can handle, but still not all day sun.
Your southern exposure wants bright colorful plants. 🙂
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My shame is deep
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Nah — Don’t you meet people who never learned to ride a bike, or don’t know how to steady a camera? Same thing.
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Those children and you are so clever and funny, Joey! 🌳The way that you wrote this I could see it in a short story or in a gardening magazine. Well put and expressed with great energy! 💞
My Mom loves the shade and I love the sun so while visiting she sits under the porch roof of her memory care building and I sit on the sun. It is with sunscreen but the heat warms my aching muscles. 😊
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Thanks! I sometimes sit on the porch to warm my bones, too. But in the shade 😀
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