How vain are you?

ahahahaha, didn't figure that one out!! Yep, the panties are HUGE!!!!!

How I miss gardening, although my energy level is not what it used to be.   It was pretty to look at my efforts and see things blooming and attracting birds.   Living in an apartment in the heart of the city with only an 8 foot balcony is not the same...   I do have a butterfly bush and some fake bright pink flowers.   I get a bit of a gardening fix at my sons with a huge deck and this year plants near the front door - begonias and geraniums with petunias.  If nothing else, I get to water them all.    

SelenaWolf. You know those disposable surgical scrub brushes they use in the hospital? They have a sponge on one side that is impregnated with soap iodine cleanser.  The brush side is soft, bazillions of little fingers poking up and perfect for getting the soil out from under your finger nails, cuticles, toes (if you garden in flip flops).  You can get those lovely little brushes sans the sponge side from LeeValley Tools, online, or at their store.  They are dead cheap and they are the best thing since.....

Barb - There is a fine line between short haircuts. There's the "flat, shapeless cap" that most "older women" seem to fancy, and the short, fluffy, spiky, curly, sassy cuts that are truly youthful. Believe me, I went through all of them trying to find the look I liked best. But between long and short.... it's the short I love best! SO easy to take care of! Dries in minutes, and I can leave it naturally curly or straighten it, depending on my mood. And I can spike the top, if I so desire. Luckily, it grows pretty fast, so even the not-best haircut is just temporary.

Selena - O.k. This is me, shaking my finger at you!  Where were your gardening gloves? With everything I've read about LE, I know I should wear gloves every time I dig in my garden, but I so love the feel of soil through my fingers!!! And yes, I deal with the dirt aftermath, too....

I adore the planted bathtub in your garden! The closest thing I have is an old rusted child's wagon (mine) that is planted with pink and white draping verbena, and an old rusted wheelbarrow that I am thinking of planting with kitchen herbs.

Sadly, here in Central California we are in the middle of a terrible drought, so we have to be so water-wise right now...

Selena, your garden is just beautiful, I can almost smell that French Lilac and the bath, planted out is fantastic!

Dirt remover for me is a massage with coconut or olive oil and then a scrub with a soft nail brush, or exfoliating salt scrub if they are really bad.

It sure would be nice to garden someplace that everything didn't burn up before July. Oleanders, Crape Myrtles & Zinnias are about all that is blooming by ghen. I do manage to keep my herbs in big pots alive.

Beautiful garden, Selena. i didnt know that metformin was made from the french lilac, but you do have quite the medicinal garden. foxglove i think is used for digitalis, the heart medicine. and the marigolds are calendula, basis for many a healing balm. and the gentian violet is used as an antiseptic, altho sometimes i draw with it, or dye small pieces of fabric. amazing.

OH, moonflowers...I'm swooning. used to grow them when I lived in washington dc, but up here the growing season is too short... BAHHHHHHHHH,  get many one bud, and the night air is too cold for the smell to waft anywhere....more BBBBAAAAAAAAHHHH

SW - sweet woodruff was one of Vita Sackeville-West's favorites ;-)

Back out to dig more veggie bed b4 it storms...

SW - you forgot some of my favorites, chocolate mint, and lemon verbena

oh, that sounds like a beautiful tree, Melissa!

It is a good thing it is coming down, then! better at the hand of a good tree surgeon, than a storm! it will be like a blank canvas there, in that part of the yard for you to fill!