Yesterday morning, shortly after writing my little blog post, I went across the street to lie upon the neighbours lawn. As it turned out, I was mainly offering my body as breakfast for the mosquitoes. It is nice to take care of the ladies, which is what the biting mosquitoes are, but really now.
I did come away with a few quick photos of low-lying pink flowers, which is the real reason that I was lying on the grass as much as I do like to aid the local critters.
I know there are flowers known as Pinks. I don't, however, know if these are officially those flowers.
Speaking of mosquitoes, this seems to be an exceptionally bad year. Sue and I resumed our daily walks after falling out of the habit for a bit. When we went to our usual bench, we didn't even sit down, for as I looked down at my bare legs below my shorts, I thought I saw flecks of mud all over. Then I realized that it wasn't mud but mosquitoes. Seriously, I don't know how many were on me, but there must have been at least a dozen. We were quick to move off.
We ordered some masks that a friend raved about for their comfort. They are to come from Montreal, which is a 2.5 hour drive. It was shipped a week ago but there is no delivery date available yet. That seems a little much, even in these times. From frightening stories that I am hearing, the masks may not arrive before a vaccine — like maybe June 2021!
Since Shauna had (and still has our car until this afternoon) we were texting about having her pick me up in time for my scheduled grocery pickup. A rather delightful autocorrect occured. I believe that I was just trying to type "to go," but I ended up with "Yugoslavia." I do type poorly, so who knows what keys I hit by mistake; the y and the t are adjacent on the keyboard.
As you know, Sue and I do our selfies together, but this one we did individually for some reason, so I put them together myself.
Since Shauna had (and still has our car until this afternoon) we were texting about having her pick me up in time for my scheduled grocery pickup. A rather delightful autocorrect occured. I believe that I was just trying to type "to go," but I ended up with "Yugoslavia." I do type poorly, so who knows what keys I hit by mistake; the y and the t are adjacent on the keyboard.
As you know, Sue and I do our selfies together, but this one we did individually for some reason, so I put them together myself.
Those flowers are a kind of dianthus, which are called pinks...They should have been fragrant in a spicy way...So sorry about the mosquitoes! Yuck...
ReplyDeleteThanks Thicket. Yes they were fragrant, not that I was appreciating it too much at the time.
ReplyDeleteI have found sometimes that mosquitoes are repelled by certain soap scents...and attracted to others. I use a liquid soap called Dr. Bronners, peppermint scent. It has left my bare legs and arms unbitten at times when others were very unhappy. You can also consider slathering on a mosquito repellant with some awful scents! The photos of the Pinks are exquisite though!
ReplyDeleteYes, the pink flowers are dianthus and we used to have them every year in our yard, but I never tempted the mosquitoes by getting down to ground level. We haven’t been on any trail walks lately so unsure of the 🦟 population here.
ReplyDeleteAS everyone has said...one of the dianthus. We have only planted ones here and I am guessing yours were wild? I do like that latest selfie...oddly enough!
ReplyDeleteJust as well there is no malaria transmission in Canada! We don't get many mosquitoes here but instead, we have the Scottish midge.
ReplyDeleteI like Danica's tie dye t-shirt, made some myself with the kids when they were little. So much fun!
The the autocorrect made me smile. I just got a new phone with a bigger screen so I can see what I am typing.
That autocorrect is a nuisance but I won’t turn it off.
ReplyDeleteI like it even more, now that I know she tie dyed it herself. Messy though! I didn't know that the biting mosquitoes were female. On behalf of ladies everywhere, I apologize. :) How horrible to have that many on you! I love my dianthus; it's that huge pink flowered plant that I posted a photo of a while back.
ReplyDeleteIn times of mosquito plagues, I use repellent, happily. I just remembered a time in Colorado when I was camping overnight by myself. I was forced into my tent and when I saw the clouds of them outside, I stayed in there for the remainder of the evening. Unbearable numbers! :-)
ReplyDeleteVery few mosquitoes in my area. Thank goodness. Hey, I have been to Croatia when it was part of Yugoslavia. Very beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are lovely!!!!
ReplyDeleteGlad that you are still able to entice the ladies ! 😜. Even if it only mosquitos this morning.
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Pinks for sure. Did you smell them? Just like cinnamon.
ReplyDeleteMosquitoes can drive a person indoors pretty quickly.
ReplyDeleteShe did an excellent job on her shirt dying.
I have had some really funny auto-correcting on my texts and when I do the audio texting it doesn't understand me half the time and crazy stuff comes out. I guess I do have a little bit of an accent from growing up around Swedish relatives when I was a kid. ;)
I assume you mean June 2021 for the vaccine, not June 2020, which is right now!
ReplyDeleteDavid. Do you mean it isn't 2019 anymore? Where does the time go?
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