It was around the middle of July when I first noticed the flower spike on my phalaenopsis orchid plant. Yesterday the first bloom opened with at least three to follow.
I'm guessing that by the time I noticed the spike it was at least three weeks or more old. From the time the spike first appears to actual bloom time averages around three months, so my little guy is a go-getter.
All gardening teaches patience, but orchids do it in spades.
The spike was about half this height when I first noticed it:
And now:
The back of the bloom:
I've been led to believe that and orchid doesn't grow new leaves when it's blooming. Not so. The new leaf was just starting to appear when I first noticed the spike. It's grown rapidly as the spike grew taller.
Things are slowly returning to normal around here after my husband's hasty and late night hernia surgery. But guess who gets to continue doing the heavy lifting for the foreseeable future? I'm going to have shoulders like a linebacker in a few more weeks. (Note from Mr. Adrienne: She already has shoulders like a linebacker, can whip my ass at arm wrestling, comes equipped with Italian killer instincts, and is definitely someone you don't want to tangle with in a dark alley. I've been terrified of her for close to 40 years.)
Onward:
The news has become so egregiously phony the MSM and libtard blogs don't even try to hide it anymore. I guess we've moved on from "Russia, Russia, Russia" to "McMaster, McMaster, McMaster." Just because everyone has jumped on the "McMaster is a traitor" bandwagon doesn't make it true. It seems the world is filled with "unnamed sources", "sources close to...", and anonymous tipsters".
So about this Trump removal thingy.
I've never felt that a perfect storm of civil unrest was seething on the horizon until just recently. I was a Trump supporter from the moment he rode down that escalator with his wife to announce his run for president. I voted for him. I still support him and think he's doing a great job, especially considering his job has been Sisyphean.
If any virtue signalling, stupid, and venal libtards think they're going to take my vote, and the votes of other Trump supporters, and pitch them in the trash can of history, I don't think I would be able to contain my rage. Just thinking about such an occurrence makes me want to grab the closest liberal and choke the life out of them.
Michael Savage:
[...]“That
is what’s going to happen in this country,” he pointed out. “You have not yet
seen mob violence in this country. You’ve seen some mob violence instigated by
George Soros’ mobs.”
“But you haven’t seen the
thing I’m telling you is coming in this country. You haven’t seen the ‘Day of
the Locust’ yet.”
Savage was referring to
the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust,
which analyzes the violent rage of Americans who slaved away their entire lives
only to realize that the American dream was impossible for them to achieve.
“When Eddie finally
gets up and says that’s the end of the road, and Eddie’s eyes turn red, and
blood is in his eyes, Eddie will turn this society upside down,” the Savage
Nation host said. “And if [the left] take(s) Trump down, through Mueller or
through any other source and deny Eddie his vote, there will be a civil war in
this country.”
“I’m warning you. All of
you leftists who think you’re going to steal our vote, you’re wrong.”
“…But if
you do the next step and steal our president, I warn you. You’ve seen nothing
yet,” he added. “You will see the ‘Day of the Locust’ in this country.”source
You may feel free to call me Eddie. I've had a lifetime of putting up with elitist SJW snotty libtards and their fake concern and holier-than-thou approach to the normal people of the world. You've called me homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic, deplorable, and an ignorant dirt dweller. The only thing you haven't called me is by my real name - normal.
Normal people don't think a man who calls himself a woman is normal. Normal people don't think it's okay to teach teenage girls as young as 12 that sodomy is A-okay. By the way, Teen Vogue - it's not "anal sex", it's sodomy! Normal people don't march around declaring that islam is a "religion of peace." Notice the muslims aren't marching. It's the stupid white people who are clamoring for their own destruction. That's not normal. The mass killing of babies in the womb is not "choice", it's murder, and it's not normal for a woman to kill her own child.
I have no idea if McMaster is a leftist plant as many people think. I do know that everything I read now is suspect and deserves very little attention.
Let's take some advice from Kurt Schlichter:
[...]Time to say
“No.” Time to refuse to go along and get along. Time to fight the culture war
instead of surrendering to the lies. Time to fight the legal war and refuse to
allow our justice system to be exploited by prosecutors so biased and dishonest
they wouldn’t pass muster in 1600s Salem. Time to fight the political war
against the frauds, fakes, and Flakes infecting our party.
Because if
we don’t, they are going to keep pushing and pushing and pushing, and they are
going to demand we submit to subjugation, and then we’re going to have to fight another kind of war to preserve our liberty and our
Constitution. And that would be really, really bad. Mostly for them.read the whole thing
And to sweeten the pot some Bill Whittle at his finest:
On the upside and exciting side - my orchid is going to bloom. Really! I decided it needed some orchid food. Amazon to the rescue again. My chances of finding orchid food at Wallyworld, Ace Hardware, or Lowe's was zero to none. Okay, to be fair, it turns out that Lowe's did have orchid food, but during this heat wave and blanketed in smoke since we're surrounded by forest fires in Eastern Washington, Canada, and Montana, a drive to Coeur d'Alene to purchase one item was not high on my list. My nice mailman plopped it in my mailbox - and I thank him.
