Contemplations

My son doesn't watch TV a great deal but he loves to watch videos on YouTube and for quite some time he has been watching grownups reviewing toys and especially Lego-sets. But suddenly one day he started to watch videos made by a man with the name Joseph Garrett aka known as Stampy Cat. This young man plays Minecraft a lot. So now I hear Stampy Cat in my house every day. He has a rather sweet voice and his videos are funny and sometimes very exciting. Many hours have been spent watching Stampy Cat create things, loosing dogs, getting help from Lee Bear and competing with Squid. Then I thought; why are we watching someone else playing? Perhaps we can try to play ourselves. I downloaded the Minecraft app to our IPad and we started. I have not played much at all since I overdosed on Doom many, many moons ago. I stopped because I couldn't sleep. Hard to fall peacefully to sleep when you hear monsters breathing down your neck. But this game is so innocent in comparison...

Tulips are beautiful but oh, so hard to grow. Hostas are easy but sort of boring. Some flowers you are supposed to prune, some need a lot of water, some only last a year. Here is my list of the best flowers for having continuous bloom in your garden with little work and less money. Spring Flowers  For spring flowers I recommend four different kinds. Snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils and violas/pansies. Snowdrops are hardy, can bloom even in snow and spread by both seed and bulbs. Simply pull of the seed pod and put it somewhere you want to grow snowdrops and in a few years you will have new ones to brighten your early spring. Crocuses can grow almost anywhere and they are wonderful spots of color in early spring. They also spread by themselves. The only downside with these pretty flowers is that squirrels tend to like both the bulbs and the flowers. Daffodils , I absolutely love daffodils. They come in lots of different variations; yellow, white with orange middles, do...