Saturday

It's 53 degrees and sunny.

Going to be a great day!

• Saturday: Morning fog lifts, then sunshine and mild! High in the low 80s.
• Saturday night: Clear and comfortable, Low in the mid to upper 50s.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny and warm. High: 86, Low: 60

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This must mean something.

These jaws look as if they mean business,

... but are they large enough to tackle this?

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Out in Sangerfield, Tim Bartlett's done more work on the Golf Course site: "T"s seem to be taking shape; the rest of the land has been tilled and it appears that he's dug a sizable pond in the southwest corner of the area.

Joe Pye Weed is blooming along roadsides and in swampy spots, and someone always asks, "Who is Joe Pye?"

According to Ken Moore, who writes a column for the Carrboro Citizen, "The familiar description is of a Native American herb doctor in the Massachusetts Bay Colony region. The Indian’s name was Joe-Pye and he used a special plant to ease the discomfort of a common disease known as typhus, or typhoid fever. So the plant was commonly identified by early settlers as Joe-Pye-Weed."

I like to pick it, strip the leaves from the stem and just put it in a container - with or without water - and let it dry to a nice pale pinky-lavender color to use with other dried plants in arrangements to look at: not eat or drink!

And now Pat has PURPLE Trumpets blooming in her gardens next to the old church on Babbott Avenue South!

Although her offspring has simple tastes - for things like grass and clover - Mother Deer much prefers my hanging tuberous begonias!

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I'll be taking tomorrow off - back on Monday!

Have a great weekend!

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