I'd taken today off of work to get all my stuff planted in my flower bed. But, once we got the hot wire stretched Saturday evening, I just couldn't wait that long. I got out there Sunday afternoon and planted everything, because I just couldn't wait.
That's a good thing, because it ended up raining all day today. Actually, it started raining Sunday night and hasn't stopped yet.
I had other stuff in the yard I wanted to do-- like trimming up my ever more scraggly Azaleas, and pulling the honeysuckle out of the pear and plum trees-- but the rain, well, I just didn't want to get out in it.
So I finished off the 2011 Anniversary Mystery Shawl. Here it is in its unblocked state.
Here is a closeup of the pattern.
Kindly ignore the state of my carpet. Two days of rain plus three dogs equals a nasty carpet, and until the mud dries, there's no point in trying to do anything about it.
Around 4:30ish, I put on my jacket and went to check my flower beds to see if anything was growing yet. Yeah, I only planted two days ago, but I'm impatient like that. To my horror, I found a bulb laying on top of the dirt. My first thought was that one of my daffodils had been uprooted.
Well, my first thought was "ACK!", but that goes without saying.
I checked my flower bed carefully, but nothing seemed out of place, nor were there any holes where it looked like anything had been uprooted. Then I picked up the bulb, and saw that it wasn't a daffodil anyway. Nearest I could tell, it was a spider lily bulb.
I think. The leaves look like spider lily, but compared to the rest of my spider lily bulbs, it is HUGE.
No matter. Tomorrow afternoon, as soon as I get off of work, it is getting planted.
Where it came from remains a mystery. The only thing I can think of is that James dug it up when he was digging his drainage ditch from the garden, and tossed it over there where I would find it.
Either that, or it fell out of the sky.
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