Artistic Flower Arrangements

There are good days and there are bad days and then there was today!

The day started out really nice.  It was a a beautiful sunny morning.  I decided to make some hummingbird sugar water to put in my feeders. I got the water and sugar measured out put it all into a pot and placed it on the stove burner to cook.

I then proceeded to my office and turned on the computer.  My husband was at his computer next to me.  As I  became more and more distracted with my office work, the faint smell of smoke started to make it’s way in.  All of I sudden I sprung from my seat as I remembered the sugar water was left on the stove.

Smoking Pot

My hubby was the first one to get to the smokey kitchen.  He immediately took the smoking pot outside.  The smoke was all over the entire house.  We both started opening windows, doors anything to help clear the smoke.  About that time the smoke alarm went off.  Then, about 1 minute later the alarm company called to ask if there was an emergency.  My husband told them no, everything was okay, it was just a burnt pot of sugar water.

As I sit here tonight writing this story, I have scented candles in every nook and cranny trying to get the odor of burnt sugar out of the house.  Did you know that burnt sugar smells just as bad as burnt popcorn?  I expect the smell will be around for some time.

I will probably never hear the end of this from my dear darling hubby.  He will relish every chance he gets to tease me  about it.

The only good to come out of this entire situation, is that we found out our smoke alarm really works and that the signal made it to the alarm company.  However,we also learned that this WAS NOT the way to test the system at the expense of a smoke filled house.

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This year I decided to put come chicken wire around my peony plants to help keep them from toppling over when the flowers got too heavy.  Little did I know that my Peonies would mature to full bloom in what felt was a few days.  The day I first put the wire around the flowers, they were approximately 6 inches tall.  When I checked on them the next time (4 days later) they were almost to the top of the wire.  A few more days later each plant had over two dozen buds on it.  About a week later, lo and behold, my peonies were all in bloom in an astonishing period of time.  I have included photos below of what they looked like down the side of my driveway.  In all there are only twelve plants,  but as you can see, it looks like a whole lot more.  I really enjoy the beauty of this plant, I only wish they would stay in bloom longer!

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