Nice Spring Day

Listened to the Rev. Dr. William Barber II on the way back from the airport this morning on the NewYorker Radio Hour. He was the president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP and is now involved with the Poor Peoples Campaign. He pointed out that Jesus was born a jew, in the middle east and most likely had dark skin (would have had a heck of a time getting a US visa I would guess these days) and was very much for Universal Health care, cause he was always healing people for free. The Reverend also had a lot more things to say about the conservative evangelicals who seem to equate having money with being good and having little or no money to being bad. He works with people of all religions, race and orientation. He is for a living wage, health care and for getting all people out of poverty. The episode was well worth listening to.

Garden chores today(done to a Miles Davis soundtrack)

• planted White Phlox
• planted dianthus next to the St Michaelmaas Daisy
• repotted Dwarf Astilbe and Geranium cinereum 'alice' outof pots that were disintergrating daily.
• Pulled up some perivinkle from around the Lilac and of course had to put some in pots. Heaven forbid I just toss perfectly good plants.
•  Moved some peppermint or spearmint (not sure which) out of the shade.
• Trimed the espaliered Witch Hazel and added another old bamboo rod to keep the plant in line.
• general weeding and pruning

Current Blooms:

 Roses

 Geranium cinereum 'alice' mit Toscano Picadilly statuette

 Sedum

 The Peony Garden, I know what a let down, after I mislead you with expectations of acres of Peonys and hundreds of specimens and this is what it comes down to, Next you'll ask if I really am a Cog.

 Iris, purple

The Edelweiss purchased in April already in bloom.

Beers in the Fridge:
Liberty IPA 6.3% ABV. It's dry-hopped you know. A nearly lost art so the copy-writers say. For me a tad too bitter, just OK.

OK it's not beer, it's a Corn 'N' Oil cocktail. OK it's not a Corn 'N' Oil because I added selzter and it's just Bacardi Gold not a fancy blackstrap rum. The bottle recipe only lists the ingredients as 1/2 oz of the Liqueur and 2 oz of either Doorly's XO Barbados Rum or R.L. Seale's rum, then garnished with a lime slice. Other recipes include a dash of bitters and lime juice. The Putney Farm blog describes Velvet Falernum this way "as for velvet falernum, it is a sweet, spicy, lightly-alcoholic liqueur with lime notes" I concur.