Beanie level: Eunuch in drag

Kept finding myself rewatching the boat scene…and decided it was time to change my wall image. He plays that moment so dang well. 🥰

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Been bookmarking all the dramas I’ve watched to add to my “favorites” here. Had not logged onto Viki in a while, and my old drama lists there are gone because they redid the account side.😱

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That moment when you realize your response has entered the Pedantic Dome, look around at the wider woes of the world, and decide…”Nope, not today,” then promptly delete the post. 😅

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Confession of a Kdrama addict that no one asked for: I’ve learned more Korean words, idioms and phrases from historicals than modern ones. (FWIW: both tradition and fusion.)

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I wanted to give You Are My Spring a chance-I like the FL, but have bad memories of the ML in another show as the jerk analyst/doctor. Plus too much creepy early on for me right now.😔

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    When you feel like it you can give it a chance. 😉 it doesn’t have to be now.

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      I honestly can’t remember at what point I simply developed a low threshold for early on creepy/overly murderly plots. I do remember it killed any chance I had of even starting the one show with the subway muderer which I can’t even recall the name of at the moment. 🤔 Maybe it was Criminal Minds that was the killing straw there? So many good actors in that show that I stuck it out to watch the whole thing. I just remember a whole lotta shows around then suddenly had weird dark twists that made me unhappy, even Welcome/Secret Boy had a creepy turn for Pete’s sake!

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        The murder/mystery part in YAMS is crucial for the development of the story especially the development of the relationship between the leads. It’s too nerve-racking for me for binging the show though others might disagree with this. But anyway, I strongly recommend watching any show when you feel like it. 🙂

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Just noticed my beanie level, and now I\’m wondering if anyone that ever travels to Korea goes to the places that rent costumes ever dresses as a eunuch in drag. 🤔

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Thought I took a picture when the flowers had developed the seeds, but can’t find it. So here’s a picture of what lily of the valley seeds look like. They do brown from drying over time.

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Tonight I’m planting seeds that germinated in water baths into soil filled paper containers, starting with these peas. (Some day…I will find time to add all the shows missing from my list here. 🤪)

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LoV update: And then there were more lilies of the valley…

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I finally took some follow-up photos of the lilies of the valley today. I was actually quite wrong about the size of the ones I have, so I’m glad I brought out a yard stick today! More new shoots too.

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    These are definitely a good size! I dug out feet of LOV this year, they were taking over my garden.

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      I went to a friend’s house the other day, which they bought last year. The LoV in one bed had spread into their lawn as well as a bit over their property line where they border on a sloped woody area. A lot of the vegetation in the garden overall hadn’t been minded in a while, so there’s a lot of work to do there, as we found when we bought our home here. I’ll be helping her thin them out later this week, as they get very invasive here and can take over woodland areas, suppressing native plants. That’s why I put ours where they are–it’s hemmed in by the house foundation on one side, and the asphalt from the driveway on the other 3.

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        That was smart of you 👍🏼 Mine was contained by concrete on three sides and now decided to run down the remaining length of the bed 😤, crowding out so many bee-friendly perennials. I look at my little garden bed and have to laugh at how much money has been spent trying to make it a bee oasis and how many monarda I’ve managed to kill.

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          One thing I didn’t realize about deadheading the monarda as much as I was made them over clump below ground and strangled themselves because I forgot you’re also supposed to divided them. 😳

          Keeping them a bit thinned for air circulation to prevent powdery mildew helps too, especially if they are in partial shade. You can combine 1T of baking soda w/ water in a standard spray bottle and use it on the leaves if they get the mildew despite thinning during a rainy/damp year. I use the same mix when our pumpkin leaves get it too.

          My worst garden thug yet best chop and drop is burdock. I’ve learned to use it to protect late growers so weeds don’t have much of a chance to start (like our strawberries we have between the fence and driveway), then chop the leaves back when those later plants are good and ready for some full sun time. I also keep it less thuggish now that I know to clip any seeds that start to form on them which I toss in our “baking bin” (metal ash can we put any vigorous weed seeds in for a year so the sun literally bakes them to death, and then they’re safe to compost).

          I am still fairly horrible about starting flowers from seeds. We were lucky in that we “inherited” a lot of flowering perennials/self seeding annuals of various types when we bought our house–the original owners were definitely gardeners. 😄

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            My monarda grow a little the first year and then just don’t come back ☹️ Sadly, my thumb is not a green one. Thanks for the powdery mildew recipe, I just sprayed my newest (attempts at) monarda with copper fungicide because they literally came from the store and had PM three days later. My best plant by far this Spring is a 3 ft tall Squaw Weed that the birds kindly planted for me!

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            @bbstl I’m going to try adding more monarda this year now that I know what I did wrong. Sometimes it takes a few days of spray to knock down the PM, depending on weather.

            It took a while after we moved here before I figured out which local nurseries were worthwhile buying from, as we had some dire disappointments our first year. I remember being quite mad that all the celosias didn’t last a month despite perfect siting. 😒

            I would be thrilled if squaw weed volunteered in our garden! Here they call it golden groundsel. Both golden and running groundsels are native here. Running has thinner and wider spaced yellow petals. Depending on where you are, you might see the gorgeous black and red cinnabar moth near it, as it’s a host plant for their young.

            We try to let volunteers grow until we can at least ID them, which has added some wonderful plants over time. This year there are a few patches of wild yarrow leafing out in the front of our house. My biggest surprise last year was a Queen Anne’s Lace. Although we do get lots of false carrots, it was the first year that showed up. Which reminds me, I saved some seeds from that and should start germinating them. The weather this year is much more mild than last, and we held off starting seeds indoors because we don’t have grow lights and last year everything got leggy and weak waiting for the weather to warm up because we haven’t built a small greenhouse yet–hopefully next year.

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            @Lily left the valley
            It’s so funny how things don’t follow what they’re “supposed” to do, you never know what you’re going to get!
            I drove past a roughly 40 ft long “wall” of Queen Anne’s Lace yesterday, it was breathtaking!

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            @bbstl Aye, that’s the amazing thing when you do see those wide swaths aka “carpets” of a certain species. Visually, it can be stunning in a good way, and sometimes even breathtaking due to the sheer scale of them. 😊

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    @bbstl @lilyleftthevalley are these considered as weeds in your area?

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      They’re not considered weeds, or at least haven’t been so far. Mine stayed contained for many years and suddenly in the last two years went berserk. Gosh, and their root system is serious! I also have goldenrod and phlox that have gone nuts, so I’ve been digging out a lot in order to,plant summer perennials for pollinators.

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      It depends on which resource you look at. To horticultural folks, they are a beloved flower and a must have in the garden. To native plant folks, they are a noxious weed that often escapes into woodlands and invasively crowds out native species on the forest floors, sometimes to the point of making near monocultures at the expense of what normally would be anywhere from 40-100s of varieties, depending on the micro clime. There also aren’t a lot of species here that feed on them, though there are some bacteria/fungi that can affect them when they are experiencing stress conditions (like drought or late frost).

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        That should have read “sometimes to the point of making near monocultures at the expense of what normally would be anywhere from 40-100s of varieties of other species, depending…”

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Apparently I deleted the now missing post when trying to reply to it. Sorry about that, @mmmmm ! Think it\’s time for me to go to bed. 😴 (3:40 AM here)

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    Oh.. you should sleep this late though. I sleep late, too, like 2 a.m. but that’s as far as I can go. 😅 My goal is to sleep around 1 a.m.

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Hope the image doesn’t vanish this time.
@mmmmm the first image is a photograph I took of them a few days ago-not planted a few days ago. So this image is from May 26, 2020, not May of 2021.

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    Their flowers are so cute; they are like upside-down, white little bells. 🙂 I know that this flower is used a lot in perfumes. It’s so nice to have the real ones at your house.

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    🌸 🌱

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    Is this lilly of the valley?

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      yes

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        Is that clover next to it? It is that small?

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          Yes, those are some clover nearby just starting to grow which I also try to encourage under there though they get limited sun (this “garden bed” is under the small porch for our side door right next to our driveway to the garage, but it does get some east and south sun).

          Depending on the type of lily of the valley, they can grow anywhere from 6-12″ tall. I think this variety tops out around 6 or 7″. I’ve honestly never measured them.😊 They mostly spread underground by rhizomes, but also can develop a pea like seed.

          We are in the New England region (USDA plant hardiness zone 5b). Our last frost date usually falls around May 20th, so we don’t have a very long growing season which is why both have just started to grow recently. Last year we had snow the second week in May, which isn’t typical, but can happen. We almost always have at least some snow in mid April here, though (including this year). I grew up in the mid-Atlantic region on a barrier island bordering the Atlantic which is a much more temperate zone. We rarely got snow there, and when we did the salt air usually made short work of it. I love snow which is one of the reasons we moved further north.

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            Yeah. I read somewhere that lily of the valley cannot withstand heat. Thus, a tropical girl like me can only see it thru picture. And as most picture doesnt have size comparation, ive never realize that theyre that smol 🤣🤣.

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After the conversation about my screen name, I thought it would be fun to post an image I took a few days ago of 1/2 of my namesake starting to grow here at our forever home.

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    I have NEVER seen the real lily
    of the valley! Pls post your picture when it has fully bloomed also!

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      I’ll post a pic of them in bloom last year for now, but will post another later in the year when this year’s crop is in bloom. (Will have to make a new post for the photo, doesn’t seem to be a button in replies.)

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Just leaving this here to remind myself I’m overdue of a rewatch of this drama…

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Catching up to Vincenzo, and SKS keeps coming up in comments, and all I can think of is these two…

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    They were magical together ❤️. They totally deserved the best couple award.
    I’m going to die if they play opposite each other in a drama or film.

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    They’re so great! I started watching it again last week but have to FF through all the Mickey ☹️

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      Yeah, I haven’t rewatched the whole show again since that was in the news. I have thought about skimming through those scenes too, but just haven’t yet.

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        For me, it’s only partly because of his personal news but more because he’s just not an interesting actor (especially compared to the other two). I would have loved a spin-off of their characters.

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Cripes. 2020 is still leaching time from 2021. Never enough hours in the day for all the K stuff I’d rather be doing.

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I’m still suffering a bit of whiplash from FoE tonight. Just look at my poor tail! Look at it stuck half lashed! It might take all night to get the kinks out.

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Me when I went to bed late, but woke up before FoE has even aired in SK, forget being subbed yet. (And had to remake this post 3 times because still half asleep.)

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*looks at calendar* Wednesday feels so far awaaaaay.

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I came here and confirmed there is only one episode of FoE this week. I think I knew that, but was in denial. Might be for the best–my heart couldn’t take another ep after yesterday.

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