Many days have passed. I'm still waiting for George.
He did materialize shortly after my last blog post in December. And he did, however briefly, fix my fancy
Dacor Preference ovens. He replaced 2 sensors. For such an expensive oven, you'd expect them to look like tiny little carved fingers. Alas no, they look like metallic toggles with a plastic
thingie - reminiscent of something you would have to cut off a well packaged pair of pajamas from Asia before you could climb into them.
On his second visit he gave me the secret key code to reboot my fabulous
Dacor Preference ovens and a third spent sensor. The secret key code sequence was my emergency fall-back should the testy oven decide not to work during one of the 7 dinner parties I had foolishly scheduled over the holiday season.
Well, it's a new year, and we have a new error code - the fatal U60 Cooling Fan code. There is no code of inoculation for this sad oven illness. George has ordered a new part, or maybe he's fashioning the repair piece from Christmas present debris and/or tinsel. No doubt he'll be in touch between now and Christmas 2010. With only one oven operating it should be twice as easy to eat half as much!
And so I conclude my sad little
blogtale with a couple of photos of
burlapped plants - it's snowing and cold and this is about as close to gardening as I'm going to get.....will look for some summer photos tomorrow.
This is a
rhodo getting wind protection, stylishly embellished with seasonal bows:
It's very peculiar the sorts of creatures who are attracted to burlap.
And of course, one shot of Bart - on the lookout for George.
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A very satisfactory wild aster that appeared in my garden several years ago. No doubt, I'm contributing to its spread by leaving the little seed heads on and not cutting it back.
This is a Ligularia dentata that self-seeded. Unlike the original, it doesn't appear to need as much water. In the shade, it can be difficult to find flowers to attract butterflies. However, its orangey-yellow flowers are always covered with Monarchs and bees late in the summer.
Here's a little bamboo that stays green in the winter here. I'm impressed with anything so tropical looking that stands up to snow.
A little Anemone cylindrica that appears to have completely lost its mind.
Mahonia repens - it really enjoyed its wet summer.
The promise of flowers to come.
Cornus Xmaslightsia - alas, it has lost its hue of blue over the weekend.
This is what I found on Friday....a little bud.
Looks that much bigger without the snow around it today.
And, just because it's fun to compare - here's what it looked like at 3:00 today. Shooting at a full open aperture & 1/60 of a second....you know it looks much brighter in the shot, you're probably wondering why I'm whinging about the dark.
And then same time last year. Must admit, if I'm going to have winter, I want it all - the snow, the cold and most important, the sunshine. Just a much happier sight all together.
