With seed catalogs arriving daily. I have already been tempted by a few packets, this year I'm trying out a new catalog. 

Peaceful Valley Farm Supply

Couldn't resist Scarlet Flax and Yellow Cosmos . 

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One way of keeping the riff- raff out

You guessed it,,,MOSS

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That's what I said , several months ago , to this Aeonium 'Zwartkop' , a cheapo plant purchase. From a nameless discount grocery store.  It never seemed to be doing enough, so I thought I'd give it a bit of encouragement. It seems to be working... 

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Driech Synonyms: black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian,cloudy, cold, 

comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing,depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate,

 dismal, drear,dreary, gloomy [chieflyScottish], elegiac (also elegiacal),forlorn, 

funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey),lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, 

miserable, morbid, morose,murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, 

somber(or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous,wretched 

The word I  was thinking  of  this week , but never actually said... out loud. You need to be Scottish, for it to sound affictive.

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The Mickmeister modeling a new quilt.