The Daily Rave

[rosarugosa]

I almost talked myself out of going to a native plant sale this past Sunday. They had published a spreadsheet of what they would have for sale, and they had very few specimens of the things I really wanted, e.g. only two red trilliums! DH said if I went, maybe I would get at least some of what I wanted, but if I didn't go, I had zero chance of getting any of the plants. So we went and I scored ALL the plants I wanted, even one of the red trilliums! I also got bloodroot, mayapple, jewelweed, culver's root, wild strawberry, and white wood aster. DH even carried all my plants for me. He is the best. <3

[rosarugosa]

Most baby animals are cute, aren't they? My rave is that my 2 sisters and good friend -honorary sister-came over to my house for lunch, carry out fish tacos, soft shell crabs and scallops wrappped in bacon. Lots of conversation. Restorative!

That sounds really delicious!

[happystuff]

Love those kinds of get-togethers, nswef. Glad you all had a great time.

Nice score, rr! Sometimes it just takes showing up.

[early morning]

Love wildflowers, especially trillium and violets. I have a few red and large white trillium - they are slow spreaders for me. I have lots of bloodroot. Started with one clump, and it's now everywhere. I have a lot of shade, so woodland spring-bloomers work well here. We also have Dutchmen's britches, columbine, violets in purple, white, white/purple specked, and yellow, wood poppies, and (non-blooming!!) dog-tooth violets, along with some stuff I don't remember the names of at the moment. In many places, the yard is violets. Happy planting, rr! Enjoy!
Yay for wildflowers!

[catherine]

Love wildflowers, especially trillium and violets. I have a few red and large white trillium - they are slow spreaders for me. I have lots of bloodroot. Started with one clump, and it's now everywhere. I have a lot of shade, so woodland spring-bloomers work well here. We also have Dutchmen's britches, columbine, violets in purple, white, white/purple specked, and yellow, wood poppies, and (non-blooming!!) dog-tooth violets, along with some stuff I don't remember the names of at the moment. In many places, the yard is violets. Happy planting, rr! Enjoy!
Yay for wildflowers!

I'm with you on the trillium and violets!! I have some common violets that I brought up here from my son's yard and they're adorable. As for trillium, I read something on FB that said that you should never pick trillium if you see in the wild because it takes 7 years to bloom! Do you know if that's true?

[Klunick]

Not that I needed any 4th of July decor, but I was looking on the Kirkland's website for what they have knowing full well that that store is pretty expensive. Found something I really wanted. Original price was $49.99 but it was on sale for $37.49. But with tax and shipping, it came to over $50. I didn't like/need it that much. I did a Google photo search of the item and it said Michael's had the same thing for only $28.99 so I got it. With tax and shipping, it was still under $40.

[Tradd]

First, I didn’t have to bring any work home this weekend. I was thinking about bringing a few things home to get a start on next week, but I really don’t have a ton next week, so I said, NO! I’ve had my 2024 Crosstrek for 11 months. I keep the dash and such wiped down, but I eat in my car daily and those little crumbs get in all the nooks and crannies. I regularly run it through the car wash on my corner (I have a monthly plan so often multiple times a week - lots of trees where I park at home, so bird poo!), but I’ve never had the inside detailed. Went tonight after work as this is the least busy time. $27, but I got 3 for the price of 2. About 30 minutes later the Scubaru is so nice and fresh on the inside. Mats clean (I have the Subaru all weather ones). Crumbs all gone! Yay! Then I ran it through the car wash myself and got gas. That was literally my chore for the weekend. I got a big delivery of groceries via Walmart last weekend so I need nothing right now. I’m just going to veg and read. I just want to relax. I run all week at work.

[HappyHiker]

Happy chilling, Tradd. So nice to have a clean car and a full frig of food. And no take-home work.

[early morning]

As for trillium, I read something on FB that said that you should never pick trillium if you see in the wild because it takes 7 years to bloom! Do you know if that's true?

I don't know about picked trillium, as I don't know if that substantially harms the rhizome. I do know that planted from seed, it can take years for a bloom - 5-10 from what I've been told, but I've never tried to grow from seed. They replicate via rhizome mass, so if you have a clump, you can cautiously dig them up and tease out the divisions, and replant. So far, I've only done that once, as they grow slowly and I don't want to bring the wrath of the wildflower goddess down on my head, lol.

[Tradd]

I had the delightful experience at the end of an extremely stressful week of proving a customs trade atty WRONG. Very. VERY wrong. Customer of mine imports steel items from China. These items became subject to 25% steel duty in March, which increased to 50% earlier this week. Said items are also subject to the 20% China fentanyl duty from March. Customer is desperate to pay less duty. He hired a customs trade atty to help. Said trade atty insisted he got another customer in the same position to NOT pay the 20% China duty from March because they were also subject to the 50% steel duty.

I was gobsmacked when customer told me this over the phone yesterday. I told him it wasn’t possible. And it’s REALLY not possible. At customer’s request, I attempted to file a customs clearance FOUR times today without the HS code that triggers the 20% China duty, in various ways (there are lots of tariff numbers required these days and in a certain order). Couldn’t get it through and sent customer screen shots of the rejection from my system (the message CBP sends to our system). Customs system help desk confirmed the clearance rejected because of the lack of the tariff number for the 20% China duty from March.

Customer also talked to Customs and was told the same thing. Customer finally admitted the trade atty was WRONG. I sent him plenty of proof yesterday that this atty was barking up the wrong tree, but oh, no, atty was right. I did a happy Snoopy dance in my cube when I saw the email from the customer admitting the atty was WRONG. What made this even trickier is the customer is the son of one of the owners of where i work.

I love being on top of my game and proving a lawyer WRONG!