Fancy Plants
Saturday-Sunday, September 13-14, 2025
Fancy Plants
Euonymus alatus is popular decorative shrub that turns bright red this time of year (beginning now locally). It is better known as “burning bush.” It looks a little something like this in full fall color:
It is, as a decorative plant popular with gardeners, and, as fate would have it, an invasive species native to East Asia.
It is easy to cultivate: plant them, and they take off. Which is part of the problem when they escape into the local wilds, where their robustness gives them an edge over local flora.
They bloom inconspicuously in the spring. The blossoms are small and yellowish green to pale green. The blossoms look like tender young leaves.
Are there any early signs of fall you your environs?
Good morning. I will get back to writing TSAF eventually. It's just been crazy here. We still have pallets of siding sitting in the driveway. My husband says he won't pay the bill until it's gone - we already got a nastygram from the HOA about it - and the project manager is all, "Not my fault." Well, son, not your $73,000, either, until someone hauls that stuff away. Give it to your brother-in-law or something.
I'm working at a church event today. Maybe I'll even be sitting or something, depends on how many kids there are to watch. Guadalupe, the buyer for my van, is supposed to come complete the sale with my husband, the owner of record, while I'm gone. They should have enough of a common language.
Afternoon, everyone. A nice time was had by all at the church event.
When I went to pick up the sandwiches at the grocery store deli at 11:00, they were running a little behind, which was okay because our event was running a little behind, too. A lady about my age said it was because one of the deli employees hadn't come to work this morning, and I said that I understood that was pretty common, because my son had once been a deli guy in that store.
"Who was it?" she asked, and I named and described Beau Handsome, Son A, "and it was 8 years ago or so." "Oh, Beau! I remember him. He was a lot of fun! Tell him Lisa says Hey."
So I texted Beau and passed along the greeting from Lisa at the deli, and he replied, "Lisa! She was organized and efficient; we got a lot done!" This made Lisa happy, as did the news that Beau is now a successful Ad Guy in New York.
The van transaction was successful, and I hope it makes Guadalupe very happy. USAA told me that North Carolina won't let me take the insurance off it until we surrender the license plate or cancel the registration, neither of which can be done earlier than Monday, but that will be okay. Darn government.
I am now officially a person who drives a little red hot rod instead of a Big Van. It's going to be weird.