About once a day Aaron or I will say, "hey, did you see what's happening in the Garden Room....?" So this is the time of year stuff should be dying, and in fact some of it is, but some of our plants aren't ready to go to sleep yet! It's really fun to see the things that we received as wedding gifts still blooming. We are hopful that almost all of them will come back in the spring and we get to watch them grow even more. Here are some pictures we took yesterday:
Fuchsia is quite happy:
Fuchsia from the groom's dinner (there are others like it):
This is more like what we expect in fall. Here's our Wedding Tree. It's leaves were BRIGHT red this fall but we didn't get out there in time with the camera.
This dahlia doesn't know it's time to go to sleep. The Dahlia Barn experts told us to cut down the dahlia's once they start to die. I explained that they are still blooming. Puzzeled, the Barn people told us to just cut them down anyway, wait for them to go dormant and then dig up the tubers and save them until next year. We've had some trouble. First, we couldn't even cut this one because it was still way too beautiful.
We did manage to cut down all the rest and we put them in a dark dry spot, but look what this one did....it started to sprout again!
This is what it's supposed to look like. We'll dig it up next week like they told us. Speaking of the Dahlia Barn, we're going to go there next weekend. They said they have "dried dahlia wreaths". We've gotta see that!
Finally, a plant that is SUPPOSED to bloom in fall and winder, the Helabore (spelling?). This was in the front for a year or two and barely did anything. We moved it to the back and this is the first of about 8 blooms. Aaron got excited and went and bought two more with our Sky gift certificates. It's going to be very cool in a couple of years!
I didn't really believe him when he said it was a one person job. In fact, I might have felt a little left out. But I had to make lunches for the week and I still own him his official birthday cake (you know, not just any cake but The Cake you identify as your own personal Birthday Cake.) I had my own work cut out for me so I wished Aaron good luck. He headed off he went to Home Depot (the place where we like to keep all our disposable income). I went for a run. 
Well, I put down the list and headed out to the studio. I figure insulating the studio is probably amoung the many things that come with the married deal. He said it would only take an hour to up the insulation up. Now lying about estimated completion times of tedious project is NOT a part of the deal. Given Aaron's typical time managment skills I can't hold it against him because I'm positive he aboslutley meant it. He had a perfectly straight face when he said it. I looked around and figured in my head that he was probably correct that it would only take an hour if you have half-a-dozen guys from the Home Depot parking lot there to help you but sadly he was he was stuck with just me. 
studio. Clutter the studior. Clean the studio...) The fact is though, we need to get it all squared away because I'm counting on him getting us back to our return to Fiji!! I'm doing my part with a 70 work-week. In the end it worked out great. I wrote-off making lunches and ordered pizza (and reason to order pizza is good by me) and baked the cake. I had time to make frosting while he washed off the insulation. By prime time we were sacked out on the couch watching a movie. 
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