We've got various flora blooming around the house right now. This has been a really off year for the plantings around the house. We had a really late HARD freeze, and it was after much of the plantings had already starting putting up greenery. That was really pretty disastrous, and it has been a long, slow process of recovery. Every now and then we see something that we thought we had lost, and we are happy that something survived here an there. The lilies seem to take most of the bad weather in their stride. These are blooming by the storm shelter, and there are more all around the property. The blooms do not last very long, usually a day or two, but they are prolific in their blooming. We have seen three Pride of Barbados (my faves, also known as New Mexico Birds of Paradise)) that survived, but no blooms yet. I still have some seed I saved from last year, so I may go ahead and pot some of those and see if they will come up.Catbird Seat -- Noun. a position of great prominence or advantage. Nelson found himself sitting in the catbird seat with lucrative offers from three potential employers in front of him.
Did You Know? "In the catbird seat" was among the numerous folksy expressions that legendary baseball broadcaster Red Barber used to delight listeners. Some say that he invented the expression; others say that he dug it up from his Southern origins. But the truth may be far stranger than those rumors. In a 1942 short story titled "The Catbird Seat", James Thurber featured a character, Mrs. Barrows, who liked to use the phrase. Another character, Joey Hart, explained that Mrs. Barrows must have picked up the expression from Red Barber. To Red, according to Joey, "sitting in the catbird seat "meant "'sitting pretty,' like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him." But, according to Barber's daughter, it was only after Barber read Thurber's story that he started using "in the catbird seat" himself.
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