Consolations, when there have been too many of Those Days

 

* Consolation #1:  Daylily going for it.  

This is probably her best year yet, and last year I swore I was going to 'lift' (as the ridiculous euphemism for 'dig yourself an amazing crop of blisters and a back that will no longer straighten' is) and divide her because she's jammed into that pot by now and is due to stop flowering in despair.  Ahem.  All she's had is a couple of biggish handfuls of flower food.  And I really really am going to hack her out of the pot THIS winter, and split her ...