The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question, as correctly identified by one person: it’s a hose valve. I got it for our fountain garden to allow adjusting the pressure of the fountain independently of the other irrigation emitters.

Hose valve

Hose valve

Flowers of the day: wild poppies etc behind the greenhouse (with a bonus glimpse of chickens in their run in the background). 🌱

Wild poppies etc

From Heinlein’s ‘The Number of the Beast’: 💬

Tomorrow I will seven eagles see, a great comet will appear, and voices will speak from whirlwinds foretelling monstrous and fearful things — This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.