I am seriouslybeginning to think that just moving into the church and letting people come relieve me whenever they could would be easier than coordinating these vigil shifts. Today I thought I had to...almost like one of those people who doesn't have a life and can just go sit in a church all day. Two new rescue kittens coming this weekend. Well, teenage cats, more like. I swear I didn't mean to
Yay, voted! :) I sent in my address-change application well before the deadline... and waited and waited and waited. Nothing - I kept checking the online thing that tells you if you're registered to vote...very tree-ful yard already. Plus I'm out of compost and mulch and vermiculite and just about everything but clay. :P Today we're going to make ghosts out of grocery bags with the boys. Should be fun
... England (see http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/highlights/Todmorden-sows--the-seeds.4103427.jp ), start planting up disused land and grass verges with hardy things like rasberry canes? Start a community gardening scheme in your town or village? Lets save money, learn to feed ourselves instead of relying on suspect GM food in a plastic packet from a superstore, have fun, and get back to nature! This...
It's been a while since I've updated this. I've done a lot of little stuff, but nothing momentous. Today, f'rinstance, I got some tulip bulbs into the front yard, dumped some of the annual pots into...instead of sitting in on the Barony business meeting, but got to watching Niccolo (iarroganti) go over his KWAR class with Simon Morcar. Ah, Sidesword. It just appeals to me far more than rapier does
Poor Pirate, I have been trying to wake up at 5am for this whole week, but so far can only manage to drag myself out of bed at 6am. She's been getting her walks, but only for about 15-20 minutes :( It...a small small recipe :) enough for 1-2 persons... will share with Pirate My sis had contractors over to dig out the grass and tile it... well.. guess that means my war with the weeds is over :
Well, since mundane obligations are keeping me in town, I've been close enough to home to work on my yard and harvesting materials for projects. A while back I told you I had made some experimental clippings...been wanting to do this for years now and I'd always been too busy so hopefully I can make enough for myself and maybe be able to sell a few on the side. If I get some done I'll promise to post pics
...in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal." Of course, my choices are gardening ones and, well, like wives, all plants must die eventually (or go dormant with scraggly brown foliage, also in the manner of some wives. Not mine, I hasten to assure you. She is remarkably dapper...
I am aware that the before picture looks quite pretty - while the after picture is anything but, however - it wasn't really pretty - it was just a mass of tree branches that meant I couldn't get down the... and that is both daunting and exciting. Ok so this is before - note how noone would ever know there was a 10x15ft workshopbehind those trees. and after - my own bit of scrubland : )
So, this is the bracelet. (Yes, it's fairly well established that I'm a lousy photographer.) The bracelet has passed from wrist to wrist, starting in Chicago (that we know of), slapped onto ... In other news, hard freeze last night which means dead cannas, dead lantana, dead sweet potato vines....lots of clean-up for me. Plus it's officially time to plant tulips. Perhpas pictures tomorrow..
Kay, I got all the canes trimmed down on the raspberries! Started to lay cardboard down for weed control. Let it sit over the winter, and then come spring it'll be in better shape then the year before...and put them in the garden! They'll help me with the amount of slugs we've got! They're too cute! :) (The hedgehogs!) :) My slug friends make everything slimy and eat holes through everything! :
