blog-reading break day 1

So, ironically, one of the first things that arrived in my inbox this morning was a link to an article at {in}courage...  titled What Finding Yourself Really Means.

So, time to sit down, relax, stop beating myself over the head with what other people are doing and I am not. I'll be fine. I am fine.

Meantime, though... it's lavender harvesting time. The buds are fat and dark purple, and just about to open. I feel bad for the bees who aren't going to get a shot at these flowers, but this year they're mine. All mine.

august break 3

today it rained for the first time in almost a month. 

i love the smell of the earth after the rain.

happiness

happy... June???

Does this seem right to you???

Really? June 1st? And it's only 14 degrees???

This doesn't make me happy. Not happy at all.

Fortunately my garden doesn't seem to mind quite as much as I do.

busy week

So... a couple of weeks ago, I signed up for a kids clothes week challenge at elsie marley. Yeah, that was this week.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the point of view), I was stricken with a house-cleaning bug on Monday morning, and spent most of the week sorting and cleaning and organizing. I think I'll do my challenge next week. The weather is supposed to get wet again.

I've also taken advantage of the sunshine this week to do a bit of gardening. Mostly pulling weeds... it's amazing how fast they grow!

This is my one and so-far-only garden bed. Yes, if you look closely, you can see that it is indeed an old particle-board bookshelf. It's on its second year now, and still holding up well. I don't know for how long it will last... nor do I know what kind of chemicals are coming out of it from the wood...

I so much wish that there was a way for me to share with you the scent of this basil. Maybe if you scratched your monitor a little bit and then stuck your nose right up to the picture?? No? Oh well. Better go plant your own, then, and you can sniff it any time you like.

Anyhow... don't forget about the giveaway day happening on Monday... and I have a surprise in store for you tomorrow as well! Happy weekend!

the end. lucky me.

Summer is over.


Not that it ever was really here... I think we had a week of hot weather. Not enough to ripen even one tomato on my poor little plants. They grew well, though. And had lots of flowers. I guess it was a bad summer even for the insects.






I was the fortunate recipient of a batch of gocco notecards from Sarah at cloth.paper.string. Aren't they lovely? They're made from a sunprint of dill flowers, and I want to frame them and keep them forever!

Tales from the garden

Once upon a time there was a tomato plant. It grew and thrived. Flowers appeared on its branches, and soon there were little green....gooseberries???


Well, that's what Ellie told me they were, after she picked them all...