Joan was still thinking about the discussion in her class this morning as she took care of the flowers and plant. It was a lot of thinking for so early on a Monday but she had a huge cup of hot chocolate with extra whipped cream from the Perk to help. Covent Gardenflowers Vida Boheme, prop. Fresh flowers from nosegays to bouquets! Delivery available upon request . [ocd free]
Have spent another nice afternoon out in the garden, so now seems like a good time for a general update. We've reached the conclusion that it is simply impossible to kill anything in this garden, so have stopped worrying about it. Everything is growing, I'm pretty sure ...took the photo.
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These little purple-blue flowers hide at the very back of the garden.
Sometimes you get a surprising amount done by just pootlin' around. This afternoon I've started my sourdough starter, made (bought yeast) bread rolls, watered most of the garden (still in progress) picked all the peas that went over-the-top while we were away and started them drying for winter soups, picked 6 cups of blackcurrants (not bad for a lil' two-year-old bush), picked and pickled a whole ...
... version of Sherlock Holmes and it worked. I can see why some critics didn't like it but I thought it was a fun movie. Turn your brain off, go, enjoy. The Chinese Classical Garden has free admission from now until sometime next week so gypsylady and I tookadvantage of it yesterday and went. Today is Get Shit Done Around The House Day. Ian was out late whoring ...
... bit, slept, played another game in the morning (a dungeon delve game which we bailed on to catch our train but that might be nice to try again), and came back here. Potential do-able New Year's resolutions mulled over last night: I like my current weight; I'd like to stay there. Peas and beans (snap and string, respectively — I'm a lazy eater) and nifty trellises in the garden this year.
I have been busy ordering seeds for next year's garden and I am starting to look for solutions for problems I had last year. So I have a few things I would like some ... increasingthe heat? 3. And lastly, I have been trying to even out my watering as best I can. I have put the garden on a timer and mulched but the soil can still dry out during the day in the hottest days of the summer. Any easy...
1. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg My first book of 2010 which I actually started at the end of last year. It is about a 16yo girl with schizophrenia and takes us through the three years she spends in a mental hospital. It is based on the author's own experiences but has been fictionalised. I had heard good things about this book and normally like books about mentall ...
1. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg My first book of 2010 which I actually started at the end of last year. It is about a 16yo girl with schizophrenia and takes us through the three years she spends in a mental hospital. It is based on the author's own experiences but has been fictionalised. I had heard good things about this book and normally like books about mentall ...
[As the video begins the screen remains black while some muffled squabbling in a foreign language can be heard in the background. Eventually the sound clears up.] “Het dopje zit er nog op, sukkel!” “Het is jouw verdomde camera.” [The lid is removed to reveal a blurry close-up of someone’s face which, when the camera zooms out, belongs to the new Refugee known as Peter. The blond-haired ...
