I'm still sitting here waiting for something to change
I've spent the last week working on the garden. By this I mean I've dug up the top foot or so of the soil in the upper section and taken out all the weeds. (I have decided that bindweed is the devil and wiregrass and swedish buttercups are its evil minions) This whole process also involved digging up the entire fence-line worth of day-lillies, pulling the weeds out of the root balls, and breaking up the large root balls to fix issues arising from major root binding. After all that I went on the other side of the fence and ripped up a lot of the same weeds plus some blackberries from the gravel of the driveway there in order to lay down some weed block material. If everything works out we shouldn't have to worry about sub-surface weed spreading along the fence-line for a good five or six years provided we keep an eye on things sprouting there.
Today there was great success because I replanted a row of the lillies and then planted out my tomato seedlings. The garden is turning into a garden rather than an overgrowth of weeds punctuated by the occasional parsley plant. The parsley, by the way, has self-seeded itself everywhere and is overwhelmingly happy in just about every location. I mean, it's even doing well in the lower-light xeriscape strip under the eve of the garage. It's disgusting.
Other than gardening I'm not doing much. I spend my time on the computer wwilfing and playing the market in my current mmog. My music collection is expanding and becoming better organized. I've been listening to Rogue Wave, MGMT, and Guster. I download Criminal Minds and NCIS episodes as they become available and knit while I watch them. I trade affection with the cats and check to make sure Twyla's ear infection is still gone. I was registered for an online class, but forgot about summer courses requiring tuition to be pre-paid, so I got dropped and I honestly don't give a damn.
I'm still sitting here waiting for something to change, but I don't know if I'll recognize it when the change comes, or what kind of change I'm looking for. I think I'm pretty much waiting for my mother to get her portion of the daley family land sale monies and buy property so I can make a farm life and cling to my childhood memories. I like plants; they don't do politics and aren't capable of being assholes. Lately, when I close my eyes, gardens happen in my head and it makes me happy in one of the simplest ways I've ever really known. Dirt and bugs and plants. Yeah.
Today there was great success because I replanted a row of the lillies and then planted out my tomato seedlings. The garden is turning into a garden rather than an overgrowth of weeds punctuated by the occasional parsley plant. The parsley, by the way, has self-seeded itself everywhere and is overwhelmingly happy in just about every location. I mean, it's even doing well in the lower-light xeriscape strip under the eve of the garage. It's disgusting.
Other than gardening I'm not doing much. I spend my time on the computer wwilfing and playing the market in my current mmog. My music collection is expanding and becoming better organized. I've been listening to Rogue Wave, MGMT, and Guster. I download Criminal Minds and NCIS episodes as they become available and knit while I watch them. I trade affection with the cats and check to make sure Twyla's ear infection is still gone. I was registered for an online class, but forgot about summer courses requiring tuition to be pre-paid, so I got dropped and I honestly don't give a damn.
I'm still sitting here waiting for something to change, but I don't know if I'll recognize it when the change comes, or what kind of change I'm looking for. I think I'm pretty much waiting for my mother to get her portion of the daley family land sale monies and buy property so I can make a farm life and cling to my childhood memories. I like plants; they don't do politics and aren't capable of being assholes. Lately, when I close my eyes, gardens happen in my head and it makes me happy in one of the simplest ways I've ever really known. Dirt and bugs and plants. Yeah.