My gardens are neglected and jungly. This is partly the result of the usual summer lassitude, but mostly the result of the continued presence of poison ivy in the beds.
I guess we have had poison ivy for years, because I have had terrible rashes every year from working in the garden. This has not kept me from working in the garden before. Back when I figured that I had an idiosyncratic allergy to salvia or something, but was unable to identify the source of the problem, I went ahead and worked in the garden anyway.
Now, knowing that it is poison ivy, I cannot bring myself to work in the garden for fear of getting the selfsame rashes I get every year, and which I could now presumably avoid by paying slightly more attention to what I touch.
Maybe it is just summer lassitude.
Anyway, you can see that we have vegetables growing in the jungle. The flowers are not doing as well. I may be brave this afternoon and get to them.
#1 son provided music at a Harry Potter party the other night and was given a copy of the new Harry Potter. He had the first copy of the first book in our area, because I got it for him based on the Advance notice back when it wasn’t famous.
I didn’t even buy the Half-Blood Prince, because we hadn’t enjoyed the one before that very much, but I’ll probably read this one since we have it in the house. We loved the first three.
In addition to reading and music and not gardening, we are playing games. Last night #2 son played Wii with me and his dad. I lost abysmally every time. We played a game involving racing cows (my favorite), pool, tennis, golf, a game in which we had to find particular Miis in the crowd, and one in which we had to match shapes in bubbles. In every single case, I lost at about 341 to 2.
My Mii (the character who represents you on the screen) cried each time. I didn’t, of course. I was a gracious loser. But it was a bit depressing to see my character moping and crying while #2 son’s character exulted and got electronic cheers. Every single time.
Possibly I was tired from work. Let’s have that be my excuse.
It was quite busy yesterday, and I spent the day unpacking boxes, popping out to the front every few minutes to help with a customer. I am delighted that the store is busy. I was delighted that people from neighboring counties called us to sign up for workshops because they had read about it online. I was delighted to see more online orders coming in.
Still, I was ready when I came home to sit and knit for a while. Here is one skein of Essentials finished. The garter stitch edging is rolling, predictably enough. I usually change garter stitch edging to something else, but this pattern was designed by Elsebeth Lavold, for whom I have enormous respect, so I didn’t. I may crochet around it at the end if it is still misbehaving.
Today I must go to church and the grocery store and possibly work in the garden and clean the house, but I intend to do a good deal of summery lolling as well. I was supposed to go to a barbecue, but The Empress and I have both talked ourselves out of it. Lolling around sounds better.
Lolling always wins out here as well!! LOL
with all the stuff you have to do it would seem better to relax and get yourself out of more obligations. Take a breather…
I feel the same about Harry Potter and Co – I read and enjoyed the first 3 books but started getting bored by the 4th. I have decided to try continuing reading the series so have just started The Order of the Golden Phoenix
Weedy gardens are all the rage these days. ;).