My two-week vacation serenity evaporated within a few hours of returning to work on Monday. Poof! I was only away three extra days than everyone else—the library was closed for all the other days—but yet I still had a pile of things to sort through on my return. I am the only one in my …
Category: Gardening
500 Kilometers
It’s been an uneventful week of vacation with one more week to go. Two weeks of vacation in winter is so different from vacation in summer. In summer I’m out in the garden every morning before 7 and don’t come indoors for three or four hours. In winter, I have nothing to do in the …
A Little Trim
What a tiring week it was. We had a little snow and a lot of cold and wind. Wednesday there was a hazardous wind warning and I biked home from work in sustained winds of 30 mph/48 kph with higher wind gusts. The highest gust recorded happened about the time I arrived home and clocked …
Garden Dreaming
Autumn was long and warm, and then suddenly it was over. Upper 30sF one day and the next 20F with single digit wind chill. My body was not ready for such a drastic change. Mid-morning at work I’d get ravenously hungry. What’s going on? And then I remembered, oh yeah, biking in the really cold …
A Little Rough
Hello friends. It’s been a rough week. When I woke up Wednesday morning I didn’t expect there to be any conclusive election results. I got up and showered and got dressed and then went into the kitchen for breakfast in complete and unconcerned bliss. James was cooking breakfast and already knew, was trying to figure …
