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 …
Tag: seeds
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 …
And Just Like That
gardening season is over. Fall garden with Mrs. Dashwood and the back end of Sia We’ve not had frost yet, though there is “patchy” frost in the forecast for Monday night and “areas” of frost Tuesday night with an expected low of 33F/.5C. If we do get frost, it’s a week late, though with climate …
On Fire
The Autumnal Equinox happened early Saturday morning, but James and I celebrated Friday evening. Good thing too since he got the new COVID vaccine Friday afternoon and by Friday night wasn’t feeling great. He spent a large part of Saturday alternating between sleeping and walking around in a don’t-feel-very-well funk. After a decent sleep Saturday …
Oh Snow!
Chipped out a path to the street Even with Monday off for the New Year holiday, it’s been an exhausting week. This is mainly because over the course of two days we got 15 inches/38 cm of wet, heavy snow. So much shoveling! And even when it stops snowing there is still shoveling because the …