Wool and Spice

Every time I go outside I throw something new in the ground or in a pot. Half of it won’t bloom but come August it should look decent around here. Today I moved a begonia that was getting too much sun, planted a torenia in its place and filled in an empty spot with some nasturtiums that I bought yesterday. I replanted the begonia in its own pot, added another one to fill it out and for good measure threw some alyssum seed in there. I still  have a half barrell of pansies that need to come out which I’ll get to this week.  I must start avoiding the nursery, since I have no will power to resist pretty blooms these days.

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I’m working on my suntan with my short term temp assignment. This time the manager told me it was stupid for me to have to stand for 8 hours so I brought a chair which makes it a lot easier on the legs. I’ve found an umbrella helps decrease the temperature by at least 10 degrees. It rained on me for a bit yesterday but I just pretended I was Gene Kelly. One more day to go.

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I went to buy some diet Coke this week for upcoming visitors and my brain nearly exploded. You can’t buy just diet anymore, you have to decide if you want diet with lime, with Splenda, cherry diet, zero, just plain ole diet or what. Product differentiation has cut the pie into slivers.

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The strawberries we picked a week ago are nearly gone. I froze some, eat a lot, considered making jam, but we don’t eat much jam and it takes too much sugar anyway, so saved myself some work. They’re not like the ones we get in California but they’re miles ahead of what’s available in the grocery store. Too bad the season is so short, it won’t last more than another week or two.

But then blueberries and blackberries will be ready to pick and those will last into August. It makes my breakfast choice so easy: fresh berries, a little granola and yogurt. Don’t know how I’m going to find room to freeze all this but I will. They’re great in muffins and smoothies in the winter.

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I need to rearrange my stash and clean up some of the baskets sitting around. I tend to pull stash out thinking I’ll start a project, get distracted by something else and go pull something else out. There has been a bag of yarn sitting on the kitchen desk for three weeks. Time to put it away.

Sunday Supper
Chicken on the grill and a huge salad tonight. The farmers’ market yielded snow peas, yellow radishes, spring onions, orange cauliflower, spinach and more lettuce. I was told promises of corn by the Fourth of July. Now that I thinned my radishes, the ones left are growing like weeds. Live and learn. And I have a tomato turning yellow which is a good thing since they’re yellow tomatoes!

So what’s on your plate?

ta/diane