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botiasI went hunting the other night. I hunt at night with a flashlight. I know it's illegal, but frankly, not too many game wardens where I am. There's no sport to it really; I just pick them off one after the other. Sometimes my 5yo comes with me, sometimes he's too scared. If I didn't do it, they would mow my garden plants. The snails I feel a little bad about, but the slugs I have no mercy for. I filled my margarine tub about a third full of the voracious little land mollusks. I have no ducks to enjoy this bounty, so down the toilet they go.
It is raining. Somewhere just outside, there is a noise that sounds like a 'cow in a can' having a moment of private ecstasy, or the cooing of a cow-sized pigeon. Over and over and over again. I'm guessing it's related to the rain somehow. Happily, it's too absurd to be annoying. Day before yesterday, I did my first outdoor planting of the season. Yay! Daffodils. Seventy of the little suckers. Yes, this should have been done in November, but *shrug*. My vegetable boxes got their first new additions: carrot, radish, and lamb's lettuce seed. The carrots I planted last fall made it through the winter more or less, the losses mostly due to slug depredation. I also planted my indoor seeds, also a bit late, but 4 weeks rather than four months. I planted marigolds (six six-packs!), sunflowers, (slugs will take a bus across town to mow sunflower sprouts if direct sown. Even when I was living in the desert these poor, dessicated slugs would crawl pathetically from under a rock and eat them flush to the soil before returning to their wait for the Rockies to wear away and the continent to drift back to warmer, wetter latitudes.) tomatoes, salvia, chinese lanterns, brussels sprouts, sea holly, purple millet, and bright red lettuce. I can't wait to see what my garden does this year! I've spent much time staring and thinking and planning. I want to add a planting box on the concrete pad next to my back porch. I should be able to grow veggies all winter long in this most sunny and sheltered of spots. I was going to do this in brick, but have decided that the brick is all curved and this will have right angles, and the 'right angles' stuff is all wood so this must be wood as well. I explained this to my husband just because I knew he would enjoy thinking that I was eccentric, but I am also totally right.
This year I am keeping track of what I plant and when, and when it sprouts/flowers/fruits. With a bit of luck, I should still have flowers at Thanksgiving. Still to plant: Cilantro, Summer Savory, Bush Beans, Cardinal Vine. Very likely a few varieties of Basil. But not just yet. It was sad to watch the Basil limp through our cool early summer. Perhaps I will plant it in June or something; the scents/colors/flowers are just too wonderful to resist.
On the fic front, I have reached the stage of the fic where I am convinced that it is deadly boring and unlikely ever to improve, and I have also been very busy with other things. But! I plan to soldier onward, because I know it's just a phase. Deadly bore or no, I like it and some other folks like it too.
I still think about Persephone from time to time. I would like to continue with it, but wonder if I can or should or will.
P.S. Am I the only one whose house plants turn into ant condos every winter? I flood them out, only to have them return within a week or two.
It is raining. Somewhere just outside, there is a noise that sounds like a 'cow in a can' having a moment of private ecstasy, or the cooing of a cow-sized pigeon. Over and over and over again. I'm guessing it's related to the rain somehow. Happily, it's too absurd to be annoying. Day before yesterday, I did my first outdoor planting of the season. Yay! Daffodils. Seventy of the little suckers. Yes, this should have been done in November, but *shrug*. My vegetable boxes got their first new additions: carrot, radish, and lamb's lettuce seed. The carrots I planted last fall made it through the winter more or less, the losses mostly due to slug depredation. I also planted my indoor seeds, also a bit late, but 4 weeks rather than four months. I planted marigolds (six six-packs!), sunflowers, (slugs will take a bus across town to mow sunflower sprouts if direct sown. Even when I was living in the desert these poor, dessicated slugs would crawl pathetically from under a rock and eat them flush to the soil before returning to their wait for the Rockies to wear away and the continent to drift back to warmer, wetter latitudes.) tomatoes, salvia, chinese lanterns, brussels sprouts, sea holly, purple millet, and bright red lettuce. I can't wait to see what my garden does this year! I've spent much time staring and thinking and planning. I want to add a planting box on the concrete pad next to my back porch. I should be able to grow veggies all winter long in this most sunny and sheltered of spots. I was going to do this in brick, but have decided that the brick is all curved and this will have right angles, and the 'right angles' stuff is all wood so this must be wood as well. I explained this to my husband just because I knew he would enjoy thinking that I was eccentric, but I am also totally right.
This year I am keeping track of what I plant and when, and when it sprouts/flowers/fruits. With a bit of luck, I should still have flowers at Thanksgiving. Still to plant: Cilantro, Summer Savory, Bush Beans, Cardinal Vine. Very likely a few varieties of Basil. But not just yet. It was sad to watch the Basil limp through our cool early summer. Perhaps I will plant it in June or something; the scents/colors/flowers are just too wonderful to resist.
On the fic front, I have reached the stage of the fic where I am convinced that it is deadly boring and unlikely ever to improve, and I have also been very busy with other things. But! I plan to soldier onward, because I know it's just a phase. Deadly bore or no, I like it and some other folks like it too.
I still think about Persephone from time to time. I would like to continue with it, but wonder if I can or should or will.
P.S. Am I the only one whose house plants turn into ant condos every winter? I flood them out, only to have them return within a week or two.
