Saving Seed and Sunshine

Some days are just so glorious that I don't know what to write about. Today I did so many fabulous things, but of course I only have pictures of loofah de-seeding in preparation for this year's garden.

I spent most of the day outdoors; hanging laundry, moving compost, watering, dragging hoses, and sitting on the banks of the pond watching Japhy J "fish". I think I might even be a little sunburned, but it felt so good to just blow off school work and go with the flow...some chores got done, but mostly I just did what I wanted to do....my soul was hungry for the dirt, the sun, the quiet, the hope that comes in those little seed packets, and the freedom to enjoy watching my silly dog without stressing over what I had to get done....I might pay for it tomorrow, but I don't really care not. one. bit!

Pile of Ponies

A productive day....laundry is done, sheets are changed, and I have three lovely ponies awaiting ears and stomach sutures. The ponies will be for sale soon.

BUSY busy busy

I had a great weekend....more energy than I have had in a long time. Friday, Mom and I went shopping. Saturday, the family reunion/reality check. Sunday, chores galore.

One of the Sunday chores was to pickle the beets...the picture doesn't do it justice, the color is such a deep dark red, the flash just washed it out completely. While the beets cooked we quilted and only have three more rows to do...good thing, since this quilt needs to be finished in a month for a wedding. YIKES.

After mom left, I grated up 11 bags of zucchini for the freezer to make zuchi bread, baked two loaves of apple bread (to salvage some manky apples), cooked dinner, cleaned the kitchen and somewhere in there changed the sheets, folded three loads of laundry and watched a movie!! Wooo....I was totally pooped at bedtime, but I was so happy to have been so energetic during the day.

Catching Up:4

Reading: the last Beatrix Potter Cottage Tale

Listening to: old CDs, silence, the wind, the huffing of sleeping dogs

Watching: The Martian Child, Once, Be Kind Rewind (yeah, yeah, I know, but Jack Black is FUNNY!)

Doing: building nest boxes, working a lot more than I want to, chores, nothing much creative.

Thinking: "What a relief it will be to work only one job, only three days a week, only seven hours a day" and "I think I better see a doctor because I am too bloody tired for having done NOTHING all day" and "I wish I had some ice cream"

Lesson Learned?

Just FYI...you shouldn't stop washing dishes in order to do what you want to do because eventually you run out of spoons and have to do them and inevitably doing them in dribs and drabs along the way would have been more pleasant than standing at the sink for ages when you are tired and cranky.

Lesson learned? Probably not....