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garden; NCistas visit
It was a perfect garden day yesterday. Acquired and/or planted:
4 tomatoes (Cherokee purple, German Johnson, Red zebra, Pink girl)
1 eggplant (oriental)
1 zucchini (though now mr. flea scares me and tells me I need 2 to pollinate?)
1 basil
1 parsley
6 torenia
8 white impatiens
pole beans
Thinned carrots and beets.
Hacked at grass, grown too tall from the week's rain for the reel mower to be very effective.
Trimmed dead blossoms and fallen stems off iris.
Admired peas (we'll have peas in a week or less) and staked up the ones that missed their support and flopped.
Admired buds on climbing rose.
At 3 NCistas began to descend, and we ended up with 9 adults and 2 children on chairs and blankets in the back yard. SA, arliss, smonster, luluminion, gchick, Calli, ste_noni and baby Ellie, and us. Due at least in part to being bored and showing off, Casper:
Colored the soles of her feet and the tip of her nose smurf blue with colored chalk (cute, not a problem)
Picked up the entire hunk of goat cheese and bit into it, only to be stopped mid-bite by the laughter of the assembly (cute, not a problem)
Discovered the joy of squirt-from-a-can whipped cream (which, remarkably, was also new to SA) (cute, only problematic in that today she keeps asking for more of that yummy squirty stuff)
Scribbed with a rock on the hood of our neighbor and landlady's shiny new exquisitely maintained black BMW (very very bad)
The last dampened our spirits somewhat, especially mr. flea's, as he undertook to go break the news to our landlady (who since January has undergone chemotherapy and surgery for colon cancer, and has been back in the hospital 4 times for complications following the surgery). While it seems likely the scratches can be buffed out, we still have to pay for the treatment.
And today we had Calli's strawberry jam for breakfast and have been remarkably lazy since. And Casper has misplaced 10 squares of my quilt fabric, I can't imagine where unless she ATE them.
4 tomatoes (Cherokee purple, German Johnson, Red zebra, Pink girl)
1 eggplant (oriental)
1 zucchini (though now mr. flea scares me and tells me I need 2 to pollinate?)
1 basil
1 parsley
6 torenia
8 white impatiens
pole beans
Thinned carrots and beets.
Hacked at grass, grown too tall from the week's rain for the reel mower to be very effective.
Trimmed dead blossoms and fallen stems off iris.
Admired peas (we'll have peas in a week or less) and staked up the ones that missed their support and flopped.
Admired buds on climbing rose.
At 3 NCistas began to descend, and we ended up with 9 adults and 2 children on chairs and blankets in the back yard. SA, arliss, smonster, luluminion, gchick, Calli, ste_noni and baby Ellie, and us. Due at least in part to being bored and showing off, Casper:
Colored the soles of her feet and the tip of her nose smurf blue with colored chalk (cute, not a problem)
Picked up the entire hunk of goat cheese and bit into it, only to be stopped mid-bite by the laughter of the assembly (cute, not a problem)
Discovered the joy of squirt-from-a-can whipped cream (which, remarkably, was also new to SA) (cute, only problematic in that today she keeps asking for more of that yummy squirty stuff)
Scribbed with a rock on the hood of our neighbor and landlady's shiny new exquisitely maintained black BMW (very very bad)
The last dampened our spirits somewhat, especially mr. flea's, as he undertook to go break the news to our landlady (who since January has undergone chemotherapy and surgery for colon cancer, and has been back in the hospital 4 times for complications following the surgery). While it seems likely the scratches can be buffed out, we still have to pay for the treatment.
And today we had Calli's strawberry jam for breakfast and have been remarkably lazy since. And Casper has misplaced 10 squares of my quilt fabric, I can't imagine where unless she ATE them.
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But otherwise? The afternoon was exquisite, in that lovely way that good companionship and lovely surroundings combine all-too-rarely. Thank you for your hospitality. It was fun!
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