Gardening

It's far to easy to get out of the habit of posting to LJ.

I've been working on my garden: tomatos, peppers, radishes, potatoes, basil, a vine that I found growing wild, and some grasses. Chives, coriander, garlic, and some pretty blue flowers were all planted last year and came back, but the coriander and garlic are finished. I also have a lot of flowers in pots. The geraniums are gorgeous. The pansies are great too. The fuschia is blooming again. The impatiens isn't blooming very much, but the foliage is pretty. The pansies are cute, but I would prefer if they were in a different place. The hanging plant with the tiny white flowers is going to make a great indoor plant, as will the coleus. I plan to plant some snow peas within the next few days and more radishes.

I've been battling the Virginia creeper all summer and for several past summers. It's growing out from under the concrete steps and concrete paving stones. The stuff climbs up the wall and damages the masonry. This year I think I'm making some headway.

The squirrels have been digging and they have been stealing my tomatoes and peppers. They don't like the peppers, so they just take one bite and leave the rest. They usually eat 1/3 to 1/2 of a stolen tomato. So far, I have gotten one cherry tomato. Damn the cute little buggers.

I'll post some pictures soon.

messy office

I have so much tidying, organising, and cleaning to do in my office, that I have been procrastinating forever. And now I'm tired of procrastinating. I'll just have to do it one step at a time and quit getting overwhelmed. There a bunches of things I want to be doing, but I keep thinking I have work to do, so I don't do the other things. Unfortunately, I'm not getting any of the work or organizing done either, because I just want to hide when I think about how much needs to get done. Yikes, I'm tired of this. Tomorrow will be better.

Not that today wasn't good. Today and yesterday swestrup and I did a whole bunch of cleaning on the ground floor. That was motivated by the fact that we were going to have a dinner party. The party went well, even though sfllaw and mricon couldn't make it. kalkuly and Margaret did come. We noted that, in spite of the weather forecast saying, "Chance of rain", there were no clouds in the sky. Then, while we were having supper on the patio, it started to rain. The parasol did a pretty good job of keeping the rain off of us, but not quite perfect. We had coffee and dessert inside. Supper was pork scnitzel with salad and organic brown basmati rice (swestrup and I only had tiny servings of rice, 'cause we're doing the low carb thing). Dessert was some very yummy Andean blackberry sorbet that I bought at Costco. We also tasted the strawberry daiquiry sorbet, but all agreed that the blackberry one was better. The blackberry sorbet was unsweetened, while the strawberry one had sugar and alcohol.

Well, I'm off to bed now.