7 mai, 2015

It's been several days, but I'm ok with that; my initial obsession  interest should sound familiar to me, who knows me.  Something takes total control of my interest, and is really, really important for a while, but then it palls.  But that's not what I want this to be, neither obsessive nor abandoned.  It should be a repository when things build up that I want to remember or chew over. So let's get comfortable with each other, journal and I, ok?

Here's a thing I've been thinking about the last several days.  There are tons of clickbait things where old people are reminded of all the things that were commonplaces for us that these kids today have no idea about.  That's fine, as far as it goes, and if nothing else, it reminds us how much technology has been a factor throughout our lifetimes, which has its good (mostly, for me, ready access to information whenever I want it) and bad (capitalism in full flower, cough cough) sides, but what I started to mull over was, what are the things that these kids today have grown up with and take entirely for granted, as truths and not choices, which we either have come to acknowledge as maybe true, maybe not, and accept or not.

The day ended, surprisingly, with Barb's diligent efforts to get me behind a tiller and into the garden.  It took about three hours (plus a bit), but I got the whole thing tilled, and she also bought plants, which we got in just as the sun was really going away, viz: 4 romas, 1 mortgage buster (and one beefsteak that Gloria had extra) and an orange tomato called Old German.  Also, four bell peppers, four chili peppers, four brussels sprouts, four collards, four red cabbages, and two rows of beans (two types).  Also, a new tarragon plant (which I hope takes, adding to the thyme and oregano I already have thriving out there) and cilantro.  Not bad for going so late.  Here's how it looked before the planting:

I'll have to skip potatoes this year, because it's so late, and wait for the fall planting for cooler weather crops.  But I can still get in more brassicas, okra (which I should work on really using this year) and zucchini, cucumber, and probably another squash, just to try.  And onions, garlic and shallots, of course.

Goodness, it's been a while.  End of the school year, coupled with taking off for Rochester, then Maryland, then the first real week of down-time vacation, made me pretty lax at sitting down to anything like thoughtful composition.  I've been on the computer a lot, of course, but mostly looking at what other people are doing in their lives, posting little snippets of our travels and visits, and doing crosswords.  I'm trying to balance feeling like I should be doing work around the house, figuring out what to do, then avoiding as much as possible.  Although, when I do something, I realize it wasn't that big a deal to begin with, and wonder what took so long.

I don't know what I've learned, recently, since that is the point of this blog.  I have been putting a lot more things on Pinterest, with the hope that I'll remember to look for them there later when I want them.  It's been interesting.