Personal: June 2005 Archives
Lately, my house and my little gardening attempts have been making me happy. John and I spent a good deal of time looking for some simple but colorful plants to add some bright touches to our very small back yard.
This is the view from the balcony off our master bedroom that overlooks the back of our house. We've got 5 long flower boxes filled with red Wave petunias (I love these guys! They grow like crazy and are pretty tough customers when it comes to not getting enough water)and some nice contrasting white or yellow flowers and then we went for purple, with a touch of red for most everything else. We also got a couple of extra boxes so that I could have some fresh basil, spicy peppers for salsa and green peppers just to enjoy.
And that strange small pot sitting just to the left of the table? That contains our attempt at raising a giant sequoia from a seedling that we got when we visited the Johh Muir Woods last year. It's actually about 6-8" tall and is spreading out at the base and getting a start on a woody trunk. We have high hopes for this little tree (no pun intended) and are having a great time watching it grow. Nothing like the thought of a mammoth sequoia growing in urban Chicago... though it will likely head off to live in my parents spacious and wonderful backyard if it survives to the point where it gets to start experiencing it's "giantness".
...there would be a real posting. Instead, I am just going to babble on a little bit about my life right now.
Mostly, I am amazed at how much I can get behind by taking 4 days of vacation. Especially when I did a lot of work on those 4 days. But right now, it's like a firestorm. I am one of those people who uses her email inbox to make sure that I've done what I needed to do. I don't file a message until I've responded to it appropriately. Lately, I feel like I've been playing email inbox whack-a-mole (remember that carnival game?). And I'm losing badly. Stuff just keeps flowing in, and no matter how hard I try, I'm just barely not keeping up. And I just hate that feeling like I am falling behind, so I've been very focused on trying to get caught up.
Combine that with my dearest sweetest husband having a birthday and it's a recipe for very little of interest to post on a knitting blog. I don't even have a good cat picture to show for myself.
I'm hoping the weekend will give me a chance to get myself together...
