The Good Things About Friday
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• It’s my lovely niece’s 3rd birthday, today! Happy, happy, happy birthday, dear Violet! We wish we could be there to have cake and ice cream, and sing and dance, and clap wildly while you blow out your three big candles!
• Payday!
• I have my follow-up appointment with the DO to get the results of my blood tests, and the MRI on that lump above my collarbone. Amen. Maybe I can move past the middle of the night, hot-flash, panic attacks about the C word. Note to self: do not follow search terms from your stats that say lump above collarbone. It’s all real bad news and breast cancer up in there. Fifty pages of it.
• Thunderstorms! Actually, it looks like intermittent storms with plenty of rain over the next five days. I won’t have to water and I’ll still be able to run out between the raindrops and get a few more things planted.
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- Haricot Verts Bush Bean
- Royal Burgundy Bush Bean
- More cucurbits, nothing’s germinating. Eesh.
- More Fava Beans
- Basil (a metric ton, please)
- Cilantro
- Salad Burnet
- Hot peppers
- Sweet peppers
- Eggplant
- Rutebega (hope it’s not too late for these, I forgot all about them)
- • Tomorrow’s Saturday!
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"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
June 1st, 2007 at 6:57 am
Good luck today.
My viney bits have germinated, thank the stars, but that’s about where my optimism ends where they’re concerned.
xo
June 1st, 2007 at 7:35 am
All the best today. Made the omelette from your last post last night and it was so delish we think you ought really to be writing a cookbook—Quick Suppers To Make You Swoon! Thanks!!!
June 1st, 2007 at 7:44 am
Good luck with your appointment today. By the way, I tried out your omelet recipe! Thanks!
June 1st, 2007 at 8:02 am
Swoon! Gee, thanks, Cathy! Glad you guys liked it… if you ever make it out here, I’ll make one with my fresh eggs for you, it’s a thousand times more delish, if that’s possible.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:03 am
Hey, Andrea, thanks for the kind thoughts.
June 1st, 2007 at 9:45 am
After 3.5 weeks (!) my cucumbers finally have poked their heads up through the soil–just as I was about to cultivate and replant…so maybe don’t give up yet! Parsnips pooped out on me and carrots are sketchy. Oh well. Have a good weekend and good luck at the DO.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:03 am
I’ll be thinking of you today!
June 1st, 2007 at 10:47 am
I’m glad you don’t have to wait any longer for news on what your body is doing.
June 1st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Thanks for stopping by. Your garden is so beautiful… I would ask you for advice too.
And I’m swooning over your chickens… I love chickens. Do you think they would like Venice? I’d probably end up with preening ghetto chickens.
All my thoughts are with you on your test today - I agree with Eve, it’s so much better to have an inkling than a concern.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Thanks Briana. I think chickens would love being anywhere someone kept them in a daily supply of fresh food, water and straw…They are pretty wonderful to have around. I feel badly they’re too crowded in there though, and am going to find 3 or 4 a new home soon.