"If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others."
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
Monday, May 05, 2008
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Happy May Day
It is a lovely, but cool, first of May. Only supposed to be a high of 58 today. Last week was amazing. Beautiful, warm, springlike.
The spring bulbs have gone nuts in the garden. All of the daffs are open. First the big showy trumpets, then the little minis that smell so sweet. Hyacinths grew where I forgot that I had planted them, and in a couple of places (under a bush?) that I couldn't conceive of ever planting them. I will move those this weekend.
I bought more dahlia bulbs the other day, and will probably plant them this weekend if it doesn't rain. I also have to investigate whether I managed to save any of the bulbs I dug up last fall. I know I dug them up; don't remember if I then did anything with them.
Adams Nursery is having their impatiens sale this weekend -- $9.95 a flat, or thereabouts. It's still a little early to plant them. Last year I planted them on Mother's Day, and they did just fine. I also have several coupons to use there in May.
The spring bulbs have gone nuts in the garden. All of the daffs are open. First the big showy trumpets, then the little minis that smell so sweet. Hyacinths grew where I forgot that I had planted them, and in a couple of places (under a bush?) that I couldn't conceive of ever planting them. I will move those this weekend.
I bought more dahlia bulbs the other day, and will probably plant them this weekend if it doesn't rain. I also have to investigate whether I managed to save any of the bulbs I dug up last fall. I know I dug them up; don't remember if I then did anything with them.
Adams Nursery is having their impatiens sale this weekend -- $9.95 a flat, or thereabouts. It's still a little early to plant them. Last year I planted them on Mother's Day, and they did just fine. I also have several coupons to use there in May.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Will Winter Never End?
It was warm today. Finally in the 50s. It's supposed to be up and down temp-wise all week. Today was lovely, well, rainy, but a bit of a tease wrt spring's arrival.
This evening Ethan and I walked around the yard, picking up sticks and throwing them into the woods. I took a look at the areas where there are bulbs to see how they're doing. Some of the daffs that Ethan and I planted last year near the northeast corner of the library are starting to come up, as are the daffs at the back of the house that have been there forever. Not much else peeking out yet.
There is still snow on at least half the yard. Another day or two like this and it should leave all but the deepest shadows.
I was thinking that we were way behind with flowering, but I just took a look at my notebook from 2001 (the last time I kept track), and it looks like crocuses didn't come up until the beginning of April. Although, tomorrow is April 1, so we're getting close. My entry for April 9, 2001:
Crocuses begin flowering. Yellow along sidewalk, purple to east of garage door.
4/13/01: Daffodils flowering.
4/20/01: Iris dwarf reticulata begin flowering. Hyacinths and grape hyacinths coming up.
Etc., etc.,.....
I know that I need to be Present, be in Now, not what happened in previous years. Especially since there's not a darn thing I can do about the weather. I will enjoy them when they appear.
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I've already decided that I need to dig up the stumps from the shrubs we cut down in the back of the house last year. I want to plant the butterfly garden there (the one I ordered from Michigan Bulb), and I don't think it will have its best start with those stumps in place. So, as soon as the ground is diggable, I'll be out there with a shovel. And then compost.....
This evening Ethan and I walked around the yard, picking up sticks and throwing them into the woods. I took a look at the areas where there are bulbs to see how they're doing. Some of the daffs that Ethan and I planted last year near the northeast corner of the library are starting to come up, as are the daffs at the back of the house that have been there forever. Not much else peeking out yet.
There is still snow on at least half the yard. Another day or two like this and it should leave all but the deepest shadows.
I was thinking that we were way behind with flowering, but I just took a look at my notebook from 2001 (the last time I kept track), and it looks like crocuses didn't come up until the beginning of April. Although, tomorrow is April 1, so we're getting close. My entry for April 9, 2001:
Crocuses begin flowering. Yellow along sidewalk, purple to east of garage door.
4/13/01: Daffodils flowering.
4/20/01: Iris dwarf reticulata begin flowering. Hyacinths and grape hyacinths coming up.
Etc., etc.,.....
I know that I need to be Present, be in Now, not what happened in previous years. Especially since there's not a darn thing I can do about the weather. I will enjoy them when they appear.
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I've already decided that I need to dig up the stumps from the shrubs we cut down in the back of the house last year. I want to plant the butterfly garden there (the one I ordered from Michigan Bulb), and I don't think it will have its best start with those stumps in place. So, as soon as the ground is diggable, I'll be out there with a shovel. And then compost.....
Monday, March 17, 2008
New reading
I've been reading A New Earth, and participating in (well, watching) Oprah and Eckhart Tolle's online class for the book. It's pretty interesting. Am I becoming more enlightened? Hard to say. I suppose that Tolle would say that if I said that I were, it would just be the ego speaking, and I wouldn't really be any more enlightened.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Thoughts on recent migraines
I just had a glorious week and a half (thereabouts) off for Christmas and New Year, along with Russ and Will and Ethan. Overall, it was fabulous. I really didn't want to go back to work. There were a few instances of wanting to lock the boys in separate rooms, when they just wouldn't leave each other alone, but other than that, things were great.
Except, I had a pesky migraine for much of the time. Around Tuesday (last day of vacation), I fingered the walnuts I'd been sprinkling on my oatmeal and my lunchtime salads. Yesterday, my first day back at work (and my first day of not sleeping in, I might add), was headache free. Hmmm.... Perhaps I shouldn't have blamed the nuts. Maybe the culprit was keeping my lazy ass in bed until 8:00 every morning.
Of course, I will look for any reason to keep nuts in my life. The edible kind, not the human kind. The human kind I can do without, thank you very much. Dare I reintroduce nuts if I promise to keep a normal sleep schedule? Please, oh please?
Except, I had a pesky migraine for much of the time. Around Tuesday (last day of vacation), I fingered the walnuts I'd been sprinkling on my oatmeal and my lunchtime salads. Yesterday, my first day back at work (and my first day of not sleeping in, I might add), was headache free. Hmmm.... Perhaps I shouldn't have blamed the nuts. Maybe the culprit was keeping my lazy ass in bed until 8:00 every morning.
Of course, I will look for any reason to keep nuts in my life. The edible kind, not the human kind. The human kind I can do without, thank you very much. Dare I reintroduce nuts if I promise to keep a normal sleep schedule? Please, oh please?
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