Thanks for the fish

here in the woods. First, an aggressive bird. Then a wandering raccoon. Yesterday a turtle on a mission and a lost porcupine. Today, a sinkhole appeared in our driveway. We had borrowed J’s dad’s truck to go shopping, pulled back in and he couldn’t back the truck out. Finally got it out and looked and the front tire had sunk into a sinkhole that we didn’t even know was there. Here’s some pictuers.

Fun in the country! Mike’s hard cranberry and a sinkhole! 

Also got the vegetables in… Is that a damn attractive vegetable garden or what?

We put in 3 kinds of lettuce (red sails, buttercrunch and some other green leafy one), 6 eggplants, 6 green peppers, 3 types of tomatoes (early girls, supersteak, and cherry), 2 mounds of butternut squash, 1 of buttercup squash, 2 cucumbers, and some sugar snap pea seeds. Have some bean seeds to plant when it gets a bit warmer. 

I’m getting burnt out on gardening already! 7658 steps on the pedometer so far and its’ only 3 pm. Looks like rain, thank god, so hopefully I won’t be obliged to lay the 10 bags of mulch I just bought. Also got some more periwinkle. Looked for a crabapple to put in the barren wasteland, but couldn’t find what I wanted.

Tomorrow is going to be a relaxing indoor day I think… reading, piano. Bought some beer for the slugs. Almost bought the amstel light (my personal favorite), but I thought they’d rather die in a nice maine made beer such as shipyard summer ale. Tourists out in full force today.  

How did I ever survive in Virginia? blech.. it was about 80 something today and I was outside most of the day. Did some weeding, laid some landscape fabric, mulched, bought our vegetable plants, planted some leftover plants from last week. Weeds are taking over, now I’m tired and starting to doubt my grand plan. : ( I think the wine is bringing me down. I don’t know why I started drinking when I felt good when I started. Oh well.. bought some deer repellant and sprayed it liberally on all the attacked shrubs. J says it smells like ass. I think it smells more like an infected wound that’s not healing. I can’t get the smell out of my hands now. Hopefully it will work. Here are some pictures.

Phlox

Turtle…strike a pose! 

Barren wasteland of my own creation. 

J & J stopped by and took us out for an ice cream. Reading my weight lifting book. Starting Generation Loss… I like it. It’s a lot like the other book I started and didn’t finish (veronica).. .tough women living rough lives… drugs, sex, etc. etc. Good stuff.

Tomorrow I need to get more mulch, clean up the weed garden, mulch the other beds, do laundry, work on practica musica, read, exercise… at some point need to write.

Some tension between me and J today. I think he thinks I’m bossy and rude. Which I think might be true. : ( He’s been working hard all day. But he whines a lot. He’s a good man.

Piano - recital songs finally going well. Also working on ashokan farewell (in preparation for next year’s recital!) and big rock candy mountain (just because I like it). I hope it’s not so hot tomorrow. I’m wearing my new yellow cable knit sweater. I’m trying to think of one more random thought to round things out… nope. oh, eddie’s hanging out up the driveway..still keeping his distance. My god.. it’s like a freaking nature preserve down here (not that I’m complaining).

Oh, I keep meaning to mention…lilacs are blooming (not that I have any..boo hoo), dogwood finally leafed out. Oh, cranesbill started blooming as did my lipstick pink strawberry. We planted a sugar maple in the back where I wanted my labyrinth to be. Maybe it will die. I also had an idea for a Venus garden. You know how they have Mary gardens where they put stuff that symbolizes the virgin mary? I want to do one to Venus. J says it won’t fit in with our rustic charm… I don’t care. I worship the goddess of love. yeah, I’m drunk. zzzz….sleepy.