Summer Progress

      The plants are growing, and the mowing needs done again but I will get to it soon.  And the neighbors on the north have put up a lovely privacy fence. . I hope to be entertained when they try to park that huge camper next time. . I don’t think they considered that. but I am enjoying how much more private my yard now feels. . . 

     I have my finances in a mess and it will take several months to get them back on track, but I am working on getting my head and finances out of my bum. . . the fact that I screwed up and trashed my credit score and my financial stability has me mad at myself..but I know how and what and that will be choices and actions that I will NOT do again. . 

     That idiot dog and I are now walking down to the park and around that path now instead of up to the levee and back, more shade and more comfortable.  It’s also avoiding a man that possibly wants to push a relationship on me that I do NOT want. . .

     Things are ok here, I am not miserable and my plants are doing well and I actually really like the new privacy fence on the north side.. it will be interesting to see what it does for life here and what impact it makes on my plants along that side over the next few years.

        I am not knitting socks, I am turning all those little bits and balls of left over sock yarn into a granny square, it is growing and will keep on growing and will become a blanket by the time I am done.   It’s a good use for them and I ran out of room in my jar and in the hand blown glass fish bowl they have been tucked into over all these years. . years and years and many, many pair of hand knit socks. . 

        I wish I had few cats here and that I had managed money better the past 2 months but I will do better and I will say NO to being the free taxi and to buying more plants and to many other things. . 

Heat wave. . . so I decided to make bread!

 It’s been a long time since I baked bread, I don’t buy bread, if I really want that stuff. . . I get out ingredients and make the stuff. . . so. . it’s running over 80 degrees outside, cooling down nights to below 75. . ya. . .not much cool down. .   but the bread turned out good and I will eat the stuff. . 

And the mowing is done, except for some areas that I trim by hand , ,  and yes, I am still hunting down bug and eggs on the zucchini plants and murdering the bugs and their eggs. . and eating the zucchini and sharing the stuff.

It’s a quiet life, and the financial house is a mess but it will get better, my screw up, and part is helping a family member move and the rest is the darn plants and 3 Japanese maple trees. . but I will get the finances  back in order, the plants are all perennials that I have wanted, most are in the front bed along the new front porch and I have now started the bed along the fence between the shop and the block end cap of the berm under the power line on the south side of the back yard area. . it will take several years to get that  planting area to fill out and be what I want. . and yes, I am putting flowering plants in a lot of places.

I did get a phone call from Jake this week, it’s always good to talk with him. . it sounds like the crew are all doing ok and staying well.  Jake sounded in good spirts and I am glad of that.

Kim gathered me up this morning and we went to Hardie’s for breakfast, I had finished the mowing and was sweeping the front sidewalk as that needed done.  I let her know some of what I am doing with things, she’s the personal rep for my estate and has my will so as I give away some stuff, like dolls and some of my jewelry I want her to know. . 

I am getting out with Jenkins, the dog in the mornings before it’s too hot and we are walking again, healthy for both of us as long as I watch the temps and do not cause either of us to have heat stress. . 

Sweater knitting is making progress, it’s been years since I have knit myself a sweater and this 1 has been ripped back and tweaked and is now finally looking like I might actually finish it. . a change from knitting socks. .