Saturday, May 21, 2011

green green, all i see is green

now this spring fresh rain green, THAT is a green i can get behind!
ordinarily i don't like green.
the real color of leaves is so alive that trying to make it into a pigment or dye just falls so far short of the market as to be painful
but give me alive leaves and yup THAT green i like
now when i look out the studio window all i see is green leaves, it's like living in a tree house

now today, bernie may or may not do the deck........he's got the plague, he gave it to me.....
i am looking to pass it on as well.
it's not the sort of gift you really are too happy about no?

as to the prolonged rain, it's caused a slight problem with laundry around here, since i didn't let bernie fix the dryer.......
it's not drying inside with the woodstove on, and of course fish are swimming around my outside clothesline........
so we have a bit of a back up here
except today
it looks like we've got a window of dryness here today......if so we'll be hustling to get the towels all dry
we need a small stackable pair of washer/dryer for the studio i think, and ditch the big dryer in the cellar, but keep the big washer.
oye
we're back to square one on the kitchen too, i keep wondering if after we fix the deck, would it be smart to move the kitchen into the studio....put a bathroom/laundry room in the old kitchen and turn the old dining room into a tv room/office library
gee now's the time i wish i knew a good interior designer, that was certified.
i need a much better floor plan for this house

and sometime soon i need to get another quarantine cage and three boy budgie babies...oye
the budgie madness never ends once it starts i think

in duck news, the pens are completely filled with muck
we're hoping that the rains stay stopped long enough to let the water drain so we can get the muck out and add fresh bedding all around.
the muck will be most welcome in the garden though
and if it stays nice i can harvest some spearmint to dry for winter
the plants are big out there now and sweet

the carrots and that are sprouted but not really all that big, the peas seem to be thinking about growing but they too aren't doing as well as they should be by now
i want to put the cuc's in soon, and i have no where to put the pole beans!
this season i think is going to be a disappointing one

i want to get some meat from rooster hill farm, and also put some chicken up from the purveyor
i would like to have enough out of the garden to harvest too, it looks like the garlic is ok and the onions, i am hoping for beets and turnips to be put by and really my biggest hope now is a fall/winter garden due to the nightmare spring rains we've been having

how's it by you guys?

ok i have to run now
we've got to get started
have a wonderful weekend everyone

2 comments:

  1. We finally have a dry day today, so i got my asparagus planted finally. I put a few herbs in pots on the patio, and moved the leftover and volunteer onions that overwintered, all together next to the garlic, so the other beds are ready to plant. More rain coming in tomorrow, so maybe Wed. or so I can get some more planted. Sheesh, I have never planted this late!

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  2. Donna in VA8:44 AM

    Interesting idea about rearranging the rooms. What would you do about a studio?

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