Beautiful weather, in the 60s today and NOT RAINING, miracle of miracles. So I stopped on the way home from Mar’s school and bought two basil plants, and two more packets of flowers – why not? can you have too many flowers, at $2.27 a packet? I planted the basil, and then lots of lettuce, spinach, onion – lots and lots of onion seeds – hope they do well and Malvia will eat them with us – and carrot seeds. Crossing my fingers on this whole seed thing. I don’t really trust it but thousands of years of farming has got to mean something. I can’t kill every seed. Surely.
Then I felt inspired to pluck up those nasty thistle weeds from the back corner garden patch. I have no idea what they’re really called but they’re terrible! And they were HUGE and terrible, which is a bad combination! The saving grace is that they were not flowering, yet. An entire black garbage bag of the nasty things.
We’ll see how excited I am tomorrow, when my back registers its opinion of planting and plucking…
Fairy World (a story by Miranda and Elizabeth Finney, told in alternating sentences)
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