Earth Day

So, in honor of Earth Day, I grubbed in the dirt . . . er, earth. Did a bit of weeding—I ought to be pulling up ground ivy, but it's still blooming and the bees are working it, so I pulled up what had finished, along with some grass and fed the whole bunch to the chickens, who were extremely enthusiastic. Planted catnip, two hummingbird sage plants, a bunch of dianthus, some regular sage, some oregano (actually, some more oregano—I took some from the front bed, which is being taken over by the Oregano Mafia, and planted it in a pot so I can have fresh oregano all winter. I hope.), some parsley-in-a-pot (same reason), a spotted dead nettle down in the rock garden . . . still to plant are a flat of golden marguerites, a flat of gold alyssum, a mixture of poppies and shasta daisies, some more parsley and a few dill plants (these destined for a pot, I think; we can sow seed in the garden), three clematis plants, and some blue stuff that we just liked. Oh, and a flat of delphiniums that John has plans for; yesterday he planted a flat of lupines under the grapevine.

I had 'help' from Earl, who rolled happily in the mulch
and Sam, who spent most of the afternoon cleverly camouflaged in the daffodils

and Maggie, who just watched.

Other than that, I did a load of sheets and towels and hung them out—it was lovely and breezy, and they were dry by midafternoon—and baked a couple of loaves of buttermilk bread. I cooked yesterday: hamburgers, enough for today too, and potato salad, and egg salad, and gelatin (I have given up Jello, at least for now; this was made with Knox gelatin and a mixture of apricot nectar and tangerine juice), and hamburger buns, which made nice sandwiches with egg salad for today's lunch. John and Roger built a new pen for the pheasants, and then ate the leftover hamburgers and potato salad. I worked some on Riley's dinosaur (only three fins and a couple of spikes left!); I should have it far enough along to get fabric for a bag this weekend.

Next I think I need to look up some rhubarb recipes:

Comments

[Katie]

My goodness. I'm exhausted just reading all that! :-)

[Kai]

You must surely be sick of me saying it, but I think your life is ideal! Kitty-people, yummy veggies that actually GROW, pretty flowers, fresh bread - what more could anyone ask? Ahhhhh! It relaxes me just to read this post! Thanks! (Uh - it would be even better if you could reach through the monitor & hand me a bowl of that yummy sounding gelatin!)

[Judy Merrill-Smith]

Love those kitty photos! Oh, I'd be baking my first rhubarb pie of the season if I had such a lovely patch waiting for me. (You're lucky I'm not a neighbor, because I'd be begging for some!!)