gardening and must post more then once a month.

today i planted chamomile, tomatoes two kinds, and parsley. it felt so good just to put my hands in the earth. i used a planter so they could be decorative too. the plants are sitting next to the front steps. i cant wait until stuff starts to bloom.

more planting tomorrow. boy seeds have really gone up in price. but totally worth it still. i also raked the front yard, i didnt put the yard waste into bags but instead i wait to rake until the city is going to do the annual street sweeping and rake the leaves and other stuff into the street. i figure before so many humans lived here many many more leaves and small branches fell into the river...

i dont really have a list from year to year of what i am planting. i have a general idea but not a plotted out excell sheet of what varieties or anything. so my list generally is things that look pretty at the various plants sales i go to. as a result i have like ten varieties of lavender, basil and echinacea. one or two pumpkins, one or two chamomile, two or three tomatoes, a huge strawberry patch, three kinds of roses, two squash, and a buncha other plants.

this is the time of year that makes up for winter, or hmmm... rather almost makes up for winter. almost.

it went fantastic. the spring fling party at my hosue today went over so well...

fun was had by all. everyone stayed later then we thought, everyone ate tons of great food, we had a fine wild and crazy egg hunt were all the kids got quarters, candy, and a little toy.
ians dad stayed for hours, friends from ians school and my volunteer place came, plus in "home friends" as ian calls them. god we had a great time. and later on i will fill in the details. mostly i just wanted to say what a success the party was.

tomorrow i will deal with the death of a good friend, tomorrow. cos i don't wanna think about it today.

we had our first house showing yesterday. it went okay.

if nothing else i have cleaning an amazing amount and purged almost all of my former belongings. new gifts out into the world for people. all to the freestore. they see me coming and are thrilled. it was tough finding a freestore that didnt make people pray before getting the items they are in need of. tough i tell you. but after several hours of calling various places i found it. so they are the recipients of all my former belongings.


in other news the only other thing i seem to be thinking about i threw away musta been 11ty hundred garbage bags of stuff. the trash collector made comments to his buddy. okay he was training the guy in so they werent comments about the HUGE pile of garbage. and it felt GOOOD to get rid of that stuff. sooo soo good.

someday i will post pictures of my work. someday.

the housing inspector comes in two hours.

ask me if i am done cleaning.
i'm not. i spent 6 hours cleaning the young teens bedroom yesterday. a developed nation complaint for sure, but still. i found a HUGE stash of silver ware and books to give to a friend with a kid alittle younger then young teen. the books, not the silverware.

now its on to my room. which really isn't bad. i just have to throw some clothing into the closet and kinda straiten some stuff out. prolly should make my bed too.
the front room and dinner room are done, the kitchen is almost there.

this guy is just looking around for structural problems, do the fire detectors work, etc. monday the first perspective buyer comes. it really has to look nice by then.

the day before yesterday i got a phone call from younger teens dad, he said "what are you doing right now? are you busy? i need a huge favor." i said, i am working but its no biggie. i don't have 200.00 dollars. what is it?"

he said "i split my pants working at Eric's (he and his wife own renaissance tree care and ds dad works with them) can you bring me a pair of pants."

i manage, barely, to stifle a laugh. and say sure

next thing i know i am driving to the house with pants. get there are hell if he hasn't completely busted out the ass of his pants. funniest thing ever.