Random things

What-ho, all you wonderful people! How's life for all of you? No mid-week 'blahs', I hope! *Grin*

Not to get all boring and talk about the weather, but the weather has been really weird here. The beginning of the week was cold, (Getting down into the 30's at night....) and rainy and very gray. The sort of weather that begs for an High Tea. Which my sister and I did in fact have.

Biscuits, strawberries...that clotted cream is a British thing. It tastes like whipped cream but is the constancy more of butter. It is delicious. And hot, milky, wonderful tea...Ah. It was very yummy. 

Today, however is hot. Which is sort of nice since it is almost July. But my poor plants have no idea hot to deal with these sudden changes!

My lettuce is dying. *Sniffs* The little patch of it that I had, all leafy and delicate, is practically gone.  This is how I feel as I watch it dwindle away.

But my peas, on the other hand, are little troopers! They're just growing away. If I'm lucky, I might actually get a pod on one of them! (Sarcasm intended.)

Ah...anyway.

Is anyone else really looking forward to the 4th of July? Got any plans? I'd love to hear! Doesn't it just seem right to watch Captain America on the 4th? *fingers crossed*

Oh, heads up. Saturday Style might not happen till Sunday. I work all day Saturday and quite frankly, I doubt I'll be awesome enough to manage a 'style'. So...deal with it. lol.

Since this post is already totally random, I just feel like now's a good time to mention that I really need to get back into playing my flute! It was sort of a New Year's resolution (And you can all see how well that's going) so I figure now might be a good time to kick that whole thing into gear. My biggest problem with it? I'm just lazy. *Nods* I'm not gonna lie.

But my beautiful, wonderful flute just needs to be played and loved and cared for! I think it misses me. 

What's happening with all of you? Any plans for the weekend or things that you really need to get done? You know I"m just asking so that you'll comment. *Smirk* 

But really...

Good night and God Bless.

Amy

Gardening~

"When a thing is wick, it has a life about it,

Now maybe not a life like you and me,

But somewhere there's a single streak of green inside it,

come and let me show you what I mean."

Growing things from seed is very challenging where I live. The combination of dry altitude, short growing season and poor, granite-y soil does a lot to curb any enthusiasm a person might have. But for some reason, I always want to try anyway.

I have visions of a garden that just bursts into life, full of flowers, berries. Some vegetables here, some lettuce there...

And most years I'm pretty much a failure at it and stick to planting flowers that already have a healthy root system.  Which is fine, I suppose.

But what I really want is a good old 'victory garden' style vegetable garden.

(If you don't get this, shame on you.)

Yes, laugh all you mid-westerners, but growing vegetables is quite the feat around here!
I have a few sisters that live in the mid-west and grow the most amazing things and tell me how they wish their tomatoes would slow down or that they want to take an ax to their cucumbers. And I feel so proud when I manage to get one strawberry out of the patch. *Sigh*

This year I'm at the whole seed thing again and for the first time I am actually having success!

See my plants! They are growing! This is success.

No really, it's a big deal. 

I feel like:

And then like:

Now let's just hope and pray that I can keep them alive long enough for them to produce veggies. The only other time I got something to grow from seeds, I had planted herbs in a starter kit in the house. They sprouted and leafed beautifully and I showed them off rather proudly to my family. Then I placed them on the deck so they could start to get used to the great outdoors before I transplanted them and a squirrel ATE all of them! I was pretty devastated and it took me a very long time to forgive that squirrel.

This song is from 'The Secret Garden' musical, (which is one of my favorite musicals, by the way. If you like musicals, give it a go. It's got some awesome songs.)  and it just seems to fit this post.

            

God Bless!
Amy