random thoughts from the weekend…

if you’re reading this monday morning and you’re still in the sunday night mindset, you’ve come to the right blog. lots of links, lots of procrastination-inducing digressions. let’s get started…
it must be the amazing roos roast coffee i’ve been slugging all weekend…i hauled three cubic yards of composted soil since it was delivered [...]

restoring zen

there’s something to be said for working in a zen garden..

removing soggy leaves from the smooth, black stones.
using only my two hands to sift the cool, white sand.
tidying bamboo shoots with a delicate wire-tined utensil.
tracing lines in the sand with a chunky, wooden rake.

whispering the dog

ko.
the ko man.
ko-stradamus…
so many things, and yet always one: bad. or i guess curious might be a polite way to describe him. maybe wily. anyway you paint him, he’s got a wild streak, a crazed look, and he squeaks a lot. a lot.
my dog will be two in july, and i hear that two [...]

inside & out

oh, boy.
i took on a garden project yesterday with the vigor only found at this time of year. i moved a garden. yes, moved a garden. i thought it would take me a few days, but i was so content to be outside, in the sun, actually gardening, that i plowed through it, literally…
oof.
first, i [...]

plans, plans, plans

i have emerged from my imaginary world of garden catalogs to the place just before our frost- free go-ahead..i am saving newspapers to place on top of the lawn before i shovel on a compost- soil mix to make new gardens, stockpiling sturdy sticks to make trellises that will hold the black- seeded blue lake [...]

finally…

when i wrote my first post three weeks ago, i did so with the intent to document spring’s arrival… but instead, i worked on my first blister (aka raking the yard,) stretched my calves (aka pulling perennial weeds,) & tweaked my back (aka finally extracting those tenacious weed-tree stumps from the garden beds.) so, after [...]