Can You Dig It?
1. This is the time of year when I haven’t finished planting and am already harvesting. We’re eating swiss chard, summer squash, broccoli, beans, and blueberries.
2. Hours of time are eaten up in the garden so that we can eat.
3. When I go out to weed and find myself picking with nothing to put the vegetables in, I just lift up my sundress and fill it with food.
4. A cherry is so cheery.
5. In-curable: the cure is within.
6. Gory cigarette labels from around the world HERE.
7. This is also the time of year when I think about how many better ways I could be spending my time than waiting for the salt to come out of the clogged-up shaker.
8. Most popular searches that have landed people on my blog this week: Collage art, Paragon Park and Primland Resort.
9. My own recent searches include purple salvia, John of God, ionic foot bath and The Dixie Chicks.
10. My 3-year-old grandson Bryce was disappointed when I told him that we wore fake mustaches to Dolphin and Mike’s wedding and that I didn’t bring him one so that he could put it on and play Mario, a mustached video character that Bryce has taken to.
11. I was talking to another blogger last week who, like me, has Chronic Fatigue, and directed her to this description I wrote a couple of years ago about it: Sometimes I think having chronic fatigue is like having a drinking problem. When I partake in a social life, I live it up large, but soon I have to sneak away to find a place to sleep it off. As I rest in my own little world, hearing the voices and sounds of others carrying on, I feel illicit and sadly set apart. But if I don’t regularly nip at the nap, if I go too long and do too much I find myself staggering, my words start to slur, and my brain can no longer add two and two together. I get hangovers too. For every few hours I spend out, I need to match those hours recovering at home. More, including some great comments, HERE.
12. Today while Joe and I were babysitting Bryce and Liam today, Bryce said to Joe, “Let’s wrestle and get killed!
13. My corn is taller than a toddler. If it was a kid it would be in the second grade.
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June 29th, 2011 11:24 pm
Nothing growing in our garden at work, but soon I think. There are blossoms on the zucchini and other stuff can’t be far behind.
June 30th, 2011 3:29 am
It’s so hot here, stuff is barely growing. My favorite this week is number 5.
June 30th, 2011 7:35 am
what grade will the corn be in when it is time to harvest? lol
i remember seeing women with their skirts filled with veggies when i was a kid! sure wish we had a garden. we are hoping to just get into and stay in the 70s – nope, not yet! one day here and there, but we can’t stay there.
June 30th, 2011 8:07 am
We planted very late this year, too. But this is the first year we’ve ever had tomatoes before July 4. Weird.
June 30th, 2011 8:19 am
I have always loved your garden ….. full of the most delicious vegetables and fruit!! xo
PS My mouth is watering for the blueberries and the swiss chard!!
June 30th, 2011 11:11 pm
If I could nap, I think I could manage so much better. The insomnia just takes that option from me.
But enough of that, I just have to say that I love the idea that your corn would be in second grade! 🙂
Happy TT,
~Xakara
13 Desserts
July 1st, 2011 7:48 am
Sounds like such a beautiful garden! Love how you’re both planting and harvesting at the same time..and gotta love that scarecrow!!!
July 1st, 2011 12:22 pm
I am soooooooo glad to find someone else who is still planting although harvesting and blooming is going on. Makes me feel less behind.
July 1st, 2011 8:54 pm
LOL, LOL…Great T13 Colleen, as always….!
Love that line about your Corn….
And I bet all the things you grow taste FABULOUS!! Corn included!
July 1st, 2011 11:21 pm
Corn! I can’t wait! When Dave’s grandson was a little boy (he’s 13 now) he used to say when Dave made corn, “more p@rn papa!”. Lol!