Eloquent Pedestrian

I thought I would take a moment and tell you all about one of my major hobbies besides gardening, especially since it will soon be dominating what I talk about here. It's still cold, and the post-summer drear has settled in. There are rumors of 80 degree weather, but I'm not sure I believe them. ANYWAY. I knit. This is what I was doing in the middle of the summer when it was too hot to go outside and play in the dirt: When finished that is the Serenity blanket. The subtitle is "I am a Leaf on the Wind" and if you don't know what that means, you need to go straight to Hulu or Netflix or more morally ambiguous sources and find the greatest Sci Fi tv show ever created, Firefly. Expect to spend the weekend watching it. Anyway- it was a significant project for me, because it was my first major expedition into the jungle of lace. It's nothing fancy to lace knitters, but knitting cables in the round, and looking up completely new stitch abbreviations. It too...

Long ago I wrote about the magical properties of beans, and compared them to the fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk? Remember the lessons in fairy tales? Obey your parents, don't wander off, and again and again when something looks too good to be true, it probably is. Here's a picture of the beans when the sprouts first showed up: And about the time I was posting about the wonders of beans: And within a few weeks: I attempted to give the beans a place to grow, tying string between the two poles, from the overgrown pole to the failed pole. See all the runners reaching out for somewhere to grow? They were headed towards the fence. If I find a picture of the beans in between I will put it here, but to keep it fairly short- they overgrew the second pole. The strings did not last long, the beans were too heavy, but then they started making their own way, growing around each other and reaching over to the other pole. As the overgrown pole began to pull itself towar...

I haven't been out in the garden in almost a month. That is to say, I've been physically present in the garden almost every day this month, but only as long as it took to de-beetle the roses, pick a few beans, ooh and aaah at the tomatoes and then run back inside. And I've been blaming my lack of attentions on a lot of things: mosquitoes (our state bird), "it's too hot", "it's too cold", "I don't have the time", "I went to the state fair and ate my body weight in carbs and have slipped into a diabetic coma" But they were all just excuses. The garden's gone wild with marigolds and tomato bushes, beans breaking their poles and lettuce gone to seed (deliberately). Time to get out there... Any second now... Okay I'm going.