I feel human again. :)
This has been a long, rough week. With Amy being sick we've been cooped up since Sunday morning, and the weather has been dreary so it's depressing to even look out the window.
But now Amy's fever is completely gone, she's been eating, and she has her attitude back. Still a little sniffly, and the poor kid is so pale and thin she looks like one of the elves from The Dark Crystal, but today she looked outside and even with the cold and clouds, she asked, "can I ride my bike?"
So I bundled her up, despite her sniffles, (socks and a sweatshirt in June...yuck.) and sent her outside. Since Kate was taking a nap, I did an impromptu gardening blitz, planting some more lettuce, spinach, green beans, and carrots in my big box, and loosened up the soil around a tomato and added some peat moss to give it a bit more drainage around the roots - the leaves are curling and since I planted it before I added extra peat moss, compact soil is my best bet as to why. When I finished that I decided to take on my herb garden. I just wanted to move around a couple plants to make room for the climbing roses to move in this winter, so I did that, and then I moved my strawberries from the pot to around the bigger herbs, moved the parsley from the box to the garden, and planted some cilantro and dill seeds. Don't know if those will come up or not, but I figured I had nothing to loose...and if they do come up, and my cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes do well, then I'll have them for salsa and pickles (my ultimate gardening ambition - to have enough stuff to can!). I also planted some sunflower seeds in the spots I'm saving for the roses.
That sounds like a lot, but it didn't take more than an hour. In fact, I finished just in time for it to start pouring rain (don't need to water :) and for me to suspect that Kate would be getting ready to wake up (but she's still asleep...). Amy went over to play with the neighbor kids. I was a bit wary to let her go, but the half hour outside climbing in the lilac tree put so much color in her cheeks I figured that being out of the house would be good for her, especially since it's just right across the street.
Now I'm tired, but it's a good tired...not the bleck tired I had when I was sick. Still need to make dinner, though...
But now Amy's fever is completely gone, she's been eating, and she has her attitude back. Still a little sniffly, and the poor kid is so pale and thin she looks like one of the elves from The Dark Crystal, but today she looked outside and even with the cold and clouds, she asked, "can I ride my bike?"
So I bundled her up, despite her sniffles, (socks and a sweatshirt in June...yuck.) and sent her outside. Since Kate was taking a nap, I did an impromptu gardening blitz, planting some more lettuce, spinach, green beans, and carrots in my big box, and loosened up the soil around a tomato and added some peat moss to give it a bit more drainage around the roots - the leaves are curling and since I planted it before I added extra peat moss, compact soil is my best bet as to why. When I finished that I decided to take on my herb garden. I just wanted to move around a couple plants to make room for the climbing roses to move in this winter, so I did that, and then I moved my strawberries from the pot to around the bigger herbs, moved the parsley from the box to the garden, and planted some cilantro and dill seeds. Don't know if those will come up or not, but I figured I had nothing to loose...and if they do come up, and my cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes do well, then I'll have them for salsa and pickles (my ultimate gardening ambition - to have enough stuff to can!). I also planted some sunflower seeds in the spots I'm saving for the roses.
That sounds like a lot, but it didn't take more than an hour. In fact, I finished just in time for it to start pouring rain (don't need to water :) and for me to suspect that Kate would be getting ready to wake up (but she's still asleep...). Amy went over to play with the neighbor kids. I was a bit wary to let her go, but the half hour outside climbing in the lilac tree put so much color in her cheeks I figured that being out of the house would be good for her, especially since it's just right across the street.
Now I'm tired, but it's a good tired...not the bleck tired I had when I was sick. Still need to make dinner, though...