Puttering around
I got up very early, around 5 or so I went outside.
Before I got there, I switched the laundry and tidied up in the kitchen. It's so satisfying to do that. I made a fruit and spinach smoothie. I like making them in the morning. It's so much better for me to fill up on that throughout the morning.
I retrieved some of my lovely baskets that have developed mold. Yuck. So I scrubbed at them and removed what I could. We don't have bleach anymore. Anything not passing the European Test of Ecofriendly Greenness, has vanished from my home. So I just used the scrub brush.
Outside, I didn't accomplish anything as my back hurt. Bo would like to build a workshop where my tipi is. It's so hard for me to let go and move the tipi. It's my outside room, which has historically been in the perfect spot. I can work beside it, it's on the lane where it's convenient for people to come in and sit for awhile on their way past, it's a good spot to stop beside where I'm working. A ramp leads right to it. There are no wet feet on the way. it's beside the driveway where the wood trash can easily be put inside for making the next campfire. It's the perfect spot! So I went to do my part on it.
I sat on the porch swing on the landing on Hairy Woodpecker hillside and just observed the beautiful view and swung. Nature is incredible. I'd like to remove some of the cedar trees at the bottom of the hill. We live in a hollow that's surrounded by a ring of hills.
We used to be able to see the top of the neighbour in the hollow's green wooden house and the forest above it. But not anymore. I worked on moving some of the flowers growing in the center of the spot where the tipi is going to go at the bottom of the hill.
I went down to the moat and sat near the spot where the full moat runs over into the marsh woods fen. It has to go over a bump to get out now, I believe. Or the woods is still so flooded that it can't hold anymore water.
I got over onto Horseshoe Island where I tidied up Horseshoe Island tipi a bit and sat there overlooking the stream and serenity dippity pond. The hammock had a wet line where there'd collected alder catkins. So I raised up the end of the hammock so I could sit in a chair there and not the wet hammock.
The mosquitoes are fiercesome, but I had incense sticks. I've lost my bottle of skintastic Off! lotion. It's the best for the bugs ever!
I had a problem with being able to work on moving the tipi. Scarlett said it was the highest priority, so I worked on it till I had to go to town for lumber for the steps that Bo is making for us to get down to the Perennial Slope Garden.
I stopped at Alida's until I got the measurements for the wood. It was nice to se the children again. I wanted to take them home, but that wouldn't work.
Scarlett rototilled the whole area for the tipi while I was gone. It wasn't in her plan for the day. I'm so grateful she did that! It's so nice now. Perhaps I can lash the tipi poles together.
I went back to town later for something else we needed and stopped to drop off the stroller and Desmond's hat. I woke up Jean with my knocking. oops. I bought some geranium plants. I'm going to hang them off the balcony, I think. I need to bring my impact drill over to the house for that later.
When I got back Scarlett and bo were woring hard to make more of those Slab raised garden beds. It's quite the system they have going over there. I sat on the balcony and watched.
I went over to the dump where I found a lovely red coat in my size and a couple of hummingbird feeders. Scarlett brought up a salad for me. I ate on the balcony overlooking the activity below. I love having people here I can watch working over there! I love their little potting shed greenhouse they've created out of the turkey shed.