gardens; trying to de-stress; home.
sometimes i am very bad at relaxing. it is saturday and things are wide open except i am still trying to get a ton and a half of shit done (mostly around garden creation, which is super awesome), and i am feeling stressed about it all.
our plan had been to plant in the ground, but people keep talking to us about lead, and mel (my awesome roommate and primary garden partner) is more worried about that than i am, and so maybe we're switching everything edible to containers. which entails containers, and dirt, and drilling holes in said containers, and painting them (ideally): all things that are totally feasible, but take some doing. and oy. all the doing, the doing, the doing. i just came home with some almost-done compost, and a salvia plant, and some packets of things that will flower in the shade (i hope), to put on the prepped dirt if we don't plant our greens & herbs there after all.
so, i need to just go ride my bike to the park (well, a few quicko stops at the bank and the library), and hang out. breathe. i have not been shabbosing and i miss it. how i am doing today is definitely weekend mode but it is the "get shit done" element of the weekend. i did well this morning: slept till 11 (with vivid dreams of fighting in some kind of underground [like, actually underground as well as metaphorical] partisan resistance), made elaborate breakfast, ate it while talking on skype to a friend in paris, watched the first half hour of "the king and i." now just have to return to that mode.
maybe i should meditate or something. i tend towards the skeptical, but people are into it.
overall, though, i am happy i am making this garden. it's funny, cause i am not planning on being here next growing season; by that time, i want to be somewhere that is for-real permanent. funny stating the goal like that, but it's true. but i am still glad of investing into this house: every time i do it, i feel happier in the space. i am currently seeking some sort of stacking shelves to make the freezer a little bit more negotiable, and i put up more hooks for cups and pots (though they're smaller than i'd like), and the backyard is looking so good with all the crap cleared out of it, and the paint job i did in this room is something that makes me happy, the particular warmth in the off-white color on the walls (deep red/pink trim.)
so yes. off to the park.
our plan had been to plant in the ground, but people keep talking to us about lead, and mel (my awesome roommate and primary garden partner) is more worried about that than i am, and so maybe we're switching everything edible to containers. which entails containers, and dirt, and drilling holes in said containers, and painting them (ideally): all things that are totally feasible, but take some doing. and oy. all the doing, the doing, the doing. i just came home with some almost-done compost, and a salvia plant, and some packets of things that will flower in the shade (i hope), to put on the prepped dirt if we don't plant our greens & herbs there after all.
so, i need to just go ride my bike to the park (well, a few quicko stops at the bank and the library), and hang out. breathe. i have not been shabbosing and i miss it. how i am doing today is definitely weekend mode but it is the "get shit done" element of the weekend. i did well this morning: slept till 11 (with vivid dreams of fighting in some kind of underground [like, actually underground as well as metaphorical] partisan resistance), made elaborate breakfast, ate it while talking on skype to a friend in paris, watched the first half hour of "the king and i." now just have to return to that mode.
maybe i should meditate or something. i tend towards the skeptical, but people are into it.
overall, though, i am happy i am making this garden. it's funny, cause i am not planning on being here next growing season; by that time, i want to be somewhere that is for-real permanent. funny stating the goal like that, but it's true. but i am still glad of investing into this house: every time i do it, i feel happier in the space. i am currently seeking some sort of stacking shelves to make the freezer a little bit more negotiable, and i put up more hooks for cups and pots (though they're smaller than i'd like), and the backyard is looking so good with all the crap cleared out of it, and the paint job i did in this room is something that makes me happy, the particular warmth in the off-white color on the walls (deep red/pink trim.)
so yes. off to the park.