More domesticity
Monday, July 10th, 2023 09:23 pmOne must move to move and I haven't been moving much, since sofas and fans and beanbags and Pratchett are so tempting. So today I went and did a load at the laundromat, all the face cloths, hand towels, and kitchen towels that have been piling up, plus a bath towel and bath mat for extras. I don't wash my bath towels every week because I figure that's for people who shower every day. In colder weather I only do that every second or third day, washcloths sufficing for the evening wipe downs. Is why the washcloths and hand towels pile up. But now it's sweaty summer and I shower daily, so must wash my towels.
Then went out and swept up old leaves and new seedlings from the concrete planter in front. Nothing grows there because that's where I keep the bins so I don't bother to clear the leaves out of it in the fall. But the seedlings have carpeted the area, a good centimetre thick in places, so I took my gardening gloves and dustpan and filled half a plastic garbage bin with the detritus. Also snipped some of the hedge where it's been growing and the ground ivy overgrowing the path. Didn't remotely get all of it because my back was yelling at me and anyway the bin was full. I'd be sad about the state of my lower back except it's been almost two weeks since I had a massage so I'm not doing badly.
Sadie's mom has a new puppy. Haven't seen Sadie around lately so I may assume she is no more. Must make my kind inquiries at some point.
The orange daylilies are having a splendid time in the neighbourhood, replacing the splendid irises of last month. 'Lilies need at least six hours of full sunshine'? Tell that to the clump at the bottom of my garden, shaded all day by the cherry tree and the vines on the garage. Most years I get one or two flowers there, but this year it's like seven or eight. (Haven't been out to count them because the path us awash in cherry pits and moldy cherries. It's what I can see from the study window and, well, the cherry tree blocks the view.) True, the lilies kind of lean to the side trying to peer around the cherry's trunk and pick up what sun they can get, but they're definitely spreading.
Then went out and swept up old leaves and new seedlings from the concrete planter in front. Nothing grows there because that's where I keep the bins so I don't bother to clear the leaves out of it in the fall. But the seedlings have carpeted the area, a good centimetre thick in places, so I took my gardening gloves and dustpan and filled half a plastic garbage bin with the detritus. Also snipped some of the hedge where it's been growing and the ground ivy overgrowing the path. Didn't remotely get all of it because my back was yelling at me and anyway the bin was full. I'd be sad about the state of my lower back except it's been almost two weeks since I had a massage so I'm not doing badly.
Sadie's mom has a new puppy. Haven't seen Sadie around lately so I may assume she is no more. Must make my kind inquiries at some point.
The orange daylilies are having a splendid time in the neighbourhood, replacing the splendid irises of last month. 'Lilies need at least six hours of full sunshine'? Tell that to the clump at the bottom of my garden, shaded all day by the cherry tree and the vines on the garage. Most years I get one or two flowers there, but this year it's like seven or eight. (Haven't been out to count them because the path us awash in cherry pits and moldy cherries. It's what I can see from the study window and, well, the cherry tree blocks the view.) True, the lilies kind of lean to the side trying to peer around the cherry's trunk and pick up what sun they can get, but they're definitely spreading.
