May
On a roll!
This is my second entry for the month of May! Can you believe it? I am on a roll. It is Thursday night and I am looking at a four day weekend for Memorial Day, so my mood is looking good.
Tim must feel like all he does lately is hammer, hang, adjust, drive to Lowes, assemble, rearrage, etc. He has been working on installing pretty new things around the house like the beautiful faucets in the bathroom and the chandelier in the dining room. The chandelier alone has made such a huge difference I don’t know why we waited so long. Then it was then finally time to get started on working on replacing the fence around the yard, which he started last weekend with our neighbor. While that was going well, and looking good, our garage door opener went out. So that was another thing. More assembling, hanging, and with only minor cursing. And in continuing with the tradition of getting Tim birthday gifts that he has to assemble (because he hasn’t done enough of it lately either), he got his early birthday present tonight…a 10″ table saw. Only so he can assemble, create and build additional items! Happy Birthday Tim.
I am busy trying to incorporate cucumbers into our daily meals. Our garden is interesting. The sweet peas grew healthy, quickly and produced 25 or so pods. Now they are dismal looking. I don’t know what is up. Our tomato plants are runty, our bell peppers might have been severly and irreversably damaged in a bad storm, but the cucumbers…oh the cucumbers! They are growing out of control. We have picked many so far, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in site.
Recently finished a great book called Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell, about the disappearance of the Louisiana Bayou. Because of all the Mississippi River levees and engineering, there is no sediment to replenish the fragile bayou land. So the gulf of Mexico is slowly battering the land and it is disappearing underwater at a rate of 20-30 square miles a year. The book was published in 2003, so I have some follow up research to do about creating a diversion channel to help rebuild some of the bayou before it is all gone, along with the way of life for many people who live there. Also recently read Venetian Affair, which was eh. I finished it, but couldn’t really get into it. Still making quilts. I have started making a slightly different kind, so don’t want to report too much before I know how they are going to turn out.
I am also trying to get on my bike as much as possible. I decided that next summer, when I am going to turn 30, that I am going to ride my bike across Iowa in a ride called RAGBRAI. It looks like a blast, so if you are free during the last week in July of 2005, think of joining us!
I’ll check in again soon.
xoxo
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