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March 8, 2010
 
I have the week off from work and planned on spending it doing a Spring Cleaning inside and out. Lots of yoga and some gardening and sewing and reading and no Martinis or Parsons Flat wine or Pizza or potato chips.
I’ll see how long I can stand that.
I started out with an early walk with Lu up to the Santa Rosa Cemetery and then some weeding in the driveway so that we can now open our back door!  Then I went to a Meditation and Movement class, I’ve never ever moved so slowly and deliberately in my life. It was awkward at first and you’d think moving so slowly and minimally would be easy but it wasn’t. I was exhausted with the effort but I felt like I could be one of those Chinese Tai Chi ladies in the park in San Francisco.
It’s finally Spring in my head. I felt it move in this morning while pulling out the Plantain and trimming the Mexican Sage. I started to think about putting some pots on the cement pad under the kitchen window and filling them with the Allium bulbs I found tossed in a plastic pot by the compost pile and started to wonder what we should plant in the window box and is it too soon to hang the hammock? 



Yup.
 
 
March 8, 2010
 
I have the week off from work and planned on spending it doing a Spring Cleaning inside and out. Lots of yoga and some gardening and sewing and reading and no Martinis or Parsons Flat wine or Pizza or potato chips.
I’ll see how long I can stand that.
I started out with an early walk with Lu up to the Santa Rosa Cemetery and then some weeding in the driveway so that we can now open our back door!  Then I went to a Meditation and Movement class, I’ve never ever moved so slowly and deliberately in my life. It was awkward at first and you’d think moving so slowly and minimally would be easy but it wasn’t. I was exhausted with the effort but I felt like I could be one of those Chinese Tai Chi ladies in the park in San Francisco.
It’s finally Spring in my head. I felt it move in this morning while pulling out the Plantain and trimming the Mexican Sage. I started to think about putting some pots on the cement pad under the kitchen window and filling them with the Allium bulbs I found tossed in a plastic pot by the compost pile and started to wonder what we should plant in the window box and is it too soon to hang the hammock? 



Yup.
 
 
March 8 2010
Sunday Garden Tour on Monday
Foxgloves, violas, sweet woodruff, snapdragons all have been planted in the corner under the birch tree but all have failed to thrive.  Water being one problem and stomping the other. When the hedge is trimmed that area is difficult to manage.
Presently it is filling in with Nigella which is lovely, or it could be Allysum also lovely and tends to settle itself in quite nicely. 
I can’t remember what this beauty is called but we call her Felicia and she’s back blooming in that pot on the front steps, a cheerful welcome home.
 The Cerinthe blooming in the front window! I’m very happy to see her there in between our two Iceberg Roses with Allysum and Jupiter’s Beard and Tulips and Daffodils. It’s a beautiful sight to come home to.
This bed I now call officially CAREFREE.  
March 7, 2010
I spent about an hour pulling weeds and filling the green waste bin. Didn’t make a dent. 
 
March 6, 2010
Paranoia  *  Delusion  *  Apprehension
You have nothing to fear but fear itself! Though you fret over coffee stains on the love seat and detect disapproval from your mother-in-law, don’t worry that pretty little head of yours.  You suspect the worst, but it’s probably all in your mind, and you are working yourself into a tizzy for nothing.  Even when your problems are real, you tend to blow them out of proportion.  Sometimes your apprehension is worse than the outcome you dread.
March 6, 2010
Paranoia  *  Delusion  *  Apprehension
You have nothing to fear but fear itself! Though you fret over coffee stains on the love seat and detect disapproval from your mother-in-law, don’t worry that pretty little head of yours.  You suspect the worst, but it’s probably all in your mind, and you are working yourself into a tizzy for nothing.  Even when your problems are real, you tend to blow them out of proportion.  Sometimes your apprehension is worse than the outcome you dread.
March 6, 2010
Paranoia  *  Delusion  *  Apprehension
You have nothing to fear but fear itself! Though you fret over coffee stains on the love seat and detect disapproval from your mother-in-law, don’t worry that pretty little head of yours.  You suspect the worst, but it’s probably all in your mind, and you are working yourself into a tizzy for nothing.  Even when your problems are real, you tend to blow them out of proportion.  Sometimes your apprehension is worse than the outcome you dread.
March 5, 2010
 
I came upon this beautiful old broom this morning while out for our walk. I’ve been holed up in the nest for days only going out for the absolute necessities and running back home as fast as my little legs can carry me.
Another stupid TV show idea: 
a broom that sweeps away grief.
That is not such a stupid idea. 
 
March 5, 2010
 
I came upon this beautiful old broom this morning while out for our walk. I’ve been holed up in the nest for days only going out for the absolute necessities and running back home as fast as my little legs can carry me.
Another stupid TV show idea: 
a broom that sweeps away grief.
That is not such a stupid idea. 
 
March 5, 2010
 
I came upon this beautiful old broom this morning while out for our walk. I’ve been holed up in the nest for days only going out for the absolute necessities and running back home as fast as my little legs can carry me.
Another stupid TV show idea: 
a broom that sweeps away grief.
That is not such a stupid idea. 
 
March 4, 2010

Trees as seen through my new sunglasses, which gave me a stupid TV show idea to pitch.
A pair of glasses that permits it’s wearers to see into the future or past or gives it’s wearer the power to see through people’s bodies like an x-ray machine or see the world as a pointillist painting or people as cartoons or the inside of their own skull.
Okay so that was more than one stupid TV show idea. I don’t even like those sunglasses they were an emergency purchase and I really should be doing three other things but I’m dodging.
 
March 4, 2010

Trees as seen through my new sunglasses, which gave me a stupid TV show idea to pitch.
A pair of glasses that permits it’s wearers to see into the future or past or gives it’s wearer the power to see through people’s bodies like an x-ray machine or see the world as a pointillist painting or people as cartoons or the inside of their own skull.
Okay so that was more than one stupid TV show idea. I don’t even like those sunglasses they were an emergency purchase and I really should be doing three other things but I’m dodging.