Today I want to reminisce about days gone by. Specifically May long weekend...this year. It was 30 degrees. Now, even though the snow is long gone and summer arrived (and left), it already feels like fall is upon us. But May...May was beautiful, hot and just what we needed after a long winter.
In May, Xav was also sleeping through the night. He decided to stop that. At least for now. But he still is a charmer.
Ysabeau was also playing nice in May. Unlike this month. Which normally looks something like this.... (yes that is the faint blue outline of a pacifier in the background. It looks like we are not going to break the habit anytime soon).
Right now I am going through mega gardener's guilt. I know its harvesting time. But its cold, and windy and raining. I intended the garden to be a permaculture oasis. Instead it is more of a overcrowded invasive species botanic garden. I didn't plan on the kids when I thought about the garden. People can rave all they want about "food not lawns". But the reality is grass makes sense for kids.
There is a glut of berries out there (as well as dandelions, thistle and other fantastic weeds). I've got lettuce and rhubarb and probably some herbs that some natural medicine aficionado somewhere would die for. But I just don't care. Instead, they will all fall to the ground and I will promise to do better next year.
Right now, any adventures into my backyard mainly consist of hanging up, or taking down, ridiculous amounts of cloth diapers. As my sister says, we are just dripping Granola. But if I were truly Granola, I would be harvesting those Haskaps.
Right now, any adventures into my backyard mainly consist of hanging up, or taking down, ridiculous amounts of cloth diapers. As my sister says, we are just dripping Granola. But if I were truly Granola, I would be harvesting those Haskaps.
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