Daily Notes- May 23rd

My Eco Print and Deb's magnificent dye work.  They compliment each other.  And, Grace, I ironed the scrap as it appeared out of the pile.  That may be a way forward for me.  Ironing the wrinkles flat. I have no story to tell here though.

Yesterday I helped mow the back lawn.  I had to make straight lines--no curves (so said the husband).  I do love to cut the lawn in big sweeping curves.  I start out with one curved line and then follow it's edges across the entire lawn. Once I started with a small circle in the middle of the front lawn and then went around in concentric circles.  G arrived home and nearly had a stroke.

Cutting the lawn wasn't on my list of "two things" but G looked like he might not live to finish the lawn so I started in on the back which has a steep slope so it makes the straight line cutting both difficult on the knee and hip muscles but also in staying upright and not sliding down the slope.  On my list was transplanting my tomato starts into bigger, deeper pots (did that).  And I planted the parsley seedlings into the two window boxes I used last year-with good results.  I just set the boxes on the ground by the garage.

Got my haircut this morning.  Neck is feeling itchy.  And since my haircutter is across the street from the greenhouse where I used to work--I went across the street and purchased 9 flats of flower seedlings to plant in one of the 4 foot by 16 feet beds in the fenced garden.  Something pretty to look at besides weeds.  I got French marigolds, petunias, cosmos, snaps, dahlias, something tall and blue whose name I can't think of (ageratum) calendula, celosia  to total NINE.  My number.

Just finished the walk in the woods with G and Riley.  I have been eating quite a bit--of good things--so was shocked this morning to be 2 pounds less this morning.  I guess a daily bowl of pasta IS a Good Thing and so is a bowl of dark chocolate ice cream. But it could, more likely, have been caused by the lawn mowing.  I admit to being 95% exhausted when I finished.  Used the 5% I had left to take a good hot shower, put on my pajamas and eat my pasta before falling asleep on the couch.

Now if I could just sleep longer than 11:30 pm to 6 am.  Oh, I just got another job offer for Logistics  that I can "do from home".  I think it might call for me to receive, package and mail drugs.  So lucky.