Daily Notes- August 29

From a long time ago or it just feels like a long time.  The squares are 2 inches.  I was making houses. I don't have a spirit animal like a cat or anything.  Just houses.  I suppose I could give them wings or legs or arms or eyes.  Animated Houses.  This one looks like it has one eye up near where the roof meets the house.   I was playing with DebL's variegated thread.  I like it better than the plain blue on the left. I have no idea why I chose the dark blue for the blocks.  It's lifeless.  And what sort of flowers bloom at night?   Nightshade.

Each piece I make is another lesson in the instruction book of Life.  What works and what does not. Most of the work made during this period-is either taken apart and used in other things or sitting in a small pile waiting to develop...... or be de-constructed along with the others.  This blue house has a section added to the top which I didn't take a picture of because it doesn't work.

Peaches are falling off the tree.  Perhaps I should have waited for that?  My neighbor wants enough to bake a pie-but not now--but when her adult children come to visit.  I don't quite know how to handle this.  The peaches won't "wait".....  G says it's not my problem to solve.

Riley is having intermittent barking.  Like a nervous tick.  He went to bark at G and now is back barking at me.  I've invited him to lay down on his bed.  And shut up.  No luck.  I am guessing he has decided he has waited long enough for his daily walk.  I am supposed to light a fire under G's butt. I told him to handle it himself.  It's difficult to get G to do anything these days.  He's very very slowly reading the morning paper.

I folded all of yesterday's laundry and put it all away.  I looked up the Maine Wild Seed Project plants growing in garden beds in the fenced garden.  I have Black Elderberry (a future 10 to 12 foot tall shrub), Virgin's Bower Clematis (12 foot vine), New York Ironwood ( 6 to 8 foot tall),  Boneset which is in bloom right now and pairs well with milkweed which I have not planted yet, and Native Blue Lobelia which I brought home from work one year.  Now it has reseeded itself all around the house via birds and shared soil.  My daughter planted milkweed and has several cocoons of future Monarchs growing.  G and Riley check the very large wild field of milkweed for Monarchs. He collects seeds heads which I share with classes I teach and with friends like Grace who have a large meadow.  I don't have a meadow as G mows everything to keep it all neat and have less rodents.