Field Notes for September 2nd. Cooler overnight and a Lovely Sunshine Day.

 Yoshiro.

Well.......not much to tell.  Not much happening.  I don't even have a full washer of darks to get going.... and husband suddenly wants plain pasta with butter for supper.  He saw the bag of bow tie shaped pasta. Now I know I can't leave that sort of thing out in the open. I'm saying it's the only bag I have........

He's gone to the Tractor Supply to buy birdseed.  Black Oil Sunflower.  Heavy bags that I lifted last time. He'll pull muscles in his back....as usual...and then drag himself around telling me about his back pain etc etc etc. and how he needs drugs and more drugs and heating pads etc.  This is when I wonder why I stay.

It was actually COLD in the bedroom last night.....needed a secondary blanket.  But didn't get up to find one.  At some point I'll switch the yellow and white cotton quilt out for the down comforter. And the next clean sheet day- put the linen sheets on the bed again.  Right now we have well worn, silky smooth cotton sheets. From the "olden days" when I hadn't discovered linen yet.

While watering the outdoor containers- I snapped off some of the more heavy branches and stems around the pots.  An annual haircut, so to speak.  They were getting too FULL.  Too Heavy and the stems were actually breaking.  The more vigorous plants had already suffocated the gentler ones......  The compost pile will be happy with the new, colorful additions.  Almost all the tomatoes are going into the compost.  The small green ones never actually ....well, even when red they are crunchy and green tasting...I don't like them.  So, they go into the compost.  The corn George planted had no "food" to eat so...never grew properly.  That is also being fed to the compost worms.  The only things that did well- are the plants I fed "blue" water- Miracle Grow.  Even the Peach Trees got Miracle Grow.  

George paled visibly and cringed. 

It's what you do (ME) when the person planting things- didn't add compost to the depleted soil ......because...I actually don't know why George didn't do it..... I know why I don't.  I can't do the heavy lifting for eight long beds.  I can lift two 50 pound deadweight bags of bird seed.  Lift with the heavy thighs I have but not deadweight bags of compost repeatedly.  Which was WHY the back garden had been abandoned............

Now back to the excellent book I am reading and then to the library to collect two reserve books that have finally arrived from far off libraries.  And the Book Store has a book for me.  And I think I will buy a small container of crunchy fried chicken chunks at the Fried Food Bar.  To go with my salad.  And I will buy Hummus and a few really nice farm raised FAT carrots.  To eat with the hummus. Take Care of Me Day... I might also buy the deep fried mozzarella cheese sticks.....Yep.

I didn't think I had much to tell.  I had six big paragraphs to tell!!