I had an entry all typed up (okay, partially typed up) but restarted my computer last night, forgetting the entry was here and hadn't been saved! D'Oh!
I don't even remember what I wrote. Except one thing, the part about Gavin being jealous of my attention. More on that in a second. I have been rather busy lately. Feeling more scattered and disorganized than anything else, really. I feel spread thin, as if I've got too much going on. In reality I am not sure I do, but it feels like it a lot lately.
Jealousy. If I pay so much as a hair of attention to anything other than Gavin he freaks. Which means if I make breakfast, he tugs at my pants, whines and whines and cries. If I talk on the phone, even if he was previously playing happily by himself, instantly he neeeeeeeeeeeds me to play with him (plus, he loves the phone and wants to play with it too). Me use the computer? Forget it. And if Jason and I spend a moment's worth of attention on each other and hug or kiss, watch out. Yesterday Gavin gave us a big laugh. We were all on the floor and Jason leaned over and kissed me. Gavin pushed him away from me, then leaned over and kissed him full on the mouth!
I keep meaning to take some time each day to write a little bit about what we've been doing, but apparently that is asking far too much of myself. But one exciting thing is my garden. In early May I dug up a plot by the fence and planted a number of vegetables - tomatoes and onions and lettuce and beans and zucchini and cucumbers (plus a bunch of herbs scattered around the yard: basil, chives, thyme, sage, oregano, lemon balm, tarragon, mint, chamomile, lavender, and stevia (the latter one was by seed and hasn't taken, I am sad to report). I'm thrilled at how they are growing. Some even have buds and blooms!
On June 3, it looked like this:
On June 13, it looked like this:
(While searching for these pictures, I had deja vu. Everything was familiar - the song on the radio, scanning down the folder of thumbnails of pictures. But the funny thing is that I remember seeing a couple specific pictures Before and wondering vaguely where they were taken, as I didn't recognize the location. But this time when I saw them of course I know where they were taken. That kind of detail is usually missing... really makes you wonder about that deja vu, doesn't it?)
Here's a bloom on one of my zucchini plants (or is it a cucumber? I can't remember now).
Oooh, a garden. Fresh veggies. Ooooohh.. :-) Even at my old house the ground was all wrong, faced the wrong way, and nothing would ever grow there, so I'm not pining for the old days of having a yard. At least not that yard.
I've recently finished reading "Don't Eat This Book", by the same guy who did Super Size Me, and now the draw to go all-organic is even more strong within me. I just wish organic food didn't cost so much more... and I don't live too nearby Trader Joe's anymore, sadly! I thought about you while reading this book, you should pick it up if you haven't read it yet. (I'd loan you the copy I got from the library but it's already three days overdue because someone else has requested it, so I couldn't renew it. Bah!)
Posted by: Debby at June 17, 2005 05:18 PMThat bloom up above, is probably a cucumber. I am excited that I could figure this out. Behind the bloom, it looks more like a cucumber than a zucchini
Posted by: Mom/Grandma at June 20, 2005 09:42 PM