Thursday, 18 Jun 2009

Hi, internet pals. I'm currently sitting in my living room with the curtains drawn (avoiding the Day Star and its hot heat), with this fan (or one a lot like it) aimed at the sofa. How does it manage to be so effective AND so quiet? My mom gave it to me after having had it for a summer or two, but now I see it's meant to have a remote control. You mean I could be turning it on and off without getting off my bottom? Where is this remote control?!

Anyway, we're finally getting some summer weather, although the current sunshine came after a morning rain shower, and there are more storms forecasted for the evening. That suits me just fine -- I'd like to live in a land where it rains every night and is sunny during the day. Also, there would be only three months of winter. I bet there is such a place, but it's probably somewhere I'm not interested in living (ie, not here).

The garden has been loving the weather! I added several new garden photos to my Garden 2009 flickr set, if you'd like to take a look. Find the one of the veggie beds and report back to me on whether you think it looks like it's actually a miniature garden. I would love to have a miniature garden, by the way -- but then, I'm kind of crazy for miniatures in general (Re-ment, anyone?).

The raspberries have had a tough spring. The canes were transplanted from my mom's garden, and then the extremely dry spell we had made the going tough. But the plants that have clung on are doing very well now, and they're even flowering and setting berries! This is apparently the first year they've EVER fruited, so I'm pretty pleased about that. You want sun, plants? I've got sun.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the spinach and lettuce seedlings that sprouted a week or so ago will thrive despite the more summer-y weather. The older spinach and rocket plants I have are already bolting, even though they (the spinach in particular) aren't very big. My beets have also FINALLY sprouted, as have -- yay! -- the parsnips.

In other news, I haven't managed to snap any great photos of the crafty things I've been working on. This is the only one I have of the dress I made from the Japanese pattern book, and really that'll only give you an idea of how pretty the fabric I found is (from Mill Ends -- super cheap!) and how nice the gathering is.

Speaking of flickr, though, it's hard to believe, but I have fewer than 45 days left of my 365 project! The rest of June, all of July, and then I'm done! Incredible. I remember thinking last August, when I started, that I would get to this point and feel as though the year just flew by, and I have to say that I was right. Thanks, Mo, for getting me started, even though you dropped out, like a big dropper outer.

I DID have an annoying moment where I realized I was two days off in my numbering, even though I could see that each month had the appropriate number of photos. I had to go back to March, which was when the numbering went screwy, and redo them all up through the middle of June. THAT is how dedicated I am! I think I'll get a poster printed up with all 365 thumbnails when I've finished. An entire year on a piece of A2!