I look out my office window at the main garden and can see the broccoli heading, the spinach larger every day, the Spanish bluebells in bloom all over. When I moved here, I planted three of them. Now they’re all over the land, spreading into the woods.
Read MoreWe got the final five main-crop tomatoes in last Sunday. the weather has turned sunny, dry and hot, making garden work more laborious. I had been wearing jeans but almost passed out on Thursday.
Read MoreWe believe we’re done with frosts at last on our hill, so I planted pumpkins in the lower garden last weekend. And then we set out to plant the tomatoes, about 200 of them.
Read MoreWe used to have 22 or so guests for the Derby Party. We only invited seven friends from our bubble.
Read MoreNext week we’re giving our first party since the 2019 Solstice party. It will be modest, alas; only 7 guests, all vaccinated. Finger food and Woody makes his great mint juleps.
Read MoreI never went to the dentist as a child. My parents both had bad teeth. My mother had all her teeth pulled when she was 54 because fillings would cost more than she had
Read MoreAs soon as I bit into the first chocolate, two teeth, one upper, one lower, chipped. It wasn’t painful but the back molar sure is.
Read MoreI am two weeks plus past my second shot, so I was able to see my osteopath, Dr. Libby—in Harwich!—for the time in many months.
Read MoreIt has turned quite mild. No snow at all. It’s been as high as 62 degrees outside in the last week. Woody began uncovering a few of the perennial beds and the herb garden, just blowing leaves off. Then he was able plant spinach in the main garden.
Read MoreWoody got his second shot Friday. We are looking forward to two weeks from yesterday when we will be able to do some more things we have been missing.
Read MoreI have to get used to watching the temperature in the greenhouse frequently during the day. The seedlings out there so far are hardy, but they could still freeze to death; however, the major danger during the day is cooking under the strong sun.
Read MoreCats may be difficult to train [unless it amuses them] but they are excellent at training us.
Read MoreI started seeds this week, although I’ve never had so much trouble ordering them.
Read MoreI’m sure those readers of my blog who live in more rationally run states are weary of my complaining but trying to get vaccinated in Massachusetts has been a very active part-time job.
Read MoreLike every other senior on Cape Cod, I find the search for a vaccine a full time job but one without any payoff. Under Gov Baker’s idiot plan, the pace of releasing vaccine is about the same as the rate a snail climbs a stalk of grass.
Read MoreI am so pissed at the way Gov Baker has organized or rather didn’t, just let happen, the rollout of the vaccine.
Read MoreI was afraid that something would happen on Inauguration Day, a sniper, a bomb, whatever the insurrectionists could manage. It was such a relief when the inauguration happened and did so smoothly.
Read MoreAfter watching the insurrection at the Capitol, seeing the openly anti-Semitic signs, the armed white supremacists delivering violence and threatening murder, I find it hard to escape dread.
Read MoreI kept waiting for any kind of response at the Capital equivalent to what the insurrectionists were doing. How polite and gentle the police were allowing rioters to go away without bothering them so that they can hang around to attack again. I will never forget those images.
Read MoreWe took the tree down after putting away in tissue paper all the ornaments – and you can’t imagine how many we hang on that tree. It is as far from minimalist as you can get. A few of the ornaments are pre World War II from my mother. Many are animals, birds, fish, vegetables. Some are just pretty ornaments. Some are funny.
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