Honey Chain

i am grateful for ferns and lemon balm and monarda. i am grateful for dogs snuffling the grass for mulberries and pal stealing not so ripe pears from low branches. i am grateful for limeade. i am grateful for bats who eat mosquitoes and wish i had some in my yard.

you would think independence day was today with all the racket. i can’t get anything accomplished because my dogs are big, scaredy cats when it comes to firecrackers. it’s like they’re trying to fit themselves into my pocket. poor babies. if only the dogs would let me put those foam plugs in their ears.

while i was taking a planningschedulingwhat’smymotivation break today, i came across the most gorgeous video

i have a weekend of planning planned. ooh, i love to plan. i love to set goals and break things down into little pieces and write lists and schedule. okay, i don’t like to schedule which is funny because it’s the thing i need the most. without a schedule i get lost. i’m easily distracted and if there’s no schedule i follow the shiniest object until something shinier comes along and then…well…i end up the emotional mess i was yesterday. so, i’m getting my paper and my pens and my post its and my calendar together. i’m havin’ a big, geeky party at my desk, woohoo!

i’m feeling a little overwhelmed today. i have too much to do. i’m too sensitive. i have too many decisions to make. i’m too restless. i’ve left too many things unfinished. it will take too long to clean up this mess. these are the types of thoughts that keep running through my mind. it’s always a struggle, when i’m in this type of mood, not to pick on myself for being a wuss. everybody gets overwhelmed i have to remind myself. everyone thinks they’ve taken too big of a bite now and then. it’s okay

it’s totally raining

AGAIN

i will not be able to mow the lawn today. oh, the sadness.

free hugs for mel

a couple of weeks ago, i did some pruning and instead of hauling the branches out to the parkway right away for pick up i left them and then forgot about them and then procrastinated about them and then lectured myself about them. today, i hauled them out to the parkway. unfortunately, a bunch of ants had moved into the pile. i had ants everywhere. well, not everywhere but they were in my shirt, that’s close enough. as far as i can tell, they didn’t bite me. yay! one of my neighbors did see an awful lot of skin when i was trying to get the ants out of my shirt. boo! i got caught up in the moment and didn’t realize he was there. i had ants in my shirt for criminy’s sake! so, this is my lesson learned today: don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because you might just end up showing your neighbor your belly fat and nobody wants that.

after sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. within decades we must close our eyes again. isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? this is how i answer when i am asked - as i am surprisingly often - why i bother to get up in the mornings. ~ richard dawkins

i’m on a skirt kick. i want to wear skirts all of the time. unfortunately, i only have one right now. how did that happen? i used to have lots of skirts. i’ve been looking around at patterns. so far, i like the burda patterns especially this and this. i tried to look at some other patterns but i got sidetracked by coat patterns, cuz you know i need to make a coat right this instant.