caledonia quilter: Summer Hours and Garden Update

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Summer Hours and Garden Update

Summer hours. If I were a normal person that would probably mean I was knocking off at noon on Friday and heading up to the cottage for a long Long Weekend. But oh, nooo. Not me. Here was my Monday this week:

9:00 - 11:00

shower
strip bed
clean four bathrooms, remove shower curtains for laundering
put away a load of laundry from... several days ago. Can't remember.
wash two loads of laundry
hang one load on the solar dryer

11:00 - 12:00

pick garden produce
rehang the washed shower curtains
put fresh sheets on the bed
put away last night's clean dishes

12:00 - 12:40

lunch - leftover orzo pasta salad, blueberry/banana loaf with almond butter

12:40 - 1:25

take down & put away load #1 of laundry
hang load #2 on solar dryer

1:25 - 2:00

take Sadie & DH for a walk

2:00 - 3:00

go down to my sweatshop & quilt

3:00 - 3:20

take down & put away load #2 of laundry
hang load #3 on solar dryer

3:20 - 5:40

surreptitiously eat 5 Twizzlers. It's either that or a cocktail. Did I make the right choice?
go back to sweatshop & quilt

5:40 - 6:00

eat supper. Thank God DH cooks because it seems I ran out of time today.

6:00 - 6:10

bring in and put away laundry load #3

6:10 - 7:10

relax with the newspaper and the Sudoku puzzle

7:10 - 9:00

gardening. Which is a euphemism for 'weeding' and 'swatting mosquitos' and 'crying'. Pics follow. I think I want a wife.

This was taken on June 11th

A similar view on July 3rd. Wowza!! Three weeks growth.

So, yeah, all the rain we had made my garden sooo happy! Especially all the grass! I could probably hide dead bodies in there and no one would find them. I am resorting to my favorite mulch system - newspaper.