I think I must have a cold — I was tired yesterday and woke up tired today, and Anand has also been tired and falling asleep at odd hours the last two days, and there’s no reason to think it’s Covid-19; we’ve really been very isolated and pretty careful, and yet, it’s hard not to […]
I was going to tell them not to eat on the couch, but they were so happy, I didn’t have the heart. All the rules are a little relaxed right now…
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Kavi decided she wanted to teach Anand how to make bombatoast for breakfast this morning. Fine with me! One of the unexpectedly lovely side effects of all this terribleness is that the kids have grown closer again. Kavi had started disappearing into approaching teenhood, always off with her friends, and I think Anand was a
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Kavi’s misplaced her phone, so has been making more art instead of Facetiming constantly with her friends. If I were a smart mom, I would have hid her phone a month ago. Ha ha — just kidding. But still, it’s fun to come down in the morning and discover art. I got the kids a polymer
This is me, having survived 45 minutes of battle with an exceedingly thorny rose. It is pruned! And I was only a little bloodied. I retired to the lounge chair on the porch afterwards. It was a little chilly today, but lovely in the sunshine cuddled up under a blanket, and I was finally tired
Robin, but also, the very neglected John Cabot rose that was shouting, “Prune me, prune me!” When you have a ratio of 4/5 dead branches to 1/5 live ones, you know you’ve let it go too long.
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Finished the night with Dr. Who, episode “Blink”. We were a little worried that it would be too scary for the kids, but I think we talked about it enough that we completely took all the tension out of it for them. They weren’t as scared as I was when I saw it! Tomorrow I’m
Pretty much the only time I felt okay today was when I was gardening — thankfully, there’s plenty to do. I tried something new with the raspberries this year, hacking away a bunch of them, digging up random ones and giving them away, and tying the ones that remain to an obelisk. That’s not going
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Someone tell me what this is, and whether I care that it’s in my lawn? My ‘lawn’ is pretty eclectic, since I don’t use any chemicals on it — whatever random green thing grows there is usually fine, but this one is just tall enough and purple enough, I’d like to know what it is
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