Airy Nothing Chatter

I spent the better part of the afternoon writing a post for 26 Dimensions of God. I found about four more posts in draft form over there. A couple of them will never be finished, most likely. I don't remember what I wanted to say. Considering those, I'm glad I finished the post, today.

Over the past four weeks I have been working on switching the master bedroom from the NW bedroom to the NE bedroom. This room was Mom's originally. Last December she and Alex traded. Alex moved out in June, so we moved into that room.

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7/04/2009
I got the purple paint for my bedroom. It's Behr's Garden Butterfly. The guy said it wasn't often that the paint matched the customer's shirt. LOL It did, but I hadn't realized it until he mentioned it. I guess anyone can tell I like the color.

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This was too good not to share. I'd like to do this, but how do I pay for online purchases without a card?

Watch the whole thing. The end is fun.

When I was writing this, I was listening to:
Bob Dylan - T.V. Talkin' Song
孫燕姿 (Sun Yan Zi) - 了解
張學友 - 天下第一流
周華健 (Emil Chau) - 一個‧兩個
孫燕姿 (Sun Yan Zi) - Hey Jude
陳奕迅 (Eason Chan) - 情深怎麼辦
Bee Gees - Words

Currently reading
Sweeping Up Glass
By Carolyn Wall
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I feel like I really accomplished something. Actually I've been fairly busy since Thursday. Yesterday (Saturday) I helped my son and his housemates paint their living and dining room. The rooms were a beautiful red color, but didn't get enough light for that to work. I'm not sure exactly what the new color is (a creamy sage, maybe), but the room, even after just one coat, is both lighter and larger looking.

I thought I was going to go help today, but I got the call too late. I would have had to drive home alone and, until I learn the route, I don't want to do that. (OK, so I'm a timid driver!)

I also thought I'd get up earlier today, but that didn't happen. I was well rested, though, so I went out and spent three hours in the garden. I got a few pots planted. The petunias and roses are deadheaded. The pots that are close to the house got watered. (They don't get the rain because of the eaves.) The lawn edges got trimmed. (Iqbal always leaves them for me to do.)

Mom wanted a sub for dinner today and we thought that was fine.

After dinner, I fixed my pot shelf, which fell down the other day. The plastic anchor I used to hold the screw didn't hold. I replaced it with a butterfly.

Then I came in here and recorded my food and exercise (gardening!). I wrote three short (very short!) book reviews. I considered working on my writing, but I think I will do better if I do at least the preliminary writing on paper. Otherwise, I think I'll simply be sitting here and staring at the screen, which will lead to going to my Google homepage, where I keep all the games. Then, before I know it, it will be dawn. So, instead, I'll go read and/or write in my notebook.

Here are the Garden photos I have so far for 2009. There are about 190 of them (I'm not editing them), so they aren't all going to get posted immediately. LOL As it is, I keep being told to "slow down, cowboy!" They cover from mid to late March until today.

I've been working in the garden, today. So much to be done. Plants can be funny things. I was so careful to put the plants in according to height and then they decide to be different heights than the pot cards said. My "12 inch" perennial geranium is sprawling at about 18 to 24 inches. My Bee Balm is not close to 30 inches. The naked lilies were already here, but I replanted them in new places based on the size they were. This year they decided to double both height and width. That's just the leaves. The flowers show up (after the leaves have been dead for a while) in late August, I think. Are they going to be bigger, too? I don't know.

I lost a couple of plants, probably because of the ice storm in late December. It was a good thing I used the leaves as mulch for the winter. I'm sure I would have lost more without it. Most (all but 2) of the dahlias in the pots died. (They were supposed to come into the house, but we had no room for them.) Remarkably, the big dahlias planted in the border in back have all returned. They're only 1 or 2 inches so far, but I think they will be happy. I thought I had lost my Jasmine, but it only died above ground. It has plenty of new shoots. The same with a white flower vine next to the deck trellis.

I managed to get out in April and trim back all my roses and they look really good now. (as long as I don't forget to water them!)

One of the things I got done this week was putting the drip hose along the back border...

Uh, oh! I better go turn it off!

OK. Most of the back border is well watered. It didn't seem to drip as well at the very end where the border turns along the driveway. I'll see how it looks tomorrow. It's too dark, now.

I will be putting in drip hoses in the deck bed, the corner bed, under the cherry trees in front (both up and down) and along the hydrangea in front of the house. I'll still water the rose garden (all pots) by hand.

I'm going to add some more of the photos and then I need to do my therapy exercises and them I plan to read.

When I was writing this, I was listening to:
張學友 - 暗中的感覺
張家輝 (Andy Lau) - 忠於自己
梅艷芳 (Anita Mui) - 心仍是冷 ( 寒冬版 )