51 bar steady 29.75 3mph N dew-point 31 Beltane, Sunny and cool
Full Hare Moon
“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing everything.” – Vladimir Nabokov
Amen to that.
Another cool day. Great gardening weather, not so great growing weather. The cool temps have kept germination slow, my carrots have not emerged at all and only a few stray beet and lettuce seeds have begun to push through, at least at close of growing day yesterday.
We will see today. Sometimes seeds all sprout at once, sometimes not at all. Germination percentages vary with weather, timing of planting, quality of seed and amount of moisture. We’ll get something. We do not watch the soil with the same eagerness as pioneers, for example, whose lives may have depended on germination. I can only imagine that then the progress of the seed received an attention bordering on pleading and prayer.
We have the grandkids playhouse in the truck, three very large boxes of a put-it-together by the numbers building we bought at Costco. Today’s task is to unload it and cover it with a tarp until we can level the area now cleared by the Steve and Aimee’s assistance yesterday. After that we move brush onto yet more homes for the small and furry. Not sure what after that.
I’m signing out for the summer from the MIA. In September 2006 I began the second year of the docent education process. In summer 2007 I signed up for the Made in Scandinavia painting exhibition. After labor day the school year touring got going. I had a month off in February for Hawai’i, but other than nothing longer than a week since 2006. It’s time for a break. Besides, I need to get back to work on that novel. And a children’s book or two, too.
