Happy National Tartan Day

 Last year, once we decided to garden, I feel like I was out in the mornings or after work doing things that needed to be done there.  This year, so far, I am having a hard time pulling myself out of bed.  When I start doing things in the garden, I want to keep going.  Today that was right before dinner.  It was just Gideon and I home for dinner.  We walked around the yard and garden, then he helped me transplant some of the geraniums.  

The geraniums are on the right.

It was really great to have a helper.  He did a great job following my directions on how to transplant and water.  I doubt gardening will win out for him over anything on the computer, but maybe he'll like it just a little.  Other happy things for today:

• Did I mention that the garlic is coming up?  It looks like something is already sampling it.  I decided to cut the two milk jugs I had in half and cover some of the garlic in hopes that it will be a deterrent.  

See that hole?
I wonder if whatever lives there likes garlic!

• Speaking of milk jugs, there is now growth in at least five of the milk jug greenhouses I planted in.  I didn't look into all of them.  Lettuce and Johnny jump-ups are coming up.
• This afternoon my friend, Amy, and I walked at Livingston Park.  We walked just over three miles.  There are budding trees and ducks on the pond.  Best of all was the great company!

Straight up.

• During dinner I remembered that I had tried putting some seeds into wet paper towels and bags to see if they would germanate.  Oops.  Three of the marigolds did and they are in the pots to the left of the geraniums above.  That fourth pot has some other geranium seeds that I don't expect to grow.

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Finished listening to: Goodbye, Things, by Fumio Sasaki.

Stay safe.

Old Family Photos

 When I entered the book I finished yesterday onto my Goodreads account I looked down at some of the books I've read.  One title drew my attention: Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki.  I decided to listen to it again.  The author of this book is more of a minimalist than I am trying to be.  However, already listening to this is helping me as I rethink some of the things I have decided to keep.  Right now, as I downsize, the goal is to get the things I have to fit into my space or go away.  After that is done will be the time to go through it all again and cut down on things even more.  Not that I want to be a minimalist, but I have no need to be a maximist.  Other things today that helped me be happy:

• Right now, the rest of the house is asleep or trying to be.  There is the sound of Dolly Parton coming from Gideon's room.  This is new, him listening to music to help him sleep.  It seems nice to me at the moment.
• I took another block of time to work in the yard today.  This time I put on bandages where my thumbs normally blister to protect them from a blister on top of a blister.  It seemed to work.
• The box I went through today had some old pictures in it.

The boy with "Kitty" is my Great-Uncle Bernard.
The girl behind him is my grandmother.
I can only assume that the woman in the door is my great-grandmother,
that person wasn't listed on the back.

Pretty sure this is my great-grandmother.
If not, I think it would be her mother.
I'm forgetting names and that bothers me.

This is my grandmother on her,
"1st ascent Mt Chocorua."
I have no idea what she is sitting on!

Great-Aunt Marjorie, my grandmother and Great-Uncle Bernard.

Great-Uncle Bernard.

• Keziah and I picked her van up at the garage today.  It is fixed.  
• Some of the seeds that I planted in one of the milk jug greenhouses are sprouting.  I was almost ready to give up.  I need to remember to water them tomorrow.

Itty bitty leaves poking through.

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Currently listening to: Goodbye, Things, by Fumio Sasaki.

Stay safe.