Just ducking in for a quick hello. We’ve had a great weekend hanging out with some old friends, and I’m still coming down from the high. More to come on this, but we’ve packed in plenty of summer fun that I can’t wait to share.
I’ve gotten a surprising amount of reading done for such a busy weekend. I’m close to finishing up Doomsday Book, the first in the Oxford Time Travel series. (Time travel books are one of my weaknesses, and this was a fun addition to my list.) On Saturday I started reading Brown Girl Dreaming – soooooooo beautiful – and when that’s done I’ll be on to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, about which I’ve been curious for awhile. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of thoughts about it, so look for those to come in a future post. If I have time this week, I’m also hoping to dig into Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety – fingers crossed – and Book Scavengers, which looks like a blast.
Coming up on the blog this week I have recaps from two of our summer adventures. We’ve been having so much fun this month and I can’t wait to share more about what we’ve been up to!
Hope y’all had a good weekend – what are you reading?
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It sounds like you’re having a wonderful summer! I finished up Oliver Sacks’s memoir over the weekend (and spent the rest of my time gardening–I’m so excited about my new Russian Sage!). I’m not sure what book I’ll start next.
We are indeed! A few bumps in the road, but I’m doing my best to live it up every day! Only a month until I’m back to the grind… have to maximize the summer fun while I can!
Glad to hear you’re having a good summer! I’d love to hear more about your garden. I’d love to do flowers in mine but we’re not sure if we’ll be staying in this house, so I don’t want to go nuts until we know what we’re doing.
It took me a long time to start gardening. I didn’t have much time for it when my kids were younger, and I also didn’t think we’d be staying in our house. The house grew on me, though. It’s too small for us (partly because there’s a sizable “in-law” portion that doesn’t make sense for kids), but there are just so many things I like about it.
So, now I’m putting in gardens. We started with the girls’ annual bed as a spring break project (snapdragons and zinnias from seed, but there are a few perennials in there, like bartzella peonies). Then we added a garden closer to the house and put a stone path in it (I tried doing natives in this one, but that idea fell by the wayside). Now I’m planning the bulbs (early snow glories for the lawn, carlton daffodils, and quail daffodils for the beds). My older two are looking forward to helping me plant them this fall. It’s so much fun!
We have the opposite problem – too much space! We were desperate to find a house and ended up with one that is about 1,000 square feet bigger than we were looking for. (I know, problems, right? But it was within our budget, and the sellers actually accepted our offer – it was the FIFTH house we offered on, the first four were rejected, and as it was we just managed to close days before we had to leave our rental.) Now we’re finding that it’s WAY more cleaning and maintenance than we are really prepared to do, more than we can keep up with on our own. For some people it would be worth it, but for us it just isn’t. I think we’re going to end up moving in the next few years; it’s just a question of where. We are in the very early stages of discussing where we think our future is… It’s hard because I want to feel settled but I can’t really dig in anywhere. Even if we stay in our current area we’re pretty sure we don’t want to stay in our house. I’d love to plant blueberry and raspberry bushes, and a few fruit trees, and a perennial garden, and to expand my vegetable and herb garden… but it just seems like way too much effort to go to when I doubt we will be here to enjoy all of that in three to five years. It bums me out.