As a gardener someone might feel the same. I mean why bother to sow, plant, weed, water, tend.. When it's going to be ruined every year. At least for different reasons.
I had 6 rows of peas and sugar snap peas. Pidgeons ate them, there's only tiny holes left. I managed to sow two long rows of beets, and soon after there was first proper thunder storm. I guess there's going to grow some nice beet seedlings among hay around my plot.
Aaaaaargh!
I'm tired. I was at the office today. I took my car to garage, it's MOT time again. The garage is 2km from my office and 12km from home - it was easy to decide which way to walk after dropping the car in the morning... and it was after my morning 'Sumawalk ( an hour walk). But most tasking was to actually to meet people and converse with them! So odd feeling doing that, I even ate my lunch with someone, not alone like I've done for the last 15 months.
'Suma wasn't happy for me being away all day, but she wasn't alone, only ys is at school, others are homeschooling until end of term. None of them isn't doing anything useful anymore, tomorrow they are having picnic. Kids take their phones or laptops outside with their favourite eats and a glass of bubbly (most will have a glass of Coke or lemonade, some will have sparkling water) and thry toast to summer, together and apart. A bit sad, but that's how it is now.
This, too, shall pass.
Rain is on pause. Now ot feels like summer, and wr haven't have freezing temps at nights for over two weeks.
Potatoes have sprouted as well as broad beans, pumpkins, zucchinies, beans and pickling cucumbers. I got 10 tomato plants from old man and my mother and my chillies and papricas are still alive. Nice!
Lawn is been cut once (hb got stuck in a mud three times) and needs another cut. Baby boy has been out and about every day in and around our yard. Cranes have two chicks.
I have been editing two video lectures for an online course. I hate looking at myself, and looking AND listening at the same time was a bit too much. I've been on telly once and I still feel nauseous about it. But I got it done and now I feel free!
I have no idea how other people do it, how they can film themselves and put it on their blog or YouTube channel.
There's much to do, but now that I got rid of those stupid videos I feel like I have all time in the world. D and sys are home schooling again, there is Delta variant causing trouble now (Indian variant). Got my first jab, hb got his two days later, my brother got his yesterday and sister is getting hers on friday.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope it's not a train coming...
It's been raining all week. And by rain I mean record amounts of water, flooding, eroded roads (and not only country gravel roads but big tarmac roads have been eaten away by rain). So, no mowing, no sowing, no weeding. Nights have been chilly, a bit confusing as it is raining all night. And Thunderbird. 'Suma hears thunder and thinks someone's coming by car! We haven't actually haven't any visitors since Number Two's name revealing party/sys's and d's combined bitrhdayparties. Oh well.
It's been Eurovision Song Contest week. I quite like Ukrainan song Shum. Last year Russian had that bonkers Uno, this year their piece is much more boring. Finland's Dark Side is good, but I don't really get Italian Måneskin's Zitti e buoni. I know their name means moonshine, but for me it doesn't have the right kick! And they can't pronounce their own name with å. Icelandic Ten years is ok, but their last year's song Thinking about things was perfect! But it is sweet on it's own.
Ouch.
I'be been gardening. Yesterday I finally got all potatoes planted. I thought I had enough seedlings fo two long rows. I made four.
I hope I'll get tomato plants from Old man, I have my own chillies.
And I have three more black currants to plant and two frames of strawberries to weed.
Ouch.
D and sys are home schooling again, there's been cases at both schools (or more likely same people who teach in both schools). Ys can go to school, his school is a smaller one and they don't have same teachers. I was waiting for this because they have keep telling there's no way home schooling will be back, because there's no covid anymore. Funny thing there's been cases - if not daily but several every week.
Oh dear.
It's been a.... spring. End of winter and then spring. We've had birthdays (d is now "adult" which she has found very difficult to digest). Ys is a teen, which is a bit sad.
Baby kitten got stuck in a tree. Well, not stuck, but too afraid to climb down. I had to call a tree climber (arborist) to fetch him down after three days. Very embarrassing for a countrywoman like me. Baby brother has lost his nuts since. And no more kitten pee on beds.
I got polytunnel up, and right after that we've had three weeks of snow and frosts. Great. I have sown some chillies, they're doing fine on top of my freezer, I have two growing lights for them.
We had a kind of lockdown, but numbers went down before lockdown was on, so we are basically in slow limbo. Covid19 cases are low, but not low enought. I've worked long hours and I do hope after summer this will be mostly gone. I would love to work with something nice for a change, like waste water Managementin plants of farms with million tons of manure stinking to high heavens. My Covid19 tracing education has proven to be beneficial even I dont't do actual tracing.
We have one meat free day per week. Hb hasn't noticed and sys wants me to cook (why autofill wants me to "cook reindeer"?) soy strips.
This weeks meatless meal was cream of spinach soup made fron last of last summer spinach from freezer. Milk was out of date more than a week, byt it didn't split. So, I managed to reduce food waste and use odds and ends. Win win and the soup was nice with boiled eggs and sourdough rye bread.
I've been watching the Crown, and then Duke of Edinburgh passed away. It was sad, as always, but I think it wasn't unexpected. He was 99, and after watching the Crown, endless documentaries and reading all kinds of orbituaries I think he lived his life content and with meaning. Can't ask much more?
