Friday

I am that person: I get a vaccination, I'm out of it for a whole day after. (Shingles, yesterday, totally out of it today.) So you may think I have second thoughts about vaccinations? Au contraire! It makes me think how much worse it would be if I got sick with the disease I was avoiding.

Still, it was a groan-filled day. 

A slow walk to the barn...

(I have seven clematis vines climbing various trellises and poles, but they're "tucked into" the property so that few people ever see them. They all bloom early. So here's one!)

I have a frustratingly Dance-filled breakfast.

And from there it was couch time: a nap never tasted so delicious... until I just had to get going on house organization for the weekend ahead.

In the afternoon, Snowdrop is here. 

We spend a heck of a lot of time showing her that facts matter. She had opened a wee bag of chips and insisted, absolutely insisted that it had less than what she'd usually find in it. I claimed that's not possible. There are laws! Cape Cod chips cannot lie! Ed settled the dispute by taking out the scale and weighing both the opened bag and another. Turns out we were both right: it was less full by one chip, but it was within the specified amount!

Separately, I was putting away papers and I came across a letter written some years ago. Going through it, I found about fifteen false claims on each page. Which lead me to think -- how is it that we get anywhere in life, when we don't bother seeking out real facts?

(Here's a real fact: the girl loves to jump, especially when she is happy...)

Toward evening I finally face the flower fields. We got close to three inches of rain yesterday and you know what that means... So many weeds! I don't even make a dent today. But that's okay! We're getting to the point where maintenance is going to drive my outdoor work. And if I dont do it all in one way, I have tomorrow or the day after. Summer is long. Plenty of time to tidy stuff up!