The weather did an about face and so did I. You do that in the summer time. If it rains you don't (usually) go swimming. If it's cooler, you think of ways to stay inside.
Lately, on a weekend morning, I have a terrible craving for a breakfast that's more than just the usual fruits and granola or oatmeal. Honestly, if I had a bakery just down the street, I'd probably have breakfast breads and croissant type pastries every day, but I don't. The nearest bakery with good stuff is a twelve minute drive. Somehow on a Saturday that seems like peanuts (even though, as a retired person, I should make no such distinctions between weekdays and weekends). Today, rain notwithstanding, it was indeed peanuts. I came back with some lovely croissants and a baguette for Ed (who always will choose a good baguette over anything else in a bakery).
Dance was unimpressed.
Outside, the rain gave a little relief to the flower fields, but I'm hoping for more tonight. When you poke around the plants you come up with dry dirt all too quickly. They need a good soak.
Each day a new lily will begin its bloom. These are the early girls and they are not only stunning, but deeply admired because right now there are so few of them.
Okay, so what's the plan for a wet and rather cool Saturday? We were to go swimming -- all the kids, including the youngest, but obviously that idea faded. So I went to their place with my bakery box and with the idea that I would play a bit, especially with those who don't get so much of my attention during the week. This is how that turned out:
(Sandpiper loved his croissant!)
(I brought over the book Snowdrop had been reading at the farmhouse. She was lost to the world...)
(I think it had a happy ending...)
(Sparrow does not seem to like his hand in cards...)
(all three assured me that they were perfectly safe and having great fun)
In the afternoon, I got lost in computer reading -- something that I never want to do for more than a few hours. Luck had it that the rain paused and so Ed and I went outside and spent a profitable several hours admiring our tomatoes and cucumbers...
... picking a few lavender stems...
And then I turned to weeding, because a small rain may not help deeply rooted perennials, but it sure as heck helps the weeds multiply. Three solid hours of yard work.
I had warned Ed that we will eat leftovers tonight because there are too many small portions of unfinished dinners. Call it a downsizing, or refrigerator cleaning meal. With a copious salad because we not only have local lettuces and arugula, but also market carrots and radishes, and CSA sugar snap peas and kohlrabi. All that and heaven too!
Eating a meal at this time of the year is always remarkably wonderful.
