Monday tasks

It is a day to push things forward. With determination! Things are happening this week. I have to be ready for all of it. Moving day (not for me, but it may as well be that), a birthday (not mine!), a trip -- and before that -- a flower bed to plant, some weeds to pull -- all on my mind, on this partly sunny, partly rainy, and buggy once again day.

So forgive me if I am rather brief here. 

Someone recently asked me -- how do I keep the number of snipped lilies in my head? Because I rarely mix things up. I mouth the numbers so that an automatic counting process can take hold. It works. Except on days like today where I lose it all and suddenly find myself saying one hundred and twelve when I'm fairly certain that a couple of lilies ago it was already two hundred and sixty. But, numbers do not matter any more. The Big Bed is almost lily free by now (not enough sun to keep it going into August, thank you shady trees!), and the lily field by the porch is packing up as well, though the tall spider lilies are late bloomers and from their towering spikes alone I snipped a whopping 35 lilies. So, some late bloomers are still going strong, but most are done. And as you may have guessed, I am also lily-tired. Ready to move on to other aspects of summer.

The garden, from this day? I'm never tired of looking at it!

Breakfast, on the porch of course. It's a good day for it, weather wise.

(Friendly, on a stump)

 

 

(Unfriendly, who is actually pretty friendly, on another stump)

Aside from planting a redo of a flower bed (with 17 new plants), I do nothing that warrants mention here. It is an absolute chore day - the type that makes you feel like a kid checking off boring homework assignments. You know the kind -- coloring in the map of the world or doing endless division problems. 

Except that... well, I a little bit like the occasional boring days. At home, going nowhere except to the barn and back. And to the flower fields of course. Days that perhaps have too much computer time, but nonetheless feel like they tidy up my life a bit. Chaos returns tomorrow, but today was very simple, gentle, and sweet.