Glimpses of the mess I was surrounded by when I was wallpapering the living room in the dollhouse.
I don’t have much space – just the desktop and the top of the sewing table. But creative messes are the best kind of messes, aren’t they?
By the way, it’s since been straightened up. (I used the weight of the books to hold the wallpaper in place.)
We worked outside yesterday. I started raking out one of the garden beds. Lots and lots of leaves were raked onto a tarp and lugged over to our disposal pile near the shed. We also did some work up in the woods. The day lilies have already emerged as well as the beginnings of the coneflowers and hostas. Familiar friends.
But it does involve a lot of bending over, so I feel it today. As does Don. Our plan? Work every other day. One day to work, the next to rest and recover, and then back at it the next day. I haven’t even begun the big garden bed!
I’ve also been moving some of the furniture that was stored on the porch during the winter back to the Funky Patio and the Secret Garden. One of the Adirondack chairs has been moved from the shed to the porch. Today, I’m going to visit the local nursery to buy some pansies and some potting soil, along with a few seed packets. I don’t think they’ll have impatiens yet, but if they do, I’ll buy a flat.
We have 80 degree temps coming up this week (too hot of course) but that means it’s time to really get things going out there. Exciting and exhausting!
I also have a little one-on-one dialect coaching coming up this week. An actress I worked with in one of Darko’s shows last year wants some coaching for a production she’ll be working on next month. I’m grateful because first of all, I like and respect her, and secondly, the fee is timely. It will help me buy plants for the porch.
I’m in the middle of reading The Benefit of Hindsight by Susan Hill. I love her mysteries, but I often want to knock some sense into Simon Serailler, her lead character. Too flirty with women, often inappropriately so. He’s a grown man who often functions more like a teenager. Of course, Hill has written him beautifully because he’s flawed, like all of us. I’m more than halfway through.
Stay safe.
Happy Monday.
I do like Susan Hill. You are extremely productive and I really think your idea of every other day is a good one. I had a couple of lost days and today is rainy (possibly the rest of the week), so it’s inside stuff for me!
Rainy days give us permission to take it easy, Jeanie.
Stay safe!
I don’t see a mess…I see progress. Plenty of time to clean up on your rest days. Which, for what’s worth, is a great idea….there’s still time to get everything done outside. I hope! Storms are predicted again….hope nothing serious. So a few errands for us today. Yard work might have to wait til Thursday. Bummer. Enjoy your day! ;)
I see a mess! But it’s okay.
Thanks so much, Donnamae.
Stay safe.
sounds good to alternate work (especially physical work) and rest days. glad you are finally getting to garden.
and you have more coaching work … hooray!
lots to do here, including deliveries for a soon-to-be-6 little boy (youngest in our family). will be good to do and good to have done. :)
happy, safe monday to everyone.
kathy
Just a wee bit of coaching work – a couple of days.
Take care, Kathy.
Stay safe.
I have a few days of work at home to catch up. I’ve been at my Mom’s. At least the taxes are finally gone! The rainstorm has left and we have five days of warm sunny days before the next rains.
There’s a lot of outside work to be done, as the rain has been good for my plants but also the unwanted weeds.
Take care with your back and alternate days is the best idea.
Oh the weeds! A never ending problem here.
Stay safe, Wendy.
Its great you have some coaching work. Gardening is a bit expensive. Some years I only pot a few flowers, other years more.
I make the same kind of messes. But it only takes a few mins to clean up.
I went to a wonderful folk/indie music concert at our library last night. Oh, my soul…
Glad you had a good time, Irene!
Stay safe.
Claudia, I am looking like a red-nosed garden gnome: -runny nose, itchy eyes, the whole allergy glamorous package. I spent today crawling through the pachysandra like a woodland creature, pulling out the leaves. It takes forever. I have a few daffodils but mostly I need topsoil and maybe a replacement body. After a weekend walking the DuPont estate with my grandkids-gorgeous, but miles of it- my right leg is now staging a protest. Shower, bed and pretending I am 25 again tomorrow. When you can, send more porch photos- I love all your pictures, but the porch ones are my favorites .It reminds me of one I played on as a child. Glad you got some coaching work. Will you have to travel or zoom? The price of gas….as is everything is putting a crimp on my long-distance driving.
Zoom, thank goodness. It’s a request from the actress.
We have pachysandra up in our woods. I love it. I remember planting it in front of our rental when we first moved out here. Painstaking. Somehow, I don’t think it’s there anymore.
My body is protesting daily!
Stay safe.
Hi Claudia! Sorry I am late to comment… was dealing with stuff and gardening. Mess (in my opinion) is in the eye of the beholder. I get it that probably most people can’t see clearly in messy spaces… it is visual overload for them and they need it to be organized in order to see what they are looking at/for. I am not so hindered. My “work spaces” tend to be an “archaeological dig” (layered residue) and I am constantly mining them for the treasure I know I left in there! That tiny piece of wood already cut and painted (an off-cut of previous work). I would never get anything done if I always had to start from a “clear space”! My visual recall is highly accurate (I draw mostly from memory) and so I know where I left that piece I am looking for. I know it means “piles of junk” here and there… but it works for me! I can’t tell you how often I am really glad I did not throw those scraps away in some fevered tidying spree! That said… I do tidy and clean regularly…. but I mostly never put everything “away”… that just causes too much trouble!
I hope your coaching goes well! Yay for people who know they could use the help and where to find it!
Thanks so much, Betsy!
Stay safe.