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| This week I believe I saw a western yellow tanager (female), and today a black-headed grosbeak. I never identitfied either before.
I saw a shrub I'd never seen before, and I've looked it up and found it's a purple hebe, native to New Zealand. I can't stop pruning, mowing, planting, weeding, and more planting.
Exciting stuff, folks.
Today we saw "Hancock" (not bad) and I recently saw "Wanted" (not bad). Also recently watched "The Hammer" (great), "National Treasure 2" (lame) and "Loving Annabelle" (mediocre).
The excessive movie watching and yardwork is to provide balance for the intense pace of the psych class I'm taking and the hospice work. It works for me.
Also, tomorrow Katie and I are making cherry jam from the cherries from our tree.
Also, we have three chicks, about 3 weeks old, 2 rhode island reds and 1 aracauna (sp?). One of the reds keeps plucking out its own feathers, and occasionally the others join in on it. Anybody have suggestions? Don't want weird bald chicken. I'm not trimming its beak. They aren't stressed from lack of space. Also, they're going outside to play in the grass every day that it isn't raining. | | |
| So here's a small sliver of what I've been thinking about, in no particular order:
* Methods of propagating wild red huckleberries via seed and cutting, and if I succeed, how and where to plant them. The best info I've found is from U of Idaho Extension. I know several red huckleberry bushes in woody margins within a 2 mile radius of my house, but I want some in my yard...
* Maslow's hierarchy of needs and why I'm so drawn to the existential-humanistic model of therapy. (Hi, I'm a week into abnormal psych class)
* Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, which I watched last night and thought was fabulous. The soundtrack was amazing.
* Having anxiety attacks all day, first about my childrens' proximity to a huge swollen fast-rushing river of hypothermia-inducing (but completely, breathtakingly gorgeous) snowmelt this morning and second about Max getting his first DTaP shot today (which went fine, he's completely fine and normal). Now I can transfer my previous anxiety about him getting tetanus, to the subsequent anxiety about him getting the vax, to something else. Or, perhaps, I could go straight to anti-anxiety medication.
* Black currants and red currants, and the differences in their growth habits and pruning.
*Crap, maybe I should forget psychology and just go to horticulture school. Eh, maybe both. Yes. Art therapy/public garden/art gallery. That will be my practice one day. Ha!
* The giant pile of laundry I need to do.
* Why my house has a funky smell.
* Approaches to and tools for pruning overgrown fruit trees.
*I really need to start eating some vegetables.
* Many, many other heavy things I don't want to discuss here.
Thing I am trying to turn into my mantra: Just because something is difficult does not mean I should not do it. (My mantra has always been the opposite, you know.)
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| What is there to tell...
I built a compost bin, a trellis, a chicken coop for 2-3 chickens, ordered said chickies, got chick supplies, continue to plant things, garden is looking not bad, wishing for outdoor living supplies such as patio furniture/porch swing/hammocks, maybe a chiminea (la la la, daydreaming away), waiting for the cleaning fairy to come and clean the house and garage. Please, fairy. Please come now. Clean out the fridge and do the laundry and plan some meals while you're at it. I am tired, and I want to go to sleep now.
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| I put up another June challenge photo over at SPC.
Here are a few bloggie photos. C'mon, summer!
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