My tea glass is empty. My mind is empty too. Or maybe it just seems that way. The fan is running, so is the air filter. My son’s truck is running, too. It sounds really good. There’s still a lot of work to do on it. The oil looks good. The transmission fluid and filter have been changed. The radiator needs to be flushed. That’s the next job. Then, there’s the tires. I will soon be rebuilding the carburetor, without the boys watching my every move. It’s been a while since I’ve done such things, and I really don’t want the distraction. The water is running in the greenhouse. The plants look great. The broccoli is getting new heads on them. The cauliflower doesn’t have heads yet. I wonder if that’s normal. The tobacco needs transplanting, so do the tricolor sage, chamomile, thyme, and lavender. The asparagus beans, which produce yard long beans, are growing very well. I have loads of carrots coming up in the raised bed. The beets are looking good, too. In the garden, the sweet potatoes are looking really good. The tomatoes are also. We still have loads of lettuce, spinach, swiss chard, and kale. Nice salad makings. The green beans are growing nicely. The corn didn’t do much this year. I think the chickens got in and ate them. We started new corn seed, so we’ll see what happens. The tadpoles in the toad pool are doing very well. There are only about a hundred or so that haven’t finished changing yet. The other thousand or so have changed and are out and about in the world. I wish them all the best. I’m looking forward to them all being done so we can put up our new pool. This one will be a hard side pool, rather than one with an inflatable ring. Our cat, Salem, liked to walk on the ring. He fell in one day and poked a lot of holes in the ring while trying to get out. Of course, we also discovered that he poked holes just by walking on it, too. I just had a bowl of ice cream. I let Thor, one of our dogs, lick the bowl when I was done. I think I’ll get more ice cream tomorrow. Come to think of it, I want some more tea.
Just Rambling
June 22, 2012 by Michele Rice Carpenter
Posted in Thoughts | Tagged garden, greenhouse, rambling thoughts, thoughts, toad, toads, tobacco | Leave a Comment
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