Posted on Monday, June 20, 02011 under
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For the entire month of June I’m planning on writing a series of blog-a-day posts based on a set series of open-ended questions to myself. This is one of those posts. June 20th // Something You Are Feeling It is Monday morning after a very wet and rainy weekend. The streets are gleaming, cars whizzing by the cafe window, raising that little bit of mist from their tires. We haven’t had this much rain in years. Between Saturday morning when I emptied the rain gauge until I checked this morning we had five centimeters of water fall. The grass was a sloshy mess, admittedly a vibrant green and sloshy mess, when I dashed out to the garden to check. Between cloudbursts the dog did get [...]
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Posted on Friday, June 26, 02009 under
scatter.
I’ve had a busy couple of weeks. Between running, working, and those other little things that come up… well, y’know… This quasi-drought it killing my garden. It sucks. Sure, I can pump water on it all day long, but the moisture bakes out of the soil in less than a day anyways. Some of the plants are doing okay — after they get established, they flourish because they can get their roots down deep enough — but the seedlings are slow and suffering. If I get even a dozen carrots out of the patch this year, I’ll be surprised. I spent a couple hours building Claire a sandbox the other day. We had looked at a couple of the plastic doo-dahs, but I figured it [...]
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Today I was back to work. This is it: week two. No turning back now! Puddles and Umbrellas I understand that Alberta is having something of a drought these days. If I could send some of today’s endless downpour, I would. I woke up this morning to the light trickle of rain drops on my window. This, of course, was an understatement to the remainder of the day when the skies opened up and you couldn’t go down the street without becoming absolutely soaked. I also discovered something interesting today while I was racing about on my lunch break. I never would have guessed that Vancouverites go through so many umbrellas! A trash can on every street corner, and in each at least one, often [...]
