Summer just got extra exciting: we picked up our new foster pup this morning! We’re calling her Josie.
About 14 weeks old, clearly partly Rottweiler but mixed with something. Rocco is having a blast with her.
So today was all about getting her acclimated, as well as cleaning the house. I also had to help N film a project for his Spanish class. It’s finally cooled down and I’m relaxing outside now after doing a bit of gardening.
Yesterday was kind of a wacky day. I have a mild cold, and it made me wake up at 5:40 am. I chose to get up, make coffee, and enjoy it out back.
Once I was fully awake I started harvesting oregano, focusing on making room where it was crowding out other things. I ended up with roughly a cubic fuck ton.
The rest of the day is kind of a blur. I took a nap in the afternoon. More cleaning; it was too hot to be outside. I skipped the farmers’ market since I didn’t really need anything. N had his first lifeguard shift and F was at the pool as well.
The remaining oregano is just on the cusp of blooming. I hope once it does we will see more bees. I remember when I was a small child, the one thing I didn’t like about spring/summer was bees. I was terrified of bee interactions, going so far as to avoid wearing yellow after a fellow kid told me it would attract them. Bees were everywhere! Not so anymore.
Wednesday night, ahead of this latest heat wave, I pulled almost all the remaining lettuce and carrots:
I may have mixed up some of the carrot varieties, but roughly, these were the totals:
- 8 May Queen
- 1 Coastal Star (Romaine)
- 4 Crispino (iceberg)
- 7 Scarlet Nantes
- 11 Little Finger
- 14 Royal Chantenay
Once again, I didn’t thin the carrots enough. If I had, I could have picked them before the first heat wave, and they might have been sweeter and bigger. Still, these taste pretty good and I’ve been using them in my salads.
I’ve gotten two to four strawberries every day out of the garden the past week (sometimes six). I shared some with my neighbors.
Meals this week:
Monday: cheeseburgers, fries, leftover salad with grilled chicken and lemon sage vinaigrette
Tuesday: Ellio’s pizza (we had to go to the high school athletic awards)
Wednesday: Ellio’s again (just cause I like it) plus carrots
Thursday: garden Caesar salad with chicken nuggets and hard boiled egg
Friday: still more garden salad with chicken nuggets
Saturday: Holy City Publick House for me and Tom
Sunday: dinner at my parents’ for N’s birthday
Lunches:
Monday: avocado toast
Tuesday: bought
Wednesday: egg salad sandwich
Thursday: cereal
Friday: turkey sandwich with garden lettuce
Spending: $62 for goggles and a lifeguard swimsuit for N; $75 to register N for the summer swim team; $20 on tolls-by-mail; $50 on a cookie cake for N’s birthday (too big, but yay for leftover cookie cake). The swimsuit caught me by surprise, somehow; I guess I was thinking the pool might provide it, like a uniform. So that was an Amazon purchase. And he couldn’t find his goggles from his last swim season.
Some more garden pics. Things are a poppin’!
Garden State of Mind 
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