maybe too long, even...

hello, lovely people.

sorry i spaced out for longer than i intended.  some recent medication changes made for some cracks in the well cover over here so i had to get back with my docs and get that sorted.

otherwise, things are about the same here.  chaos in a chaotic world, trying to do my little part to bring good things to the interwebs and add a little love to the planet and people.

it's been hard, but i've managed to keep the Ancestors page going every day.  i don't want to let them down or have them get discouraged with me. so, if you don't see me here for a while know that i'm at least over there daily and you can see what is happening with that.

i thought today i'd bring some garden love i talked about in my last post.  i haven't spent as much time out there as i'd have liked (part of how i know the well cover was cracking open).  we had heavy rain and storms on saturday 😀🥰  i love me a good thuderstorm.  and sunday was a bit on the dark and rainy side. monday morning i went out to work in the garden but was only able to be out about an hour before i had to give up and come in.  those damn blood sucking mosquitos were all over me.  i swear i could be standing in a crowd of a hundred thousand people and i'm the ONLY one who would get bit.  those little f*kers love me and always have so it's not just being diabetic.  i can remember being a little kid and being covered with mosquitos and bites.  ick!

anywho...here are some photos from my garden as of today...

this is all i was able to get done on monday, a clean out of this pot (former home of the now deceased blueberry and some volunteer trees) with juliet (grape hybrid) tomatoes and marigolds.

my lady of shallot is still blooming and budding. i swear, it is heavenly to be near that plant and catch of whiff of scent from it.

the bush beans and the cucumbers sprouting. yay!

lemon tree no.1 that i found at the garden center back in very early spring.  i brought it home and too cold out to put it out, put it in the brightest spot in the house.  i was so sad with how sad it looked so when i found a larger lemon tree at the garden center last month, i bought it too.  i potted both up at the same time and put them out front where they'll get loads of sunlight and look how no 1 has grown!  i'm soooo happy!

lemon tree no 2 had blooms on it when i brought it home.  i think there is a tiny lemon growing in there somewhere.  so i'm being sure to give it lots of water.  i need to look up how and when to fertilize as i'd love, love, love, to grow my own lemons.  

see...chaos.  but it's a good, sort of, kind of chaos. lots of plants need to be planted still and once they are all potted up i can decide where they will live.  i've also still got pots that need to be cleaned out.  and i found that the love in a mist has returned this year.  not as many as last year, but i'm hopeful to have more seeds to add over winter.  

i still have so much work to do on that damned blackberry that wants to engulf my home.  

if i didn't have neighbors i'd leave it, but it is just in a very, very bad spot.  i still want to try to plant some in the woods out back and see if it will take up there, so i could still have blackberries. i know, i'm crazy.

anywho...those foxgloves make me so very happy.

well...i think this has been a long enough post.  maybe too long, even.  i need to get up and move around so i'll go now and hope to be back in a day or two.  i hope you are all well and i'll make the rounds of blogs i need to catch up on later today and tomorrow.  

have a great day.

love & kisses & magical wishes, 

~*~