Ok so I have been really really busy over the last, um, 2 months. After the wedding I returned to work and the busiest work season of all. In just over a month I have trips to Vancouver (4 days), Toronto (overnight), St. John's (five days), Lindsay ontario (overnight - personal) and back to Toronto (another overnight). All of those cover at least one weekend day.
The yard has gone to crap. The grass is about 2 feet tall, everything's dying off and I'm just leaving it there. I haven't picked any apples so the yard is full of rotting little fruit, and I left the hose laying across the lawn all summer so that now I can hardly find it. It's scary. And it's so stressful to look at. Neither hubby nor I have the energy to tackle that yard, any aspect of it, even though frost is coming and things have to be dealt with pronto. On top of it all, the days are getting shorter so I have only about one hour after work during which I might do this stuff. And there's $750 worth of firewood lying in the laneway waiting to be stacked, but getting rained on nearly every day. The stress, I tell you, the stress.
On Saturday I went into the garden and ripped almost everything out. I picked all of the vegetables and threw all of the spent plants into the woods. I felt better.
Tonight, I'm going to uproot my cannas and use their pot for the newly-dug banana, which has grown exponentially over the summer so that it now has 9 leaves. NINE LEAVES. That's major. It's not quite big enough yet that it will create a canopy over our heads, but it's getting there. After tonight it will reside in our living room once more, taking over the house with its giant leaves, making our open-concept home seem oppressive. Perhaps I should invest in a parrot to complete the scene.
Then I'll have to do laundry, iron, sort out the clothes situation, water my plants, clean the toilet, and find some time to sleep.
These are normally my weekend activities but the weekends have disappeared down the drain. (sigh)
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