Update: Busy---too busy to blog? For SHAME!

1*, feels like -21*, 44% humidity, WNW 24 mph wind, fair, WIND CHILL ADVISORY, FLOOD WARNING


First, a warning: Blogger's spellcheck doesn't seem to be working right now for me. So proceed with caution if mispellings send you running for a red pen. Running with pens can lead to loss of eyes.


Ok, I admit to being a bit preoccupied latey between work, job interviewing, studying..... But this all has to do with Girl Gone Gardening's rules of life. remember 1) is live like you will be moving (no extra stuff you can't live without) 2) don't live where you are unhappy----life is just too short. And number 3....which I have always been able to follow well---- When you start hateing what you do for a living, it's time to find a new job!! (Because, once again, life is too short to do something you hate everyday). And while my job isn't a bad job, it's stopped being something I enjoy. I'm bored out of my mind with it. There is nothing more to learn there and I'm sick of the schedual--- working holidays and weekends because I'm the low woman on the totem pole. So, I have decided to shake things up a bit.

But while I wait to hear if I got the new job or not, (I'm pretty certain I did), here is an update on the growing ons of my household.

Peppermint seedlings--despite having frail roots when I transfered them into their own cells, all survived to my surprise. I'm going to have a million of them. Perhaps I'll plant them in the lawn...let them take over....wouldn't that smell fantastic when mowing? Of course, I wouldn't be able to use it for tea then, if the dog is peeing on em!!


Then there are the daylily seedlings- I lost four, which never really took off, yellowed and passed into the next life. I don't know why, but they were weak from the get go. I still have a healthy 20, despite one of the cats deciding to give them a trim. They must not of tasted very good cause they only ate the tips of a few of them. Can't say which one it is.......

Catnip is doing fine. 10 plants. I have been pinching them to make them branch so they will grow bushy. Guess who gets the pinchings? I have catnip junkies. Especially the young one, Osa who isn't so little anymore. Growing like a weed, eatting ten times more chow then I'd seen any cat eat, getting bigger then Freya with no signs of slowing the growth anytime soon. She is coming out of her shell nicely. She will be a very calm and mellow cat. I guess she's decided I'm OK and now loves to get under my feet when I'm trying to get something done but when I want to pet her otherwise she sends me on a chase first! Not the quickest cat in the world, shes one of those cats that has to sit there and 'think' about things first before deciding anything.

I couldn't resist a new violet....this one has very dark flowers. Not big flowers, but a very dark red that cought my eye at walldeath when I was there to get kitten chow. I know, shame on me!

Friday, I had a day off and took the opportunity to scrub up a few gourds that had dried enough. Most still have a ways to go before I can clean them up. I wasn't sure if the little ones would dry as they were not fully ripe when I had to pick them becasue the vine borers like that kind of gourd vine (the spiny, yellow blossomed kind as opposed to the fuzzy leaved, night blooming white flowered kind). Some have, some haven't. Wouldn't it be neat to paint a bunch of the little ones as birds and make a mobile out of them??
Of course, Osa had to nose her way into the shot.