first days of summer

 The trailer is situated, the plants are on the deck, Lupa is clipped… still to go: planting herbs and the garden! But it's raining today so perhaps that last big task will be postponed for another day, or maybe we'll be lucky later this afternoon to at least get the pots planted :-)

Summer has arrived with a big bang! Sunday was a scorcher - we were happy to dip into Kirsten's pool once we arrived there and got set up. Everything went smoothly and we were even level without any boards… we didn't get stuck… hurrah.

The rest of Sunday was spent gathered around Kirsten's kitchen island feasting on leftover food from Carm's birthday party and some extras that Kirsten provided - there was enough for 9 people to fill up on and there were even a few leftover vegetables and hummus (a nice lunch yesterday when we got home). I skipped out of the party by 9pm as I was totally exhausted and done for. But I had a pretty decent sleep, although slightly shorter than I wanted.

Monday morning Kirsten and I were up early and thinking of a walk before everyone else was awake but by the time we lingered over our second cup the house was starting to waken. Gradually everyone (the adults) migrated over to the villetta for coffee, eggbites, and chickpea brownies. A wonderful start to another beautiful summer day :-)

We didn't stay past 11am though - we were anxious to get home to get a few things done… Carm was the strong man again, carrying giant pots of plants from the basement and living room onto the deck. The living room looks empty and forlorn without the excess foliage, but the deck looks like summer :-) Oh, some of the plants need a good trim but we'll let them adjust to being outside before scalping them.

Christina managed to enjoy time with the dogs (she said!), and also spent lots of time outside with her bird song identification app… she heard 27 different types of birds from our back deck!!!! I gotta get me one of those 😀

Later in the day… Carm got the barrels planted with cherry tomatoes and some of the garden spaded. I cleaned up the pots for the herbs but no planting yet… I had a nap and Carm got a covid booster... we just got hit with a big thunderstorm but haven't checked for destruction yet!

Awesome!

“family time”

“summer’s blazing arrival”

“Lupa is clipped for another few months”