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Here comes the sun (Doo de doo doo)
March 28th, 2012 09:50 amAs fellow Washingtonions will no doubt confirm, there was SUN this weekend. In the SKY. With the light and the warmth and everything!
So, instead of working on my ever-expanding to-do list I spent Saturday biking with Bike-Buddy Kim. It was only my second ride of the season, and after the first one (20 miles of almost-flat) my knee was bothering me for days, so we took it extra easy. Our average pace was slower, my spin rate was higher, and we took two nice long stretch breaks, but we managed 28 miles and had a lovely ride.
It gave me an excellent appetite for the belated birthday dinner mom made --baby chickens Cornish Game Hens, dal, rice, and salad, with a really great citrusy marinade/rub/sauce-whatever on the birds, and then chocolate pots de creme with mace and cardamom.
Sunday there was STILL sun (OMG!!!11eleventy!), so I worked in my yarden. I worked on clearing out the tangle by the Nasty Neighbor's fence so I could start planning a hedgerow type barrier between me and him (I want to rebuild the fence, but it's out of the question). The vine maple my folks gave me last year is budding, and I planted an evergreen huckleberry near it, which will eventually get tall enough to screen the Nasty Neighbor's window*, in theory. In clearing the spot I salvaged a bunch of iris for mom and pulled a bunch of blackberries and vinca. It's still such a mess that when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madalchemist came out to look he couldn't tell what I'd done.
*Nasty Neighbor has a two story garage/workshop whose windows overlook my otherwise private back yard, and various things he said when I moved in reveal that he pretty much spies when he's bored. He also works on cars late at night with all the lights on and no curtains, which is like having a spotlight on my back yard. The vine maple is my first new defence; at it's current height it'll block the lower windows once it leafs out; when it's mature it'll block the upper story. Someday I should put up a birdseye drawing of the yarden so y'all can picture what I'm talking about.
So, instead of working on my ever-expanding to-do list I spent Saturday biking with Bike-Buddy Kim. It was only my second ride of the season, and after the first one (20 miles of almost-flat) my knee was bothering me for days, so we took it extra easy. Our average pace was slower, my spin rate was higher, and we took two nice long stretch breaks, but we managed 28 miles and had a lovely ride.
It gave me an excellent appetite for the belated birthday dinner mom made --
Sunday there was STILL sun (OMG!!!11eleventy!), so I worked in my yarden. I worked on clearing out the tangle by the Nasty Neighbor's fence so I could start planning a hedgerow type barrier between me and him (I want to rebuild the fence, but it's out of the question). The vine maple my folks gave me last year is budding, and I planted an evergreen huckleberry near it, which will eventually get tall enough to screen the Nasty Neighbor's window*, in theory. In clearing the spot I salvaged a bunch of iris for mom and pulled a bunch of blackberries and vinca. It's still such a mess that when
madalchemist came out to look he couldn't tell what I'd done. *Nasty Neighbor has a two story garage/workshop whose windows overlook my otherwise private back yard, and various things he said when I moved in reveal that he pretty much spies when he's bored. He also works on cars late at night with all the lights on and no curtains, which is like having a spotlight on my back yard. The vine maple is my first new defence; at it's current height it'll block the lower windows once it leafs out; when it's mature it'll block the upper story. Someday I should put up a birdseye drawing of the yarden so y'all can picture what I'm talking about.
