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[electricland]

This weekend I bucked tradition and did not go up to the cottage with the rest of the family. Blue and I had a quiet weekend at home. (He has yet to see the cottage.) Almost too quiet. Saturday I went to the annual Beaches Garden Society sale (my uncle John was volunteering) and did what all the books say you should not do, i.e. wander around aimlessly without any kind of plan, saying "Oooh, that looks nice" and buying whatever caught my eye. I think I ended up with an OK selection despite this, and the prices were certainly right. It was a bit of a mixed bag, though. I spent the rest of the day creating a table listing plant name, height, spacing, colour, sunlight and moisture requirements, and anything else that seemed useful. Then I made another grid of height vs. sunlight requirements and put all my new purchases on it. Then I put the plants that are already in the garden on it, on the theory that if they've survived this long they're probably in OK conditions. Then I had a nap. Then I made a plan. Then I dithered for a while. I finally shoved the new plants in the ground yesterday -- we'll see how they do. Not one was over $7 and most of them were about $2.50, so I'm not too bothered.

Sunday I went to choir, an event remarkable in that I left Blue home alone with a voice recorder on (something I've been meaning to do for a while). I was gone almost 3 hours; there was a bout of intermittent howling for 10 or 12 minutes about 20 minutes after I left, and then complete silence. And he greeted me in complete silence without jumping up -- a minor miracle! He was wagging his entire body so that it was forming circles, and had a chewie in his mouth. It was extremely cute.

Monday I met pretentiousgit at Harbourfront for the Toronto International Circus Festival. An old acquaintance of mine, Seth Bloom -- we were kids together in Kenya, more than 20 years ago, and our parents have kept up and his parents now live in Rome -- was performing and I'd promised to come down. Very glad I did, as it was a great show. Was complaining that Harbourfront never seems to publicize its stuff very well -- does anyone else find that? Or is it just that I don't read the right papers? Anyway, it was great to catch up a little with Seth and meet his wife and fellow performer Christina. But it was COLD. pretentiousgit pointed out that it is not unknown for it to snow on Victoria Day weekend. But STILL.

The rest of the family came back from the cottage while I was out and kidnapped my dog, but they brought him back eventually. I bought groceries and Jen and I watched some Monarch of the Glen (season 2; we are going through in order).

Our Green Bin is in pitiful shape, i.e. barely bin-shaped at all. The raccoons got at it twice over the weekend.

I have much more work to do on the house, but all in all it was a decent weekend.

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[ozreison.livejournal.com]

He was wagging his entire body so that it was forming circles, and had a chewie in his mouth.

Sami does that too. Sometimes I'm afraid she'll wag her entire back end off! :)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

awwwww!

I mostly marvel at the flexibility. ;)

[texaslawchick.livejournal.com]

That's generally how I buy plants, and it's more or less turned out OK. I have learned though to make sure that the Oooh pretty! plants that I buy aren't going to grow to be massive shrubs in the middle of a flower bed. I've been burned on that before...

You're much more organized than I am on the list stuff, though. I just put things in the ground without writing anything down.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I have learned though to make sure that the Oooh pretty! plants that I buy aren't going to grow to be massive shrubs in the middle of a flower bed.

Errr. Yeah. 4 of the things I bought could potentially grow to 6 feet. Luckily my garden is so empty at present, that's OK. I felt a bit silly when I looked more closely at the labels, though.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Wow, those raccoons are quite smart. And plant shopping in that manner sounds fun I think, a bit like antiquing perhaps. :)

And your dog is utterly divine. *Hugs*