This week went by in a blur… I’m not sure we did much besides come home at the end of the workday and collapse.
Since we’re anticipating a visit from Mama and Papa Wolf, we have to get our guest room in order. Today we got some curtains hung, which will also help cut down on the heat in the house. That room pulls in so much sunlight… it’s beautiful but can be a tad warm in mid-afternoon.
Out in the garden… the blueberries are still going strong & today Mr. Wolf planted three grapevines (eating grapes, not wine grapes). And here’s my new pretty:
He is asking me for treats with his squeaky cry. He belongs to the neighbors.
Hand spun Blue Face Leicester from Dicentra Designs. This was a super quick and easy project — a floppy little hat for Veronica. I hope it fits! I plied the yarn with an iridescent thread, so it has sparkle:
Here's Veronica on the 4th of July.
To get to our new house, one has to make a left-hand turn onto our street from a relatively busy highway. Usually it’s fine, but sometimes there are total wankers on the road and it can be a bit scary. TOTAL WANKERS. I’m just saying.
Anyway, when I don’t feel safe stopping on the highway (in order to wait for oncoming traffic to pass) and making that turn, I have an elaborate plan for getting myself turned around so I can make a right-hand turn instead.
As I wailed to Miranda in an e-mail:
I’m gonna be one of those old ladies that never makes left turns!
This is what the aggressive, self-involved, idiot drivers are reducing me to… a downward slide to becoming an old lady that drives around the world to the right. And I’ll probably never turn off my blinker, either.
Are you watching the video series “N”?
There’s a new segment every weekday through August 29th. I love to see writers exploring new outlets for their work. (As long as I still get a great book to hold in my hands, that is!)
If anyone is trying to leave comments, I think I got it to work. Am still moderating all comments, but I finally figured out how FIND them at least.
In the previous post, I shared a photo of the weedy yard… but not everything has been lost during the long vacancy of this house.
There are two three or four big hazelnut trees providing a partial noise and privacy barrier along highway 20. (By the way, I am often teased for saying “the 20″ or “the 5″. Apparently this is a very California-ish thing to do and everyone here says “highway 20″ or “I-5″. Well, what can I say. When you have to take three freeways and part of a highway to get to work, things tend to get abbreviated when you’re talking!)
Ahem. Anyway. I can’t wait to learn about harvesting hazelnuts! Of course, hazelnuts are pretty plentiful around Oregon, but still, it’s fun to have your own.
We transplanted our blueberry bush — fingers crossed that it survives the move. We plan to plant a few more.
Mr. Wolf tells me there’s a Roma tomato plant in the yard somewhere. Needs water, but it may survive. I am only tangentially interested in tomato plants as they lead to sauce or salsa, but I do not otherwise eat tomato. Pardon me while I shudder.
*shudder*
And, finally… blackberries! I know a lot of people hate the blackberry vines on their property and they DO tend to grow out of control, but I don’t mind these so far. They’re growing under the hazelnut trees along the highway and in the back corner. We’ll just have to be aggressive about keeping them cut back. Yesterday I picked our first berries, though, without leaving the yard, and they were delicious!
On Saturday, our neighbor across the street brought us a zucchini and a plate of peanut butter cookies. What a nice guy! He and his wife have been in the neighborhood more than 20 years, so I’m looking forward to hearing stories about all the changes around here. He has a pretty big lot and it’s immaculate — we have a lot to live up to!
Oh, that reminds me. Apparently there used to be a cherry tree in our yard. More than one neighbor has let us know this, and all seem very disappointed that the prior owners removed it. So am I! Well, we’re planning on a few fruit trees and cherry will definitely be one of them. I wonder how long before they mature…
Have I mentioned I’m not much of a gardener?
These are the glasses I wore when I was 5-6 years old and in 1st grade. (I put the quarter in the photo for scale, because… tiny!)
We closed on our house a couple of weeks ago! Our lovely friends helped us move in the big furniture last weekend and we’ve been here for a week now. We haven’t been able to do a whole lot here, because we’re still getting out of the old place, madly cleaning and dragging miscellaneous things home with us.
There’s a lot to be done in this place. The kitchen needs to be totally redone, and there’s paneling in the hallway and wallpaper in the bathroom that needs to come down. But this is probably the project we’ll get started on first:
Lots and lots of weeds. Eeeep! But we have big plans for it, which I’ll be posting about here as we go along.
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