Life is Like a Semi

The question I know you're all thinking, "how's your summer going?" My reply would probably be something along the lines of, " You mean besides working on Tuesday, taking a 24 hour trip to SLO for graduation on Saturday/Sunday, getting slightly fried at that four hour fiasco, or grating my knuckle good enough Mom ordered me to not bend my finger for the last week? It's been completely restful and rejuvenating. How's yours?"

The real answer, life's been crazy as usual and I'm beginning to realize my wishful thinking of things slowing down is an illusion. Yesterday was the first Tuesday since my summer ambitions blog where I've been home. In fact it might be one of two in June because next week is, THE DENTIST! (Something I'm not necessarily looking forward to.)

Yesterday however, was fantastic. My plan had been to mow and water. May I just say the lawn really, really, really needed to be mowed. I'd missed a week when I went to Santa Cruz, and then I came back had to work and sliced my finger so the grass had been allowed to grow unchecked for about two weeks! It was ridiculous. Please pause here for a moment gentle reader and recognize, I don't have a lot of pet peeves, but unmowed lawn is one of them. Drives me NUTS.

Anyway mowing, yes that was my plan, only come to find out one of my Dad's guys had taken it upon himself to mow and weed eat around the house! (May I just say, Zeke is a yard wizard. I must learn). And Aunt Judy watered. So I had the morning to do other stuff like bake cookies and start going through paper's in my room. I know, I know, amazing right.

A moment of summer going as planned.

Alright, alright, I know what you really want is pictures of my apparently nice looking yard. Fine, I'll post them on here, right after I take them. Just a sec.................(Leila stop counting, it's a figure of speech).


So clearly I figured the drip tape out. Well mostly, the pressure reducer leaks a little so it;s not on there quite right, but otherwise it works beautifully. The flower's in front of the roses are flourishing.

I have come to discover that where I'm getting ok at not killing plants in the ground, when it comes to potted plants I'm rather inept. They do well for a while and then it's like spontaneous combustion, they just die. Thankfully Aunt Judy is quite good at keeping them alive and it's thanks to her the front looks so good. (See top photo for proof).

Anyway, that's my update.


Conclusion, I need to find moments to balance out the craziness. I can't suddenly halt a fast moving semi going downhill and life's not just going to stop because I want a break.

Looks like it's time for me to head out. Here's to another day.