I keep trying to pack only to find myself stymied by the fact that I am going to need to wear/use some of the items that are still on the list in the remaining 10 days that I am here. I should be outside enjoying what little I have left of the lovely English summer except that the summer is now being so very English! Today, much like the past few weeks, has alternated between overcast and drizzly and has been actually kind of windy and cold-ish. I’m sort of at a loss as to what to do. The Flower Power afghan has been finished for Cesar and Pam (I wove in the one end this morning), the Feza scarf is done and blocked (there will be a post about that as soon as I can take a picture of the finished scarf [the hubby forgot the data disk for the camera in his computer this morning so no photos today!]) and the other scrapghan is getting to the point where it is unwieldy to work on (also, quite hot).
So, I have been trying to get my plants ready for my absence. We did some rearranging in the conservatory to free-up some space. The violets are now nicely arranged mostly on a couple of shelves which will hopefully make it easier to water them (also, to protect them from kitties who think that they make a nice bed!). I plan on moving some of the more tender plants that I have outside into the conservatory before I leave and marking those that I want the hubby to move in prior to the first frost. It’s sort of weird to be thinking about these kind of things in August, but if I don’t, I’ll probably get home to a bunch of plants outside that have been taken by the cold that I wanted to try to keep for next year. It’s one of my weird superstitions that if I prepare for something to happen, it won’t, but if I don’t prepare, it will. It is a good chunk of the reason that it is set-up so that if need be, we, the entire family, are able to evacuate at a moments notice.
Me, OCD? Never….
Sarah Jane Humke 