not planting seeds yet ... just spreading manure!
reading. am almost finished 'Wildflower':
"Stayed home all day - always plenty to do. I never catch up", she wrote in october 1994. She noted nights when huge bull hippos fed outsude her bedroom window and pearl-spotted owls were catching and hiding mice and twenty-four waterbuck were prancing across her garden.
How she loved this lake, its stillness, its peace. "Quiet day on my own," she wrote that October 1994. "Letter writing. Planting aloes and snipping plants. raining gently at night. grass green. Garden and lake looking lovely."
i also bought the first volume of Thomas Keneally's history of Australia. when i got home i thought i'd check the index in case one of my notorious ancestors featured. five generations back my maternal (great x 5) grandmother came to Australia aboard the 'Lady Penrhyn'. my (great x 5) grandfather arrived as a marine aboard the 'Friendship'. and guess what?! she is in there! 600+ pages... hopefully i will finish before volume 2 comes out in 2011!!
and we've simply been enjoying the outdoors.
working lots. many changes are in the air at work, and my area seems to be at the centre... exciting, but demanding.parenting. i read this the other day. Choose to follow the examples of our pioneer forbears; live simply, live close to the earth and close to your loved ones. i like that. i think by the time your second baby comes around you realise how much is simply not necessary! yes, i'm all for simplyfying...
and to relax, some good tv - a wildlife documentary on Yellowstone National Park is featuring on ABC. and rightly predicted, Nicholas is loving it. his great-aunt has been sending wildlife animal flash cards, so he has been a sponge as far as information goes!
David and i have also been watching River Cottage. enjoying all of the ideas that come with preparing your own vegetable garden and living according to the season...
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