and I ramble on
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fufarawIt's been cold and rainy for the last few days, and today turned off bright and sunny and warm. We've got the windows open and the fans pulling cool air from the woods in back and pushing it out the front windows where the sun beats on the asphalt.
I've been cleaning and rearranging--last-minute nesting before winter sets in in earnest, I suppose. Shiny surfaces sparkle more in the light from sunny windows, so I feel better rewarded.
It's the first gorgeous day in weeks that there aren't trucks and ditching and digging equipment outside my windows. I kind of want to dance in the street, just because I can. I will finish lunch and go fold laundry, strip and remake the bed. There's a "pull and store the summer decor, dust surfaces, then pull out and arrange the fall harvest decor" putz going on. And when that's done, I may demand a drive and ice cream.
I need to harvest herbs, too, but I don' wanna. Every year I promise myself I'll cut the Russian sage before it's spent, and every year, the bumblebees are still working the flowers late into the fall, and I hate to cut their food supply--it's more important for them than for me. And I still have dried rosemary, thyme, sage, basil, and lemongrass from last year. I do want to cut and braid the lemongrass this year, though, rather than bundling it. I need to cut cedar tips and bundle them while fresh with the lemongrass bundles from last year--they make awesome smudge bundles, especially when I tuck in a sage leaf or a few sprigs of lavender or thyme or even rosemary. At this point, I'd like to thank the ninja todes for the success of this year's garden.
Also, I have no fall-ish icons--for that matter, no holiday icons, either. Maybe I'll work on that tomorrow.
I've been cleaning and rearranging--last-minute nesting before winter sets in in earnest, I suppose. Shiny surfaces sparkle more in the light from sunny windows, so I feel better rewarded.
It's the first gorgeous day in weeks that there aren't trucks and ditching and digging equipment outside my windows. I kind of want to dance in the street, just because I can. I will finish lunch and go fold laundry, strip and remake the bed. There's a "pull and store the summer decor, dust surfaces, then pull out and arrange the fall harvest decor" putz going on. And when that's done, I may demand a drive and ice cream.
I need to harvest herbs, too, but I don' wanna. Every year I promise myself I'll cut the Russian sage before it's spent, and every year, the bumblebees are still working the flowers late into the fall, and I hate to cut their food supply--it's more important for them than for me. And I still have dried rosemary, thyme, sage, basil, and lemongrass from last year. I do want to cut and braid the lemongrass this year, though, rather than bundling it. I need to cut cedar tips and bundle them while fresh with the lemongrass bundles from last year--they make awesome smudge bundles, especially when I tuck in a sage leaf or a few sprigs of lavender or thyme or even rosemary. At this point, I'd like to thank the ninja todes for the success of this year's garden.
Also, I have no fall-ish icons--for that matter, no holiday icons, either. Maybe I'll work on that tomorrow.
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Date: 2014-09-20 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-20 08:09 pm (UTC)I've had lemongrass for the last eleven years, and always harvest the leaves. I keep intending to harvest the tubers too, and experiment with Thai cooking. The plants never overwinter so I have to track it down again every spring. It wasn't hard to find in NC, but most garden centers in PNW don't carry it. There was renewed interest this year because a lot of holistic folk say lemongrass tea combats environmental contaminants. Maybe local demand will make the plants more available next year. I hope so, anyway.
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Date: 2014-09-20 09:05 pm (UTC)Can you really not find it? Have you tried Molbak's or Flower World? They're both a little trek for you, but lots of fun once you get there, and they're fairly large. I haven't tried Sky's, but I know a lot of people like it.
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Date: 2014-09-21 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-21 01:33 am (UTC)I've never grown lemongrass... I'd like to do that next year. :)
I just started making some fall icons. I'll post them sometime next week.
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Date: 2014-09-21 02:19 am (UTC)Just a few herbs containers. In the last one, if you peek behind the trellis, that's creeping rosemary, and in the brown bowl beside the steps is ornamental oregano. I'd never seen either before, and both were gifts from a friend. There're several different lavenders, Russian sage, alyssum, and basil. On the other side of the steps are more lavender, rosemary, thymes, sages, and pineapple basil. There are more pots, and more herbs, but you get an idea of how abundant even containers can be. It's fun watching them grow, harvesting, and then foisting much of it onto other people, because we'll never use it all.
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Date: 2014-09-21 02:59 am (UTC)