…tomorrow for a week in Philadelphia with Wonderful Guy, visiting Eldest Daughter and the Significant Other.
I am so not ready.
Oh, I am ready to go on vacation with Wonderful Guy, to see the girl-y and the boy-o, to fly away, to be away from all that is all work.
I am not packed. My list is not even made. And I always have a list. My houseplants aren’t watered. The tomatoes aren’t picked. The iris rhizomes going to live in other states aren’t mailed. Trip knitting isn’t ready, only vaguely planned…
I don’t like being in this position.
It is true it has been an unusual week, and I will be kind to myself. I will give myself credit for the things I have accomplished. The packages of iris are ready to go to the post office, and Eldest and Youngest Daughter’s have iris ready to plant for themselves. I have a vague idea of what knitting I am going to take. I only have to pack for myself.
See! Maybe just a little ahead of the game. And Only Step-Son is house-sitting, so that takes care of so much.
I don’t know if/when I will have time to post while gone. I will try, but it will be time to enjoy with Eldest Daughter. Rest assured we will be having fun!
Now for ‘the sort of a maybe contest’….
If you have been following my efforts here, you know that I have some very nice and unique iris. Many of them have been dug and divided this year, and I have rhizomes looking for homes.
For ‘the sort of a maybe contest’…
>Leave a comment telling me something you have learned that we share in common, or how how vastly we differ.
>If you would like to be in a drawing for some iris, put iris in the comment. (See! You can comment even if you don’t want iris!)
> I will put together a couple packages of 6-8 iris and send to the names of the commentors who are drawn (….if there are that many…if there are any….)
I will let you know by next Friday and get them in the mail as soon as I get back from Philly (with instructions on how to care and feed your new charges!). If you get them in the ground right away, they should be okay for the winter, even if it will be a bit late-ish.
So there you have it. My first contest….let’s see where this goes!
4 comments:
Safe travels and have fun in Philly!! It's raining right now but hopefully it will be lovely for you. I have no garden :-( otherwise I'd enter.
Let's see..... same age (approx), knitter, spinner, politics, love of our children, sentimentality over vehicles, gardening......Colorado! Iris! I would have to search for an open location..... Have a great time in Philadelphia- its a great city. Drove my daughter there several years ago for her internship at CHOP and enjoyed the historical area immensely.
Becky,
I came across your blog through the ABC-Along and once I had visited, I bookmarked your blog as interesting. At that time I only knew you lived in CO somewhere and not specifically where you do actually live.
Which happens to be the exact same place where I used to live before our move to NJ. How I wish we had known each other existed before then. I think we have a lot in common. (At least through blogging I have gotten that impression.)
I've learned a lot through your gardening tips and just love your heirloom iris, and the whole story of how your mom used to sell them. I need to get more into my gardening skills here as the person who lived in our house before me was obviously an avid gardener.
I need to go divide my iris now ... please excuse me while I do so.
And hey, you are vacationing in my area now! I hope it's not sticky, hot and humid in Philly as we are now in Nj.
Enjoy your vacation East-Coast style
Have fun in Philly.
Similarities -- we both like irises and to knit and garden and are getting hollyhock seeds from Kate of High Altitude Gardening. We are owned by cats. I suspect we are both flaming, bleeding heart, tree hugging, whale kissing (right on their blubbery lips) liberals.
Differences -- I have neither dog nor offspring, nor have I ever spun yarn or knit a pair of socks, but we both do the Loop of Magicness.
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