Flora and Fauna and Friends
Jun. 7th, 2009 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_lupusA full week. Two days off, again, which was lovely. Didn't really relax, which is catching up with me now, but I will survive.
I went to work of my own volition on Friday (my day off), because I got to PLAY. I actually used my little iPod for its intended purpose. Loaded it up with good guitar/RockBand songs, headed to work, plugged in, and ignored just about anybody who tried to talk to me while I put in a big kitchen/vegetable garden. PLAY! Play at work! FUN! I'm crazy, I'm pretty sure... But the garden is wonderful. Scratches an itch for me, and there's hope that people will actually use what's out there. The landscapers seem excited, at least. They've been working on walls and patios for the last month, and the end is finally near... we're planting all kinds of perennial gardens around the patios/office. Should be just beautiful. And I don't need to buy lettuce for a while, because I can take it right off the plants in front of the office. This makes me happier than it should, I think.
Friday night saw 'Dance of War: Legends of King Arthur" put on by the local dance company... was good... though I think I just don't "get" dance... ah well. Had a free ticket, enjoyed myself. That's what counts.
Saturday was spent on the Piscassic River in Newmarket/Durham, NH with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anna_mickel and Max. Hit a yard sale on the way, several coffee shops... Remembered sunscreen on arms, face, and neck, then promptly rolled up my jeans so I wouldn't soak them getting into the canoe, settled in for 4 hours of wonderful river cruising, and discovered later that I had fried my shins, because I never either rolled the cuffs back down, nor put sunscreen on my pasty white legs. Owowowowow... stupid... burn has gone down some, but still hurts.
A perfect day on the river. Saw all kinds of wildlife, snuck up on a couple Great Blue herons, found I got a pretty good accidental photograph of an as-of-yet unidentified bird, saw (heard first) a couple fox kits playing (missed a prizewinning photograph of mom fox by seconds... stupid lens cap), observed bunches of leaves swimming upriver, determined they were pulled by muskrats. OMG SO CUTE. Also discovered a wild native geranium (Geranium maculatum) and some other as-of-yet unidentified Little Pink Flower (I suspect some sort of Centaurea, very delicate, growing in the shade) at the tiny portage where we ate our lunch.
All in all a perfect day. Picked up a few neat books in Dover, had fabulous dinner 10 minutes from the house, and returned to kitteh snuggling, fire, and marshmallows. Exhausted and happy.
I went to work of my own volition on Friday (my day off), because I got to PLAY. I actually used my little iPod for its intended purpose. Loaded it up with good guitar/RockBand songs, headed to work, plugged in, and ignored just about anybody who tried to talk to me while I put in a big kitchen/vegetable garden. PLAY! Play at work! FUN! I'm crazy, I'm pretty sure... But the garden is wonderful. Scratches an itch for me, and there's hope that people will actually use what's out there. The landscapers seem excited, at least. They've been working on walls and patios for the last month, and the end is finally near... we're planting all kinds of perennial gardens around the patios/office. Should be just beautiful. And I don't need to buy lettuce for a while, because I can take it right off the plants in front of the office. This makes me happier than it should, I think.
Friday night saw 'Dance of War: Legends of King Arthur" put on by the local dance company... was good... though I think I just don't "get" dance... ah well. Had a free ticket, enjoyed myself. That's what counts.
Saturday was spent on the Piscassic River in Newmarket/Durham, NH with
anna_mickel and Max. Hit a yard sale on the way, several coffee shops... Remembered sunscreen on arms, face, and neck, then promptly rolled up my jeans so I wouldn't soak them getting into the canoe, settled in for 4 hours of wonderful river cruising, and discovered later that I had fried my shins, because I never either rolled the cuffs back down, nor put sunscreen on my pasty white legs. Owowowowow... stupid... burn has gone down some, but still hurts.A perfect day on the river. Saw all kinds of wildlife, snuck up on a couple Great Blue herons, found I got a pretty good accidental photograph of an as-of-yet unidentified bird, saw (heard first) a couple fox kits playing (missed a prizewinning photograph of mom fox by seconds... stupid lens cap), observed bunches of leaves swimming upriver, determined they were pulled by muskrats. OMG SO CUTE. Also discovered a wild native geranium (Geranium maculatum) and some other as-of-yet unidentified Little Pink Flower (I suspect some sort of Centaurea, very delicate, growing in the shade) at the tiny portage where we ate our lunch.
All in all a perfect day. Picked up a few neat books in Dover, had fabulous dinner 10 minutes from the house, and returned to kitteh snuggling, fire, and marshmallows. Exhausted and happy.
