| June 13, 2007 |
 |
 |
|
Still no rain, so we are spending all our time dragging hoses, trying to keep what we have planted alive. Some days, when the drying wind/breeze is blowing, we are having to water the flats three times! The greenhouse was 126 degrees today, so keeping the plants that are still in there happy is not an easy chore. I'd love to get them all moved out, but we're too busy dragging hoses! The extreme heat and drought has brought the lavender into bloom early. We began picking today. I hate to see the purple rows disappear already, but they are (like all the flowers this year)budding one day, blooming the next, and drying up the third! It is sad to see things changing so quickly that we barely have time to enjoy them. In any spare moments from watering, usually between 6 and 9:30 p.m. I am trying to get mulch on the gardens. They are actually looking pretty good as long as they are watered, but miss their every third day routine, and everybody wilts (some to the crispy, never to return point!) I'm ready to go to Ireland, where everything is green! Packed into the watering, are all the preparations for Lavender Daze, plus trying to find time to spend with my daughter's family as they prepare to move to Germany for four years. We kept their yellow lab for a year and a half while they were in England, but somehow we aren't getting to keep the 3year old Thomas the Train lover Evan, and fairy-child Eleanor, who just had her first birthday while they go to Germany......something just doesn't seem right here! Time to water...that's it for today. |
