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Default May 19, 2019 at 05:42 AM
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I love summer. I love being outside and sitting outback with my coffee in the morning. My favorite times are nights on my deck with my lights and plants and stuff to make it feel magical. It gives me a lot of pleasure to have people over and listen to music, talk into the wee hours and laugh. Sun has vitamin d so it really helps my mood. Don't get me wrong- I live in NJ and am an hour away from the beach so that is my second home. We also go away camping every year and that is fun too. But I love being home outside the most. I got my garden planted. Two of my tomato plants are looking a little weary so I am concerned. This year we have two kinds of tomatos, banana peppers, zucchini, cucumbers and basil.
I've got my two dogs and my bird feeders out. This year I am hoping for some hummingbirds. I have two feeders out and I made my own food out of sugar and water because learned that the pre-packaged stuff with the red dye isn't good for them. I read about them and they are cautious and you need to leave them out for awhile before they get comfortable using it as a food source. My bird house has a family of sparrows in it and I have blue-jays, woodpeckers, nuthatches, wrens, a pair of cardinals and other wild birds taking up residence in the yard. And yes, the asshole fat squirrel who always tries to ruin my suet and bird feeder is back. I have a good way of keeping him off the one birdfeeder though- crisco. I greased the poles and he can't hang on. The suet in the tree is on his turf though.
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I'm moving house this summer. My current house has a sunny garden full of huge magical flowering bushes. Something is always bursting into blossom: cherry trees, oriental poppies and peonies. I usually grow tomatoes, potatoes, carrots and hundreds of flowering annual plants from seed, and I have a farmer friend who supplies me with herb and chilli plant seedlings.

At first I faced moving to a place with a shady courtyard and I was being tight-lipped about it, but at the last moment I decided to rent a bungalow with a garden so that I can take along my precious herbs, salad leaves and chillis. Having healthy, tasty food outside the door is how I combat my addiction to sugar. I used thyme, coriander, parsley, dill, and garlic on a daily basis. Also those little salad leaves and spinach leaves are growing on a pot on my kitchen steps.

Just a simple lentil soup with turmeric and coriander leaves smells and tastes so comforting!

Now that I'm moving to a place with a garden I feel so much better. Easy to talk self out of those pleasures for more practical priorities, but day to day those small smell-and-taste things add up.

I've noticed bird song in the early mornings a huge amount also now that I'm planning to leave. The smallest birds have sometimes the most powerful voices.

Another pleasure is that I joined a Facebook site where people post about making gardens out of junk in small spaces. I love the inventiveness and pleasure of sharing information that I find there.

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PS Lovely to see your fairy garden photo Sarahsweets. I'm trying to get over my embarrassment at moving house with my huge tribe of stuffed dolls and bears - all of whom have names and personalities. The collection started from friends giving me the toys that I lacked in childhood, but now they are a way of creating stories at winding down before bedtime. Our latest ongoing story is: "the Oldest Elephant".

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