Just a lazy day...whatcha up to?

Oops... I left the smiley off my last post!

I've been pulling weeds out of my gardens all summer, and the !@#$%^!!!! things keep coming back. Next year - the hell with the main veggie garden, I'm going to plant grass and flowers instead.  Too many damned weeds to make veggie gardening worthwhile.

Sigh.  Just got home from 7 wonderful days at the lake.  Had mostly smoking hot weather and very few other campers except on the weekend.  Fell asleep briefly on an air mattress and imprinted a tan outline of my own hand on my neck.  Drank too many beers and slept late every day, made breakfast about lunch time and supper when it got dark.  Tonight I will have a hour long bath and sleep in my own bed ----------- after I finish up about a bajillion loads of laundry. 

I pulled a bunch of weeds today.  They aren't out of control or anything, but I like to noodle around making the flower beds and garden nice and clean.  That said, I know there are huge weedish monsters lurking beneath the taller vegetables.  Yesterday I plucked some chamomile flowers, threw them into my bodum along with some mint and lemon balm leaves, and made a nice tisane.

I had to water the epazote patch, as they were all wilty in the heat. Gee, you'd think Mexican plants could take our heat standing on their heads.

I have a pile of zucchinis standing on my kitchen counter, even though we eat them every day now.

Played pétanque with the family this afternoon.  I hit 12, but one of the kids won.

For the first time, I walked to the station to do my show instead of riding my bike.  The Fringe is on, and my route takes me right through the mob on Broadway, so being on foot is somewhat less complicated than riding into a crowd.

It's going to be another scorcher here on the coast. The deer will snuggle up to the cool cement walls in the shade ... and if I wanted venison I could probably just put any one of them in a headlock and make them tap out. lol. But who wants a hot meal on a day like today? I will stay close to the water and try to plough through some summer reading.

Today, my daughter and I are doing a Lord Of The Rings marathon.  That's right, all three movies.  Started at 7:30 this morning, and they are just walking into Moria right now.  (look out behind you guys!!!)

We have the extended versions, so this will be going right into the evening.  Got lotsa snacks, and my daughter made LOTR cupcakes.

I watch those good Canadian kids in the World Juniors, then stay up late and watch them some more on the TSN rebroadcast. 

Other than that, since Christmas I've been flooding the back yard twice a day .  It's finally starting to look like a rink.  The "deck" is rather uneven so it takes a while to level it all out. 

I am having my second cup of coffee.  Mr. Ripple is sleeping in (he works more hours at this time of year).  My kids and a friend of my son's are camping in the living room and it is trying very hard to snow outside.  We are watching the Lord of the Rings in stages, beginning with the Fellowship (obviously) last night.

I just finished Christmas Shopping.  Better late than never

Now I am working on my new years resolution by trying some new organization to get my life in order.  Used to be I would get to the end of the to do list before the end of the day.  Now I get to the end of the day with barley a dent in the to do list (as finishing the Christmas shopping today illustrates!)