Yard/Garden Work Never Ends

6:06

6:16

8:22

It's a partly cloudy, on a mostly cloudy morning. The sun was out briefly around 6:30 but is now tucked nicely behind a vast cloud bank, with blue skies off to the southeast. It's 61º already and should get up in the mid-70s mid-afternoon before it rains. 

Kayak Morning

Victoria/Woodlawn

Looking back at Friday, I know we were both busy outside but I can't remember much of what we did, probably because its been the same thing for the past week of great weather.  I did get in a paddle and home was before 8:00 just in case our call to cancel the plumber was ignored. We were able to have a leisurely coffee and listen to Micahel Smerconoish because there was nothing we had to do, just lots to do. By 10:00 we were both out turning the soil, weeding, and getting the beds ready for the dahlias. It seems whereever we look, there are more projects. Evie spread good compost over most of the garden beds, and I turned it. Evie also set up the garden hose for watering the new plants near our pines. I kept filling up water cans, added Miracid, and watered all the acid-loving plants, the hydregeans, and Pieris Japonica as well as watering the new strawberry hydrangeas. I also spread the last of our fertilizer along the privets in the front yard and around the pines which we planted on our hill last summer. 

By 12:30, we were both tired so I had the leftover pasta from Thursday night's dinner, yum, and watched my show and some of the NBA game from Thursday night. I then read off and on the rest of the afternoon, sometimes getting something done in the yard or on the dock, napping or just resting in a lounge in our side yard with Evie, hoping to avoid the wind. By 4:30, we closed up shop, put everything away and hoped to sit out on the dock with a glass of wine but it was too windy so we sat on our porch, a good second choice, and watched the action on the lake and on the shoreline, as more boats are out each day, more people on their docks, hiking Long Point, as it warms up. 

Porch View

Windy Afternoon

6:00 PM

We had the leftover cauliflower/garbanzo bean dish over fried potatoes, topped with yogurt and it was surprisingly good, very Turkish because of the yogurt. We watched a powerful Pro-Choice film from 2020 called "Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always". Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, you should watch this film because the reality is there will always be women who want or need an abortion. And this film shows the agony they have to go through because of anti abortion laws. In this film, a young girl gets pregnant, is either raped or has careless sex, and because she lives in a Pro-Life state, has to take a bus with a girlfriend to New York City to get an abortion. The two have little money, no place to stay, spend two nights on subways or public areas but persevere and she eventually gets an abortion. It's a harrowing film, hard to watch because you fear for the two girls, alone in New York City because of an unwanted pregnancy. The only solace is she is treated with dignity and kindness by the health care workers. They empathize don't judge and help her with her choice. It's worth watching just because of the gut-wrenching performance by the two young girls. After that film, it was difficult to watch anything else. 

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