Back in the day when blogging was a much bigger thing, one of the blogs I followed -- I can't even remember which one -- started a thing called Saturday Sky. She said, "We all live under the same sky," and thought it would be fun for everyone in her blog circle to photograph and post what the sky looked like where we lived.
As the blogosphere shrank, things like that fell out of favor, and eventually I stopped doing it. Until today. This is what my sky looked like all day long.
We are expecting storms, but no severe weather -- at least not down here. My friends who live in Michigan and Wisconsin are getting hit pretty hard, but we haven't had much at all this year. I'm seriously considering de-safefying my safe room.
Even with the looming sky, I was able to get the last of my plants safely tucked into their beds before the rain started.
I measured where I want to put my tomato plants, and set them there, though I didn't plant them yet. They're still too small. Just to be on the safe side, I covered each one with a Walmart sack. They're saying we could get some heavy rain, and I didn't want my little seedlings to get pounded into mush.
Once I'd set those into place, I managed to fit six basil plants in this bed, and put a marigold at the foot of where those tomatoes will eventually go once they're big enough. I had a few basil plants left over, so I fit them into the raised bed where I'd put the others.
Two of the smaller ones seem to have died, so I pulled them out and replaced them with these bigger ones. I ought to have plenty of basil, but I don't know what I'm going to do with it. I have plenty of pesto from last year still in the freezer. I keep forgetting that I have it, which I shouldn't do because it's delicious.
Back to the garden, I had planned on putting a pineapple sage in the other half of this bed, but now that will have to wait until next year, because I had three more cayenne peppers that needed a home. Two of them went here.
and the other one went here -- where my second lemon balm was meant to go. That will also have to wait until next year.
Oh well, it's all part of the learning process. Maybe by next year, I'll be more organized. Maybe next year, I'll start my own pepper seeds, too. Anyway, everything is now planted and my little garden is done for this year.
I'd debated on whether to give everything a good watering before I came inside, because we are supposed to get some rain this evening. In the end, I did water because I figured with my luck, the rain would go all around me and we wouldn't get but a trace. It's still early as I type this, but so far we haven't gotten anything but sprinkles.
While I was out there, I noticed that sure enough, the little peppers that looked almost dead yesterday have perked right up after a night without the harsh southern sun.
The seed packet said 6+ hours of full sun, but the way they droop in the afternoons makes me wonder. I'm hoping that once they grow a bit more and develop a stronger root structure, they'll be better able to handle it.
It looks like my French Tarragon is ready for its first harvest.
I might cut some in the morning and hang it to dry.
You know what's sad? I'd cut and hung some herbs last year, but got so depressed after what that land scammer did, they're still hanging. Maybe when I'm done here, I'll take them down and put them into some ziplock bags. That way, my hangers will be ready for this year's herbs.
OK, moving right along. I finished piddling in the garden, then came inside and between bits of housework, I knit on my newest sailor hat while watching The Great Pottery Throwdown Christmas special on Roku Channel.
And in piano news, I decided to go ahead and pick the Faber course back up, even though I'm still learning the last three pieces in the Alfred's course.
I'd thought I would go back to the beginning and start over, but when I pulled the book back out, I realized I was more than halfway through. So, I scrapped that idea pretty quickly. I've also decided I'm not going to watch Mr. Let's Play Piano Methods videos for this book any more. I've noticed that for the most part, all he does is change the fingering, because he doesn't like the fingering the books use. The really funny...or sad...part is that his fingering is usually more complicated than what the book uses.
The Faber book has QR codes you can scan and it'll take you to a video of Mr. Faber playing the piece, so you can at least know what it's supposed to sound like, so I'll just go with that.
And finally, I'd intended to post an Eye Candy Friday yesterday, but I completely forgot so I'm posting it today. Here you go:
Now, if you'll excuse me, I just found Lark Rise To Candleford on Roku Channel, and I need to watch it.
