hot hot hot
It’s hotter than blazes outside and still too hot inside to do much of anything. We were at 104 yesterday and look to top that today!! woo baby! I’m keeping everything watered outside but my basil is droopy. Basil can be somewhat tempermental…it wants it warm but not HOT. Once the new moon is here I’ll transplant it into a much larger pot or directly into the garden. My other basil plants are in the garden but I like to keep one plant potted so I can coax it into holding on into the early fall. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
I saw my first butterfly of the season last week in my backyard and several more this week. Their arrival every year lets me know I’m doing something good outside. Butterflies in the gardens/yards tell us that some of the balance is shifting back to a chemically free zone. I saw more of them when I was a child, when lawns weren’t abused by weekly visits from the "lawn manicurist" and weeds in the yard were accepted.
Speaking of chemically free zones…did anyone watch the LiveEarth concerts? I cried through much of it. Melissa Etheridge gave a very inspiring talk during her song Wake Up. wow! If you haven’t heard it, Google it and listen. I understand how daunting a task it can be to navigate through this world with as little harm done to mother earth as possible, and the feeling like what we do isn’t enough. BUT, one small change made by each of us is HUGE and it will impact us all in a profound manner. Just find one thing that you can change about your daily life, just one. Once that becomes habit for you then pick another….and so on. It can be as small as recycling the toilet paper cardboard rolls instead of tossing them in the garbage. Then, move onto building a compost bin that you can toss the cardboard into, in turn giving you some amazing "black gold" to ammend your soil with. These are just some examples but you get the point. I’m doing more too. I seem to have slipped back into the horrible habit of using paper napkins. gah!! As an accomplished seamstress I have NO EXCUSE and should be downstairs sewing some very easy napkins. If I took a few hours I could kick out a few dozen. So, if you need some encouragement or support, leave a comment and I’ll gladly support you in kicking your habit as I’m kicking mine! We can do so much in our own little worlds.
