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Life is happily busy with family. As you probably know, our 'English' family arrived over two weeks ago. Yesterday our eldest daughter arrived for a weekend visit from where she lives about five hours away by car, so all our 'girls' are here: three daughters and two granddaughters. I am at home alone for a couple of hours while everyone has gone over to see youngest daughter's just-acquired and being-fixed-up apartment and to get groceries. I'm enjoying a much needed pause and breather and do a quick read of blogs and a short post. I try to work in the garden on our rare dry days, sometimes to the point of exhaustion. No gardening today, it is raining again. Added to the list are some garden renovations along some sections of the property line shared with our new neighbours whose new fence/wall and house construction continues. Home renovations and reorganization continue so not much time for art!
Tomorrow is Father's Day! (Miss you, Isä!) May it be a happy Day for all!
Marja-Leena | 16/06/2012 | 6 comments
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What a beautiful photograph of your lilies in full sunlight. I hear you saying that's been a rare treat for them lately and understand why in those circumstances you try to get as much done in the garden as you can.
It's good to know all the girls are there with you and with their dad as well. It should be a fine Father's Day tomorrow. Relax while you can.
Susan, tomorrow's forecast says 'cloudy' - we hope so, better than today's heavy rain. Yes, it will be a great Father's Day, even I will get a little break with meal-making as they are doing a brunch. These flowers do look lily-like in the photo but it is my ivy geranium in a hanging basket, under the eaves and out of the rain. So many others are being flattened. Most of my pelargoniums, and the oleanders are still indoors....
Yes, it's easy to feel a bit overwhelmed with it all at this time of year. Rain seems to be a constant everywhere, a rare dry day today and I've spent the morning clearing and weeding and barely scratched the surface, though at least the front and side of the house looks a bit tidier. I promised myself an afternoon's drawing but wonder if I shouldn't be digging in compost and planting pumpkins while I may...
Anyway, one or the other, I'd best go. Enjoy your family!
Lucy, thanks, we have enjoyed the family time. The nieces really enjoy their aunt, our eldest daughter, but now things are quieter with her on her way back home. Sorry to hear, you are having a similar wet June. I think my tomatoes may not do well this summer; the peppers are still indoors. And what are you drawing these days?
Marja-Leena,
Enjoy your delicious visits with family! I'm expecting to see the two girls with their bumbershoots...
Marly, thanks, have enjoyed it greatly but am now exhausted. They are off visiting friends today with their mommy, wearing raincoats and rubber boots/puddle jumpers. I love that word bumbershoot, we never seem to use that. Have to test it on the girls if they know it for they love words and are quite astonishing at the game of Pictionary! Writers and artists both.