Just before I go to bed I'm thinking, it's been a smashing day, we have really had some great weather for the past week or so, it's been that good that I haven't bothered with housework, well, that was until my son visited yesterday and picked up an ornament, that proved that I had not dusted the room for a wee while.
I get out of bed this morning just knowing that I must do something, but the sun is just breaking out, one more day wont make any difference I tell myself, I don't take a lot of convincing.
Stroll around the garden taking in the scent of the wallflowers, admire the pinky-white rhododendron, dead head the last of the daffs, sense the satisfaction of beating the slugs, so far, in our battle for the hostas, six sweet pea plants planted against the trellis, two rows of carrots and one row of lettuce seeds, sit at the side of my new gravel garden picking out weeds and enjoy the hot sun.
It's been 68 c today, in foreign that's minus 30 and half the remaining figure, and you then know what it is in f, 68-30= 38, half of 38 is 19, so it's been 19 degrees f, that does not make it any hotter or colder just understandable to foreigners and why they should want to know what the temperature is in my garden in Scotland God only knows.
Anyway, I have not done the dusting yet and I may not be able to sleep for worrying about it, but I'll try.
Good night.
01/05/07 @ 00:15