Catherine Love~ Ramblings from my Heart and Home

Monday's Musings

First, I have a tiny tomato on my container grown plant!  Yea!!!  There are lots of blooms, too.  Now, if I can just keep it safe from birds and little people who seem to all find their way to my plants-

 unattended by any sign of an adult, of course .

My mints that I have lined up on the window ledge outside are looking rather pitiful.  I'm considering putting them all together in a larger container and letting it be a "survival of the fittest" kind of thing.  I've never had any trouble growing mint- containing it maybe, but they're just struggling to survive.  Of course, getting the soil washed out of their pots 2 weeks in a row didn't help them any. 

The pots of petunias, marigold, gardenia,  lemon balm and chives are all doing well.  The lemon verbena doesn't look great- it also suffered from the rain washing it's dirt away.  The bay tree is getting new leaves.  It hangs on, though it is a very, very slow grower! 

We bought 2 very old wooden chairs a couple of weeks ago at Goodwill.  Yesterday I scrubbed them down good and we put a coat of "Island Water" tinted wood stain over the very weathered white paint.  Today I'll put on a second coat and see how they look. 

I need to grind some wheat and bake bread today or tomorrow and make some soups.  I'm rereading through the More with Less cookbook; after reading Living More with Less last week...... lots of work to do in this area right now.  I also picked up a book called "Harvest for Hope" by Jane Goodall at the library.  Very eye opening stuff, some of which I've read on the web recently.  Lots to ponder.........