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Yesterday the builder who will install our french doors called to see if he could come a week earlier. On Thursday I had my last classes of my first year at university, only two exams left now, one for medieval Irish literature and one for historic linguistics of old Irish. I started out this year doing English as well as Celtic languages, but next year will be a complete Celtic year. I had planned doing both studies in three years, but almost having finished my first year I realise this isn't realistic. I could only make it if I wouldn't sleep for the next two years and I don't think I would survive, even though most of the time I think sleep is a waste of time. This morning dh and I did our two-weekly morning paper route (ds does the paper route normally, but spends every other weekend with his biological father and we have offered to do it then), but we got to sleep in anyway. The papers were going to be late, so we could come a half hour later. Tomorrow is father's day, but we will celebrate it another Sunday when the kids are home. We will visit my parents in the Hague and pick up the kids with their little half brother (who is our little sleepover guest) on our way back. Thanks for the warm welcome and all the nice comments about are garden, ladies, and Kim, you are so right, technology is wonderful. By the way, we don't have a short growing season, but we were just really late with tilling the garden (manually). Have a great weekend! blessings, Ellen |
Well, ehh, I still have to move some bushes from the border where the doors are coming, ehh I have an exam later this week, ehh I have a little guest coming for a sleepover from Sunday till Tuesday. But after having talked it over with dh, we decided to let him come on Monday anyway. Actually, it may work even better than next week, because with our little guest I can't really buckle down studying, just reading those medieval Irish stories will do, and next Monday I can study hard for my second exam without all the distractions. So, having decided that, I immediately had to take action (otherwise it keeps going round in my mind) and cleared the border almost completely. There are only two more plants, which will have to stay out of the soil while they are installing the doors. Afterwards I can put them back at the side, so I will leave them in as long as possible.
Besides that, the English department is lacking a teacher for the medieval subjects and that's what I'm interested in. So for the moment English is on hold, but I did manage to finish 6 courses for it this year.
The rest of the day will be filled with some cleaning (dh and I always do this together, he insists, isn't he sweet? 
), a quick shop at our local greengrocer, some time at my allotment, and studying. Oh and I shouldn't forget baking, our bread for the week and banabread for ds, he always eats a slice before his paper route.
I think we actually have good growing season, some things can be sown in March, but officially the date for french and runner beans is still 15th May (thereafter there shouldn't be any more frosts), and it can go through to September/October. With the climate changes the weather can be strange sometimes. Last year we had a really hot and dry early spring, which was followed by six weeks of cold, wet weather, which together produced a gigantic amount of slugs, and they ate almost everything (this year I'm using slug repellants, which aren't dangerous for anything/one else). This year we had a rather warm spring, but with rain now and then, and at the moment it's a lot cooler with some rain.Comments
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