Well, I wound up not taking it easy at all yesterday. I was back in the garden weeding, planting more foxgloves, pulling ivy and tidying in general. Suddenly it seems like there's SO much to do!
Olga presided over it all in queenly repose on her Union Jack bed. She gets very antsy when it's sunny outside and we're all indoors. She'll go from one of us to the other, staring with doleful eyes, until we open the door and let her out so she can lie in the sun. And if we don't come out too, she'll go in and out, torn between the desire to be with us and the desire to be outside. Basically, to get any peace, one of us has to go outside with her. Which is how I wound up working in the garden again.
We took a walk to the cemetery and found a huge, ivy-laden dead limb had collapsed onto the path. I don't think it took out any headstones, fortunately. Getting around it required some ingenuity -- you can see Olga wondering what to do.
Last night we had dinner with one of Dave's former students from Michigan, who recently got a Ph.D. and is looking for a place to do post-doctoral work, perhaps here in the UK. We're still friends with the whole family so we caught up on all the news, including his engagement. We hadn't seen him in about ten years, since this trip to Amsterdam, so we had a lot to catch up on! (We never did take the trip to St. Petersburg that I mentioned in that post.)
Today we're back to school, but it's a professional development day so it's just teachers. The kids don't come back until tomorrow.
As I glanced at cemetery paragraph, my brain immediately picked out of the para, cemetery, dead, limb, Olga. It was a relief to read properly, and that Olga was not running around the cemetery with a human limb in her mouth.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha!
DeletePlease! Olga has more manners than THAT!
DeleteOh, yeah, you planting some more is all Olga’s fault. Looks like you had our sun. We had (and have) dreary and cloudy. Today rain has been added tot he mix and I wish it would really come down. The spring blooms are uplifting and the shot of Olga is a joy. She IS the queen.
ReplyDeleteShe guilts me into doing a lot of things. Of course that really says more about my guilt feelings than her.
DeleteIt would have been a noble thing to lift that broken limb off the path and toss it to the side, but no!
ReplyDeleteWho am I, Superman?!
DeleteYour garden is lovely to see. Your spring is weeks ahead of ours. And the queenly Olga, too! Asking why you threw down that obstacle in her path.
ReplyDeleteShe gives me way too much credit for controlling my environment!
DeleteI like Olga's idea of lounging in the sun and surveying her queendom.
ReplyDeleteI doubt, though, that Carlos would let me do that!
It's definitely the best way to do yardwork!
DeleteI am quite envious of your grass and flowers. Can you have too many foxgloves? I don't think so:)
ReplyDeleteYeah, probably not!
DeleteI hope you are having a good day, professionally developing. What IS that?
ReplyDeleteLOL -- whatever the administration wants it to be. In this case, it's a choice of workshops about educational topics with a couple of fun activity sessions taught by other teachers as well (painting, drawing, photography).
DeleteSpring seems to come much earlier for you than it does for us. I'm jealous at all the beautiful blossoms in your garden. We won't see any for another couple months. That's a great photo of Olga enjoying the sunshine in the garden. Enjoy your day, hugs, Edna B.
ReplyDeleteSurely you must be getting daffodils soon? I think I used to start seeing them in March when I lived in New York.
DeleteThe weather this week will have me chomping at the bit but I know I still need to wait another couple weeks before getting too excited about spring.
ReplyDelete"In like a lion, out like a lamb."
DeleteMost definitely and today is forecasted to be a very fluffy docile lamb kind of day.
DeleteIt will be warmer here this week so March is coming in like a lamb...
ReplyDeleteHa! Funny that you used the same phrase I just used in response to Ed above. Yes, it's pretty mild here too.
DeleteYour yard looks so lovely, and Olga looks so comfy by the fountain and the flowers.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your first day back at the library.
She loves her time in the sun.
DeleteI love Olga looking so regal in the sun. And her strategy to get you outside worked like a charm!
ReplyDeleteShe's getting quite demanding in her old age!
DeleteOlga is a control freak! She's very crafty at getting you guys to do what she wants.
ReplyDeleteShe really is. She's the boss of us.
DeleteOlga does look very queenly on her throne among the daffodils.
ReplyDeleteAll she needs is a crown!
DeleteI'm glad Olga convinced you to join her outside. She does look quite queenly on her "throne". One of our Rottweilers was named for Queen Esther (in the Bible) and she could strike that same regal pose.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Olga will want more walks now that the weather is warming up for you.
Esther is a great name! Yeah, she might be more enthusiastic about walking now.
DeleteI think I would have tried to see if Olga would share a space on her blanket for a little nap in the sun.
ReplyDeleteHa! I usually bring out my own chair if I'm going to go that route. :)
DeleteSo, what did you do to professionally develop today?? Olga does look queenly.
ReplyDeleteI took a session on iPhone photography (just for fun) and one about positive discipline in the classroom.
DeleteOlga rules!
ReplyDeleteShe definitely rules us!
DeleteOlga appears to be in bliss. I resemble her in the sunshine which has been non-existent of late.
ReplyDeleteWhen you've got it, you've gotta grab it.
DeleteOlga does look very regal on her blanket, ruler of all she surveys.
ReplyDeleteHer domain!
DeleteOlga is such a beauty, always.
ReplyDeleteShe is indeed.
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ReplyDeleteDefinitely queenly! Catching up but it looks like a fine weekend! Cold and gloomy here -- but spring WILL come!
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