Hi LaMa, I forgot how heartwarming The Hobbit book is. I was just reading my South Carolina gardening book and it talks about not needing to water so much in hurricane season! I guess if your plants blow away, no need to water them!Tropical storms sound terrifying! I guess it would be best to keep your garden as projectile-free as possible in general just to be on the safe side.
I never watched The Hobbit (because I'm a scaredy cat) but the book was fun.
Your social life sounds so wonderful lately! I'm really loving how I feel after doing yoga. It helps on so many levels! I'm still eating a bit too much, but making really nice food. I think I need to meditate again. The sage smudge really smelled so good, and I really like the fresh feeling in the house now!I'm doing some reading aloud with a friend lately. It's lovely to sit out in the cooler but still sunny days and just read to one another.
The gardening, the yoga and the food choices all sound great!
Ha, too bad I didn't know sage could do that - I'd have saged and gotten rid of the crappy company sooner! We're really loving The Hobbit so much. It's such a great book to read to a teen especially as Bilbo starts out doubting himself and his abilities, and becomes the one all the dwarves rely on as they get further and further along. Really brilliant writing!My former landlord saged the house one time because she wanted another housemate to move out. Haha.
The Hobbit is such a brilliant book - I read it as a teenager and loved it.
I really loved the smell of the sage even before we burned it. The garden is looking lovely with the winter squash spreading out all over and the eggplants fruiting now. Some of the summer squash didn't survive all the rain and grasshopper infestation, but it's time to plant greens and root crops for fall now, so I'll use their spots and put up cloth that keeps out insects.I must reread The Hobbit! I won't sage the house but might bring some inside when It grows some more. Your garden must be looking very nice, M.
We went out taking photos on one of our favorite walks yesterday, and many places in the woods were flooded and it was magical looking. There were a couple different varieties of purple capped mushrooms and many other wonderful mushroom specimen. It was so nice having a good macro setting to get really up close to them to take their pictures. K did history homework today - comparing 2 different forms of government - she is comparing China and England. So I did a lot of reading on the garden and listening to gardening videos and I made some roasted red pepper soup with carmelized onions as the base. I really feel good after eating this soup. I did buy baklava, which was a huge mistake because it is extra delicious, but I only ate a little today after having too much the day before.
I am going to do better with food and get fall crops in for exercise next. Did get good exercise mowing the lawn and weeding flower beds before one of the daughters of the last owners came by yesterday for their mail and such. She was really sweet and only stayed a few minutes, but the mom wrote me that she really liked the visit. So nice relaxing weekend, and we have a nice cleaned up yard and house now, so it's extra relaxing. Went shopping at the big box store yesterday, too, and wow did groceries go up even since I was last there. So glad I've been buying extra of things as they were on sale.