Sunshine and gardens
May. 7th, 2024 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyHad a really nice walk with husband this morning. Warmer than yesterday but still quite overcast. We walked past the Uni of's student encampment to protest the war in Gaza. Power to you, brothers and sisters!
When we got home, the pots and soil for my bonsai had arrived. Husband bought me a 'grow your own bonsai' kit for my 50th and of the many, many seeds in the kit, only two have made it to this point. I had to disentangle the roots because the pots they were in had got so full of weeds - I'm sorry, little trees! But each is now in its own proper bonsai pot, its roots wrapped around a stone from the garden, because those are the type of bonsai I like best. I've always been fascinated by miniature things - dolls houses, bonsai, tiny boxes.
Grandson #1 bought me a 'grow your own flowers' kit for THIS birthday, and I've planted some of the sweet pea seeds in the tin cans (washed out and painted red) that are scattered around the 'frog pond' - which is a green ceramic bird bath with a ceramic frog in it that USED to be a fountain until the solar panel gave out. I've given up trying to get sweet peas to climb around the fence because it just doesn't get enough sun, but these seeds are in a nice sunny patch, so hopefully they'd trail instead!
On the other hand, the ivy growing around the old gate really doesn't mind being in the shade! In a year or two, we'll forget there IS a gate there, I think :D
Then husband and I sat in the garden in the sunshine and just enjoyed our green space. We work on it in patches and fits of enthusiasm but it's a precious little oasis that we both love.
I think I've finally hit a metaphorical wall in Zau. I've got a skill that lets me freeze water, which caused some frustration, but I could see what I needed to do - it was just a case of doing it at the right millisecond. But now I've got to jump and dash and jump and dash over a patch of sharp rocks, with more sharp rocks in the ceiling. If I wait too long to jump, I land in the lower rocks. If I jump too soon, I hit my head on the ceiling. And if I get across, Zau doesn't seem to want to do the final dash, so I land in the lower rocks right next to the solid ground on the other side. This is why I don't platform! And why I'm unlikely to put myself through the Plat because I might have to redo stuff like this. If I don't get across it tomorrow, I will admit my chat buddy is right and it is Too Hard and watch a LP, instead.
I've just watched the first part of a series about new excavations in Pompeii. They found a house with builders' tools laid out neatly in one of the rooms and brand new roof tiles stacked in the entrance hall, and decided they must have been undergoing renovations following the earthquake 17 years earlier. They also found a fresco showing what looks very like a pizza! You can take a virtual tour of Pompeii here - Pompeii | BBC Partnership (open.ac.uk). History is another of my many interests :)
And that's all for now. Tomorrow's pleasures beckon :)
When we got home, the pots and soil for my bonsai had arrived. Husband bought me a 'grow your own bonsai' kit for my 50th and of the many, many seeds in the kit, only two have made it to this point. I had to disentangle the roots because the pots they were in had got so full of weeds - I'm sorry, little trees! But each is now in its own proper bonsai pot, its roots wrapped around a stone from the garden, because those are the type of bonsai I like best. I've always been fascinated by miniature things - dolls houses, bonsai, tiny boxes.
Grandson #1 bought me a 'grow your own flowers' kit for THIS birthday, and I've planted some of the sweet pea seeds in the tin cans (washed out and painted red) that are scattered around the 'frog pond' - which is a green ceramic bird bath with a ceramic frog in it that USED to be a fountain until the solar panel gave out. I've given up trying to get sweet peas to climb around the fence because it just doesn't get enough sun, but these seeds are in a nice sunny patch, so hopefully they'd trail instead!
On the other hand, the ivy growing around the old gate really doesn't mind being in the shade! In a year or two, we'll forget there IS a gate there, I think :D
Then husband and I sat in the garden in the sunshine and just enjoyed our green space. We work on it in patches and fits of enthusiasm but it's a precious little oasis that we both love.
I think I've finally hit a metaphorical wall in Zau. I've got a skill that lets me freeze water, which caused some frustration, but I could see what I needed to do - it was just a case of doing it at the right millisecond. But now I've got to jump and dash and jump and dash over a patch of sharp rocks, with more sharp rocks in the ceiling. If I wait too long to jump, I land in the lower rocks. If I jump too soon, I hit my head on the ceiling. And if I get across, Zau doesn't seem to want to do the final dash, so I land in the lower rocks right next to the solid ground on the other side. This is why I don't platform! And why I'm unlikely to put myself through the Plat because I might have to redo stuff like this. If I don't get across it tomorrow, I will admit my chat buddy is right and it is Too Hard and watch a LP, instead.
I've just watched the first part of a series about new excavations in Pompeii. They found a house with builders' tools laid out neatly in one of the rooms and brand new roof tiles stacked in the entrance hall, and decided they must have been undergoing renovations following the earthquake 17 years earlier. They also found a fresco showing what looks very like a pizza! You can take a virtual tour of Pompeii here - Pompeii | BBC Partnership (open.ac.uk). History is another of my many interests :)
And that's all for now. Tomorrow's pleasures beckon :)
