Monthly Archives: February 2020

Spring is sprung!

Crocuses in the edges of the rain garden.

Tomorrow I am taking  off to go to the NW Garden and Flower Show. It would be my third time but Francis said No! when I tried to go last year the day after my ankle repair.  He is such a party pooper.  So this will be my second time attending and first time attending in the middle of the week.  I have a happy list of classes to take and seminars to sit in on and a goal of learning how to turn the backyard into a meadow full of wildflowers.

And yes, there’s a good chance I will buy plants too since they have a place to check your purchases and Francis has agreed to pick me up at the convention center if needed.

i am hopeful that the weather this weekend will be conducive to gardening.

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Garden goals

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commitment

It’s me again. Posting twice in the same month—that’s a damned fine start if you ask me.

Tomorrow is my one year anniversary of breaking my first, and hopefully last, bone.  I broke my left ankle in two places by stepping on ice I thought was snow. Because  my hands were full, I couldn’t catch my balance and crash down went I.

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Me Again

 

Cooking: the Early Years

I’m not going to fill in all the gaps since my last post. I ought to but I won’t, at least not now. I may in the future fold in things that will explain what’s happened since going to London or moving but not today.

Today I can formally proclaim I have fucking breast cancer AGAIN. It’s a new primary (that’s good) and I can manage with another lumpectomy versus a mastectomy (also good) but it’s still twice in 10 years and that sucks.

Surgery is March 3. Radiation to follow.

Over the last year, I have pondered and thought and come to a resolution which this diagnosis has only served to solidify. This year, I am retiring. This is my last lunch break at Starbucks on a February 6 because after November, I will be retired.

Who knows, I may actually have time to make that jam.

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