Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
food & drink

neglect

I’ve been neglecting the blog a little lately. I’ve been watching season 5 of Dexter, so I don’t have movies to force me to blog. That will be remedied soon enough. Maybe I’ll even read a book (if I can ever finish this book of zombie short stories I started reading on vacation).

Gardening note: I decided to remove the herb garden as it always turns into a mass of weeds by the end of the summer. I try to keep up with it, but there’s only so much time to do weeding tasks. So, it’s on its way out. I’m just going to plant grass in that area. I’ll still grow some herbs, but they’ll be in pots. There are so many things growing out there that I hardly ever use, so it doesn’t seem worth the effort.

There are still some things growing in the garden, but the tomatoes have been removed. September has been a bit rainy so I haven’t had a lot of time to work outside. Plus, it gets dark at 7:30, so that cuts into my gardening time even more.

The good news is that soon I will have time to do some things in the house. I need to beef up my Everyone Drinks inventory as well as work on some home-improvement type things. I guess that’s one good thing about fall/winter.

gardening & landscaping, small business ownership

hmm

Nothing much going on here. I’m just trying to use up all of the daylight hours before they are gone. We spent all of Saturday at our rental property, wrapping up some projects that needed to be completed before winter. That was an exhausting day. I’m not used to doing anything but sitting on my butt for 8 hours. But, at least everything has been completed and we don’t have any work to do there until next year (emergencies excepted).

I had to remove the tomatoes from the garden as they were spent. I did plant a few things for fall, but it’s starting to look a little barren out there. I spent this evening working on the pond. The pond pump quit working a while ago. I replaced it, but didn’t manage to bury the new piping until this evening. But, it’s all good to go now.

movies

shutter island

It has been a while since we’ve watched a really good movie. I thought this one was going to be one, but it wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, the movie was ok, but I was expecting a little more from Scorsese. The movie had a crazy twist at the end, which was good. But, clocking in at 2 hours and 18 minutes, it was a little long (I found myself glancing at my watch several times in the first hour). Overall, worth watching, but not quite what I expected.

gardening & landscaping

behold!

The world’s most expensive fruit! Considering the fact that I purchased three fruit trees (apple, peach, and cherries) and then some fruit sox to keep the bugs away, I didn’t get much of a harvest for my money. Note: the entire harvest is shown in the photo.

I’m blaming it on the birds–I don’t know what else would have done such a thing. All of the trees had fruit on them at the beginning of the season. It wasn’t long after I put the fruit sox on the apples and peaches that the fruit disappeared. So, I guess I’ll be spending even more money next year on bird netting.

I will say, that the peach was the most delicious I have ever eaten. Probably not worth the money, though.

movies

red

This was a typical action/comedy type film. It had a couple of laughs; the plot was ok. Casting Helen Mirren as a hit-woman was an inspired choice, though. I approve.