Like a big-ass rock wobbling at the top of a hill

[cephalopod]

Fuck Facebook basically. Get used to me. :D

Anyway. I've been trying to figure out a spring/summer project, since the yard's done or at least the big project-level stuff is, and hell, the bit in front of the house basically is too? Which is weird. This always happens for a while after I finish something--I want to keep working on it but in a big continuing-construction way, not a settled maintenance way. Settled maintenance is less satisfying.

We're set for furniture, the garden's pretty well planted for the time being, and there's stuff inside I could do, like fixing wall dings and moving some art and unfucking the front hall situation, but that's like...settled maintenance, innit.

This is frustrating. I wanna labor and make things wonderful. But only in certain particular ways that are also clearly rewarding! Too much energy is such a problem, right? (I kid, mostly. I feel pretty lucky about that most of the time.)

I dunno. I should probably work on one of the settled things until a better option comes to light. Could build a sweeter cat tree maybe.

EDIT: the garden is planted up, said past me. Slightly more recent me noticed that the flowering currant in the front had pretty conclusively died, and that the weird chrysanthemum thing I put in one of the front pots last summer was 1. hurtin' and 2. I never really did like it all that much. OFF TO THE GARDEN CENTER! :D 

Now I have a very pretty little dwarf forsythia where the currant was which will hopefully do better (giving a damn about it over the summer will help) and a sweet little columbine to hang out in the pot with the honeysuckle. Much more harmonious, and relaxing to look at in a way the mum never was. Even just the foliage feels a lot better to see. I don't know how that works, but it's true.

Comments

[gamera]

Are you still planning to do the firepit? (Though I suppose that with all the brickwork down, that might be less a project and more just acquiring a standalone one.)

[cephalopod]

Firepit is going to happen, absolutely. And you're right, it's going to have to be a standalone one. The concrete under the bricks would be too much of a pain to deal with, and a standalone one can switch places with the BBQ at need. If I'd planned everything out when I was doing the garden beds the first time I might have made the apple tree bed a bit narrower so the patio could be bigger and there's be room for both, but eh.

Could theoretically still wrangle that if I wanted to, actually. It would just mean moving the gooseberry (again), the blueberries, and the chamomile. And discommoding the fish.

...hm. Maybe if the blueberries suck again this year.

[catlarks]

Ceph!!

I don't remember if we've even really talked since the HSWC and homestuck days but... Welcome back to dreamwidth, lmao. My return is also recent and my updates are horrific TL;DR textwalls but if you want company on ye olde journal site, I'm always happy to catch up with fandom folks.

Your gardening update delights me because I have so little patience for physically gardening but I love plants and BEING in gardens so it's like. All the high points of gardening with none of the work, excellent.

[lassarina]

Maintenance is so much less fun than building a new thing, be it in writing or physical crafting or the garden or whatnot.

Yay for pretty new plants!