my shabby fortnight

Hello out there!

It's Friday evening here...

I'm plopped in the living room... 

with lovely candles, big band tunes and a refreshment...

Reflecting on what it is I've been up to, keeping me away from this blog... 

You know, I love this little spot in the blogosphere...

 but sometimes there's just not a lot you can do about LIFE getting in the way... 

Or at least sometimes, if you wanna get something else DONE, you gotta go get it done 

and hope everybody still loves you when you get back :~}

So here is my Fortnight~In~Review... 

{the good news is, it's a whole bunch of good stuff I've been up to}

First of all...

I've been spending a lot of time with a nice gang of shrubs...

 They've been very patient this spring... 

So now that it's almost 100 degrees out there...

 I've finally gotten around to digging large holes in chock-full-o'-rocks dense red clay so they can finally spread their toes in the cool earth. 

I've also been moving perennials around here and there that were in that particular bed...

It's such satisfying work... 

To make my little world a prettier place... 

Butt-kicking work. 

When I take a break I usually hang with the sweetpeas on the patio...

because any day now the mosquito overlords will arrive...

and there will be a lot less patio time around here.

So if you don't find me out there...

 I might be on my daily hike with the dog in the woods.

This is part of the trail a few months ago...

green just beginning to pop up.

Now this is a dense green jungle, with poison ivy encroaching on the path...

everywhere.

Oh yeah... 

I've also spent part of the last two weeks scratching poison ivy...

Or I might be out rehearsing Renaissance chamber music in a big old stone church 

where our voices float up to the vaulted ceiling...

getting ready for my last few concerts of the season.

That is hard but satisfying work too...

Or maybe it's after school and the pool was beckoning...

always a good idea when it's almost 100 degrees...

I've even discovered that, yes, I can study early music scores in a chaise lounge, poolside...

and if I'm at the pool I might as well swim some laps...

On the way home I will probably need to pick up our CSA share at the farm stand... 

and see what gorgeous produce the earth has made for us this week...

such a fun and satisfying way to buy "groceries".

Then of course there's all the rest of life: 

homework, friends, school concerts, dinner, laundry...

well, you get the idea.

By the time dinner and dishes are accomplished...

{i.am.toast.}

I've still got a few more shrubs to go, plus a bunch of perennials...

the weekend is supposed to be positively pleasant.

I've got a date with these babies...

Happy weekend to all...

oneshabbychick

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