Pete and Repeat — An interlude
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Author: Robin | Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, celebrations, Healthy Living Plan, home, life, nature, Spring, weather | Tags: Akron, birds, Mother-of-the Groom Stories, wedding | 3 Comments(034: Pigeons against a reflection of the sky. Akron, Ohio. Photo © 2009 by Robin)
I’ve been writing up some of the details of the wedding celebrations and as I go along, finally checking what I posted during the celebrations, I realize that I often repeat myself. Once I figured that out I was going to go back and change things. The thing is, I often do that in my everyday life so I decided I will leave it as it is. It’s more realistic in terms of being more me that way.
I’m a bit like the old joke:
Q: Pete and Repeat are sitting on a fence. Pete jumps off. Who is left?
A: Repeat.
Q: Pete and Repeat are sitting on a fence. Pete jumps off. Who is left?
A: Repeat.
And so on and so forth…
As I write this (but not necessarily when I post it), rain is coming. At least I hope it is. The garden could use some watering. The pond holds up better when we’ve had the occasional rainfall, too.
M has gone out to mow the grass before the storms roll in. I spent about a half hour raking weeds out of the pond earlier. It’s good exercise, moving that heavy rake filled with weeds and pond muck. It’s dirty exercise too. I had splatters of pond muck/mud all over me by the time I was finished and mud in my toes from standing in the pond. I raked up a turtle during my first pass through the weeds. He was about 4-5 inches in length and must have decided that playing dead was the best recourse. I put him back in the pond, thinking he’d swim away after the trauma of being lifted out on a giant rake. I waited about 30 seconds, giving him time to scoot. I put the rake back in and whaddyaknow, there was the turtle again. Back into the pond I sent him. He sat there near the edge, his head poking out of the water. I nudged him with the rake, hoping he’d swim off. No go. He continued to sit there. I worried that I’d hurt him or killed him when I raked him out of the pond. I reached down to pick him up and his head suddenly went under the water and he finally swam off.
I forget why I sat down to write this little interlude. Maybe just to record things as they are now before I go back in time.
I started this post yesterday. The rain is here. No doubt the garden is soaking it in. I’m not feeling well today, but that is likely due to overindulgence in a lot of things over the past week or so. Today is a very good day to start getting back on track with the Healthy Living Plan. I’m not up to a lot of exercise, but a row or pedal around the pond if/when the rain stops would be nice. I’m hoping to pull some of the baby bok choy for dinner. (Note to self: Take a picture of the bok choy. It’s looking good and worth showing off.)
I’ll be back later today or sometime tomorrow with more details on the wedding celebrations.