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30 สิงหาคม Labor Day and the leaves are turning.It's the start of the Labor Day weekend and it is raining. Actually it has been rather cool and overcast the past week but tomorrow they promise sun and 80 degrees. It has been a very cool and wet summer with our warmest day in
August hitting 85. And that was once! Almost 50 percent of the days in July and August have been rainy; not good when you love summer.
At the moment I have a pork roast with bone going in the oven. I made a bed of vegetables; parsnips, carrots, potatoes and onions in a roast pan, layed the roast on top and stuck it in the oven. (The veggies - all but the onions coming from my garden.) This is the kind of dinner I'd have late Fall or winter but it seemed somewhat appropriate for how our weather has been. I was just commenting to one of my brothers that we never ate outside this summer and that is sad. This is not to say that I didn't enjoy those sunny days when we were graced with sun and warmth. I actually took advantage of every sunny day possible but it never quite seems enough. Those winters in the northeast can be hard and long and I think that we are slated for a cold and wet one. We've been blessed with moderately cool ones the past 2 or 3 years or we're due for a good one.
We're almost finished with the garden house; we have some wainscoting on the ceiling to finish, the moldings on the windows and doors and the final coat of paint. I bought the linens and sheets for the bed intending that it could be a summer sleeping room. Maybe next year! But we did finally shingle the roof of one of the out-buildings, did finish the back patio behind the garage so in some ways we did work on many of the things I wanted. The rose garden and vegetable garden ended up being quite lovely and productive so in the scheme of things I have little to complain about. My last major project is to dig up the iris bed, thin and replant all the rhizomes. Many of them have been in their same spaces for 10 years so a good time to shake them up.
I'm mid-way through an interesting book. "At Hell's Gate," by Claude Anshin Thomas. It is the journey of a young man, from his military days in Vietnam, to his emotional collapse and then the long, slow healing until his ordination to a Zen monk. I am a product of the Vietnam War; it was a time of great division in this country, and many experienced the loss of family or someone they knew. I believe we lost 58,000 American lives in that war and countless Vietnamese lost their lives as well. A senseless war that couldn't be won.
I close by wishing you blessings and peace for this Labor Day weekend. Be safe. Bittersweet |
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