Glechoma hederacea

I am very grateful it is cloudy and a bit rainy today. I am thrilled to be able to get started on the yard work so early this Spring, but my body is still working into outdoor mode after lots of couch sitting and reading this winter. Oh, the discovery of those muscles being triggered by the weeding experience. The lawn has an abundance of Ground Ivy. What survival skills that plant has. It is the greenest plant in the yard - it must spread its runners under the snow cover. I remembered reading it was an herb - I think its "quality" must be persistence.

The Last of the Mohicans

I was in the doctor's office and there was a 90-something-year-old man in the waiting room. He reminded me of my dad - soft spoken, but friendly - talking to another fellow about tractors, I think. But it was the manner in which he spoke that made me very nostalgic for my childhood when the adults around me were rather genteel in their manner. I loved their stories. I recall my dad on his 83rd birthday saying, "Eighty years ago we were moving from Kansas in a covered wagon." Both my parents would comment on how much things had changed in my lifetime, and I thought my lifetime!? My dad would have be 101 this month if he were still alive. He died in 1999.

Cotter Pin

Years ago I used to do a lot of work with my dreams and I decided that it was time to try that again. Especially since I have been dreaming a lot, although I haven't made a point in remembering them. The other night the only thing I remembered was a pin in a wheel - lynch pin, key pin - so I Googled images and there was the cotter pin or cotter key which made me think of Leo Kottke who I hadn't thought of for years. We used to listen to him when I worked at Dugan's Deli. And there was a great video on YouTube from the 70s.

Another Birthday

My birthday present to myself this year is to quit procrastinating. I'll start tomorrow. Ha.