– I planted ferns in my front yard under the pine trees at 6:30am this morning *in the rain*. My jacket is plastered with clay mud. I have gone insane for my garden.<\/p>\n
– I have class tonight. Will do homework in the 20 minutes before I get to class, hopefully. Bad student. No biscuit.<\/p>\n
– I went to quilt guild last night, driven by a nice lady who lives ten minutes from my house. We saw a presentation by Linda Franz<\/a>, who was eloquent, elegant and inspiring. She has a BA in English from U of T and a law degree, and her very first bed quilt<\/a> — which she pieced and quilted entirely by hand, in *less than a year* — won first place at the AQS show in Paducah, which is like acting for the first time and winning an Oscar, or skiing for the first time and winning an Olympic gold medal. Freaking unheard of. She was pretty awesome, mostly because her power point presentation showed that she was obsessed with her toy Monkey<\/a>, chocolate and Jane Austen. I dug it.<\/p>\n – Been shopping around for a rain barrel and debating a drip irrigation system, to be more environmental in watering the yard, since we have two eligible gutter spouts on the east side of the house. How is it that Toronto charges $70 for a barrel<\/a> at their periodic Environmental Fairs (the next one in my area is inconveniently taking place at the opening of the Weston Farmer’s Market this Saturday, boo-urns) and the Region of Peel sells them for just $50<\/a> at their local community centres? Bastards.<\/p>\n – Going to New York in three days to see – Roommate K-Jo<\/a> is leaving for Whitehorse on a bus today at noon. Godspeed! For those interested in learning more about her outdoor rafting madness, here is her blog<\/a>. They are also raising funds for Alzheimer’s research<\/a>, so please support them if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – I planted ferns in my front yard under the pine trees at 6:30am this morning *in the rain*. My jacket is plastered with clay mud. I have gone insane for my garden. – I have class tonight. Will do homework in the 20 minutes before I get to class, hopefully. Bad student. No biscuit. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}