Just a little (link) love: weeds in the garden edition
July 12, 2018
Small win: JB and I started venturing out to the garden-jungle this week to pull weeds. We hacked out a small but appreciable clearing free of weeds together and I yanked out an armload of weeds sprouting along the perimeter. Not so good for my hands (or back, hips, or knees) but I still feel mighty. I’m tempted to take photos every day as I do a small bit to create a little time lapse video.
I was awfully tempted to make my own flame weeder in the form of a tiny Bic lighter but I’m pretty sure that setting your yard on fire isn’t either frugal or ecologically sound.
What were your small wins this week?
Damon Young’s “I have post brokeness stress disorder.” I can relate to a portion of this. Particularly the sound of that damn tow truck. In hindsight, this is why Dad took such care to lie to me so convincingly for the decade after.
Pregnancy discrimination rampant in the American workplace. From personal experience, duh.
When are we going to take stalking seriously?
Half year update from Kay Lynn. I love when bloggers from yesteryear still update us on their lives. I remember Kay from way back when.
Let’s have chocolate cake.
Do you dress your age? I never did in my younger years and now I’m not sure where I land. It’s only rarely occurred to me to buy the whole outfit and honestly, I think it makes more sense to than not.
I feel a similar sense of impending doom as Cloud.
And that feeling of impending doom (not just in politics but on a personal level for friends in very tough personal and professional situations) is why I love Penny’s new series of Money Wins. Featuring yours truly in the first post, and Aitza in the second post.
I wasn’t familiar with Mitch Landrieu (former mayor of New Orleans) but some of the thoughts shared in this article were interesting. It feels a lot like no one’s thinking about the deep fissures cracking across our society right now and seeing those fissures addressed by someone who could pursue office again may or may not be a hopeful thing.
Thank you to the folks who are going out to protest. Miser Mom on what to bring.
I had lots of male friends growing up but I’m grateful that I was not called on to fix them. Perhaps because I wasn’t the most well behaved kid in addition to being somewhat antagonistic. I do reach out to some of them from time to time sharing articles I think they need to know about though, and I know it’s not always gratefully received but such is the privilege of being my friend.
Yay for the garden work! I keep trying to convince my mom that we need to start one, but she says her back can’t handle it. I’m up for a challenge though.
I so love these small wins because I’m such a cynic and need a reminder to appreciate the good in the world.
You could start really small with a few potted plants that are easy to reach and tend to! That’s where I’ll start when we actually plant to make sure I don’t over-extend myself. If I had a bad back specifically, what I’m doing now (weeding the whole yard) would be awful and not at all enjoyable.
I am deep in the doom-feeling too.
I have no sense of age-appropriateness of clothes. I think I dress like a thirty-something rather than a twenty-five thing, I guess? Lots of “timeless” basics and have never really gone through a fast fashion phas.
“phase”, not “phas”
Same – part of my uncertainty stems from not differentiating well.
I’m not sure that I believe in the concept of dressing one’s age once one has reached adulthood. I do believe in dressing appropriately for the situation, so professionally if need be, but that doesn’t have to be related to age, just attire (if anything, younger people may want to dress *more* formally in those situations rather than the opposite in order to add extra gravitas). For people going about their casual business, that’s none of my business and I don’t believe in age-shaming.
I do not ever see a future in which I wear all black draped with colorful scarves.
I think of “appropriate to the occasion” as the dressing one’s age (because I don’t otherwise know what age to associate clothes with anyway.
I wouldn’t expect a young teen to know when to dress more formally, or need to know how to dress professionally, but I do expect someone in their 20s to know not to show up at the office in a bleach stained shirt, short shorts, and flip flops. That goes for men and women because I have seen some questionable choices on both.
Kudos to you for tackling gardening. I’ve never had that itch and thankfully my husband took care of our yard before we moved to our condo where it’s included in the HOA fees.
P.S. Thanks for the link love.