Ramblings on a rainy Sunday afternoon...

What a weird day it is today...We were startled to wake up to what felt like a monsoon this morning around 7am...and it hasn't really let up...rain and gale-force winds....gross. So much for a lazy Sunday afternoon on the patio, as I'd planned. So, I've nestled into my tiny apartment, dug out my Gordon Lightfoot records, and have made some blueberry banana muffins to keep me warm and cozy. Chris is off racing his dirt bike at the dunes in Richmond and I don't envy his current state of muddiness at all.

So, this wind. It did something rather funny earlier...I'm in my kitchen and I hear a smash from outside on the patio...turns out the wind blew over one of 5 clay pots of geraniums I had perched up on a ledge. Completely obliterated the pot and left a muddy pile of wilted geranium shrapnel all over my patio. Now this is quite funny to me (and my mom is really going to appreciate this). And, for the rest of you readers, here's the backstory to all this: See, I hate geraniums. I really think they're quite dumb. They smell funny, they're ugly, they never quite look "right"...well mine don't anyhow... And when Chris and I acquired this apartment a month and a half ago, the landlord left about 20 outdoor plants and 10 indoor plants for us to take care of. Amazing. I love love love tending to them and its my little chance at putting my green thumb to use once in a while. But these dang geraniums just have been a real eye-sore since the get-go. No matter how nice I am, how meticulously I dead-head their little leaves and brown bits off, they just are impossible to keep alive and healthy. So I've had a stand-off, if you will, with these pathetic plants for the last two weeks or so. In other words, I may have been "forgetting" to water them, etc...hoping they'll just take a hint and wilt away already...BUT THEN today when Mother Nature took it upon herself to destroy one of them for me, doing what I've wanted to do for the last 6 weeks, the strangest thing happened: I actually feel sorry for this little plant!!! Its just in such a sorry state of disrepair out there all wet and soggy! Well now what the heck am I going to do?

oh no!!!

Do I find a new clay pot, pack it all back up and hope it'll flower again once or twice before the really yucky Fall weather creeps in? Or just get a garbage bag, thank the Heavens for stepping in, and throw it out once and for all....hmmm.... This predicament will be pondered upon while I single-handedly eat all these muffins that just came out of the oven...

Yum! Thanks to mom & Lynda for our awesome collection of Le Creuset!

So that's my Sunday. Rants about my house plants and baking. And Gordon Lightfoot.

babe.

Thanks for reading!
J xo