Dotty Parker

um, vacation?

I've been slacking off here. On the blog, I mean, I've been slacking off. I've been moderately productive in other ways. Garden ways and laundry ways and gathering ways and sorting ways. There's not a lot to show for those ways, though.

There is stuff to show with the gardens. Laundry, however, isn't really a show and tell event. "And here are my socks. These ones are from the Queen of Colonie. I wore these argyle socks together even though they don't match!" Not a lot of sustainable conversation. And really, does anyone want to know the origin of my socks or the kind of laundry detergent I use or if I use fabric softener or why I don't take things out of the dryer when they're still warm so they don't wrinkle?

Frankly, darlings, I don't want to know those things about you.

I went to the used book store looking for some specific books that are meant to be for gifts. I like used books, although the stores make me sneeze. There was an awesome gardening book with this woman in a 1960s era dress potting a lipstick plant or something. It looked swell. And there were some completely awesome planters. Kind of egg shaped and white and plasticky.

Yum.

I don't have a lot of containers. I don't have a lot of places to put containers inside. Keeping them outside in winter isn't the best thing for them. They get angry and crack.

At any rate, I started talking about how I'm slacking off. I want to apologize and promise that I'll get better. Instead, I'll apologize and say that I constantly think of things to write, but don't write those things down and certainly don't write them here.

I will do my best, my dears.

Posted by dotty at June 28, 2004 09:52 PM