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To what I’ve been up

June 9, 2007 by Alison Hodgson 1 Comment

This is the new bed I added this season to try and take advantage of one of the spots in our yard that gets the most sun. This is what it looked like a couple of weeks ago.

This is what it looks like now. In the background you might be able to see a tee pee I constructed out of tree limbs. I did it last year too and grew green beans up it for a little fort for Beanie. I assembled this and carefully strung the twine all around it. It was a hot day and it took a little time but when I was finished I was happy it was done. I went off to do something else and came back to find that Eden had cut almost every one. I can’t remember her indignant rationale. Last week we planted the bean seeds and they are starting to pop up which is very exciting. The twine still needs to be restrung.

Nice shoulder. The little bed in the middle has broccoli, a few strawberries and cucumbers.

This is all flowers: cosmos, cleome and that straggling thing I can’t remember what it is. There are three other sections. One is tomatoes and basil, another is a zucchini bordered by small Lavender plants and the third is just flowers, some we are trying to grow from seed. I really gave Eden a lose hand there and so far nothing is coming up. I might need to go behind and help a little gardener out.

Filed Under: Eden, extreme gardening

June 7, 2007 by Alison Hodgson 1 Comment


For those of you with Macs who, inspired by my photography, were thinking about ditching your other cameras and relying on Photobooth alone, I can’t say I endorse that move. See: photo above.

Today we officially opened the pool. To make it fun I tied streamers from the ladder to a post in the fence about ten feet away. They hung across the shallow end, a seeming gateway to the pool. Not having a giant pair of scissors about the place, I grabbed my hedge trimmers and all the kids held on, eager to cut the streamers and open the 2007 Swim Season. It was very funny and the kids were ecstatic.

The thing is, the sun was shining so I couldn’t see Jack and I’m not just talking about the dog. I got everything framed up, but forgot to get the mouse positioned on the camera icon. By the time I got it there and clicked, the kids had cut the streamers.

It’s not a big deal. I mean this is still a nice picture if you don’t mind it being a little blurry, taken too late and with my hat and arm in the corner. I’m just saying if you own other cameras, you might want to hold on to them.

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Filed Under: laughter, photobooth, summer, the pool

Drug of Choice

June 5, 2007 by Alison Hodgson 3 Comments

I just completed a weeklong fast from reading. It wasn’t for spiritual reasons – directly – or I’d be keeping in on the D.L. I did it as an exercise for a class I am taking.

I never got the shakes, but I felt a definite pang at bedtime and the morning…and the minute the kids were in bed…and while I was waiting for anyone to do anything. The first seriously dark moment was several days in when I woke at two in the morning and realized I had insomnia and couldn’t read my way out of it.

I prayed.

Another difficult passage was when I took the kids to the library. Walking through the doors I wondered what I could possibly do while they were about their business.

I read to and talked with Eden.

And then there was that moment where I was feeling all, “This isn’t so bad…I’m keeping busy…it ain’t nuthin but a thing…” or something equally cocky and unintelligible…and then I remembered that I had two more days to go and swooned.

Several years ago I realized that I was addicted to reading. A small bell started ringing as I noticed my pattern, when Paul was on business trips, of going to the librairy, stocking up on books and devouring them within a few days. There were a couple of things going on there: I was combatting loneliness and fear. If I was reading I didn’t have to turn out the light. I knew there was something in my noticing but I really didn’t like to think about what I ought to do with it. Around that time I was talking to an acquaintance from church about something and she mentioned a weekly meeting she attended. I asked her what it was.

“Over Readers Anonymous,” she said.

I froze. Denial was over. I had no idea they had a 12 step, but if anyone was an Over Reader I knew I was.

And then I realized she had said, “Overeaters” and slowly began to breathe again.

That was a different story all together.

Filed Under: reading

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