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Apr. 21st, 2008 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sexy_romulanI pine for flowering shrubs, namely:
* lilac (of course)
* roses (prairie joy and morden fireglow - beautiful, old-fashioned-looking, but hardy and disease-resistant as nails)
* flowering almond (the superintendent has one in her yard, and it is STUNNING in the spring - looks just like the picture. Apparently mom used to have one in Calgary too, but oddly I don't remember it.)
* mockorange (these are supposed to smell heavenly, in addition to being gorgeous)
Naturally these are all sun-lovers. I will be studying the new yard carefully for potential spots!
I am also gravely tempted by all kinds of fabulous used furniture on craigslist. I would like to snap up a living room set on the cheap - something like this...man, I would so investigate this listing futher, except I have nowhere to put two couches for the next 3 months - and keep our current couches in front of the TV in the basement. I'd also pick up an antique or otherwise cool sideboard, a coffee table, and possibly an area rug (although any rug we were to acquire would immediately and irrevocably be covered in cat hair, so that might not be worth it). Although...hmmm...that would leave the living room totally without any colour. I dunno, though, a room full of cream fabric and wood might be really nice, especially if I could actually sustain a few houseplants on the windowsill. And I'm not too worried about care of light fabric - I'd just scotchgard the hell out of it. If my sister-in-law can manage to combine white couches with a small child, someday, so can I.
Mostly up till this point I haven't been thinking about it, but as soon as I start daydreaming, it becomes clear that waiting three months to move is going to kill meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I should distract myself with Art in the Park, but I am not that smart or that productive. Instead I ate dinner on the patio, disinfected my garden shears, pruned my rose (which is budding most encouragingly!), and went for my daily constitutional bike ride. This last, btw, I totally kicked the ass of. Not only did I make it to the Island Park bridge, I went a little bit past it, finally stopping and turning around in a park just past the sign that says "parliament hill 5 KM". Since parliament hill is about 11 km from Britannia park, that means I biked about 12km this evening (6 there and back). w00t! Ph34r me, parliament buildings! I will be seeing you soooooooooooon!
Now, of course, I am falling asleep, or I would curl up with foiling and BSG. Plus I am enjoying the smell of the spring air coming in the open window and the delicious smell of the cut flowers mom brought me for my birthday way too much to move. Tomorrow evening, I suppose. RAHHhhhrrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
* lilac (of course)
* roses (prairie joy and morden fireglow - beautiful, old-fashioned-looking, but hardy and disease-resistant as nails)
* flowering almond (the superintendent has one in her yard, and it is STUNNING in the spring - looks just like the picture. Apparently mom used to have one in Calgary too, but oddly I don't remember it.)
* mockorange (these are supposed to smell heavenly, in addition to being gorgeous)
Naturally these are all sun-lovers. I will be studying the new yard carefully for potential spots!
I am also gravely tempted by all kinds of fabulous used furniture on craigslist. I would like to snap up a living room set on the cheap - something like this...man, I would so investigate this listing futher, except I have nowhere to put two couches for the next 3 months - and keep our current couches in front of the TV in the basement. I'd also pick up an antique or otherwise cool sideboard, a coffee table, and possibly an area rug (although any rug we were to acquire would immediately and irrevocably be covered in cat hair, so that might not be worth it). Although...hmmm...that would leave the living room totally without any colour. I dunno, though, a room full of cream fabric and wood might be really nice, especially if I could actually sustain a few houseplants on the windowsill. And I'm not too worried about care of light fabric - I'd just scotchgard the hell out of it. If my sister-in-law can manage to combine white couches with a small child, someday, so can I.
Mostly up till this point I haven't been thinking about it, but as soon as I start daydreaming, it becomes clear that waiting three months to move is going to kill meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I should distract myself with Art in the Park, but I am not that smart or that productive. Instead I ate dinner on the patio, disinfected my garden shears, pruned my rose (which is budding most encouragingly!), and went for my daily constitutional bike ride. This last, btw, I totally kicked the ass of. Not only did I make it to the Island Park bridge, I went a little bit past it, finally stopping and turning around in a park just past the sign that says "parliament hill 5 KM". Since parliament hill is about 11 km from Britannia park, that means I biked about 12km this evening (6 there and back). w00t! Ph34r me, parliament buildings! I will be seeing you soooooooooooon!
Now, of course, I am falling asleep, or I would curl up with foiling and BSG. Plus I am enjoying the smell of the spring air coming in the open window and the delicious smell of the cut flowers mom brought me for my birthday way too much to move. Tomorrow evening, I suppose. RAHHhhhrrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
