Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Autumn

Although it is not officially autumn, the season changes for me as soon as the Girl goes back to school. It's been raining for two days and I am absolutely not inspired to do any sort of garden work at all, although I have all sorts of plans:

a) pick the last tomatoes
b) transplant (ugly) hostas from the sunny front of the house to the shady back garden.
c) transplant lilies from the shade to the sun
d) pick the two ripe blackberries
e) start a cherry tree in a pot. This is my daughter's idea. She thinks we will actually get cherries some day. Oh, the optimism--it's not catchy just yet.
f) get a full time job so that I can hire someone else to take care of my yard. I like mowing, really, I do. Sort of. When the weather is just right and the grass is dry and I have no other plans.

These are not necessarily going to get done. If it rains for two days on ripe tomatoes, will they rot? I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure they won't get any riper.