gift cards and seed catalogs

~ last night i started getting itchy-eye and rubbed it until it got all sorts of worse: red, swollen, squinty. today it's quite a bit better, but i can still tell it wants to get up to its nonsense again. mister gave me an allergy pill and i took it, rubbed some coconut oil on the eyelid and below my eye and am hoping that takes care of everything. how can just ONE eye be a stinker? (stink eye! ha!)

~FIL came by today to discuss the best ways to wire in the new-to-us kiln and while he was here i talked to him about planting. he said that he usually puts stuff in the ground around june 1st and i was thinking "OMG THAT IS LATE" — but actually, it's not too much later than what i'd do in the mountains. there, the rule of thumb was right around mother's day, so there you go. 

i'm SUPER excited about the garden this year and have a catalog from both burpee and rare seeds; both have been read front to back and have been marked up with what i want. there's also a chance that a local dude who has a greenhouse will let me use his facility to get some seed started AND can impart knowledge about when to start what. 

in california? you just stick everything in the ground and it grows. california is magic and i miss it, but here is good in a different way. like....horse, chicken, goat, garden good sort of way. and soft skies. and cheese. and big water close by good. 

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