I’m singing in the rain… or so they say
No gardening for me today. Mother Nature decided to rain today and I do a lot of things but gardening in the rain is not one of them.
Garden
Gardening (and a stray Pokemon)
This is a pokemon, or rather, it will be. And over time it will evolve as well. Seemed like fun 🙂 Now back to the regular programming.
I plan to attack my ‘garden’ (a tiny, roughly triangular shape of perhaps 2 square meters or so) on Wednesday. I’m tearing everything that’s in it, which was all already there when I moved into this house in February last year, out. So all the purplish flower things that I didn’t know were there but decided to bloom in the spring last year and now; as well as the I-have-no-idea-what-it-is bushy thing in the corner that has no blooms but funny leaves. Oh and not to forget the two or three miniature trees along the wall.
What I’m going to put back in I’m not sure yet but probably some eggplant. And with that I don’t mean that purplish thing you can eat but something else completely. I have no idea what it looks like but according to my mom we Dutchies call it an eggplant (the thing you English-languaged folk call eggplant is what we call ‘aubergine’). She got two seedpods from an aunt of mine so she has no idea what it looks like either.
I’ve had the pod in the house for ages now and it’s gotten quite wrinkly and shrunken so I hope it’s still good to go. Besides this thing I believe I have a packet of pumpkin seeds somewhere so I’m thinking of putting that along the wall when it’s time for seeding pumpkins again (I have no idea when that is, I trust the packet will tell me. Is it obvious how brown my thumbs are?)
I was thinking of putting some regular flowers in as well but haven’t decided yet if I want something that comes back every year or dies after one year so I can have some variation. It’s not as if I’ll see a whole lot of the ‘garden’. Only when I leave home or come back I pass it briefly (it’s at the side of my house). The only bit I have a more continuous view on is the patch of grass in front of my house (about two meters wide and six-and-a-half meters long (across the entire house). I use that to sit on in the summer so it’ll either remain grass or perhaps, if I can get my hands on some cheap tiles, I’ll make a makeshift terrace. Or probably get my dad to do that for me, or rather, with me 🙂
House & Rain
It’s likely that I’ll be moving out next year. At the moment I still live with my parents but would like to move out and be on my own (4 months abroad and taking care of yourself gets addictive :D) and now it seems to be happening.
I registered myself with the Housing Cooperation in my area last year and they have now made me an offer of a nice little house in the next town (about 5 km from where I live now). I have to decide before the 22nd (technically by the weekend as I have to return the acceptance/decline form by the 22nd) and am very tempted to take it.
I tried calling the current occupant to make an appointment to come around and look at the place but her cell number that was in the letter is out of order so I take it she changed it. Tomorrow I’m going by there to see if she’s home and talk to her then.
The weather was not too pleasant today, halfway the afternoon it started to rain, and not just drizzle, no, a rain that was getting close to a pour. I was planning to go down to the soccer field here as it’s been flooded (in winter the soccer field is the skating rink) in preparation for winter and frost and I wanted to take some photographs. Perhaps I’ll get a chance tomorrow if it stays dry. Personally I don’t mind too much being outside in the rain but it’s not very good for the camera.
So, in remembrance of better times, a sunny picture taken early October, which was unusually warm for the Netherlands.
