I’ve been busy lately, busier than usual, with work and also with training with DH’s mother for a mini-triathlon. Work takes most daylight hours, and then the training often took the rest. Now that Daylight Savings Time has come (or gone, as it were) the evening hours stay lit until nearly 8pm. Who else has been busy? The plants! Look how they’ve grown!

I’ve had a lot of catching up to do, can you tell?

This is my overgrown backyard garden, surrounded by an overgrown lawn full of overgrown weeds, two weekends ago. Last weekend, the lawn got a buzz cut, the weeds did, too, and everything got cleaned up with the edger/weed-whacker.

More to come!

I add a point of inquisition (a fun way to say ” question mark”) because my previous experience of the last eight years here has no history of spring rains. DH claims they were here when he was a child. That the rainy season has similar raining habits, but shifts its timing during the calendar year.

This weekend held hopes of finishing the weeding and turning of the Right Bed in the community gardens, so my tomatoes could escape their Sonic cups on time.

I’m not certain this soggy soil will allow my dreams to come true this time.

Never fear! Chill hours are good for the plum tree, the water may give us sweeter mulberries, and a restless evening brings…bad decisions.

After melting, adding eggs, sugar, cocoa, and vanilla it was ready for the oven.

A quick run to the store later, and the doubly bad decision is just about ready.

If you can believe it, this chocolaty indulgence of epic proportions wasn’t even my idea! As DH said, ” You’re welcome, and I’m sorry.”

Stomach ache, here I come!