BUT…THEY’RE SO PRETTY!
I. Can’t. Stop. Looking. At My Dahlias. Look! They’re over there, too! >>> Pretty, pretty, pretty!
18
May
2005
Author: lizardek
17
May
2005
WHEN EVERY LUSTY HEART BEGINNETH TO BLOSSOM
This actually happened a couple of weeks ago, but I keep forgetting to write about it. One weeknight at dinner, after work/school/daycare, when Anders and Martin and I were a bit flat from a busy day, Karin was completely full of beans. The jumping kind. She bounced around in her chair, interrupted repeatedly, broke into song, made wild grimaces and generally behaved as if she had ants in her pants. I kept threatening to throw her outside to burn off some energy. Finally, after a particularly prolonged oingy-boingy-fit, I pointed at the door and said in no uncertain terms, “OUT!...
16
May
2005
OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD
Rapeseed sounds so wrong. Which is probably why, in America, the product it provides us with is most often referred to as Canola. Canola is only one kind of rapeseed, however, and the name is made up. Canola was developed in Canada and its name is a contraction of “Canadian oil, low acid.” Rapeseed is the third most important source of vegetable oil in the world, after soybean and palm oil. During the past twenty years, it has passed peanut, cottonseed, and most recently, sunflower, in worldwide production. But it’s used in lots of other products, many of them non-food-based....
15
May
2005
SENSATIONAL SUNDAY
Something sunny, something blue, something happy, something new! What a lovely day! Warm enough to wear a tshirt, chill enough to be comfortable. I was out gardening this afternoon, removing the weeds and grasses that have snuck over the borders to the figure-8 garden, and filling 2 raised beds at the front of playhouse, and planting a Japanese dwarf cypress in the front corner, lining its little circle with round eggy rocks from Gotland. I am NOT a gardener. I dislike greatly having dirt under my fingernails. I can’t sit on my knees very long and it’s way too much...
14
May
2005
WHAT I DID IS WHAT I DID
We took the kids to see Robots tonight, in Swedish. It was good. I bet it would have been better in English, though, if only because, despite the fact that Robert Gustafsson did the voice of one of the major characters and did an excellent job, ROBIN WILLIAMS did the original. I’m halfway through Christopher Moore’s Lamb. It is not good. In fact, I’m having a rather hard time not putting it down and into the pile of books that not only won’t be re-read but won’t be kept. Bleah. I’ll give it a couple more chapters before I give...
13
May
2005
BOW WOW!
Two of the most nerve-wracking things in the world are finding a new dentist and trying a new hairdresser. When I find one I like, whether for the top of my head or the inside of it, I tend to stick with them through hell and high water. In Chicago, when I lived 1 block from the lake and had essentially given my car away to a friend because I never drove it, and it was too much bother in the city, I had to borrow it back from her at regular intervals to go to my dentist (1 hour...
12
May
2005
PERSEPHONE RETURNS
do do do be do. La la la tra la! You should see the sky outside right now. It’s 9:30 p.m. and the sky is EXACTLY the same color as a robin’s egg. You can see some here at one of my favorite websites if you are not sure EXACTLY what color I mean. The cool thing about evening skies is how they shade down from cobalt to BLUE BLUE BLUE…this deep, rich blue that you could suck on like a popsicle to a rosy-golden-fireorange glow along the black demarcation of the horizon. Sort of like a darker, more glorious,...
11
May
2005
HOLY MOLY POLL-Y!
Hey! Hey, you! Got a minute?
10
May
2005
GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT…AND WAIT…AND WAIT
Yes, it’s true, the trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. The long-awaited (by some) update of the Ek Family Homepage is FINALLY here. *victory dance*
10
May
2005
OUT OF THE CLOSET
Holy untame lions, Aslan. I just watched the trailer for the upcoming The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. *chills* It looks, as with a very few books-to-film, that they might have gotten it right. There aren’t very many films of books that really get it right, although it does seem like filmmakers are getting better at it. Anne of Green Gables was one. Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter were both the work of genius in bringing books to life, although I actually felt that the first Harry Potter film did almost TOO good a job. It was...