{"id":1399,"date":"2007-06-13T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/13\/in-summer-the-song-sings-itself\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:46:42","slug":"in-summer-the-song-sings-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/13\/in-summer-the-song-sings-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"IN SUMMER, THE SONG SINGS ITSELF*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where IS everybody?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re certainly not commenting much. Are you reading? Are you already on vacation? Have you been hit by the summertime sluggishness? or the Junebugaloo?<\/p>\n<p>I make some minor noise about lofty reasons for writing in this journal, but really? It&#8217;s all about the comments. It&#8217;s all about the love, people, and I&#8217;m NOT FEELING THE LOVE!<\/p>\n<p>hahahahaha!!!<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, I am right there, up the same, still, weed-choked creek with you. Motivation is nowhere to be seen, perhaps it&#8217;s under a lilypad or over in the meadow, in the sand, in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>It cooled down drastically today, a welcome relief from the high temps we were bearing up under. The house, however, seems not to have gotten the message yet. I bought 2 bags worth of flowers at the nursery on the way home, to replace the blown-out, flattened pansies in the front pots. I bought flowers that have lovely names in Swedish: <i>eldkrona<\/i> which means &#8220;fire crown&#8221; (Lantana) in 2 different colors, and <i>stj\u00e4rn\u00f6ga<\/i> which means &#8220;stareye&#8221; (Cape Daisys) and <i>Lyckliga Lotta<\/i> which means &#8220;Happy Lotta&#8221; (New Guinea Impatiens) and, along with a few others, pretty pretty pink dahlias!<\/p>\n<p>I made Martin come help me unpot the pansies and we stood out in the front yard and heckled each other and laughed. I used a trowel to pry up the pansy clumps only to discover a colony of greeny-yellow snails gone to ground beneath them. <a href=\"http:\/\/bezigebij.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">bezigebij<\/a>, you would have had a field day! Then we potted all the new stuff, and spent a silly hour finishing up the weeding in the half of the garden bed I never seem to have gotten around to. Or rather, I weeded, and Martin halfheartedly attempted to pull up some clumps, and de-seeded several feathery grass heads until I gave him what for and then he laid around on the lawn and watched me work, kibitzing the entire time. I got him back for it later by chasing him around the yard with the hose on full blast.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">*William Carlos Williams<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where IS everybody? You&#8217;re certainly not commenting much. Are you reading? Are you already on vacation? Have you been hit by the summertime sluggishness? or the Junebugaloo? I make some minor noise about lofty reasons for writing in this journal, but really? It&#8217;s all about the comments. It&#8217;s all about the love, people, and I&#8217;m NOT FEELING THE LOVE! hahahahaha!!! Believe me, I am right there, up the same, still, weed-choked creek with you. Motivation is nowhere to be seen, perhaps it&#8217;s under a lilypad or over in the meadow, in the sand, in the sun. It cooled down drastically&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-thisisjusttosay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}