Farm Journal - 2025

[lighter]

Oh, I blabber on about mental health and suggestions.....
every single time, karma rises to remind me....I should focus on telling my own self😉

Lordy, what a weekend.....and the heat pressurized everything and made me pink.

Lighter

[sKePTiKal]

The heat is positively brutal! I'm hiding from it until it breaks, later in the week. Yes, it takes a toll on people as they struggle to do what needs to be done, in it. Tempers get volcanic and everything seems harder.

S'ok Hops. It's an easy misunderstanding and I don't disagree with what you said - I know that kind of resistance, first hand. I didn't ever force anything like that on Hol; always let her choose what her interest was. I do congratulate her on good jobs and what is clearly talent, in various directions. It was really, really helpful for her to see her oldest sister I think. (J's mom is a psychologist and J is well-versed in dealing with inner demons.)  Amy isn't any more sober; but at least she's less belligerant and hostile. There were no deep, heavy meaningful conversations... and that's OK. She's talking.

I'm just staying hunkered down till the heat breaks back into the 80's again.

[lighter]

At 2:30pm I was standing in full sun, yesterday, watering clover seedlings ...some wilting and yellow.
::playing Ide to Tuna in my head::.
"You shall not die!!"

Not in my watch.  Of course, I now depend on contractor, at lake, to turn on sprinkler, I set up, after watering everything with a hose for an hour.

Those darling clovers are doing well, under shady weeds.  The ones on bare clay, not so much. 

Lighter

[sKePTiKal]

You water in full sun? Doesn't that burn the plants? I've always heard water early morning or at dusk. In heat waves, especially - because then the water doesn't immediately evaporate. I'll water when the shade gets around to places, unless it's horrendous like it's been.

Today is our first chance of thunderstorms. So I'll have to spend days weeding & trimming.