{bits & pieces} with garden progress
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
We have now reached peak “I’ll just leave this here while I go deal with those other things” time at the Manse; my yard looks like Ma and Pa Kettle* had a spree with all the plastic.
I have carefully edited the plastic buckets and other truly objectionable detritus in the pictures, but things still look pretty unkempt.
Yesterday it was time to remove the plastic sheeting from my DIY greenhouse — you can see how I made it here on IG, and here.
It was hot in there, the plants needed to be planted, and in the back of my mind I am itching to get that bed back to plant my potatoes in!
If I were a gardening guru I’d be able to take pictures in which you could figure out what the heck is going on.
As it is, I think I need a horde of interns to help me make things barely presentable. If you want to come over and help, you are welcome! Actually, just send your teenagers.
So right now the greenhouse is storage in the garden.
Soon I think I will put the shelves behind the compost bins and try to clean the heck up.
Garlic doing fine; beans struggling in the background there but really, it’s just now June and I have to remind myself not to be impatient!
Here is the herb garden with the many plants that still need to find a spot.
*Are you familiar with these characters? I haven’t seen the movie but the book The Egg and I is quite funny (as are all Betty MacDonald books) if a little disappointing in the denouement — a light summer read if you are looking for one!
On to our links!
Do you want a short and sweet explanation of the concept of Natural Law — for yourself or your high school student? The ever-lucid J. Budziszewski has this handy page for you.
“What is necessary is to rectify names.” An essay on using the right words for things.
I always love thinking about Dickens and his world view. Doing Justice to Good and Evil: Barnaby Rudge
If you didn’t listen to Amy Fahey on children’s literature, make time to do so this week! Not only does she helpfully guide today’s parents on the matter of books, she makes the important argument for simply being in nature.
Along the lines that she (and we here at LMLD, particularly in the Library Project) suggests: Turkish Garbage Collectors Open Library Full of Discarded Books. Be like Turkish garbage collectors!
Tonight my husband will be speaking tonight at St. Francis of Assisi School in Litchfield, NH — if you are in the vicinity, come here him on the subject of Why the Catholic Revival will begin in New England. This talk is a continuation of the series sponsored by the Center for the Renewal of Christian Culture. You can find the talks archived on that site.
James Matthew Wilson always has insightful things to say about culture, poetry, beauty, and education. Here is a talk of his on those subjects.
IVF is wrong, very wrong. We must be honest about this, no matter what the consequences, and they are very grave. In My dad was a sperm donor. My lack of identity reflects his, by Elizabeth Howard speaks honestly about what it has meant to her to be conceived this way. I would even take objection to the term “donor” which attempts to paste a positive connotation over a vile — and monetarily compensated, not donated — act.
Amadeus is a favorite movie around here; Alex Ross sets the record straight, or at least brings out some ambiguities of the legends surrounding Mozart and Salieri.
From the archives:
We almost just don’t have a pattern for how summers should be when we are not part of the frantic popular culture than just can’t imagine life without every moment scheduled and filtered through a screen. Here is my post on the subject.
We have lots of wedding planning ideas — search the blog — but here’s a classic post about being unstressed.
Do you have the growing sense that the family Rosary is something you want to do, but you just don’t know how to go about it? Here’s a post on how to start — and there’s a chapter about it in The Little Oratory as well.
Today is the feast of Justin Martyr. It is worth it this month to take a glance at the calendar — lots of feasts coming up! I believe that if we live this time between the Ascension and Pentecost with a fervent love for the Holy Spirit, and take care to keep the Pentecost time with a closeness to the liturgy, we will call down a lot of grace; surely we need this now more than ever!
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