Summer Vibes
Getting ready to leave my garden for an entire month is daunting. September, too - one of the busier months especially for the veggie garden and processing and preserving food. I am a bit paralyzed by the to-do list and simultaneously letting things go for now - I plan on doing a lot of catch up this autumn once I return from my stay at Sissinghurst Castle Garden as a guest gardener. The busy season has swallowed us and I feel a little disconnected, a feeling I hope is temporary. Plus, earlier this month, Blogger took down my website by mistake. It was something to do with malware, something a bot or AI probably determined. It was in error, of course, and Blogger made it right within a day or so. I'm grateful for that but let me tell you, I felt powerless and at the mercy of some AI nonsense. There's nothing I could have done to prevent it either. Oy. With all of these ingredients it's no wonder I've felt a little disconnected. The best remedy for that is to lay into ...