Up Up and Away

I am off on my holidays for two weeks. Nothing too thrilling just some time by the water and no sights or sounds but natural ones God willing. The organizing of this project is formidable but my better half takes care of all the finer points. I have a tendency to throw everything I can think of AT THAT MOMENT into a case and off we go. Problems arise when the moments following that moment surface and I begin to see that some long range planning might have come in handy. I just want to GO! Now that I am fast approaching my dotage I have seen the beauty of lists. Just sit quietly with a cup of tea and write down what you want to accomplish in the day. Keep the list handy and cross things off as they are done. Works for me in spite of the mocking voices in the background. I managed to get through the Mercury rerograde unharmed and I am sure my list making had something to do with it. Speaking of retrogrades we are headed for a Venus one July 27 so there goes the love life. "What love life" I hear faintly in the distance. Well we all have something or someone or many somethings or someones that we love and they will come up for overhaul then. You have been warned. Back in two weeks.

The Rain it Raineth Not

We are suffering here in Aurora-where everything is blessed- from a drought. There is a total water ban and the gardens look pitiful. I have to water the vegetable patch with a watering can and it takes forever, also one arm looks rather longer than the other. There is rain due this week but I have my doubts that it will be enough. I pulled a poor little dahlia that I had got for Mother's Day out of the dust. I stuck its little tubers overnight in a pail of water and repotted it in among the vegetables where it will be watered for sure. There doesn't seem to be anything more I can do for the poor things but carry around watering cans and wait for the heavens to open. We have had dry spells before but never a total watering ban like this. I'm hearing strange things about the weather in B.C. When I was there last year the small fish that the seals and sea birds feed on had not arrived so they where all starving. It was early spring so they would have had offspring to feed. It seems that climate change is here with a vengence and whether or not it is a cycle that the Earth goes through if we were here or not, it seems good Karma to be as kind to all living things as possible. With that in mind I will continue my rounds with the watering can and if my arms are a little longer at the end of it all, it is in a good cause.