We don't have 'television' so we don't have opportunity to watch the news every day and this is intentional. This is not because of an ostrich approach, with our heads in the sand, but so that our time will be spent on real news and so that we can get the news without the banter of talking heads. We still very much follow the news, even when we wish we didn't. The news from the nation is telling OF the nation, and the non-news is just as telling. And when crime is ignored and non-crimes are punished severely one must wonder what is wrong with people? But I know what is wrong. Despair is what fills my skin these days.
I planted two raspberry bushes, two blueberry bushes and a thornless blackberry bush under the looming gray sky yesterday. My in-laws said I could dig up some baby huckleberry starts from their property to start our own patch here at Hopestead too so that will be next.
The perennials need attention, the flower circle a good mulching.
Schoolwork still needs to be done and Haydn listened to and a certain little boy still needs to be reminded to go potty before it is too late.
We have had company on Monday night for dinner, a family over on Tuesday for lunch and will have most of my side of the family over on Sunday for a belated Easter gathering...
and for these little distractions, I am very thankful.
