Sometimes you burn out, most of us just get older and we start falling down

[sovay]

I have in the last few days acquired some kind of so far non-plague fever-bug which feels like insult to injury, but on the other hand I have also gotten a normal amount of sleep for two consecutive nights for the first time in actual months. I spent the afternoon on the couch with a cat, reading John Van Druten's The Voice of the Turtle (1943), Niven Busch's The Furies (1948), and Melanie Williams' BFI Film Classics: A Taste of Honey (2023), this last a present from my mother who nabbed it in the final days of the Book Depository. The lilac in the back yard was amenable to having a small branch broken and brought indoors where it smells fantastic. The other thing the back yard seems to grow beyond leftover junk is violets. I plan to pick some tomorrow. The twilight at the end of the street is currently doing its smoldering apple-green thing.

Comments

[pameladean]

Oooh, violets and lilac are EXCELLENT things to have in combination! I've just seen the first violet leaves in the past few days, and I am really looking forward to my violets. I hope the freckly ones come back. They are a bit finicky about I'm not sure what.

P.

[gwynnega]

I'm sorry about the fever-bug, but I'm glad you've had good sleep and good reading material.

[sovay]

I'm sorry about the fever-bug, but I'm glad you've had good sleep and good reading material.

Thank you! I couldn't remember the last time I had just lain on a couch and read a small stack of books, interrupted only by the need to refill my hot-water mug or tend to the desires of the cat.

[sovay]

Oooh, violets and lilac are EXCELLENT things to have in combination!

I like them! They are emotionally important at the moment, too.

I've just seen the first violet leaves in the past few days, and I am really looking forward to my violets. I hope the freckly ones come back. They are a bit finicky about I'm not sure what.

Please post pictures if they do! Are they white and purple, or what?

[luzula]

Oh hey, I didn't know that the Book Depository had closed down! Not that I often ordered from it--I usually just go to Abebooks and choose the best-for-me option there. But still, kind of sad.

I'm sorry about your fever-bug; may it soon go away and your sleep stay.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, I am sorry. <3 May you feel better(er) soon!

I'm glad there are some compensations still on offer, though.

[oracne]

I hope you feel better soon.

[choco_frosh]

Yay sleep, at least?
< Careful Hugs >

[pameladean]

"I like them! They are emotionally important at the moment, too." Yes! Get with the program, breed lilacs out of the dead land!

As for the violets, they are white with an abundance of faint flecks of violet. I will attempt to document them should they appear this year.

P.

[asakiyume]

The many shades of green (and pale oranges, reds, pinks, and whites) on the hills along the highway are so beautiful, it's dangerous. I continue to be glad for your lilac--and your violets!

Not so glad for the fever. Give it one star on Amazon and recommend they discontinue manufacture.

[sovay]

Oh hey, I didn't know that the Book Depository had closed down! Not that I often ordered from it--I usually just go to Abebooks and choose the best-for-me option there. But still, kind of sad.

Amazon purchased and pulled the plug on it, which I resent. I had just discovered it within the last few years.

I'm sorry about your fever-bug; may it soon go away and your sleep stay.

Thank you. Sleep is presently elusive, but I'm hoping.

[sovay]

I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you!

[sovay]

I'm glad there are some compensations still on offer, though.

Thank you. They are real and it is important to remember it.

*hugs*

[sovay]

Yay sleep, at least?

Last night, not so much, but . . .

*hugs*

[sovay]

The many shades of green (and pale oranges, reds, pinks, and whites) on the hills along the highway are so beautiful, it's dangerous. I continue to be glad for your lilac--and your violets!

Thank you! They have been a delightful surprise, especially considering the state of the rest of the yard.

Not so glad for the fever. Give it one star on Amazon and recommend they discontinue manufacture.

Contained bobcat.

[choco_frosh]

Oh dear.

[asakiyume]

hahahahaha, exactly

[lokifan]

Ah, violets and lilacs <3 My parents' garden has a bunch of flowers in different shades of purple and it DELIGHTS me.

[sovay]

My parents' garden has a bunch of flowers in different shades of purple and it DELIGHTS me.

Nice!