I had to buy seeds for a photoshoot for Noemi, so I bought things I would like to eat, and figured seeds aren't that much money, and they're on sale right now, so I might as well start preparing for this summer's potential garden. this morning with sunday morning on I started three kinds of tomatoes (regular big boy, and two kinds of cherries--one is bright yellow and one is teeny tiny), some cutting flowers, lemon cucumbers (they're round and yellow on the outside, and looked cool, I think they taste regular) and watermelons. i can't resist--the house is nice and warm with lots of windows for the seedlings, and a big sunny yard for the garden plot. the leeks i planted in the little peat pots last week are sprouting, but unfortunately are going to have to be thinned out.
the jewelry order for milwaukee is almost done, even with most of the day spent sputtering around. i wasn't sure exactly what i had done, but then i remembered that i was doing internet research on turning your dslr into a pinhole camera. and cleaning a little, and planting seeds. it was in the mid-high 50s today, and sunny, and most of our snow is gone. just the last few huge drifts are hanging in. i either have allergies or a little cold, as my nose is running backwards making my throat hurt. i have been hydrating and taking vitamin c and zycam.
this afternoon we went to wegman's to pick up pizza supplies, and the last thing i was doing was standing in the magazine section flipping through w magazine because i let my subscription run out. guess who's in it? a kid named chris rucker, who was a sculpture undergrad at uconn the same time we were (he was a couple years ahead of us). he makes furniture, and since he's friends with paul b and paul b works for the fashion photographer steven klein, chris made some furniture for him, and i'm sure that's how w magazine noticed him. it is very surreal to see someone like that in a big fashion magazine, especially since i'm the one who as aspirations of that.
one step at a time, i suppose. my work is now online at http://www.shoporangebutton.com.
love
ruth
2 comments:
Dear Ruth.
I immediately checked out orange button, clicked on all of yours, and love everything about them... the commentary, the photos, all of it. I like how you are close to the front of the list, too. And when one gets to yours, THEY STAND OUT. Excellent... you should do very well. And end up on the cover of W, too. I have no doublts about that.
Happy to read about your planting enthusiasms, as I think gardening feeds all the senses. Such a feeling of accomplishment when those little sprouts turn into something big and juicy and edible. I think anyone who loved worms at 2 is hard-wired to be a gardener....already you have nice leeks.
I'm sorry about your sore drippy throat. Hope it will quit it. Not fair to have the snow gone and feel too punk to do much in the warmer air.
I watched a little of Hillary Clinton do the town meeting in Iowa this morning. I'd like to see her as president, if for no other reason than to get universal health care pushed through, since no one gave her a chance last time around... I feel that would be a nice vindication, all things considered. There are some good democratic candidates out there.. I haven't really made up my mind yet on who I'd pick. Actually, almost anyone off the streets would be better than Bush. We have sunk to the lowest low I have ever known our country to be in. Even lower than with Nixon. We are now well below the surface of earth and are heading straight for magma.
Company coming today, so I guess I'd better get started on the day.
Love, mom
Dear Ruth,
Doublts? Gosh, it sort of does something to the veracity of a sentence to goof up on spelling, doesn't it?
No doublt about it!
Love,
mom
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