somewhat normal sunday

A rather normal Sunday today; I still don't feel entirely normal (particularly not with my left ear) but if it weren't for that, it'd have been pretty, well, usual. annathepiper and spazzkat and I walked down to the market, and got a bunch of produce; this week's surprise was fresh edamame, to which I go YAY! and bought a pound. We also stopped by the bakery for bread and picked up a few other things at the same time. Then we got shave ice, which he gave us free because he'd been wondering why we vanished for a month and a half and we told him.

Afterwards, we came home and I wore myself out hacking back ivy and blackberries and other assorted weeds. I didn't get as much done as I think I might normally have in the kind of time I spent at it, but the ivy is off the pear tree, tossed back over the wall again (I find that redirecting it at itself keeps it away longer than just hacking it off), the blackberries are chopped back, and so on. I think I kind of overdid it - I felt rather nauseous later.

There's not much love on the winter veg bed front. Whatever's sprouting in the front row - I forget whether that was carrots or greens - still has some sprouts out, but there's not really any headway with them; there's nothing at all in the second row, and even the snow peas are growing very slowly at best. I got something wrong, clearly, but I don't know what. I probably should reread the relevant parts of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades and hopefully it'll become clear.

Oh, and someone turned summer back on yesterday. It's still on today and might be here much of this week. Surprise!

Current significant annoyances: Left ear hearing/whine, running at 75% of CPU, hacking cough/singing issues, still missing my bike. Even fast healing is too slow.

Today's (Sunday's) miles: 2.4
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1334.2
Miles out of Rivendell: 869.2
Miles out of Lothlórien: 414.2
Miles past Rauros Falls: 5.4
Miles to Isengard: 464.6

(ha HA - saddle seat!)