2001
| June 18, 2000 Smell the flowers! Take the time! Ha! I see that my lilies (Easter leftovers) have bloomed - all of them - all at once. They've been in the flower boxes and flower pots for a long time. About 5 years. Because I was always going to move closer to work. Every year I save the bulbs. And get nothing. This year - they are out in full flower. About a dozen of them I have no idea what I did but I love it! The Amaryllis have also bloomed - multiple stems, big blooms. Also for the first time in ages. Christmas leftovers. Every year I plant the bulbs. I, after living in this dumpy house for five years, decided to plant things in the front yard. At long last. Because it is obvious that I cannot move to Mountain View (Silicon Valley), unless I decide to sell the house in San Diego as well as this one. That would cost me a LOT of money (Uncle Sam being greedy) and it would complicate things. My younger son, soon to be nineteen, is moving to San Diego and will live in my house - along with roommates. We think he will have roommates. With what I've spent on the Jettison project I could have paid off the mortgage on that house! And lived in it on weekends! So, I am resigned. I stay in Fremont with the commute from hell. Which means, that having reached that momentous decision, I planted flowers. And squash. And tomatoes. And corn. And onions. And gladiolas. And petunias. And peppers. And lilies (Calla and Day). All of a sudden, my dumpy house looks a whole lot better. I have green tomatoes on the vine. And baby summer squash on the bush. And gladiolas are bursting into bloom. And the lilies. And I am about to put seeds into peat pots and try for beans and pumpkins and spaghetti squash. And a few sunflowers. I get to view this magnificence crammed into a tiny front yard as I pull away from the curb in the morning on my way to the freeway and the hellish commute down 880 to 237 - rated by the state to be the worst commute in California. Eventually they may fix this. For now, I hold onto the view of flowers as I sit in fumes. |
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