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i love alice hoffman's books....
and i really enjoyed this one.
i can't say that i loved it...
i'm not sure why.
i feel like i didn't really like the main character
and that is always an issue for me
when it comes to whether or not
i really sink into a book.
but i do love her writing style
so that's always enough to carry me through.
:)
3 ♥♥♥ out of 5
NEXT UP: ANNE OF AVONLEA AND WILDFLOWER (DREW BARRYMORE)
i have been bugging my husband for months now about the garden...
and all the things that i want to do...
and today he surprised me by coming home before me
and quickly putting together the boxes i wanted for the raised garden...
i can't wait to fill these up! :) :) :)
if you know me at all by now
you have probably figured out
that i tend to replace one obsession
with another...
yes, the weddings are done
and i have SO much free time!
which means i have to FILL it
with something else...
the play is also all done (& it was so much fun!)
so now i have moved onto gardening...
which is something i have always WANTED to do
but never seemed to have the TIME for...
and look what i have lots of now?
time.
:)
now i just need the knowledge...and the money.
heeheehee
i have been driving my husband crazy
talking about the garden
and the plans i have and could we do this?
and what if we did that?
and i agonized for days over where to plant
the lilac tree
and then the night right AFTER i planted it,
they called for frost.
i think it was ok though...so far, so good.
i have killed off/ruined a bunch of sunflowers
by starting them too early in the house
and they got all leggy and spindly and weak...
but the string bean plants i started look a little healthier.
i thought i killed off the poor baby rhubarb plant
because when i took it out of the pot to plant it
i was like...wow....there's not much for roots in here...
until i emptied the soil out
and saw that's where all the roots were!
but it seem to be making a brave attempt at a comeback
so we'll see.
and i finally finished what i have been referring to
as the "purple purge".
this was pure hell.
i was regretting that i started it about 1/4 of the way in
but it's all out now!
we used to get some pretty purple flowers in the side flower bed
but then this purple plant TOOK OVER the whole bed.
i thought, oh, i'll just dig it up and replant to make it "cut flower bed".
the purple plant did not want to be dug up.
but roughly 49 hours later of digging, tearing, cursing, crying,
stomping, shoveling, raking, complaining and questioning
why i ever thought this was a good idea
and it was done!
i wish i had taken a photo of it before...but...i didn't.
the gnomes are back and i bought a bird feeded
which the birds have not noticed yet
and it's driving me crazy.
just come eat the damn bird seed
and entertain me with your cuteness already!
well....this is it.
opening night tonight...
{shameless plug but there's still time to get tickets!}
if i said i wasn't nervous,
i'd be completely and totally
lying through my teeth.
i feel sick and excited all at once.
it's a strange feeling...
i can't wait for it to start
and i can't wait for it to be over
all at the exact same time.
the back and forth emotions of
being so scared i'm going to screw up my lines
or accidentally whisper bad words under my breath into the microphone
when i forget to pick up a prop...
to remembering the excitement of last year
and how amazing it was when you were backstage
and you heard that first roar of laughter...
and all the laughter that came after...in all of the right places...
so.
here goes nothing....
(and everything...all at once).
here's to many broken legs...
(I'm not sure if that is how one
wishes good luck to all of her cast-mates...
but...you get my drift, right?)
i have not been here
in a long, long time.
it's not that i haven't thought
about coming here...
i just got carried away
with spring
and tiny sprouting sunflower seeds
and planting string bean seeds
and daydreaming about
what to plant where
and how much
and should i build a fort
in the backyard
and camouflage it with string bean plants.
i feel a little obsessed.
but in a good way.
:)
my back is aching and my
tennis elbow does not like raking...
my neck is stiff and face is
slightly windburnt...
my polka dot rubber boots
have stepped in sheep manure...
most of the time, i have no idea
what i'm doing
but
that's kind of half the fun.
oh...and when i am not out tearing
the yard apart
i'm in the house rehearsing my lines
for the next play...
i know...i know...
i might have said i would never do it again,
ok...i might have swore that i would never do it
again but you know me...
i secretly like to be shoved out of my comfort zone.
and it really was a lot of fun last time...
and even better this time now that i have a little
better idea of what to expect.
and again...if you see me muttering and gesturing
to myself as i walk home from work,
it's ok! i'm just repeating my lines..over...and over...and OVER...
i'll understand if you don't make eye contact...
i would probably do the same.
:)
this is obviously not the
first time
that i have read
anne of green gables.
it's probably not even the 20th or the 40th
or the 80th time....
i used to read it over and over
as a kid...
out loud...in different voices...
to the kids...
by myself...
it was one of my most favorite books.
and every time i read it,
i enjoy it just as much.
it's like coming home.
it reminds me of laying upside down
on the arm chair in our living room
reading and eating apples
on lazy hot summer days...
or on the roof, hiding from my brothers,
hot sun, sticky black shingles...
moving careful so you don't burn
your bare feet,
radio playing out the bedroom window.
i am planning to read everything by lm montgomery eventually
as part of my 50 before fifty list...
i probably won't write a lot about them here...
ps...i'm watching the new series too...
i'm a little torn on that one.
megan follows will always be anne
but this little girl definitely plays her fantastically...
it's the changes in the story i'm struggling with.
i'm not so good with change...i can admit it.
:)