Life in Aylmer Quebec

I’ve been hearing and reading a lot about Earth Day, in the news, and on other blogs, and I have to admit I find it depressing. Why do we need one special day to celebrate our beautiful planet, and to admit the trouble she may be in, all thanks to the lovely monkey-like creatures who inhabit her sphere? These so-called intelligent, self-absorbed, oh so important ‘whomans’, who think they somehow have the right to be the wicked, evil overlords of everything else on the planet. Who have the ingenuity to invent some big guy in the sky who tells them it’s alright to do what they wish, when they wish, to whomever and whatever they wish as long as you do it within certain rules and regulations. Boy, they’re clever.

Why one day?? Only??? Shouldn’t we be living our lives as if every day is Earth Day? It’s not the big things that we do, it’s the little things.

And where the hell are the corporations on Earth Day? Price of gas is through the roof, President Monkey of our dearest nearest neighbor wants to drill for oil in an Alaskan Wildlife Refuge, our own king is in bed with the big oil here in North America, ready to plunder any part of Canada for any last drop.  For oil.  WTF???  Anyone else see anything wrong with this picture??

Despite my pessimism here, I wish everyone could experience the same feeling I do when I grow a tomato plant from seed. Or when my beautiful brugs finally bloom. I wish I could take Stephen Harper and show him the big wriggly worms in my garden, and have him be as impressed as Meghan was!! Have George Bush see a polar bear in its habitat (face to face? -okay, maybe that’s a little mean – to the polar bear!), and see respect for the wildlife.  I just really don’t understand the underlying motivation that drives people to disregard the planet earth and all the other life forms on it. I get the greed, the political pressure, the drive for more-more-more, but there is just something fundamentally unearthly about that kind of person. And at the core, I just don’t get it! In some ways it is like the person who is mean just because they can be. Nothing you did, and it’s nothing personal, they just get a kick out of being mean. We’ve all met people like that. And I think a lot of our politicians, and the backroom players are fundamentally unearthly, and mean.

All I can say is ” I am sorry, Mother Earth.  For all of us and for what we do, to you and yours.”

And hope, that like a mother, she will forgive us and love us despite our failings and ineptitude.

Okay, I hate getting up in the morning.  I am not a morning person.  And it is my own fault, because I don’t get enough sleep, I like to stay up late.  I love to read, and sometimes when you’re in the middle of a good book, it’s hard to put it down, even though it’s way past bedtime.

But I get up around 7am and get Emma ready for school and I drop her off, usually she makes it just before the bell.   She has only been late once this year, because of me.   I usually make coffee for Todd, who sleeps in till after 8.

So this morning I dragged my sorry butt outta bed, after hitting the snooze button for the second time, and turn off the alarm clock.  Put my contacts in my poor tired eyes, (broke my glasses, and I am blind as a bat without).  Woke up Emma, helped her get dressed.  Meg bounces out of bed to join her sister for breakfast.  She’s a morning person.  I make Emma’s lunch while they eat.  Brush teeth, brush hair, boots, jacket, mitts, Meg wants to come too, okay, throw your jacket over your pj’s and put on your boots, out the door, let’s go, let’s go, don’t want to be late!!  Grab your backpack, and your lunch.  Get in the car!!  Buckle up, and off we go!   Ahrgh!   Emma forgot her snowpants.   That’s okay, just don’t play in the snow outside.  She promises not too.

Drive up to the school, nobody’s out in the yard.  Damn!  We must have just missed the bell.  I thought we were right on time.  So park in the lot, which I should have noticed was suspiciously empty, but I’m tired.   So hop out and walk her to the front door.   I think you know where I am going here.

It is a damn PD day!!!

I could have slept in!

I hate Mondays!

My seed order from BakerCreek has arrived!! I feel like shouting “Hurrah!” a la Bridget Jones. But I’m going to wait, like a good gardening girl, for the new moon to arrive before I start planting them all. According to moon planting guides, I should technically wait till the second quarter, but that would put me two weeks behind, so I’m going to pretend I didn’t read them. One calendar has the new moon this Saturday, another says Sunday, and I’ll probably have enough to do that it will take me the whole weekend anyway. So I’ll have a busy planting weekend. Who knows if it works, but I gotta say, the last batch of seeds I planted, one whole tray of Silvery Fir Tree has not been very productive. If I remember, it was the only one planted after the full moon, during the Easter weekend. Everything else was done just before! Then again, if I were to be logical, I would surmise there was actually just something wrong with that particular batch of seed.

The longterm weather forecast is looking good for my tunnels plans. I may have them up and running by May after all, which is what I was really hoping for. I’ll update as it gets closer to actually being built.

Who Killed The Electric Car

This is an amazing movie Todd and I watched last night. All I can say, is wow!!! and “Excellent, Eye Opening, Stunningly Unsurprising, Extremely Maddening” and once again, thank you George Bush, Sr. and Jr., thank you big oil, and big auto, hell, shout out to Ronald Regan, while I’m at it.

Why why why are these people so short sighted, so bloody greedy and so incredibly stupid!!??? Don’t they have children?? Who need to breathe? Aaarrggghhhhhhh!

Okay, rant over, but in all honestly, it boggles the mind.

Absolutely Completely Boggles The Mind!!!

I didn’t think of any good ones to play on Todd or the girls yet. Mother nature is bringing us one day of spring (her idea of a joke?) with today’s high around twelve degrees Celsius. Below freezing again tonight, so everything will be very icy tomorrow. Lovely. But it is really nice outside right now, and Meg and I are going to put on our rubber boots, and drag the dog around the neighborhood.

I’ve been spending way too much time on the computer lately. I had no idea what a time waster it could be. (okay, that’s a lie, I did know) Things like Youtube, webforums, myspacemusic, even just reading other blogs, and not only is your morning gone, you’ve wasted half the afternoon as well. Oh well. It’s not like I had anything pressing to do. I don’t think chores like laundry, dishes or vacuuming can be considered pressing. Not that I think about it, is anything pressing?? I can procrastinate with the best of them, so any excuse will do. But if something was pressing, I’d probably get it done. I think I just like that word for some reason today. I’ll have to see if I can work it into any conversations. Anyway, lately I’ve found some other interesting, local gardening blogs. I’ll try to update my list soon. But it’s such a weird medium, the internet.

Well, I think it’s time to go outside for a walk, and after we pick up Emma from school, time for a swim.