SUMMER!!!

i am sooooooooooooooooooooo glad to be done with school. ish. for the time being. yesterday should have been the last day but delays in paper-writing-ness changed that. so today around 1pm i finished the last of the quarter's requirements. there are no words to describe how happy i am to be taking a break from all of that.

sometimes i think it might not be so bad if i could just have my damn weekends. but that is never the case - there is always homework to do on the weekends. and my plants have been pissed at me for it for a long time. so today: gardening! garden garden garden garden garden! the porch may not look that impressive but that mother-in-law's tongue has been needing repotting for months. my poor dracaena in the back is slowly getting nursed back to health but for the last six months or so i've been watering him approximately... well, never. also, my wandering jew (next to the aloe on the wall) has stopped wandering. i don't know if his branches will ever come back. i can only hope.

incidentally: i loathe snails and aphids. this afternoon i ripped out a huge patch of nasturtiums that had been thoroughly and utterly devoured by aphids. these guys are new (only planted a couple of months ago if you can believe it!) but the buggers are already on 'em. i tried safe soap on the other ones but i think it was too late... i will not lose this row! i read that a lot of people apparently use nasturtiums as 'trap plants' - the aphids love them so much that they just leave everything else alone. these guys are right next to my zucchini and some strawberries, and we've got tomatoes on the other side of the yard. i considered going the trap route but dammit i want all my plants. so i went on the attack today. we'll see what happens. i love my plants!