2nd day of Summer Reading (Well Sort of)

It's actually the third day since it's 1am Wednesday morning.  I got home after work and after eating half a bowl of pasta, I fell asleep on the couch till 11pm.  Woke up and skimmed through two gardening books, one of which I really liked.  The Country garden by Charlie Ryrie.  A country garden "...there are no rules, and another huge advantage is that your garden should largely take care of itself once you have the basics sorted out.  This is where we can take cues from the earliest country gardeners who where short of time, money, and space, yet still created productive and increasingly beautiful gardens  over the centuries."  I have found my formula for my garden!   Informal, scented, functional gardens.  Functional in that vegetables are a part of them and thus feed me and hubby.  Not to mention the birdbath and bird food that is a must for all Country gardens.  She even suggested  a garbage pan lid as a substitute for a traditional birdbath.  Now that's using what you have!  Of course that is if you own a garbage can with a lid, which we don't.   The book was published 7 years ago.  She included a resource page with urls.  Definitely worth a space in my book shelf.  A look to Amazon to see if I can get a used copy.   

At midnight I watched Charlie Rose.  Wish he came on earlier.  The last half hour he had author Michael Lewis on talking about his latest book Home Again: An accidental guide to fatherhood.  Well, he sounded like a spoiled brat who grudgingly realized (or was coerced by his wife) that he had to participate in the raising of his children from day one.  Boo hoo.  Poor baby.  Oh the work and the toil.  He even admitted how he has the unique ability to avoid unpleasant tasks.  Do I hear lazy?  

Tuesday at work was a blur until the last two hours.  I had a Friends' meeting, and I have to document a conversation I had with Lyman regarding how he injured his back because of the "heavy" boxes of flea market leftovers he moved into the LEAP storage closet of which I moved (by myself with ease I might add) to the meeting room for the friends' meeting.  What a loser. 

Then the last half hour, my boss shoots an email out with pointers on balancing staff vs. sending a representative from my branch to a meeting where our Director held a meeting on budget info and a new advertising campaign for the library.   So much for showing her support and wanting to simply know what our leader has to say.  We are scheduled to have a meeting on Thursday regarding just that staffing and schedules.  Oh joy.  If only I had a staffing shortage so I don't have to go to that inevitable gripe session.  

It's time for bed.  I think.