A Gardener's Diary

[Monksdream]

Feb. 18-Sunny and breezy in the morning, cloudy, cooler in the afternoon, then some rain in the evening. A rainbow appeared after the shower, shortly before sunset. The ground got wet, but that's about all. I put in more lettuce seedlings before it started sprinkling, and some carrot and radish seed. The bed beside the ledge got tilled. A slight angle remains, but I can rake it smooth and till up the larger chunks of clay to mix it into the soil.

I took the bus uptown to Starbucks for coffee grinds, then sat on the bench across the street to watch the activity at the Square. A group of black religionists were there at the corner, preaching sedition and hatred of Caucasians. Guitar Man was up the street at 5th, strumming away on his git fiddle with a battery hooked up to a small speaker. The karaoke man was holding forth in front the theater. Signs of warm weather ahead and a time when real people populate the inner city on weekends, enough to outnumber the derelict population typical now of all large cities.

CC, the Calico Cat, caught another mouse. She brought it up to the patio to torment until it expired. Then Sissy Boy, the wimped out tomcat had his turn with it. They didn't eat much. I think they mooching off someone nearby.