Sown!

I had quite a busy day starting with walking Bella May up the track. She has now started to decide on the length of her walkies - only when she’s with me though. She walks ahead but always checking that whoever is with her is still behind. I would normally go right to the end of the track but suddenly  Bella turns round and zooms past me on her way home! Then stops to make sure I’m following. Frank says she would never get away with that with him. Bella was excited when she saw our ex neighbours - Gemma and Paul - coming down the track with her boyfriend Baxter the black Cocker Spaniel. They absolutely love one another. When we got home I had to wash the muddy hug marks from round her neck!
I did loads of washing and got a lot of it almost dry outside though it’s been icy cold so it was still a bit damp and needed finishing off in the dryer.
Then I tidied and cleaned the living room. It gets in such a mess with us two.
Then I spread newspaper on the kitchen worktop,  got a clean bucket of seed sowing compost and sowed the early seeds, tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and basil, tarragon and parsley.
They’re in the propagator on the kitchen window sill. I find it exciting sowing seeds and I will think about them in their darkness when I go to bed. (weird? :-D))
I’ve been browsing on various sites for curtain fabric. It would help if I knew what I wanted. Definitely patterned but what kind of pattern? I do like busy fabrics. The search will no doubt go on and then one day, I’ll be out and about and will instantly fall in love with one.
I booked a table for 2 at the Turkish restaurant  ‘Efendy’ in Skipton for next Monday - St Valentine’s Day. It may sound cheesy but it will be 25 years since we got together! 

The seed sowing inspired my poem today. I’m finding writing a daily poem gets easier each day - though you’ll know if I’m short of time or have writer’s block when it’s a very short one or a Haiku ;-)

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Nature in Action

I love the seed sowing time, Feb to April
Getting my hands in a bag of John Innes
Sorting out the packets into when to sow
The varied shapes and sizes of the seeds
Small creamy teardrops - Tomatoes
Tiny spearheads of Lettuce seeds
The same but bigger and fatter Cucumber 
I looked up that shape - ‘Lanceolate’.
Teeny, tiny black spheres of Poppy,
Flat, round, off-white Sweet Pepper 
And the small black oval shaped Basil,
The light brown crescents of Calendula,
Small, stripey leaf shapes of Parsley.
How many zillions of shapes and sizes
On earth - dormant, just waiting
To burst open, to put down roots
Then grow skinny two leafed shoots
Which, with the right care and attention
Will become sturdy and produce 
Flowers, fruit, veg and eventually seeds
And the whole circle starts once more.
Nature in action, before our very eyes.

Thanks for the comments, stars and hearts over the last few days.
Goodnight my friends :-) X