Sunrise, sunset.
Oct. 29th, 2005 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringDaylight saving begins tonight. I wonder if I'll get it right this time. Spring forward, autumn back. Never could work that out.
We went shopping for shoes this morning. He takes a size ten wide, which is three sizes up from my dainty little feet. Not as tall as I am yet, but there's not much in it. And he's only sixteen. He probably won't be able to peer over the top of me, like he can with his mother, but I reckon those enormous plates of meat are foundations for a solid superstructure.
And my old dinner suit now resides in his wardrobe. He tried it on this morning in preparation for his end of high school formal, and he looks great! Apart from the acne, which is par for the course in your mid teens, he's a handsome lad.
And another milestone this afternoon. I introduced him to the lawn mower. Perhaps I won't have to mow the lawn again for years and years...
I won't say he did a good job - ragged around the edges and there are stray bits undone here and there, but for his first time it's not bad.
Another two months and he'll be getting his learner's permit.
Sigh, where do the years go? The day before yesterday I was holding his pudgy little hand as we walked and skipped to and from school.
We went shopping for shoes this morning. He takes a size ten wide, which is three sizes up from my dainty little feet. Not as tall as I am yet, but there's not much in it. And he's only sixteen. He probably won't be able to peer over the top of me, like he can with his mother, but I reckon those enormous plates of meat are foundations for a solid superstructure.
And my old dinner suit now resides in his wardrobe. He tried it on this morning in preparation for his end of high school formal, and he looks great! Apart from the acne, which is par for the course in your mid teens, he's a handsome lad.
And another milestone this afternoon. I introduced him to the lawn mower. Perhaps I won't have to mow the lawn again for years and years...
I won't say he did a good job - ragged around the edges and there are stray bits undone here and there, but for his first time it's not bad.
Another two months and he'll be getting his learner's permit.
Sigh, where do the years go? The day before yesterday I was holding his pudgy little hand as we walked and skipped to and from school.
no subject
Date: 2005-10-30 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-30 01:23 am (UTC)Kerri was complaining about her garden yesterday. Some fungal blight had attacked these beautiful purple and yellow iris flowers she has at the back and she was wondering how it happened. Then we watched the "Gardening Australia" show last night and they were extolling the virtues of mulch to a degree I found quite uncomfortable.
The presenter pointed to a clump of irises and said that you shouldn't mulch them, because they then developed blight. "Aha!" said Kerri.
This morning we'd just come back from shopping and the rain had stopped for a bit. As we pulled into the carport, Kerri said "I've got to go scrape the mulch off my irises." and DD's jaw dropped open.