Good morning! How’s this for a change – me doing a post before noon and I’m totally sober! Usually two of the three things go together: morning and sober. I think attempting to blog before noon might be a first.
Today I’m not even hung over, not a little. I am, however, juiced up on coffee and stuck indoors as the weather is absolute shite. It was bearable outside yesterday so despite a pretty good case of ‘one too many the night before,’ I got a lot of tidying-up done in the garden. Empty pots put away, icky soil and mint that can’t ever, ever, go into my compost bin thrown out, carrots, beets and garlic pulled, monster tomato plants trimmed of dead bits. I’m pleased with the garlic. It’s “oops garlic.” Oops garlic is garlic that you bought in the store and forgot about/didn’t use fast enough, and the next time you look at it, it’s all shrivelled with a massive green spike coming out of it. Oops! I plant it. This year it grew really well for me:
I might give up on beets next year. Or try another variety. Or actually look up what I’m doing wrong. The beet roots on mine are all too tiny. Easy to grow but… meh. Not worth the effort to peel the little things.
I also think they mixed up my carrot seed with something out of a grimoire:
These aren’t carrots, they’re Mandrake Root. Oh well, the dog will eat them anyhow. I hope she doesn’t turn into a zombie-dog or werewolf. Hmm, maybe I do – things have been a bit boring around here lately.
So, I promised I’d mention the boys in my next post! Which is now this post. And it is now after noon, by the way. Oops!
I caught the guys in a big cuddle-fest Thursday morning, and for once Lokii’s little black face is clearly visible. So hard to get a shot of him that isn’t anything but big blue eyes in a flat-black wedge.
Lokii looks happy and interested, Spot looks like he’s got murder on his mind. Let’s try to reverse that, shall we?
Not so much. Lokii just isn’t capable of looking grumpy. Glad to be able to share his giant schnozz with you this morning afternoon.
heretherebespiders 
nice!
Thank you!
Those mandrake roots look like something you use for evil spells or like it belongs in a Harry potter movie! What have you done to it?!
Exactly – Mandrake is a real plant, and looks a bit like a person, so it was supposed to have magical qualities. Potter does mention it, of course! I don’t know what I did, it might be the variety, or my soil was too packed hard? I never look this stuff up, I just experiment 🙂 I did try to fluff the soil this year so this didn’t happen, but… Oops!
They do look like little humans!
The soil was to hard. You have to mix it with something that will fluff it up or they tent to be stumpy and branchy. I LOVE carrots and grow the hell out of them. Seriously. I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures on another forum.
How glorious the boys look – a snuggle fest to boot. Thanks for sharing – we’re smiling 😉
You’re welcome! I’m ever-happy that they like each other so much.
Our carrots sometimes look like that, too, but they’re quite tasty. Just weird and I try hard to not think about mandrake people. ick.
Sweet boys in lovely pics.
How did you get those cats to grow in your garden? (I know, I’m lame)
Judging from the lengths gardeners will go to to keep cats from digging in and ‘planting’ cat DNA in the freshly-turned earth… I’d guess maybe cats can grow from seed!
Don’t eat those “carrots” doggie! RUN!!!!
Mine snuggle a lot, but never cheek to cheek like that. Awwww
They’re disgusting. See, they can even make you go ‘awwww.’ My hubby’s lost any slightest bit of remaining masculinity since he’s lived with cats. The cuteness just sucks it right out of you.
! go “awww” for cats on a consistent basis. I’m kind of a sucker for hedgehogs, too.
A bouquet of cats.
That pair looks like they are up to something…like taking over the planet…you don’t suppose they had anything to do with the veggies?
Super-kitty-mind power perhaps? They only get to look and not sniff. Lokii would have a full-blown panic attack if I even tried to show him what ‘outside’ is.
Funny and a bit mad! Love the carrot/grimoire comment – nearly had me off my chair! Alison
Hello Alison! Thank you – I guess with a name like Eastwitching you wouldn’t have to Google what a grimoire is! My poor carrots ended up inside the dog for the most part, they shrivelled up and looked like dead Mandrakes. The dog didn’t care.
They do look like mandrakes don’t they! That word spooks me for some reason! I actually LOVE the book The Witches of Eastwick and so hence the name:))