Walking Backwards

Argh! I need a new dryer. The dryer we have now is on its last legs. I'll be so sad to retire it; its a classic. Today it took eight hours to dry a load of towels. The main reason for this is because the dryer would decide in the middle of a drying cycle that it was just too tired to continue. I would walk into the laundry room and it would be buzzing angrily at me and flashing its lint warning light. The clothes would still be wet and it wouldn't start again for at least 45 minutes. I do love my crotchety old dryer, but I need to get things done. Its a 'Lady' Kenmore dryer, created in the days where that type of marketing ploy was perfectly acceptable. It has a fold down cover for all of the dials so it can look sleek and fashionable and, while the dryer itself is white, the top controls and dials are in green and brown. It even has some sort of strange bottle attached to the lint trap previously filled with what it called "air freshener," now thankfully empty. We are probably going to end up with a plain white dryer with no personality, a simple work horse. Even though this dryer of my future will make my day less stressful and my laundering tasks less of a burden, I will still mourn the loss of my Lady Kenmore.

Nico and I went to the farm today. I got there a little past noon and almost everything was sold out. They did have two bunches of green garlic left, so tragedy averted. I also bought sweet potatoes for Christmas dinner, a loaf of poppy seed challah bread, and two baby heads of cabbage. I meant to pick up some smoke dried tomatoes, but I blanked in the face of a squiggling baby. He kept trying to hurl himself to the ground, but it was too muddy and there was much he wasn't supposed to get into. We did take a look at the chickens who were in their pen today. He was so infatuated with them and kept trying to get closer. When the chickens turned and started heading our way, Nicholas decided that he was a little more wary of the unknown than he had previously thought and clung to his mommy, hiding his face in my shirt. We'll have to go next week to pick up some more cabbage for new year's dinner as the cabbages that I bought today didn't make it past tonight.

I'm thinking of making two different journaling pages that will be linked to this one; a recipes page and a gardening one. I know of several people who do this on their own journals and I'm really interested in doing my own. We are going to be doing a lot of work in our garden this spring and have already started planning it out. I know that if I actually wrote the details about it in my main journal, I would go on for pages and pages every day. I have enough of a problem rambling on already. A recipes pages is just a given as one of my favorite past times is cooking. Both journals would help me keep track of my thoughts and experiences in both fields and everything would be organized and easily accessible. It might take a long time to set up and I worry that I would spend more time than I should writing each day. I think I'll leave the decision up in the air for a little bit, there is no pressing deadline after all.