my last coupla days

• Today is monday. a VERY monday. I'll tell ya later about some of the insanity at work except that the state highway that we use to get to work is at risk of washing out again. The guardrail is ushaped because that part of the ground sank/collapsed a bit from flood damage. It's right by a river.
• yesterday was mother's day:  dan brought me coffee and a cookie in bed, and anka said 'let's go visit my new house and then go to the french pastry store' and we did that but along the way visited a farmer's market (there were fiddles!).   I picked up cold brew & bagel-with-lox kits to make for dinner, and a chocolate-coconut pasty and a sausage-potato pasty.   (At my last trip we got bread, cheese, vermouth, granola, sorrel, and IDEK what else. Also at the last one we chatted with the Worm Castings guy and the mushroom guy and some of the sheep people and a tea lady).    In the afternoon, it was cool but sunny, so I attacked the acorns - I ended up with probably 10 gallon-bowls' worth of them, and there are many more.  And I added more seeds (and warned dan not to weed and he said 'oh no') because by the time I got rid of all the acorns and hosta/daylily husks from last year there wasn't really any mulch and the front bed honestly needed some erosion control. I used some of the NH perennial mix, but the zinnia/cosmos combo might help too. 
• Saturday was rainy - i took meg & her buddy to a coffeeshop and took ty to prom for 45 minutes! I gave him the task: appreciate 3 outfits and eat some food. He did those things, felt good about how he looked, and didn't get too overhwlemed, so I'll take it.  We had ended up ordering from amazon on like, wednesday, and I picked up trousers at walmart Saturday morning.
• Friday I had to go to a statewide conference on homelessness. 2 hour drive each way. The conference was fine, the location was nice.
• Thursday I worked late because i was invited to participate in a Poster Abstract session and it was kind of cool.   Then I realized, in retrospect, that technically I'm an author on that thing, for a symposium on rural health, held by an ivy league school. I had bad imposter syndrome about being there but then I remembered not only did they ask but the main person was sick so it was like, please can you go alice, so ...it's not like I'm trying to be "too big for my breeches."

what grows in my lawn that I didn't actively plant

fern
clover
white/purple violets
bluets (aka shaker ladies)
moss
(dandelions)
healall and/or bugleweed
buttercup
wild strawberry

Things I did plant at some point:
pink forget me not
crimson clover
sweet william
black eyed susan 


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This is why I don't comprehend people's expensive lawns.

the mondayest

- I mentioned there is a road that's kind of iffy and down to one lane, because the shoulder & guardrail washed out a bit
- there is a sinkhole at one of our schools