Mood:
chillin'Now Playing: Old hippy music
Topic: The weekly flower report!
It was actually springy yesterday! YAY! Do you want to know how cold it's been? The coltsfoot's are flowering. In the middle of APRIL! these things normally flower in the middle of march. There are snowdrops blooming. Snowdrops are usually finished by april 7. There have yet to be any sweet fragrant violets blooming. This is their peak time for blooming, normally the twentieth of april smell like an explosion in a flower factory from all the violets. So far nothing. The tips of tree branches are only now beginning to blush with growth. The bud began to swell, then stopped. Some buds froze and fell off. I'm sure everything will catch up, but still...coltsfoot in april. Wow.
Very young Coltsfoot leaves make a nice cough drop when they are boiled, then the resulting elixir i added to boiling brown sugar syrup and then dropped on wax paper when at the semi stiff ball stage. They store well in a cool dark place. Remember those old dark brown vick's cough drops? Those were made from pennyroyal and coltsfoot. In case you wanted to know... sharing a bit of the old witch herbal knowledge.
I mention this because my hubby has a cold, and I was looking for coltsfoot leaves. All i could find are flowers.
I went to play with the felting machine. I dunno. I think I'm better off spending the money on accessories for my new machine. It's not like the needle felter will go anywhere anytime soon. When I was at the mall I also got two pairs of flip flops, satin with beading, one in goldish beige and one in navy with turquoise. I bought one pair in 7 because that's all they had and the other in eight because that's all they had. I actually take seven and a half, so I compromised. I would have bough a nine if that's all they had because I wanted them. I also went downtown kitchener. Noisy. Ugly. Dirty. Cool retro shops. Oh well, one out of four.
Speaking of summer footwear, I see crocs in all the stores. As the weather warms up, I see people with the evil crocs on their feet. Crocs are the footwear of satan. Here's another reason not to wear crocs: Crocs cause Static electricity! Okay, here's the best reason to not wear crocs. They are f**ing ugly!
And that's all for today. I have a ton of things to do and sitting here isn't getting them done.
