we need a holiday or, how she came to tolerate geraniums

I did nothing this weekend. Mostly ate. Shopped for food. It was all food-related. Bought some gerberas to plant. Planted geraniums and caladium earlier when I still had potting soil. But I was not terribly productive. Very little knitting. Just a tad to show Kelly how to purl. Worked on nothing for me. No reading. I had great plans of starting a new project each day. But nope.

Friday I made a mess of beans and potatoes. Searched through my dozens of cookbooks for a cupcake recipes. Never found the first one. It behooves me. Guess I'll stop by the public library to browse their cupcake cookbook titles.

Between draft and finishing this up, a time lapse of several hours, I stopped by the public library to find No Cupcake Books. I am shocked and dismayed. Itching to make cupcakes. And all for naught! Yeah, it's silly. I'd rather use a recipe from a book than from online.

Saturday Blogless Amy and I drove to Asheville to shop at Fresh Market and eat at Early Girl. I napped away the rest of the day. Ian went to work. Sunday was much of the same, except that I got tips on making Thai Stir Fry and chatted in person with the biggest group of bloggers, ever. But I didn't know they were bloggers til afterwards. That numbers six including me. Normally I'm the only blogger in the bunch. But not Sunday night.

Monday Ian was home most of the day. I slept late and  laid around the house in my nightgown. Tacky, ain't it? It was nice. I didn't feel guilty for doing nothing. I just miss it terribly now that I'm back to work.

My relationship with geraniums was non-existent until a few days ago. I spotted some in windowboxes where I ride (horses, horses, horses) and thought how lovely they looked against a white facade. Geraniums on my mind. I love the red, but they won't go so well with my apricot-colored ranch home. I went with pink, as you can tell above, instead; like it really goes, either.

Every spring/summer Mom planted geraniums in large concrete (or CEE-ment as we call it round here) pots that flanked her front porch. I never understood why. They stank. There were prettier flowers out there. But finally I get it. Not sure what it is, or whether it will stick, but at least for this season, I'm including geraniums in my potted plantings around the house. They're so French, too. Always a good reason to adopt something, it's Frenchiness.

Comments

[Lisa]

Pretty flowers :)
This was a weekend of doing nothing it seems...I did the same. Well I played a game but that is nothing really since nothing comes out of playing it.
I'm going to be without the internet at home until the 7th :( *cries*
I have a problem with eating lately since Andy came home all he wants to do is eat out. :-( we have had some delicious home cooked food too though.

[Ani]

If you get desperate and can't wait to find it in a book, try Chockylit (http://cupcakeblog.com). I've made a few of her recipes and they are very, very, very good.

I was on the anti-geranium bus too, but in the past couple years, I've found I really enjoy them. Such great colors and the blooms just keep going and going.

[Paula]

Love the flower photos. I found a lemon angel food cupcake:
http://bakingbites.com/2007/05/lemon-angel-food-cupcakes/
I have a red velvet cupcake recipe at home I found on a liberry blog. (PS, I don't get to go to ALA, but I am going to the MS Library 2.0 summit!

[JC]

Well, as you know, I was lazy last weekend too. It was nice.

The geraniums look nice!