Thoughts, bullet-style.

I’m back at work after a long weekend (flex-Mondays, hooray!) and sifting through the thoughts, projects, ideas percolating through my bloodstream along with the extra-strong americano I drank on the way to work this morning (thanks Brian xoxo). Of course I’ve lots to do so I think it’s bullets this morning so I can get on with the actual work piled up on my desk (not to mention the union-steward responses that need to be made). Here is essentially what I’m thinking about:

• I’m excited that a new altish yarn store is opening up in my neighbourhood this Saturday! Baaad Anna’s was originally going to be on the Drive, but it turns out that she (Anna) found a better spot up in Hastings-Sunrise which is way rad if you ask me. The grand opening is this weekend, and classes start in October which is awesome since I don’t know how to knit and have always wanted to learn. Going all the way up to Main Street (closest yarn shop) seemed a bit onerous and now I don’t have to! So tell all the east-van crafter/knitters you know. Baaad Anna’s!
• I’ve decided that next spring I’m going to keep Mason Bees to help with neighbourhood pollination efforts and to learn more about small-scale beekeeping. I would *love* to keep honeybees but I just don’t think it’s possible in such a small space.
• We’re almost finished the basement renos and by September 1st everything should be a go on that front. Brian and I are doing finishing bits now, and may be casting about for help if we can’t figure out some final details — but generally we’re well on our way to being done.
• I’ve started a new blog just for keeping track of my own gardening process. Among the Weeds can be found at http://sungarden.wordpress.com and will soon be documenting the building of raised beds for the back garden area.
• Speaking of which, I found some really cheap untreated cedar for the building of the garden boxes on Craigslist which I will be picking up Saturday. If anyone out there wants to spend an afternoon putting together garden boxes in the near future, please let me know. Otherwise I’ll just do it myself.

I suppose that’s about it – yarn, bees, renos, gardening, building stuff – I’m in Nanaimo Thursday night but otherwise just kicking about getting things done before the summer wraps up and we’re back indoors for the cold season.