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Weekend was fun. Went shopping on Friday for my outdoor container garden and planted it on Saturday. I got a mix of white and blue flowers that grow in the shade, and my normal herbs. I still have mini-roses coming, but I learned last year these don’t bloom well in the shade so I am only putting them on the sunny porch.

There is still dirt under my fingernails :). I don’t wear gardening gloves because then I can’t feel what I’m doing and end up tearing too many fragile roots. Actually, I boycott any kind of gloves for the same reason. Tiny ipod/cell phone/camera buttons also don’t respond well to bulky fumbling fingers.

Anywho — celebrated Yuri’s Night on the 12th. This is the anniversary of the first human in space, Russia’s Yuri Gagarin (1961) and NASA’s first shuttle launch (1981). We watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, ate the closest we could get to Russian food (pierogies) and drank tang with vodka. Later Josh and Sarah watched the Russian movie Night Watch. I watched the sequel with them the next day. Really weird=good movie. My alarm this morning woke me up from a dream where I was killing “Others” with laser beams shooting from my eyes. Only blue-eyed people could see them. I don’t normally dream things like that :).

Was a zen weekend. I spent quiet time watching petals dance by in the wind and thinking how I would never see that particular bunch of them again. Spring is so short. But I get to spend some of it in New York because I’m going back next weekend! THIS time central park will be in prime form!