whirling silently in space

sheeesh.  have the rest of you had the trouble with this journal thing today that i have had?  unable to get to my own journal, when i get there can't make an entry because the text box is all eff'd up.  if i actually manage to make an entry it's full of the gd plus sign and i have to delete it to get the rest of the journal back into line.  come on, techies, not on the weekend!  but anyhow, here i am.  managed to do it by going off aol and coming in thru yahoo.  i read this method on someone else's journal.  so there.  why would that work?  i'm not the one who would ever know.

i had made an entry with my garden blogs and websites, which i was including on my blogroll as a link.  i edited the entry to add more sites, and when i tried to upload it there were those evil little +'s everywhere. ergo, i deleted it.  so, now i've got to try to get it back into an entry box and onto the journal.  but i did something much better all afternoon.  actually worked in the garden.  G and i both worked outside all afternoon on a pluperfect october day.  i got a couple of things planted, finally, in the space where the old composter was pre isabel. a butterfly bush and a patch of solidago (people don't like to say "goldenrod" anymore, because of the poor thing's undeserved rep as a cause of hayfever. so, solidago.  but, it's still goldenrod.  and still doesn't cause hayfever.).  they're both blooming beautifully right now, so hope this move won't disturb them too much. don't know if i'll leave them there, but for now it's good.  it should be a great site for things to thrive.  found many fat earthworms when i was digging holes.  we also worked in the big garden, pulling up bolted greens, finished tomato vines, and massive amounts of wire grass and other weeds.  it's allout war on these weeds now, for real.  we filled two barrels with icky weeds to go away in the town truck, and i chopped up the good stuff to put into the composter.  this new composter still seems huge, but it's well on its way to filling up.  everything smelled so good out there, and my hands still smell wonderful now.  i chopped up some bolted overgrown basil and some overgrown garlic chives.  i'll be fragrant for a while.