#apparently i'm nesting

[dustysunday]

I made jam.

From the apricot tree in our yard.

Older than me, here before I was.

I crossed a continent, fell in love, and moved in.

I lit the stove,

Three decades of morning dew and rainy afternoons

Swims around me as the steam rises.

The scent of bumblebees at noon, honeysuckle at dusk.

Add the sugar, let it cool.

Spoon sunlight into a jar,

Save it for a rainy day.

Prunus armeniaca on the tree, and canned!

[dolorosa]

Next steps in Operation: Make La Casa Dolorosa/The Philologist A Pleasant House For Proper Grown-Ups is to clean the oven and (what I think is called) the range hood. Then I need to clean all the windows inside and out. Then I'll need to seriously tackle the garden, which is causing me to freak out mildly. But after that comes the fun stuff, like growing a window-box full of herbs, organising to have our pictures framed (and getting more art to hang on the walls, and getting throws for the living room.