Gardening post!

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

This Monday morning, very early, Asar-Suti is in the garden, working. Everything is lush and green now, but the branches of the conifers still have their light-green tips, and on some of the other trees there remain the sorry left-overs of bloom.

Tulips and Hyacinths have gone, to be replaced with peonies and rhododendrons as the main flowery attractions. And the herbs are sprouting in all directions, the beds of the kitchen garden overflowing with abundance.

At the moment, the purple god is gently plucking the last of the woodruff for this year, to deliver to the kitchen.-



[[OOC: Put up for Lucrecia, but open to all! If your charrie is on the gardening team, this is the chance to show them doing their job. Tag them in, and have them chat to each other, or with 'Suti, or meet Lucrecia when she's tagged in -- might be fun!]]

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[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"How about first the one, then the other?" Asar-Suti said. "With the digging coming first!"

[talkback.livejournal.com]

"Okay. That one there?" Chase doesn't want to dig up the wrong bed by mistake.

"Did I do the other ones okay?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Oh, all is fine!" Asar-Suti says. "The garden is really lovely this year, down to the rhubarb, thanks to all the people working with me here!"

[talkback.livejournal.com]

Chase grins. "Great."

Beat.

"Uh, which one is the rhubarb?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Long pink stalks, large leafs?" Asar-Suti says. "Rem has been taking care of it. The scary one."

[talkback.livejournal.com]

Chase looks around, seeing Rem.

"Oh, yeah. Is she actually scary?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"No," Asar-Suti says. "She tries very hard to please. But she cannot help but look scary."

[talkback.livejournal.com]

Chase considers this, then shakes his head.

"The scary ones? Are the ones who look like everyone else."

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Clever young man!" Asar-Suti says. "I wouldn't expect anybody to know that."

[talkback.livejournal.com]

Chase grins slightly and shrugs. The grin didn't quite reach his eyes.

"Sometimes, you learn the hard way."

There is darkness in his eyes just for a second, before he picks his spade up again.

"What are we planting over here?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yes, some things can't be learned any other way," Asar-Suti agrees.

Beat.

"Shrubbery, flowery bushes, and lawn in the middle -- I had roll-out lawn for that. But the stuff there needs to be dug up first, any way."

[talkback.livejournal.com]

"You want me to dig that bit up too, or is the lawn going in the bed by the forge?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Just dig up the entire thing," Asar-Suti says. "The shrubs go around the lawn so it's protected from sight, from almost anywhere."

[talkback.livejournal.com]

"Okay." Chase takes his spade and gets cracking, occasionally using a watering can over the tough bits.

"Oh, um, boss, what do you want me to do with the extra grass? Keep or mush?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Mush," Asar-Suti says. "We have new and improved lawn to put down afterwards!"

[talkback.livejournal.com]

Chase nods, picks up large amounts of turf and flops them in the barrow to take for compost.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Asar-Suti nods; Chase is doing it all very well.

So he turns away, and walks back to his woodruff.-