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The Garden Peon
Apr. 13th, 2014 07:37 pmIn my quest for Flowers, I have done the following in my front bed:
Spread three buckets of mulch.
Dug up what feels like a gazillon (probably only about 20-30) plants with the ugly purple flowers that are as common as dirt and may be a form of hosta but I don't care, they're ugly and I refuse to have any more!! (I still have a gazillon to go, the tubers are EVERYWHERE)
Planted the bulbs SLB potted in the house in one of the cleared sections.
Removed a lot of moss, dead grass and other assorted litter.
Tied back the rose bush to the porch w/orange twine.
This has amounted to about two hours of work spread out since Friday. My work schedule this week is four days, I'm off Wednesday, which is good because my counseling appointment is that day and I won't miss work for it. I intend to go gadzooks in the bed Wednesday while the children entertain themselves inside. This will not be difficult. I'll need more mulch, so I'm keeping the car Wednesday too.
Zhade & Kenshardik came down this weekend and were very gracious about me popping outside while they watched something I wasn't interested in. We watched two stand up comedians, the Top Gear River Nile episode, and had a lot of good chats. I introduced Kenshardik to Don't Starve. We'll see if he picks it up for his PC. My quiches were a hit, but the tomato and spinach one didn't carry over well the next day. There are no leftovers. I'm going to be taking rice balls to work tomorrow.
I'm still sore, but not as bad as I was. I am proud of what I'm getting done, as is SLB, but he claimed he felt bad his challenge was what motivated me. I assured him sometimes that's exactly what I need.
Pending work schedules and possible freezes, I hope to have the begonia and pack of assorted butterfly friendly bulbs planted in the next two weeks. Woot!
Spread three buckets of mulch.
Dug up what feels like a gazillon (probably only about 20-30) plants with the ugly purple flowers that are as common as dirt and may be a form of hosta but I don't care, they're ugly and I refuse to have any more!! (I still have a gazillon to go, the tubers are EVERYWHERE)
Planted the bulbs SLB potted in the house in one of the cleared sections.
Removed a lot of moss, dead grass and other assorted litter.
Tied back the rose bush to the porch w/orange twine.
This has amounted to about two hours of work spread out since Friday. My work schedule this week is four days, I'm off Wednesday, which is good because my counseling appointment is that day and I won't miss work for it. I intend to go gadzooks in the bed Wednesday while the children entertain themselves inside. This will not be difficult. I'll need more mulch, so I'm keeping the car Wednesday too.
Zhade & Kenshardik came down this weekend and were very gracious about me popping outside while they watched something I wasn't interested in. We watched two stand up comedians, the Top Gear River Nile episode, and had a lot of good chats. I introduced Kenshardik to Don't Starve. We'll see if he picks it up for his PC. My quiches were a hit, but the tomato and spinach one didn't carry over well the next day. There are no leftovers. I'm going to be taking rice balls to work tomorrow.
I'm still sore, but not as bad as I was. I am proud of what I'm getting done, as is SLB, but he claimed he felt bad his challenge was what motivated me. I assured him sometimes that's exactly what I need.
Pending work schedules and possible freezes, I hope to have the begonia and pack of assorted butterfly friendly bulbs planted in the next two weeks. Woot!
