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Well, the rain finally stopped, but it is cold, cold, cold. I guess the clerk at the Garden store gave good advice to wait for the peonies to bloom before planting my tomatoes. Perhaps I’ll just move them to larger pots.

Plan for today (always subject to change on a whim) is to check to see if the rain washed out all the squares that were freshly planted with seed early last week. Then, get my husband to pull his tractor around and yank out the stumps of the arborvitae that bit the dust in the first ice storm last November. That and some work with the tiller will prepare planting space for the 8 blueberries I purchased mail order from Jung’s. Got to get those IN.

Then, if we haven’t frozen to death with that task, it will be time to install the landscape timbers around the bottom of my fence inside and outside keeping grass away from the base of the fence and providing me with extra planting space for flowers and veggies that won’t fit in my major raised beds.

My 12 year old printer at the office blew up on me at 5:30 PM last night and I had to spend $500 for a new one with all the peripherals. The printer was only $300, but I had to buy ink and cables and warranties and toner for another office printer, etc., etc., etc.

I will say that the manager of Office Max took pity on me and gave me every discount — including credit for some out of date discount coupons — that he was able. He even took back the ink that I had recently bought for the now dead printer. I suppose it could have been repaired (ha ha) but it was leaking ink all over the place and I just didn’t want to deal with it anymore. He was very helpful, which they generally are not at Office Max. He was a former member of the Geek Squad from Best Buy and lost his job when they closed their big Milwaukee store where he formerly.

Now back to the stuff I want to deal with — my garden. My, my there were a lot of good tips yesterday. I’ve copied all of them into my Garden Notes. THank you all.