~yawn~
Izzit 24 yet?
Jen & Talon: Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
2J: Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
;-)
Good morning, my friends!
I'm BACK!
For the first time in about 3-4 weeks I have time to just sit down and freep. No school, no thesis, no company, no need to hide the milk man. The kids are even still in bed right now.
I think I've pretty well caught up...building looks nice, g'nad, Rosie...the improvements are great. Lotsa gardening going on.
We had that bad hail storm, you know...it really did a number on the garden, but everything looks like it's going to make it. I did a lot of cleaning yesterday, pulled up all the spinach that had bolted, pulled up and harvested the collards, planted a couple of patio tomatoes in their place. Also planted 4 various yellow tomatoes (the birds don't bother them so much), 5 pepper plants, (three sweet and two hot), and one eggplant. I had to plant the patio tomatoes in hardware cloth baskets sunk in the ground like the squash and I wrapped the pepper roots in steel wool. I have to make another basket for the eggplant, but the four yellow tomatoes are in the hardware cloth lined bed.
Did I tell you (I forget if I did) about seeing the turnips moving around? I thought it was a bunny or a toad, but then I saw it was a garlic plant whipping back and forth violently and hitting the turnips. Then ZIP! The garlic plant just zipped in the blink of an eye, right down into the ground! I told Steve about it and even though I know he believed me...still, I was relieved when we were sitting out in the yard yesterday evening and Steve said "Why are the peas moving like that?" We sat and watched as a pea plant thrashed violently around then with 4-5 efforts (it was attached to a pea fence, after all), the pea slid into the ground and it was like it never existed. Steve sat with his mouth hanging open! LOL! I said "See! I told you so!"
The hail messed up the seals on our shop roof and it leaked...we repainted it with new sealant yesterday.
It's good to be back! It's been an exhausting month since the defense and I'm looking forward to relaxing. I'm waiting for Steve's resume...he's going to email it to me. That is the next great task ahead...