Vegetating
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torquillI hope everyone else is enjoying their weekend... I made the decision to drop any parties, social obligations, or plans to go out, and I'm spending the weekend at home by myself. I don't regret it at all. There was one small thing I was going to go to Friday night, but it got moved to another weekend, so I spent the evening reading (both published fiction and my own work). It says something about my improved state of mind that I have enough brain cycles to get interested in my own stories again, pulling them out and reading them to visit the "friends" that live in my head. I'm not feeling quite up to writing again, but I'm getting there.
Today I have repotted my orchid, gotten my usual set of comic books and groceries, failed to connect with my brewer friend (oh well), worked on the front yard trench, dug out the first tomato bed in the garden, weeded around the fruit trees out front, ordered seeds, fixed my Fastweb profile, and looked through a bunch of scholarship/fellowship offerings. I need to fix my FAFSA for this year, but otherwise I've gotten everything essential out of the way.
I got the hard part of the trench dug out to 18" -- the part that we didn't dig out with the machine last summer -- and now I'm down to clearing out the dirt that's fallen into the part we dug with the trencher. It's fairly quick and easy, just tedious. My dad offered to help me trim the barrier material to size tomorrow, so that I can put it in place once the trench is cleared out. The barrier has been the sticking point for this whole project... once that's done, I can install the watering system in a day or so of work, then I can call up the tree trimmers and ask for a pile of wood chips. Getting the whole place buried in mulch will reduce my stress enormously -- I hate driving down the road and seeing the mess that's out there now.
If I have to wait until fall to plant anything more out there, so be it. I suspect we'll have hot weather early this year, and I don't want to crisp things... besides, I need to revisit my plans for what goes where. I can't wait to put in the herb patch, as digging around in my potted plants for just a little more of this or that herb has been driving me crazy. I'll have my oregano, thyme, rosemary, terragon, and lemongrass all in one place. Not to mention being able to move the rhubarb and the currants to a real, established, permanent bed. So much has been on hold these last few years...
Meanwhile my brain has been working out a way to make a drought-tolerant, wind-resistant, heat-loving front yard for very little money -- I've got 90% of the place solved already for about $100-120 and a few weekends of reasonable work. As if I didn't have enough challenges. I've never claimed to be sane...
Today I have repotted my orchid, gotten my usual set of comic books and groceries, failed to connect with my brewer friend (oh well), worked on the front yard trench, dug out the first tomato bed in the garden, weeded around the fruit trees out front, ordered seeds, fixed my Fastweb profile, and looked through a bunch of scholarship/fellowship offerings. I need to fix my FAFSA for this year, but otherwise I've gotten everything essential out of the way.
I got the hard part of the trench dug out to 18" -- the part that we didn't dig out with the machine last summer -- and now I'm down to clearing out the dirt that's fallen into the part we dug with the trencher. It's fairly quick and easy, just tedious. My dad offered to help me trim the barrier material to size tomorrow, so that I can put it in place once the trench is cleared out. The barrier has been the sticking point for this whole project... once that's done, I can install the watering system in a day or so of work, then I can call up the tree trimmers and ask for a pile of wood chips. Getting the whole place buried in mulch will reduce my stress enormously -- I hate driving down the road and seeing the mess that's out there now.
If I have to wait until fall to plant anything more out there, so be it. I suspect we'll have hot weather early this year, and I don't want to crisp things... besides, I need to revisit my plans for what goes where. I can't wait to put in the herb patch, as digging around in my potted plants for just a little more of this or that herb has been driving me crazy. I'll have my oregano, thyme, rosemary, terragon, and lemongrass all in one place. Not to mention being able to move the rhubarb and the currants to a real, established, permanent bed. So much has been on hold these last few years...
Meanwhile my brain has been working out a way to make a drought-tolerant, wind-resistant, heat-loving front yard for very little money -- I've got 90% of the place solved already for about $100-120 and a few weekends of reasonable work. As if I didn't have enough challenges. I've never claimed to be sane...
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