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Grrrrrrr.......
Apr. 9th, 2004 07:09 amLife would be so much easier if the administration would just let me bite the truly deserving.
( Grousing... )
Got the pyracantha in the ground yesterday, and only hit two irrigation lines (minor ones at that) in the process. The ground was so hard one of the guys went and rented a post-hole auger to drill the holes out.....took longer to hand-dig the four holes that were close to power lines than it did to auger out the rest. But the soil wasn't bad once you got past the compacted crust.
Got more stuff to plant today (the seven 5-gal bayberries from last week), and stuff to spray, and hopefully, it will rain today/tonight, or I'll spend tomorrow watering.
No rehearsal last night, thank goodness, because the Art Center closes for Good Friday and Easter. I was way too cranky to go, if it had been held.
In other news.....By talked to Albert the Alley God last night, and got an answer about how many books he'd like to take with him, and how soon he needed them: 10, or as many as I can get done, and next Friday. And Albert thinks the price is fair, which it probably is, since he's into things on the cheap most of the time. So, I spent the evening folding pages, since that's the slow part....got 3 book's worth folded last night, plus a start on a fourth. By said he'd help me fold this weekend. We've already got leather aplenty, and stuff to sew with--I'm just doing the sewn leather Coptic, which doesn't use any glue, so it's much faster to assemble. Doing them all the same makes it faster, too. And I've about finished writing a blurb to slip into each book, about how they're made completely by hand, from folding and cutting the pages, to the stitching, and how the paper is "rescued" from a print shop trimmings dumpster. It'd be cool if I could come up with a logo for "Rescued Paper Bindery", which is what I want to call the project.
By said last night the Tivol meeting didn't go anywhere....they were wanting products that they could slap their markup onto and still sell for under $200. Cheap bastards. So, we'll see what's next.
( Grousing... )
Got the pyracantha in the ground yesterday, and only hit two irrigation lines (minor ones at that) in the process. The ground was so hard one of the guys went and rented a post-hole auger to drill the holes out.....took longer to hand-dig the four holes that were close to power lines than it did to auger out the rest. But the soil wasn't bad once you got past the compacted crust.
Got more stuff to plant today (the seven 5-gal bayberries from last week), and stuff to spray, and hopefully, it will rain today/tonight, or I'll spend tomorrow watering.
No rehearsal last night, thank goodness, because the Art Center closes for Good Friday and Easter. I was way too cranky to go, if it had been held.
In other news.....By talked to Albert the Alley God last night, and got an answer about how many books he'd like to take with him, and how soon he needed them: 10, or as many as I can get done, and next Friday. And Albert thinks the price is fair, which it probably is, since he's into things on the cheap most of the time. So, I spent the evening folding pages, since that's the slow part....got 3 book's worth folded last night, plus a start on a fourth. By said he'd help me fold this weekend. We've already got leather aplenty, and stuff to sew with--I'm just doing the sewn leather Coptic, which doesn't use any glue, so it's much faster to assemble. Doing them all the same makes it faster, too. And I've about finished writing a blurb to slip into each book, about how they're made completely by hand, from folding and cutting the pages, to the stitching, and how the paper is "rescued" from a print shop trimmings dumpster. It'd be cool if I could come up with a logo for "Rescued Paper Bindery", which is what I want to call the project.
By said last night the Tivol meeting didn't go anywhere....they were wanting products that they could slap their markup onto and still sell for under $200. Cheap bastards. So, we'll see what's next.
