**yawn**

Two late evenings in a row make for a very tired Jera. Rehearsal ran late on Thursday, because we had a performance last night to prepare for. And we were mostly prepared last night, much better than recently. (Bob still doesn't have his new glasses, but it was music he knew, so he got most of the music right.)

The art auction was fun...it was a fundraiser for a youth activity group, and run by a group out of New York that just does fundraiser auctions. The auctioner has a trace of a New York accent that got thick when he got excited about something, and a smooth patter that had us giggling every other painting. We didn't bid, we knew better: of the four lithographs we *really* liked, the cheapest started at $175. The one we liked best went for much more than that. Our champagne taste strikes again. I was surprised how many things sold for over $300; I didn't realized Leavenworth had that kind of art buyer. Or that many of them.

I realized something very cheering at work yesterday: I planted more tulips in a day at my commercial landscaping job than I will all season here. I <3 my government job!

Got half of bulbs in the ground, all the stuff that was dry enough to work the ground. I'll probably spend today hiding from the boss planting some wild tulips in landscape beds. That's the slow bulb planting. Tulips are easy. You get the ground fluffy, and tuck them in with a trowel. For naturalized plantings, you have to dig holes or trenches, lay out the bulbs in the hole, then fill the hole in. But you only have to do that once, so I guess it evens out.

I've done little knitting the last couple of days, gee surprise. Did take the flowerbasket shawl to rehearsal with me, to knit on a little while everyone was getting there. Betty thinks I'm crazy. (Okay, I am, but she doesn't really understand how and where I'm bent.)

Frank got his boxes off of my table, so By can use it to lay out his leather stuff. By's sleeping in this morning, then he plans to do shop things, making forms and tools for his projects. I think we're planning to stay home tomorrow, and go running around on Monday. He's got odds and ends he needs from Hobby Lobby for his projects, and the Red Wing shoe store is having a sale on boots, which is the spur I needed to go get new workboots. Not sure what else is on the list.

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...that bald cypress in fall color are exactly the color of good apple cider? Just thought I should share.

I've planted another 400 tulips this afternoon, and I smell like pine bark mulch, and the oregano that borders that flowerbed. Not a bad combination.

Change of weekend planss

I was planning to go home and be a vegetable for the evening, but now it looks like I'm going to go home and plant stuff. The softball coach brought me two large baskets of mixed daylilies, and a 5-gal pot of bearded iris to plant (he's dividing stuff in his yard again). Last time he did this, I made homes for the largess on the tree trail, but I'm out of ready places to do that now. So home it goes. I've got a couple of spots I can tuck it in for the winter, and move it come spring.

Anyhow, once that's in the ground, I can go inside, clean up, and be a vegetable, rather than vegetative. I think I will spend tonight and tomorrow knitting while the computer dumps stuff onto cd's. We need to make more space on the hard drive, see if that perks the poor thing up a bit.

Now that I think about it, I'm going to have a rather full car on the way home. The plants (which I need to make space in the back for), that box of rescued paper I keep forgetting to take inside, a stack fo 3-ring binders I pulled out of the trash today, my coat and coveralls, a coat I found on the ground this morning (it was in good shape, and looked like it ought to fit By), and a big box of trash bags I liberated from a custodial closet.