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Weekend in review.
Mar. 30th, 2005 08:06 amAnother busy weekend, which will probably be the state of things until after Heartland.
Didn't get anything productive done in the greenhouse Sat afternoon, but I did make a nice hypertuffa pot, and several nice concrete leaves. They're at home, wrapped in plastic, waiting for the concrete to cure.
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classics_cat and ranjtheobscure came over Sat night, and we went to dinner at Jade. Yay for dinner someone else cooks! We all were virtuous and resisted the call of the bookstores, and spent the rest of the evening at home gossiping and watching one of the cats chew on Ranj's toes.
Sunday, By & I were planning to take the recycling to Lawrence and do a bit of shopping, but we forgot it was Easter Sunday. It was a rude shock to find everywhere we needed to go closed. We ended up consoling ourselves at Borders....with the new C J Cherryh book, Volume 1 of Keith Smith's Bookbinding Without Adhesives, and a short stack of magazines. (The recycling is still in the back of my car.) When we got home, By got my barrels ready for growing potatoes in (drilling drain holes), and I cleaned up the mint bed. It took both of us to get that limestone birdbath set up in the corner of the mint bed. (Remember, the one I got for Xmas year before last? it's been sitting a disgracefully long time.) The square chimney tiles he salvaged are now set up in various flower beds as accent planters. I think the one next to the sidewalk is going to get a scented geranium.
Monday, By got up early and ran my car downtown where he's been buying gently used tires for the truck. My car has newish front tires for $70, and life is good. He spent Monday doing salvage things. I spent Monday (from 10 to 6) at the greenhouse transplanting....got 5 or 6 plug trays transplanted out. It feels like we're terribly behind in there...a bunch of Donna's help isn't around as much, or at all, and some of the retired folks aren't as much help as they think they are. *sigh* I really want to help, but it's seriously cutting into my other projects. Donna & I did take a little break, and run up to Family Tree, so I could buy seed potatoes. That place is as bad as a book store--I left with seed potatoes, and a pot of winter savory (because I think mine died this winter), and an old-fashioned rose geranium (on loan to the greenhouse until Donna can get a couple of cuttings made), and Aztec and scabious-flowered zinnia seed (which we planted that vrey afternoon), and a pile of corn poppy seeds to plant out at camp. I can't complain too much, though, Donna spent more than I did. It's an odd little competition...this time, I talked her into getting more things than she talked me into.
Spent Tuesday doing housework and resting. Three loads of laundry, fold laundry, clean the kitchen, and bake bread. Poor By spent yesterday helping Robyn catalog her mother's Barbie collection. Which is exactly as exciting as it sounds.
Didn't get anything productive done in the greenhouse Sat afternoon, but I did make a nice hypertuffa pot, and several nice concrete leaves. They're at home, wrapped in plastic, waiting for the concrete to cure.
classics_cat and ranjtheobscure came over Sat night, and we went to dinner at Jade. Yay for dinner someone else cooks! We all were virtuous and resisted the call of the bookstores, and spent the rest of the evening at home gossiping and watching one of the cats chew on Ranj's toes.Sunday, By & I were planning to take the recycling to Lawrence and do a bit of shopping, but we forgot it was Easter Sunday. It was a rude shock to find everywhere we needed to go closed. We ended up consoling ourselves at Borders....with the new C J Cherryh book, Volume 1 of Keith Smith's Bookbinding Without Adhesives, and a short stack of magazines. (The recycling is still in the back of my car.) When we got home, By got my barrels ready for growing potatoes in (drilling drain holes), and I cleaned up the mint bed. It took both of us to get that limestone birdbath set up in the corner of the mint bed. (Remember, the one I got for Xmas year before last? it's been sitting a disgracefully long time.) The square chimney tiles he salvaged are now set up in various flower beds as accent planters. I think the one next to the sidewalk is going to get a scented geranium.
Monday, By got up early and ran my car downtown where he's been buying gently used tires for the truck. My car has newish front tires for $70, and life is good. He spent Monday doing salvage things. I spent Monday (from 10 to 6) at the greenhouse transplanting....got 5 or 6 plug trays transplanted out. It feels like we're terribly behind in there...a bunch of Donna's help isn't around as much, or at all, and some of the retired folks aren't as much help as they think they are. *sigh* I really want to help, but it's seriously cutting into my other projects. Donna & I did take a little break, and run up to Family Tree, so I could buy seed potatoes. That place is as bad as a book store--I left with seed potatoes, and a pot of winter savory (because I think mine died this winter), and an old-fashioned rose geranium (on loan to the greenhouse until Donna can get a couple of cuttings made), and Aztec and scabious-flowered zinnia seed (which we planted that vrey afternoon), and a pile of corn poppy seeds to plant out at camp. I can't complain too much, though, Donna spent more than I did. It's an odd little competition...this time, I talked her into getting more things than she talked me into.
Spent Tuesday doing housework and resting. Three loads of laundry, fold laundry, clean the kitchen, and bake bread. Poor By spent yesterday helping Robyn catalog her mother's Barbie collection. Which is exactly as exciting as it sounds.
