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The bad news--DG is going to be late to very late today, because she lost her car keys, and I need her to show me where all the stuff is to mix fertilizer solution for the constant-feed setup. Grrrr.
The good news--NPR just said that Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for the Supreme Court.
The cats (mostly Fox-kitten) have been earning their keep lately...three dead mice in as many days. Of course, By had to chase Fox all over the house to get last night'skill prize away from him...Fox had mauled it beyond survival, lost the thing, and then found it again, and was carrying the barely twitching body through the kitchen when By finally caught up with him. Which, I guess, was the routine By had done Tuesday night too. The third mouse, a nice fat one, was left dead but barely messed up on the kitchen floor this morning. We don't know who to thank for that one.
Spent some quality time talking with By last night, mostly figuring out scheduling for the upcoming weekend. I need to take one of the dry-erase boards, post it in the kitchen or something, and make it a writeable calender, since we ignore the paper one.
Had a very busy day at work yesterday. All of the Monday volunteers have been asked to shift to Wed, which means that I now get three days of whirlwind, before my slow day on Friday. Grrr. We did get a lot done, and I appreciate that, I just don't have much patience with some of the volunteers. Some of them have to be babysat, and we have to find projects for them that they can do or are willing to do. And since it's bad PR to piss off the volunteers....But we did get most of the bulbs planted yesterday, thanks to a pair of little old ladies who're much tougher than they look (not that that's saying much, they both look as fragile as birds, but damn, those gals can work). Since our rose guy was here, we got five poor health or died-to-below-the-graft roses out of the garden, and donated ones in their place. I think we've only got 4 of the first batch of donated roses left to plant, which isn't bad, considering how much time we spent trying to figure out where things are going. (The ones we pulled are at my house now, and are all in the ground already. Go me!) And we got all but two of Donna's super-cheap crapemyrtles in the ground, too. Lots of digging yesterday. Might be why I was so tired last night.
I've got a few last-minute cuttings to take today--poinsettias, and one variety of verbena, and backups of the angelonia (since a bunch of the angelonia bits on the mist bench don't look like they're going to root). We've got my favorite work-study person (J'nee) today, who'll be getting a pile of projects she's not going to like, so we'll have to listen to her bitch. Lovely. And, one of the retail nurseries is donating another pile of roses today, so I'll have to catalog those and work on getting them in the ground. Or making some of them go away--Donna didn't promise the donor that they'd all get installed here, just that we'd send them a nice letter of thanks, so they could write the stuff off.
The good news--NPR just said that Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for the Supreme Court.
The cats (mostly Fox-kitten) have been earning their keep lately...three dead mice in as many days. Of course, By had to chase Fox all over the house to get last night's
Spent some quality time talking with By last night, mostly figuring out scheduling for the upcoming weekend. I need to take one of the dry-erase boards, post it in the kitchen or something, and make it a writeable calender, since we ignore the paper one.
Had a very busy day at work yesterday. All of the Monday volunteers have been asked to shift to Wed, which means that I now get three days of whirlwind, before my slow day on Friday. Grrr. We did get a lot done, and I appreciate that, I just don't have much patience with some of the volunteers. Some of them have to be babysat, and we have to find projects for them that they can do or are willing to do. And since it's bad PR to piss off the volunteers....But we did get most of the bulbs planted yesterday, thanks to a pair of little old ladies who're much tougher than they look (not that that's saying much, they both look as fragile as birds, but damn, those gals can work). Since our rose guy was here, we got five poor health or died-to-below-the-graft roses out of the garden, and donated ones in their place. I think we've only got 4 of the first batch of donated roses left to plant, which isn't bad, considering how much time we spent trying to figure out where things are going. (The ones we pulled are at my house now, and are all in the ground already. Go me!) And we got all but two of Donna's super-cheap crapemyrtles in the ground, too. Lots of digging yesterday. Might be why I was so tired last night.
I've got a few last-minute cuttings to take today--poinsettias, and one variety of verbena, and backups of the angelonia (since a bunch of the angelonia bits on the mist bench don't look like they're going to root). We've got my favorite work-study person (J'nee) today, who'll be getting a pile of projects she's not going to like, so we'll have to listen to her bitch. Lovely. And, one of the retail nurseries is donating another pile of roses today, so I'll have to catalog those and work on getting them in the ground. Or making some of them go away--Donna didn't promise the donor that they'd all get installed here, just that we'd send them a nice letter of thanks, so they could write the stuff off.
