The obligatory "we still exist" post
Apr. 4th, 2011 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinBeen meaning to post for days, haven't for a variety of reasons--no internet for a couple days, crappy connections, busy playing outside, tired from playing outside. You know how it goes.
Just got back from checkups for the kids. The Bug is 36" tall and 33 lb, The Miss is 39" tall and 36 lb, and they are well-grown children. Doc would like them both to be talking more, and more clearly, so we're going to work on that.
Yesterday was serious gardening day. By started the lawn mower, mowed the 'tween yard, then he and I split the work of knocking down the weeds and grass in the old veggie garden. And then, he got the tiller started (my hero!) and made the first pass through that. So yay for a nice big garden this year.
Beyond that, I've been making strides on the flower beds. The kids let me dig a bunch of iris out of the corner of the old veggie garden and move them to beds in the front of the house, and move strawberries from the old garden to the new strawberry beds. I still have a ton of iris to dig, but my neighbor has said she'll take those. Yay!
D bought me a "Belle of Georgia" peach tree last time she was in Oklahoma visiting her mother, and declared it a birthday present. It's on the sidewalk, waiting for the wind to die down a bit before it gets planted. Got a spot ready and waiting. She also gave me a gallon pot of orange lilies, that I think I've got a spot for. Or I can move a few daisies and make a spot.
Been working on cleaning out the older section of the mint bed; it's gotten grassy the past couple of years. I decided to mix things up a bit, and I've moved some daisies and daylilies and other flowers in there to brighten the bed. The daylilies came from the old bed on the south end of the house--I'd like to get rid of that bed, so that chunk of grass is easier to mow.
What else is going on?
Hit the "bag sale" day of the local library book sale, and got some good things, including the novel that the movie "Rob Roy" is based on.
Mom is having adventures with Grandma's checking account lately. Grandma forgot that the bank got bought out and changed its name a few months back, and wrote checks on the old account, and doesn't understand why the checks weren't good, because they were brand new checks, and they were still good, dammit. I hate to say it, but it's time to take that away from her. But it's easy for me to say, I'm not the one there arguing with her.
Salvage Guy showed up last week, at By's work, to chat and to get By to come look at some salvage. Didn't have much to say about abandoning our project, besides "I haven't forgotten you guys, I've been really busy." Errrrr. We're just going to let it go, and not have him back out. More work, less angst and trauma.
By made me **teeny** knitting needles so I can try a fancy knitted doll dress pattern I found. Now I have to figure out what would be a close equivalent to sewing silk #50.
Just got back from checkups for the kids. The Bug is 36" tall and 33 lb, The Miss is 39" tall and 36 lb, and they are well-grown children. Doc would like them both to be talking more, and more clearly, so we're going to work on that.
Yesterday was serious gardening day. By started the lawn mower, mowed the 'tween yard, then he and I split the work of knocking down the weeds and grass in the old veggie garden. And then, he got the tiller started (my hero!) and made the first pass through that. So yay for a nice big garden this year.
Beyond that, I've been making strides on the flower beds. The kids let me dig a bunch of iris out of the corner of the old veggie garden and move them to beds in the front of the house, and move strawberries from the old garden to the new strawberry beds. I still have a ton of iris to dig, but my neighbor has said she'll take those. Yay!
D bought me a "Belle of Georgia" peach tree last time she was in Oklahoma visiting her mother, and declared it a birthday present. It's on the sidewalk, waiting for the wind to die down a bit before it gets planted. Got a spot ready and waiting. She also gave me a gallon pot of orange lilies, that I think I've got a spot for. Or I can move a few daisies and make a spot.
Been working on cleaning out the older section of the mint bed; it's gotten grassy the past couple of years. I decided to mix things up a bit, and I've moved some daisies and daylilies and other flowers in there to brighten the bed. The daylilies came from the old bed on the south end of the house--I'd like to get rid of that bed, so that chunk of grass is easier to mow.
What else is going on?
Hit the "bag sale" day of the local library book sale, and got some good things, including the novel that the movie "Rob Roy" is based on.
Mom is having adventures with Grandma's checking account lately. Grandma forgot that the bank got bought out and changed its name a few months back, and wrote checks on the old account, and doesn't understand why the checks weren't good, because they were brand new checks, and they were still good, dammit. I hate to say it, but it's time to take that away from her. But it's easy for me to say, I'm not the one there arguing with her.
Salvage Guy showed up last week, at By's work, to chat and to get By to come look at some salvage. Didn't have much to say about abandoning our project, besides "I haven't forgotten you guys, I've been really busy." Errrrr. We're just going to let it go, and not have him back out. More work, less angst and trauma.
By made me **teeny** knitting needles so I can try a fancy knitted doll dress pattern I found. Now I have to figure out what would be a close equivalent to sewing silk #50.
