Planting and Painting

This weekend was gorgeous. I totally took off work for a change and gardened all day on Saturday. Planted lots of vegetables just to see if my crop rotation concept will pan out. Maybe it will. Last year, and the year before, I was hounded by what seemed to be a fungus. Loathe to really apply fungus eradicator (it's extra funky), I'm just giving beans and tomatoes a rest. In the pod garden are now collards, patty pan/acorn/zucchini/yellow squashes. Some leaf lettuce, arugula along with a japeleno and a yellow pepper. That ought to keep us busy. Now I just have to go out and coax the little dears up in a not sunny enough environment. Wish me luck there.

The warm pink azaela bush is lovely in the front yard and I also planted a 6' magnolia bush. That should be interesting as it tries to crowd out the forsithia which I'd like to way pare back.

Guess I should have been on Skype on Saturday to talk to Meredith, but I did all the planting, whacked down a bunch of ugly brush, and made squirting attempts at killing random poison ivy. That was a day long job. Meanwhile a guy was working on my new part of the bedroom – he spent hours and hours this week making repairs and priming and painting… and now it’s all painted. Next I put up blinds, then it's on to laying down the little FLOR carpet squares and finding fun furniture, meanwhile moving everything around from room to room and floor to floor in sort of a game that remind me of those square hand-held games with sliding pieces that you have to get in the right order but along the way, they get totally jumbled and seem hopelessly out of order. Oh yea, that’s my life!

Fifteen Puzzle!

Sunday I found myself lazing around reading the Sunday paper. Afterwards, I pulled out the laptop and upgraded the ram and new CD/DVD drive that was nearly starting to collect dust. Well that was entirely too easy to do, I must say. Next, it's on to the fun software/hardware that lets me convert video to DVD. I hear it's not a totally successful process. But we will see. The primary goal is to reduce VHS tape clutter, to travel more easily with media and to convert my sister's old tapes (work, family, whatever) onto a more dupable and shipable format.

Vacuumed the new room, dusted and looked at the vast amount of crap that I'm afraid will simply end up in the basement that's not organized either. Argh.

Time for the 3rd to final Sopranos, which I taped (VHS no less).

Good weekend. Much accomplished.