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Thursday, March 13, 2008
post something -- ANYTHING
Let's see how short I can make the snippets:
I planted two kinds of tomatoes, three kinds of peppers, and broccoli in little seedling trays last week. Almost immediately, the broccoli popped up, and today we have little sprouts of everything else. Pictures soon. Maybe.
T made our little side-porch, which had previously been just kind of a non-navigable catchall closet cluttered up with garden hoses, rubber boots, tarpaulins, rags, and sundry other items, into a lovely little plant room for me. He cleaned it out, covered the excess openings to the outside with plastic sheeting, put in a shelf at just the right height, and added a fluorescent fixture with grow-light tubes as well as a clamp light for additional light and warmth. I put my trays of seedlings in there at night. I think they like it. I know I do. I like to stand in there and putter around, thinning the broccoli and sorting seeds into groups based on planting dates and such.
That one wasn't very short at all.
Speaking of T, last week he had the flu. He came home with it from a work trip to Vegas that lasted the entire previous week. This week, C had her turn (with the flu, not Vegas). And I mean THE FLU, not the kind of stuff (usually involving digestive upset) that most people call the flu. Here's hoping that LT and I continue to fight off all invading germs with our patented Immune Systems Of Steel.
Maybe brevity is overrated.
I watched Akeelah and the Bee over the weekend. As a former spelling-bee nerd, can I just say that I loved that movie and Akeelah is my new little fictional hero?
Also, I now have a new hobby: ogling sock yarn on the Internet and fine-tuning my Knitpicks.com wishlist, in anticipation of the day when I will stimulate the economy by making a somewhat sizeable purchase there. Just doing my patriotic duty as an American! I now feel that I cannot be a complete person without knowing how to knit socks. It's all Kat's fault. I am even thinking of trying my hand at dyeing my own yarn, though I can't blame that on Kat.
Jenn is coming for a visit in two weeks. I'm so excited! I'm also a little freaked out, because the whole "we can paint the bathrooms after we're moved in" thing has turned (as I secretly feared it would even as I uttered the aforementioned rationalization) into "hey, we've lived with the ugly walls in the bathrooms this long; how bad can they be?" (Answer: very, very bad. As Jenn will soon be able to tell you.) We are going to take a trip to Yosemite and possibly also a separate flower-ogling picture-taking road trip to maybe Columbia State Historical Park or something. (I so would love to do Bodie and Mono Lake, but the nearest open highway across the Sierras at this time of year is... not very near.) And we are just generally going to gab each other's ears off and also maybe do some crocheting and watching of Lost, which I have never seen even thirty seconds of in my life before, but I want to. Oh, dear, what am I getting myself into? Jericho was addictive enough, and there were (will be) only ever something on the order of twenty episodes of that.
School is going well. I find that carrying only six units at a time is definitely the best way to maintain a 4.0 average. And at this rate it would only take me six or eight years to earn an associates' degree!
Scout is doing much better. No more dog-logs or puddles in the house (yay!). She's more comfortable and relaxed overall (yay!), but she STILL growls at my husband whenever he walks into the room. She never acts like she's going to bite him, and as soon as he approaches her and she smells him she's fine, and if he sits or lies down, she is all about the love and kisses and snuggles. But the growling really hurts his feelings (à la that annoying miniature cowboy in Night at the Museum, which I also watched over the weekend, but not for the first time).
And I think that is all. If it isn't, judging by the time (2:39 and hello the time change is killing me AGAIN), it should be.
Comments
item: lest any fellow knitpicks addicts think I'm bonkers, I want to clarify that I know that knitpicks.com doesn't have an actual wish list function. (But wouldn't that be awesome?) It's just a notepad file that I keep on my desktop. As I was climbing into bed this morning, this goof popped into my head and I seriously considered getting up and starting up this dinosaur of a machine just to fix it.
Posted by: Rachel at March 13, 2008 10:27 AM
Mmm...Tomatoes. Your little greenhouse sounds so cute! I can't wait to see it.
Is Akeelah and the Bee the one where she sees the letters floating around her head, making words? That made me think of you.
So do I see a bathroom-painting party in our future?
Can't wait to see you. I'm counting down the days.
Posted by: jenn at March 13, 2008 12:42 PM
Your greenhouse and vegetable gardening talk make me want to grow something edible, too!
I'll be interested to hear what you think of Lost (assuming you do watch some of it). :o)
Posted by: Michael at March 13, 2008 03:47 PM
Oooh, Lost. We've been watching from the beginning but I'm starting to lose interest. Not sure why.
But we've picked our Jericho habit up again. GOOD STUFF, there. Is it really done at the end of this season? Why? WHY?
Posted by: mary at March 14, 2008 07:23 AM
Don't like Knitpicks. Mostly because they don't ship outside the US. However, am knitting socks even as I read this.(With some yarn I bought in Austria. Doesn't that sound glamourous? What it is, though, is plain brown wool. The husband wanted some thicker socks.)
Posted by: dichroic at March 14, 2008 02:34 PM
go to herrschners.com they have sock yarn too. REALLY cute sock yarn, at that.
Posted by: debi at March 14, 2008 03:37 PM
I loved Akeelah and the Bee too. And yes, I will take responsibility for the sock yarn thing. Sorry...
Posted by: Kat with a K at March 17, 2008 02:44 PM
