Spent most of today — outside in the garden…
Today, we spent most of our day outside doing yard work. We’ll it seemed like all day but was only about 3 hours. We’d done housework first. But anyway we managed to do:
- finished weeding the strawberry patch
- planted 22 new strawberry plants
- pulled all the creeping jenny in the yard (before it goes to seed and explodes all over the place.
- pulled all the sprouting tees from the yard and garden area.
- planted a rhubarb plant in a container (we lost the last one to moles/voles so this should keep it alive.
- planted a tub of potato plants (one of those new cloth containers for potatoes from Gardener’s Supply
- Moved 2 wooden pallets, a wooden table top, and a glass door from next to the house to the shed area out of sight.
- Cleaned up all the bits of plastic plant identifiers from previous years, old bits of lawn decorations, and just plain crap and put it in the trash for pick up.
- Put up the Spring flag near the driveway entrance– Home is where the heart is.
- Hyperion here: She forgot the most important part: Paying attention to the cat. Emnot was all over us the entire time, rubbing our ankles, flopping on her back and waving her paws in the air, and generally begging for pettings … which we liberally supplied. She may be an attention hog, but she does make working in the garden more fun.
Yesterday we went to the Home & Garden Show in Upper Marlboro, MD at the Equestrian Center. We set up appointments to have people come and give us estimates on replacing our windows in the living room (all single pane uninsulated glass– talk about your money going out the windows … we lose heat in winter and the cool in summer), fixing the leak in the skylight in the bedroom, and finishing our basement (office area and guest room/mother-in-law area), and finishing the cleaning/staining on the rest of the outside of the house (we already did the front half that we could reach.).
So, this has been a good, productive weekend even though I’m behind in my reading. Hopefully I’ll catch up over the coming week. I’ve had three really pretty good days except for the migraine on Friday so I’ve been pushing things to get some of the physical stuff done. Now, it’s back to work on the rest of my To Do list.
Hope your weekend was productive and fun too.