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Weekending and Planning
Mar. 13th, 2011 06:27 pmApparently I'm not the only one who finally got time to post at the end of the weekend. ;-) We were thinking about going to Chicago, and decided against it on the grounds that Rori was unlikely to be good for an overnighter and I was too tired to day trip it. After the fact we remembered that it is, effectively, St. Patrick's weekend and perhaps not the best of times to visit Chicago if you're not into crowds, eh?
Instead, I did house-y stuff for the most part. Laundry, dishes (Oh, the dishes!!), changed the sheets, emptied all the small trashes about the house, dealt with the cat box, made bread, and started my spring cleaning. Barely. I got Anneliese's room straightened up, beat the rug, swept the floor, put all the books and stuffed animals away, and wiped down the walls, moldings, and floor. Complicated by having to get Rori out of whatever she'd gotten into every 2 minutes.
I'm also planning this year's garden. There are some good idea's in this year's crop of magazines. I have a love/hate relationship with Mary Jane's Farm. The idiotic: How to make a Chicken Diaper. The useful: making new beds by laying down cardboard and then layering compost materials NOW - and it should be ready by the time it's warm enough to plant. Also useful was the article in Hobby Farms Homes on making your own "seed strips" by gluing seeds to newspaper or toilet paper with wheat paste. I may make "seed blocks" - but it should make planting go a lot faster, especially with things like carrots and lettuce. And I never have been good at thinning.
NEXT year I should be able to use the beds to possibly plant an pseudo-English hedge... I want to incorporate red and white currants, gooseberries, red and black berries, hawthorne, blackthorne, holly, and maybe some sour cherries and blue berries. With an underplanting of ligonberries. It's a thought, anyway. Something of a wasted effort, as we don't really WANT to stay in this house a lot longer if we can manage to get into a financial situation to afford something larger. We're a ways from that.
But since Rori will be occupied most mornings for the nonce, John is thinking about trying to get a job working out of the house for one of the Disney-oriented travel companies. That should allow us to start to get a little bit ahead and eventually be where we want to be. In addition to being something for his resume and just give him something to do.
Instead, I did house-y stuff for the most part. Laundry, dishes (Oh, the dishes!!), changed the sheets, emptied all the small trashes about the house, dealt with the cat box, made bread, and started my spring cleaning. Barely. I got Anneliese's room straightened up, beat the rug, swept the floor, put all the books and stuffed animals away, and wiped down the walls, moldings, and floor. Complicated by having to get Rori out of whatever she'd gotten into every 2 minutes.
I'm also planning this year's garden. There are some good idea's in this year's crop of magazines. I have a love/hate relationship with Mary Jane's Farm. The idiotic: How to make a Chicken Diaper. The useful: making new beds by laying down cardboard and then layering compost materials NOW - and it should be ready by the time it's warm enough to plant. Also useful was the article in Hobby Farms Homes on making your own "seed strips" by gluing seeds to newspaper or toilet paper with wheat paste. I may make "seed blocks" - but it should make planting go a lot faster, especially with things like carrots and lettuce. And I never have been good at thinning.
NEXT year I should be able to use the beds to possibly plant an pseudo-English hedge... I want to incorporate red and white currants, gooseberries, red and black berries, hawthorne, blackthorne, holly, and maybe some sour cherries and blue berries. With an underplanting of ligonberries. It's a thought, anyway. Something of a wasted effort, as we don't really WANT to stay in this house a lot longer if we can manage to get into a financial situation to afford something larger. We're a ways from that.
But since Rori will be occupied most mornings for the nonce, John is thinking about trying to get a job working out of the house for one of the Disney-oriented travel companies. That should allow us to start to get a little bit ahead and eventually be where we want to be. In addition to being something for his resume and just give him something to do.
