06.06.08
busy b
I was going to write something substantial tonight but (substandard is all I’ve got) I spent several hours outside gardening after work this afternoon and now I am exhausted and I still have to get shit packed to go to the lake tomorrow morning. We’re hoping to get the trailer hauled out this weekend which means moving into the Bluebird Hilton (the school bus) so I have some major cleaning to do. Spiders love the Hilton and while I don’t mind sharing my bed with some critters (Heiny and the dog) I would prefer not to sleep with arachnids… and for the record I don’t want to sleep with the fishes either. So tomorrow will be spent sterilizing, de-bugging and scrubbing the bus and clearing our stuff out of the old place. I’m not complaining about all of the work (surprise!), it’s all a means to an end. I want to be in my cabin by the end of the summer and having to live in the big yellow tin can is pretty good motivation to build like crazy… stir crazy.
In truly exciting news, my peas are about six inches high, my beets are up and my cukes and zucch’s are popping out too! This is the best part of this season for me, finally seeing seeds turn into plants. I get very excited. Now I just have to keep the deer and the gophers out, it’s a good thing I don’t have a gun, we’d be eating venison and rodent stew. Gross.
My neighbor sold her house so my mom and I went over and ransacked her gardens today (with her permission of course) as she is unable to take her plants with her and the new owners are bulldozing the place. Free plants are almost better than homegrown from seed. I put together several planters to take to the lake and transplanted the rest of my booty into my other flower beds. My gardens still need work but they are coming along… one day my thumb will be green, for now I’ll settle for pink with a tinge of chartreuse.
Ok, I have procrastinated enough I have shit to do. Seriously, I have to go pack, stop detaining me! No really, there is a list as long as my arm of stuff I have to get together and I have a load of laundry to do too. Honestly, I can’t let you hold me back any longer, I have to go get stuff done! Enough already, you have got to let me get to work. I don’t know how you do it but you always keep me here longer than I really should be. Fucking buncha time sucking vampires!
heartinhand said,
June 6, 2008 at 1:34 pm
You and the Heinmeister can pretend you are the Partridge Family living on the bus this summer! LOL! C’mon get happy!!
I’m so jealous of your beans. Seriously, I might have to go for a road trip. If you see a little woman sitting in your bean row chomping away like some bunny rabbit, please don’t shoot!
aintgotno said,
June 6, 2008 at 11:58 pm
wow… ben’s gettin butch and bitchy — i rather like it!!!!
Chica said,
June 7, 2008 at 2:38 pm
If your peas are about six inches high, the beets are up and the cukes and zucch’s are popping out; then I’d say your thumb is pretty green! Last thing I planted was two years ago, a whole bunch of small trees, and how they survived I haven’t a clue. Perhaps it was me yelling at them telling them to live dammit, LIVE.
Anyhoo have a great time scrubbin that bus out, I’ll be relaxing for you.
Betz said,
June 7, 2008 at 7:59 pm
*stares at the thermometer*
I sure could use some Canada cool right now…. that lake is sounding damn refreshing. Freakin’ early heat wave.
Grats on the garden success. TAKE PICTURES!! hehe
Bitzky said,
June 8, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Bluebird Hilton? I love it! I feel very privileged to have visited it, too
Squilla said,
June 9, 2008 at 12:51 am
You are do Green Thumbed Woman! As I’ve said before – I am so jealous of your garden. Here at mums the frosts are a-comin’ and we’ve just picked off the last of the straggling snow peas. *Tag*
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elisa said,
June 9, 2008 at 6:17 am
Your thumb is definitely greener than mine!
chirotic said,
June 9, 2008 at 5:34 pm
“and I went over and ransacked her gardens today”
That’s a euphemism isn’t it? When was the last time you got your gardens ransacked? And don’t even start about the marrow you found in the bush for God’s sake…
heidiland said,
June 10, 2008 at 2:59 am
It was a good thing that I saw no spiders during my stay at the Blue Bird Hilton.
Quel horror!
Time sucking vampires?? Well! Whatever…
Woman… You need to get your butt to lake! Stat! :p