Chemical reaction machine
Jul. 25th, 2022 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormOver the last three days I've done almost a full pass on watering the whole garden once, popping up to move the weeper hoses and the kinda messed up sprinkler I have, leave whatever it is on for an hour, maybe move it again, maybe give the well and the pressure tank a rest. Rinse, repeat. It is in maybe eighteen or so segments? Josh is helping me look into something a little more robust, whether it's a pressure somethingorotherer to make up for the fluctuation and general low pressure from my pressure tank, a sprinkler that can handle it, or a ton of drip irrigation (honestly lower tech than a pressure whatsit and maybe the same cost?)
I don't mind so much. I get to go up and visit the garden over and over. I like to go look in the morning before work anyhow, and when I'm working from home it's nice to get a salad for lunch, and then why not go up there after chores anyhow?
Somehow the mosquitoes have got bad again, strange because it hasn't rained in awhile. We're due our 32C heat wave coming up, that should get rid of them. Because the heat's on the way I actually put the fan in the upstairs window finally, pointing outwards, which when I leave it overnight and then shut everything up in the morning keeps it pretty cool in here. The basement has bounced from 16C a week ago to almost 19C during the heat of the day today. If this keeps up next weekend might be actually uncomfortably warm down there. Maybe I'll go swimming if it gets to that point.
I'd dug some of the holes for my apple trees etc but messed up my knee, I think in doing it. Tonight I took it pretty easy but got one into the ground with its friends the cinnamon rose, some asparagus, and a black velvet gooseberry. I'm going to add either a cherry or a grape and then do the perennials next year; I'm laying down cardboard as I go to suppress weeds so in spring there should be less competition.
Interestingly, dandelions seem to do very well there. It was grain beds last year, so more-or-less weed-free, and it's neat to see what's colonized that location as opposed to the other places that were disturbed.
I was incredibly tired again today, even before learning at work that they're deprioritizing me for training opportunities because of my medical leave, "for my own health". I emphasized that I could make decisions about whether something was bad for my health or not, and they should not be trying to do it for me. We'll see if the message got through.
There was a round of covid going around the office recently apparently, though it seems I missed out on it (though I haven't been testing for my "normal symptoms" that I get at least every couple weeks anyhow like weird temperature stuff + being really tired, so who knows? I used to use those as a reason to stay home, to protect people, but work clearly does not want to be protected anymore based on their new policies). Actually there's a round of covid going around everywhere; I know an awful lot of people who have had it twice now and folks have been rounding down their precautions over and over for awhile, iteratively. I guess the multi-year attention span was impressive; I also guess there was no way it was going to last longer than this.
Meanwhile they're building a new hospital in town here, but keep shutting down emergency services because they can't get enough staffing for the current one.
Eh, enough of that. I got the corn some water, I made bubble tea, and now I'm tired and going to bed. Tomorrow and every day I will go into my garden.
I don't mind so much. I get to go up and visit the garden over and over. I like to go look in the morning before work anyhow, and when I'm working from home it's nice to get a salad for lunch, and then why not go up there after chores anyhow?
Somehow the mosquitoes have got bad again, strange because it hasn't rained in awhile. We're due our 32C heat wave coming up, that should get rid of them. Because the heat's on the way I actually put the fan in the upstairs window finally, pointing outwards, which when I leave it overnight and then shut everything up in the morning keeps it pretty cool in here. The basement has bounced from 16C a week ago to almost 19C during the heat of the day today. If this keeps up next weekend might be actually uncomfortably warm down there. Maybe I'll go swimming if it gets to that point.
I'd dug some of the holes for my apple trees etc but messed up my knee, I think in doing it. Tonight I took it pretty easy but got one into the ground with its friends the cinnamon rose, some asparagus, and a black velvet gooseberry. I'm going to add either a cherry or a grape and then do the perennials next year; I'm laying down cardboard as I go to suppress weeds so in spring there should be less competition.
Interestingly, dandelions seem to do very well there. It was grain beds last year, so more-or-less weed-free, and it's neat to see what's colonized that location as opposed to the other places that were disturbed.
I was incredibly tired again today, even before learning at work that they're deprioritizing me for training opportunities because of my medical leave, "for my own health". I emphasized that I could make decisions about whether something was bad for my health or not, and they should not be trying to do it for me. We'll see if the message got through.
There was a round of covid going around the office recently apparently, though it seems I missed out on it (though I haven't been testing for my "normal symptoms" that I get at least every couple weeks anyhow like weird temperature stuff + being really tired, so who knows? I used to use those as a reason to stay home, to protect people, but work clearly does not want to be protected anymore based on their new policies). Actually there's a round of covid going around everywhere; I know an awful lot of people who have had it twice now and folks have been rounding down their precautions over and over for awhile, iteratively. I guess the multi-year attention span was impressive; I also guess there was no way it was going to last longer than this.
Meanwhile they're building a new hospital in town here, but keep shutting down emergency services because they can't get enough staffing for the current one.
Eh, enough of that. I got the corn some water, I made bubble tea, and now I'm tired and going to bed. Tomorrow and every day I will go into my garden.
