Yummy Garden Goodness
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greenstormAha! Everything is in the ground in the garden except my attar of roses geranium. Everything. So two days ago, in went, in order from left to right: Tigress, Tropical Sunset, unknown mauve, Gold Medal, and Moonshadow. Next day, between them, in went: daylily, moonbeam coreopsis. In between the next ones are the peonies that I moved from the side of the house. Next rank, next to the path, are minis: Holy Toledo, Lavender Crystals, Amber Sunset, and Mystery Mauve. Another Mystery Mauve is down the way a little with the wintergreen.
I planted up another bed of radishes (June 17/03) next to the stir-fry mix, which is sprouting nicely. The other radishes are working on their second true leaves so I figured it was about time. The cotoneaster is in the ground in the veggie garden to grow a bit for bonsai.
I moved some of those annoying bulbs from around the peonies, which I shall inaccurately refer to as 'Flame Lilies' until I figure out their real name. They're actually corms or bulbs and not rhizomes, which surprised me. The ones I moved look like they're going to flower now even though they're suffering from severe root-chop (I was trying to get at the peonies, not the lilies, since there are lots of the latter all over the place).
I wonder what colour the peonies will be? They're in awful shape from being strangled by the lilies and in the shade both. Someone had dumped a couple of inches of fireplace ashes over the soil too. But! They'll make it, no problem.
Oh! Also planted: Asao clematis and Warm Welcome minirose climber. They're on the fence in the back garden drawing that yellow/orange/purple colour scheme back into the corner by the shed.
No Arctic Kiwis acquired, may need to wait until next year. Eggplant and passiflora both doing poorly, I'm a little worried. That soil may be deficient. The poppy, which has been growing there for awhile, is chlorotic. There are mottled yellowish patches between the veins and the margins are yellow rather than green. Iron deficiency? Zinc or manganese deficiency? Acid soil which prevents uptake of that sort of thing? Just stress? I really need to do PH testing over there. The sunflowers look fine...
Other stuff: the SO got this game, Gauntlet, and a whole bunch of people hung around playing it last night. Luckily the Juggler (this sounds awful) was sickish and so I got to sneak off into the other room and talk with him. I kind of like having people to sneak off with who don't miss the social stuff. I wonder if it was just the being sick, or if I have a true partner in 'YE-GODS-GET-THEM-ALL-OFF-ME!'?
Went out with the SO and the Other Woman together/alone (in that three-person constellation) for the first time the other day. It put her a little on edge because he and I are definitely much less coupley in public than the Juggler and I, and I think she was worried that she was causing dissonance when really it's just the way we are. Had won ton soup (yay!) which I've been craving for a bit.
Poly is great because at least the SO shares my eating preferences. The rest of y'al just suck. ;)
I need to come up with something that takes shade for the side garden. I want to underplant it with wintergreen. It's next to a hydrangea...
I'm looking forward to going out biking with the Juggler. I'm not terribly certain of my ability, certainly not in traffic, so I'm hoping I pick it up fast. He said something about very early am biking, two in the morningish, and that would really be lovely -- but I need to be able to deal with that before I can go. Bah! I hate being incompetent.
I'm also looking forward to the Folk Fest and the Vanpoly retreat, both of which are lazily coming up here. I'm looking less forward to finding a source of income, which I'm going to have to do sooner or later, here. Not looking forward to that at all. Any advice?
Other than that the weather's been great, nice and variable so some days it's warm and some it's not. The garden likes that, I like that, I wish it would rain a little more and a little warmer, though. I really like warm rains.
I'm settling into the house enough that I'm beginning to know where things are. I'm glad of that skill and I need to keep picking up here to keep it up. I need to come to some sort of arrangement re: doing laundry here.
Oh, bah! The SO ran a D&D game the other night, while I was here, at home. I get to go home and wash dishes. I hope he rinsed them. I keep forgetting about that and really, I'm not looking forward to it at all.
Any more random snippets? Not really. Read a whole bunch of book intros and finally settled on The Myth of Monogamy to read, which is a lot less soapboxish so far than the name would imply -- it's mostly a biological study of sexual vs. social mating habits, and it's well-written in lively language. Nice, after that Pern thing that I still haven't finished.
Need to garden in the front. And... that's about it, really. Happy, healthy, and in the process of life. Take care f'r now.
I planted up another bed of radishes (June 17/03) next to the stir-fry mix, which is sprouting nicely. The other radishes are working on their second true leaves so I figured it was about time. The cotoneaster is in the ground in the veggie garden to grow a bit for bonsai.
I moved some of those annoying bulbs from around the peonies, which I shall inaccurately refer to as 'Flame Lilies' until I figure out their real name. They're actually corms or bulbs and not rhizomes, which surprised me. The ones I moved look like they're going to flower now even though they're suffering from severe root-chop (I was trying to get at the peonies, not the lilies, since there are lots of the latter all over the place).
I wonder what colour the peonies will be? They're in awful shape from being strangled by the lilies and in the shade both. Someone had dumped a couple of inches of fireplace ashes over the soil too. But! They'll make it, no problem.
Oh! Also planted: Asao clematis and Warm Welcome minirose climber. They're on the fence in the back garden drawing that yellow/orange/purple colour scheme back into the corner by the shed.
No Arctic Kiwis acquired, may need to wait until next year. Eggplant and passiflora both doing poorly, I'm a little worried. That soil may be deficient. The poppy, which has been growing there for awhile, is chlorotic. There are mottled yellowish patches between the veins and the margins are yellow rather than green. Iron deficiency? Zinc or manganese deficiency? Acid soil which prevents uptake of that sort of thing? Just stress? I really need to do PH testing over there. The sunflowers look fine...
Other stuff: the SO got this game, Gauntlet, and a whole bunch of people hung around playing it last night. Luckily the Juggler (this sounds awful) was sickish and so I got to sneak off into the other room and talk with him. I kind of like having people to sneak off with who don't miss the social stuff. I wonder if it was just the being sick, or if I have a true partner in 'YE-GODS-GET-THEM-ALL-OFF-ME!'?
Went out with the SO and the Other Woman together/alone (in that three-person constellation) for the first time the other day. It put her a little on edge because he and I are definitely much less coupley in public than the Juggler and I, and I think she was worried that she was causing dissonance when really it's just the way we are. Had won ton soup (yay!) which I've been craving for a bit.
Poly is great because at least the SO shares my eating preferences. The rest of y'al just suck. ;)
I need to come up with something that takes shade for the side garden. I want to underplant it with wintergreen. It's next to a hydrangea...
I'm looking forward to going out biking with the Juggler. I'm not terribly certain of my ability, certainly not in traffic, so I'm hoping I pick it up fast. He said something about very early am biking, two in the morningish, and that would really be lovely -- but I need to be able to deal with that before I can go. Bah! I hate being incompetent.
I'm also looking forward to the Folk Fest and the Vanpoly retreat, both of which are lazily coming up here. I'm looking less forward to finding a source of income, which I'm going to have to do sooner or later, here. Not looking forward to that at all. Any advice?
Other than that the weather's been great, nice and variable so some days it's warm and some it's not. The garden likes that, I like that, I wish it would rain a little more and a little warmer, though. I really like warm rains.
I'm settling into the house enough that I'm beginning to know where things are. I'm glad of that skill and I need to keep picking up here to keep it up. I need to come to some sort of arrangement re: doing laundry here.
Oh, bah! The SO ran a D&D game the other night, while I was here, at home. I get to go home and wash dishes. I hope he rinsed them. I keep forgetting about that and really, I'm not looking forward to it at all.
Any more random snippets? Not really. Read a whole bunch of book intros and finally settled on The Myth of Monogamy to read, which is a lot less soapboxish so far than the name would imply -- it's mostly a biological study of sexual vs. social mating habits, and it's well-written in lively language. Nice, after that Pern thing that I still haven't finished.
Need to garden in the front. And... that's about it, really. Happy, healthy, and in the process of life. Take care f'r now.
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Date: 2003-06-17 02:08 pm (UTC)Hey! I resent that remark. ;)
I'm looking less forward to finding a source of income, which I'm going to have to do sooner or later, here. Not looking forward to that at all. Any advice?
I (will) have to do that myself, and the same not-looking-forward-to-it applies to me as well. It's a must-do, not a want-to-do. ;P But I expect that is the same for most people, and I just need to get over my slackitude. *sigh* Realistically, there is no way my happy-go-lucky lifestyle of the past will survive the next few years in any case, so there's no way around it and certainly no valid excuse for not doing it.
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Date: 2003-06-17 02:14 pm (UTC)Maybe it's simply an expression of how important family life is to me.
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Date: 2003-06-17 02:48 pm (UTC)The Retreat will be good. I expect you'll come to my workshop. yummy self-directed painty goodness.
As for job hunting, I tend to approach it as a task I parcel out to myself, with the effort I SHOULD put into homework: I basically cull out the scam jobs and everything I'm blatantly unqualified for (gay male massage and biochemistry) and force myself to apply for 5-10 jobs a day, every week day, otherwise. If I'm putting less effort into it, I'm not "job hunting", I'm "thinking about job hunting".
I really lucked out with the workstudy program, cuz that stream-lined me into jobs I am both semi-qualified for, have a smaller applicant pool and are - OMG - interesting. Plus ones I can actually put on my resume.
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Date: 2003-06-17 03:21 pm (UTC)Kelly also has some basic online training for stuff like MS Office.
Failing that, pick something you like and go work in a shop that sells it. (Gardening anyone? I think you'd have a good shot at getting a job in a gardening store or a plant store.)
And hey - we can always use extra lanternbearers - so talk to me sometime between now and Folk Fest, and if you aren't completely wrapped up in the final concert you can come out to the lantern shack and carry a lantern in the procession. (It doesn't pay anything; it just strikes me as something you might like to do.) I think
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Date: 2003-06-17 04:18 pm (UTC)Wrong Festival :)
Date: 2003-06-17 04:23 pm (UTC)My goal for the present time certainly centers around a garden shop of some kind, which... would be idyllic, really, but also means I should get myself together pretty quickly as it tends to be seasonal.
(Yes, a retail job that involves hauling stuff and dealing with anyone who walks in the street can be considered idyllic).
Workshops (and work)
Date: 2003-06-17 04:26 pm (UTC)Re: workshops, there are a whole bunch I want to attend. I'm not sure how I'll do for balancing free time and workshops but I certainly think a lot of them look interesting. Rope bondage! Body painting! Everything except the birdwatching looked interesting, in fact.
I wonder if we can get the bikes up there too? I wonder how bikeable the area is? That could be really nice indeed.
Re: Workshops (and work)
Date: 2003-06-17 04:34 pm (UTC)I find time balancing with the retreat is usually pretty easy, b/c event usually are pretty low-key...Pemberton area, I think, has some bikeable bits if you have mountain bikes, but getting the bikes up...well, that depends on your veeeeehikles!
Re: Wrong Festival :)
Date: 2003-06-17 04:53 pm (UTC)If you need any more persuasion to get your stuff together and go apply at a garden shop, I have two words for you:
Staff. Discounts.
*grin*
Re: Wrong Festival :)
Date: 2003-06-17 11:17 pm (UTC)I'm taking it personally that you confused my The Folk Festival with the majority of the population's The Folk Festival. It means you don't love me and you're evil and mean and bad. I hate you forever, I'll spread terrible rumours to your loved ones and together we'll plot to hire a hit man for your birthday and finish the job with dulled spoons if that doesn't go off. How could you possibly think that The Folk Festival meant The Folk Festival instead of The Folk Festival!?!?!?!?!?! I told you, like, once! Some people!
Better? :)
Yeah. Really what I need is to crack open a phone book and a transit map re: garden shops and find them. As a non-driver I recognise that most big nurseries are out off transit. As an idiot I need to admit that I keep talking about Southlands nursery and haven't thought of applying there yet. Bah.
The only thing that's stopping me is that if I do it and they say no, then ....someone's said no. Er, yeah. I do make sense sometimes, I promise.
Re: Wrong Festival :)
Date: 2003-06-17 11:37 pm (UTC)And you don't even need a phone book or a transit map. You have the Internet. See how useful I am? :)
Re: Wrong Festival :)
Date: 2003-06-17 11:55 pm (UTC)Re: Wrong Festival :)
Date: 2003-06-18 12:06 am (UTC)