Monday, May 13, 2024

Monday - May 13, 2024

I may have to switch to all-PM Editions if this records-organizing project keeps up.  I'm going in too early to spend time regurgitating the events of the prior day, and coming home bone tired.  May even have to switch to a weekly edition.  ;)

We had an enjoyable Mother's Day dinner with the family, even though I spent most of the day pissed off for one reason or another.  Mostly it was because I wanted to put the tomato stakes in the ground and couldn't get The Husband to cooperate.  

Anyway . . . . 

The kids, big and small, roamed the field in front of Nanny's house that Son #1 bush-hogged Saturday.  One of them caught a baby garter snake and brought it to the yard.  I tried to get them to kill it with a hoe, but they wouldn't do it.  I don't know where it went.  

After dinner, I doctored three fire ant hills for Nanny, one of which was waaaay the hell down the driveway; she doesn't need to be carrying the necessary gallon of water that far.  One of the big kids said that there are ant mounds all over the field they'd just explored.  We may be fighting a losing battle.  

I stopped by the community garden this morning to check on the sugar snap peas, and they needed picking!  Surprise!  My gardening hat was in the car, and I filled it up with peas and buttercrunch lettuce.  Before going to my work site, I dropped the harvest by the office, rinsed it, and put it in the refrigerator.  I hope someone took it home.

The guy who oversees the community garden encourages gardeners to post pictures of their plots in a group text throughout the season.  I sent a picture of my hat-full of peas and lettuce.  He soon called and asked if I'd weighed and logged the harvest.  I hadn't known to weigh/log it.  He's trying to keep track of how much food we're growing, and how much we're donating to a local food bank.  Good idea.  If the gardening goes well, keeping this record will be useful in justifying future grants.

 The peas will need picking again before the week is over.  I need to get some tomatoes in the ground amongst the peas, and I need to fertilize them, I think.  Maybe I'll do that Thursday or Friday, weather permitting.


 

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