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I've lost my date book! :-\
<*goes back to beating head against wall*>.
The bad/wierd thing is: I don't actually remember taking it out of my office yesterday -- I had no reason to do so, and I saw it there yesterday morning -- yet it is now gone.
Gah!!!
I actually cleaned up my desk trying to find it. (This, in itself, is not a bad thing. But don't you think it should have yielded my date book?)
I dreamed about finding it under a different book, on my coffee table. There are no books on the coffee table, most obviously, not my date book. :-(
And I have work today and need to verify that I'm in at noon.
This can be done by phoning work, but I have this little bit of nervousness in my stomach, born of getting my hours wrong on too many occasions, that says: If you can't verify your hours, it actually increases the chance that, while you were away yesterday, that schedule got changed and now they need you to open at 9:30am. Thus, I would have to be in touch with work... ten minutes ago in order to be catching the bus right now.
You see my (likely non-existant) problem. :-\
Anyway.
In other news: I did some more gardening yesterday.
I went to the "Artistic Plant Nursery" (more expensive than I like, I have to tell you) and got $85.75 (or so) worth of plants and seeds. This translates into:
Plants:
1 dark purple clamatis (To grow up one side of the garden arch -- in theory, it won't tak heaps of work).
1 "Big Daddy" and 1 "Canadian Blue" hosta (Neither of which are the rich turquoisite blue that I was expecting. Blast. More of an "old turquoise green, covered with a fine layer of dust).
1 Ostrich fern. Which I've stuck in the back corner of the shade garden area, and which I hope will spread all through it. (I can keep it in check by eating its fiddlehead greens in the spring. ;-)
Seeds:
Blackish-purple Columbines (really, really pretty).
Black sweet woodroffe
Black violas (also slightly purple)
forget-me-nots
Monkshood (4 feet tall, with purple flowers)
Taragon
"Jet Black" double-bloom hollyhocks (actually very dark red), different from "Watchman".
"Black Velvet" nasturtiums (actually a dark, rusty red -- you can eat these).
Since I was planting shade plants yesterday, I planted the first group of seeds -- each on in something of a clump, along with a collection (3 packets worth) of "shade wild flowers" (mixed), some pink and white columbines, and the "everlasting pea" perenial sweet peas (for the other side of the arch). I also planted the herbs Paul brought home from his organic gardening class. The fever-few and the pansey will (I think) be fine, now that they are out of dirrect sun-light (for most of the day, although once the sweet peas start climbing they should be really happy), but the scull-cap didn't transfer so well. I'm hoping a few of them survive, but we shall see.
Now I wait for the rain.
And plant my veggies, and my herbs, and my sun-loving plants. I think i'm going to need another 70L bag of top-soil, though. ;-) Just to be on the safe side. :-) I would also like to get some borrage. :-)
I think I'm going to plant my corn and my squash in with a mixture of sardines and powdered milk. (Not the greatest smell, but very full of calcium (for the corn) and nutrients in general for both of them. Plus it may keep the squirels from digging them up. -- Currently, I'm trying to distract them with little piles of bird-seed that I've left out.
Does anyone know of anything that will counter-act the salt of the sardines?
Anywhoo. That is that. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
<*goes back to beating head against wall*>.
The bad/wierd thing is: I don't actually remember taking it out of my office yesterday -- I had no reason to do so, and I saw it there yesterday morning -- yet it is now gone.
Gah!!!
I actually cleaned up my desk trying to find it. (This, in itself, is not a bad thing. But don't you think it should have yielded my date book?)
I dreamed about finding it under a different book, on my coffee table. There are no books on the coffee table, most obviously, not my date book. :-(
And I have work today and need to verify that I'm in at noon.
This can be done by phoning work, but I have this little bit of nervousness in my stomach, born of getting my hours wrong on too many occasions, that says: If you can't verify your hours, it actually increases the chance that, while you were away yesterday, that schedule got changed and now they need you to open at 9:30am. Thus, I would have to be in touch with work... ten minutes ago in order to be catching the bus right now.
You see my (likely non-existant) problem. :-\
Anyway.
In other news: I did some more gardening yesterday.
I went to the "Artistic Plant Nursery" (more expensive than I like, I have to tell you) and got $85.75 (or so) worth of plants and seeds. This translates into:
Plants:
1 dark purple clamatis (To grow up one side of the garden arch -- in theory, it won't tak heaps of work).
1 "Big Daddy" and 1 "Canadian Blue" hosta (Neither of which are the rich turquoisite blue that I was expecting. Blast. More of an "old turquoise green, covered with a fine layer of dust).
1 Ostrich fern. Which I've stuck in the back corner of the shade garden area, and which I hope will spread all through it. (I can keep it in check by eating its fiddlehead greens in the spring. ;-)
Seeds:
Blackish-purple Columbines (really, really pretty).
Black sweet woodroffe
Black violas (also slightly purple)
forget-me-nots
Monkshood (4 feet tall, with purple flowers)
Taragon
"Jet Black" double-bloom hollyhocks (actually very dark red), different from "Watchman".
"Black Velvet" nasturtiums (actually a dark, rusty red -- you can eat these).
Since I was planting shade plants yesterday, I planted the first group of seeds -- each on in something of a clump, along with a collection (3 packets worth) of "shade wild flowers" (mixed), some pink and white columbines, and the "everlasting pea" perenial sweet peas (for the other side of the arch). I also planted the herbs Paul brought home from his organic gardening class. The fever-few and the pansey will (I think) be fine, now that they are out of dirrect sun-light (for most of the day, although once the sweet peas start climbing they should be really happy), but the scull-cap didn't transfer so well. I'm hoping a few of them survive, but we shall see.
Now I wait for the rain.
And plant my veggies, and my herbs, and my sun-loving plants. I think i'm going to need another 70L bag of top-soil, though. ;-) Just to be on the safe side. :-) I would also like to get some borrage. :-)
I think I'm going to plant my corn and my squash in with a mixture of sardines and powdered milk. (Not the greatest smell, but very full of calcium (for the corn) and nutrients in general for both of them. Plus it may keep the squirels from digging them up. -- Currently, I'm trying to distract them with little piles of bird-seed that I've left out.
Does anyone know of anything that will counter-act the salt of the sardines?
Anywhoo. That is that. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
