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I just had an online Master Gardener class on vegetable, herbs, and fruits. I haven’t grown vegetables for years, but I have a bit of an urge to try a few veggies in a different area of my yard. Maybe I’ll sneak out to the garden center and snag some plants. It should be easy to social distance outside.
Just re-caulked all the wood on our southern exposure side of our house. I then repainted it. These past three days I have been working on retaining my deck. Luckily the weather has been amazing. Next week, I can start working on the landscaping.
I just had an online Master Gardener class on vegetable, herbs, and fruits. I haven’t grown vegetables for years, but I have a bit of an urge to try a few veggies in a different area of my yard. Maybe I’ll sneak out to the garden center and snag some plants. It should be easy to social distance outside.
Geez, I had all kinds of plans for new garden beds in my yard. Since all our chapter Master Gardener activities have been cancelled, I need to fulfill my gardening "jones" right at home. But our governor just slapped a "stay-at-home" order on all non-essential trips extending until June 10th and it's effective immediately. I wish he could have given until April 1st like DC is doing; I could have gotten a lot of chores and errands done tomorrow. Now I have no mulch, and no new plants, and I've already been stuck in my house for 6 damn weeks. My yard service can't even come, or my yard helpers!
Where to begin. I have already raked my yard since the snow has been gone for some time now (other than last week’s five inches which melted in just a few days). It takes days for me to get that done, and about twenty leaf bags. The raking includes numerous landscaping beds. In the fall I do a pretty good job but after the snow falls leaves still pile up. I’ve cleaned up my garden bed. It’s only 8x4. I plan on planting lettuce, beets, and radishes, maybe some spinach. Hopefully the garden gets started this week. Also, the snow equipment gets put away and the summer stuff comes out of the shed, including all the lawn equipment, the patio furniture, the grill, etc. Oh, I also trimmed some shrubs and hedges before they begin growing this late winter.
Not because I'm a shut-in, cause I'm working full blast 70 hours a week right now from home BUT...
My son is home from Montana State U., so as he get's free time from his on-line studies I'm going to
1. Finish the ceiling in my shop
2. Repair the front end on his Farmall Cub
3. Install 3 new front exterior lights.
4. Power wash the deck and restain.
5. One last piece of exterior corner trim left to do on the house.
6. Get a 1" supply pipe plumbed from our basement utility room and run it to the exterior, then have a new irrigation system installed around the house.
7. Help my wife get the garden plants started or in the ground as appropriate.
A lot deep cleaning and and organizing of stuff, yard work, getting greenhouse going and garden ready, some miner updates on the outside of the house as well! I've overlooked during the last year.. The hardest part of this whole deal is not seeing my grandson daily... I watched him 5 days a week for the last two years, but since both parents are now working from home I've had a lot free time.... So having all this stuff I put off has kept me busy and sane!
I will start going through my stuff again, but differently this time. Recently I got rid of some stuff, but this time I am going to go through it with the thought, when I'm dead no one is going to want to have some of this crap to deal with. That is what I am going to keep in mind.
I will practice the exercise I learned in my years of office work, to handle each item as few times as possible. Since I don't know when I'm going to die, I'll get busy now; could be tomorrow I die.
I need to do this also, in another 14 years I will be 100.
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I watched him 5 days a week for the last two years, but since both parents are now working from home I've had a lot free time.... So having all this stuff I put off has kept me busy and sane!
