Glorious Spring has ended (i.e., I whine)
May. 19th, 2013 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42It is now Allergy Spring. I itches, precious.
It's still beautiful out, though. The flowering trees have pretty much ended, but the rhodos and azaleas are coming into their own, and, oh my, I think I'm going to have a glorious crop of irises this year! I will be taking pictures of my garden. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, my new camera should be arriving. I went ahead and got the Canon Powershot SX500. The SX50 was out of my price range, but the SX500 should do pretty nicely, even if it doesn't have a viewfinder. The macro feature is far, far better than my SX100, its range is 24mm - 700mm (whereas my current camera only goes down to 28mm) and it gets pretty solid reviews for its class. Not the best, but solid enough for an amateur like me. Plus, I can list it as a school expense on this year's taxes. :-)
Today is... going to be a lot more work than I want. It seems Geoff was right (or closer to right than I was) about the difficulty level of moving the planter boxes. We moved the long, narrow one and all its dirt yesterday, and, well, I was frustrated to start with (I actually had a mini-temper tantrum, bashing my thumb as I did so), and the frustration did not improve upon learning that, despite our best efforts to protect it, the wood of the boxes is starting to rot. We actually had to replace one of the uprights because it disintegrated as we took the planks off.
Ah well.
The other planter boxes should be easier, as they aren't as embedded as the long one was, but it's still going to be an awful lot of toiling. I hope to get one more moved today (with or without dirt, I'm not picky) before we start the cooking extravaganza. Because cooking also has to, has to happen.
Of course, all I want to do is go back to sleep, but that's likely the benadryl talking. Well, the benadryl, stress, and achiness. This has been a long week. And I am very glad to have the morning alone. God, am I glad.
Other good things are:
- Page has basically recovered. He's making up for lost time in the story-telling department, but that just goes to show how much better he is.
- I got another scholarship check (school refund), which will make paying for the next three classes a hell of a lot easier.
- I'm having fun with relearning all my high school math. Well, I haven't (and won't) touch geometry, but the basic algebra is fun. I'm getting impatient to get back to trig, but I really do want a thorough understanding of the maths behind trig (and calculus), so I will be patient. And I do think I'm on schedule for being prepared enough to take the precalc CLEP in July, if not the calculus CLEP.
- Turns out the soaker hose I bought is the perfect length for my front garden. I'd feared it would be too long.
- Cilantro.
- My hairsylist gave me an AWESOME cut. Damn, I love short hair!
- When I bashed my thumb, I did it in a way that doesn't require stitches. :-)
- My transplants seem to be doing well. Even my Lady's Mantle perked up from its wilted state after I fed it. Yay! In fact, the daylily is also showing signs of returning strength, which is wonderful.
Right. Off I go to... collect rocks for the rock "wall"? Bed? Unscrew the planter box? *shrug* Don' know. But off I go.
It's still beautiful out, though. The flowering trees have pretty much ended, but the rhodos and azaleas are coming into their own, and, oh my, I think I'm going to have a glorious crop of irises this year! I will be taking pictures of my garden. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, my new camera should be arriving. I went ahead and got the Canon Powershot SX500. The SX50 was out of my price range, but the SX500 should do pretty nicely, even if it doesn't have a viewfinder. The macro feature is far, far better than my SX100, its range is 24mm - 700mm (whereas my current camera only goes down to 28mm) and it gets pretty solid reviews for its class. Not the best, but solid enough for an amateur like me. Plus, I can list it as a school expense on this year's taxes. :-)
Today is... going to be a lot more work than I want. It seems Geoff was right (or closer to right than I was) about the difficulty level of moving the planter boxes. We moved the long, narrow one and all its dirt yesterday, and, well, I was frustrated to start with (I actually had a mini-temper tantrum, bashing my thumb as I did so), and the frustration did not improve upon learning that, despite our best efforts to protect it, the wood of the boxes is starting to rot. We actually had to replace one of the uprights because it disintegrated as we took the planks off.
Ah well.
The other planter boxes should be easier, as they aren't as embedded as the long one was, but it's still going to be an awful lot of toiling. I hope to get one more moved today (with or without dirt, I'm not picky) before we start the cooking extravaganza. Because cooking also has to, has to happen.
Of course, all I want to do is go back to sleep, but that's likely the benadryl talking. Well, the benadryl, stress, and achiness. This has been a long week. And I am very glad to have the morning alone. God, am I glad.
Other good things are:
- Page has basically recovered. He's making up for lost time in the story-telling department, but that just goes to show how much better he is.
- I got another scholarship check (school refund), which will make paying for the next three classes a hell of a lot easier.
- I'm having fun with relearning all my high school math. Well, I haven't (and won't) touch geometry, but the basic algebra is fun. I'm getting impatient to get back to trig, but I really do want a thorough understanding of the maths behind trig (and calculus), so I will be patient. And I do think I'm on schedule for being prepared enough to take the precalc CLEP in July, if not the calculus CLEP.
- Turns out the soaker hose I bought is the perfect length for my front garden. I'd feared it would be too long.
- Cilantro.
- My hairsylist gave me an AWESOME cut. Damn, I love short hair!
- When I bashed my thumb, I did it in a way that doesn't require stitches. :-)
- My transplants seem to be doing well. Even my Lady's Mantle perked up from its wilted state after I fed it. Yay! In fact, the daylily is also showing signs of returning strength, which is wonderful.
Right. Off I go to... collect rocks for the rock "wall"? Bed? Unscrew the planter box? *shrug* Don' know. But off I go.
