Author: thecapeblog

Ron had an accident during his recent bout with food poisoning, and we had to dispose of his mattress as a result.

Mashpee couldn’t take it, so we brought it to Bourne.  We found a replacement on Amazon which should arrive in two days.

I did some more grass removal around the gardens on the right side of the house and more pruning of the Autumn Clematis.

I watered the transplants. It looked like we needed a feature for the now empty corner of Alpha’s garden and I remembered we already had one.  Ben carried the cement birdbath base across the yard.  It’s quite nice here whereas it wasn’t all that visible before.

Made chicken tenders, mashed potatoes and salad for supper.

Did some cleanup around the oval yesterday and planted the rest of the tulip bulbs that I’d removed from the roses.

Ron was sick this morning.  We think it was from old turkey baloney that he foraged from the freezer.

Went  with Alpha to Highfield, but it was pouring rain, so we were sent home until next week.  Did some “Wacky Tuesday” shopping at Windfall.  Roads in Falmouth were pretty bad, lots of flooding.

Dug up about 1/3 of the yarrow in the corner garden.  Moved the astilbe in the Emme garden from one corner to another.  Finally planted two begonias that had been soaking so long, they were starting to rot.

Made meat loaf and brown rice for supper.  Drove the kids home.  Dug up the rest of the grass on the edge of the birch garden.  Captain Jack’d the roses and the crabapple.

I finished the last big cleanup chore yesterday, removing grass from inside and around the “bean garden”.

We hauled a load to the transfer station and after limping back, changed sheets and had a late lunch. I rescued a small sack of potatoes that turned out to be okay to eat.

We skipped dinner and watched “The Accountant” and “Bosch”.

Met Alpha at 9:30, went to a splendid Tai Chi exhibition at the Canty Center.  We both loved it.

Had lunch/snack at Dixon, then visited the Maker Faire at the High School.  Terrific displays, got to say hello to Jerry T. and Mike L., who raved about James.

Brought them home, then persuaded Ron to check out the Maker Faire as well. He enjoyed a couple of the exhibits, and I bought the chain mail glove that Alpha had their eye on.

Afterwards, we picked up a thumb drive from Robert and a DVD I had on hold at the library.

Back home, Ron mowed the lawn and I raked out the front bushes.  More pruning of the little Azalea and the Autumn Clematis.

Robert and Ryan from Sylvia Landscaping dug up a 10×5 foot oval this morning and backfilled it with soil and compost.

I planted the Breck’s Moonlight Garden, plus 50 additional bulbs from BulbsDirect (Gladiolus Nymph, Acidanthera bicolor murielae, Anemone blanda White Splendour, Freesia single white).

A social libertarian is a person who believes in social liberty, i.e., individual independence and communal autonomy from overarching government or state control.

A social libertarian typically rejects the concentration of decision-making authority into distant, oligarchical, centralized bureaucracies – federal or monolithic – favoring instead the diffusion and localization of that decision-making authority.

Social libertarians support a political, social, and economic environment which allows voluntary accession to associations, but also permits a person to choose to remain free of restraint by society, except in cases in which an individual’s claim of freedom interferes with another individual’s right to be free from unwarranted, aggressive coercion or harm.

Social libertarians regard free-market capitalism and democratic, communalistic socialism as equally conducive economic means towards the ends of generalistic liberation from tyranny.
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I made some awful bran muffins. Two versions of the same recipe, and I must have picked the wrong one: it called for baking powder instead of soda.

Eggs with tomatoes and chard for supper last night.

Didn’t do any yard work yesterday. Made progress on an email reader for Jim. Wrote a new admin page that got good reviews.

Applied for 3 more .NET jobs. Got an email callback on one.

Truck is at Midas for exhaust system repair. $30 coupon.

Ron made supper tonight and it was excellent: spaghetti squash with home made sauce.

PT and drove Robert home, otherwise I stayed put.

Ron did laundry and I worked on NEPS and the school.

Dug up most of the tulip bulbs that were growing randomly around the roses. Transplanted about a dozen at the corner of the deck.

Ron set up the front hose and power-washed the bird bath and several chairs.

I fed the roses with Rose Tone and spread mixed cranberry bog/horse farm compost around the roses, the little trees and the front hydrangeas.

Used up the big bag of 5-10-5 on the vegetable and flower gardens. Nice compliment from Tony.

Got a nice check from MRS. Ron and I donated blood at C the K. I drove Robert this morning, he drove this evening.

I did a deep prune of the big hydrangeas in the front and cleaned out the leaf litter.

The smaller plants didn’t need quite so much work. I fertilized all of them, and the rhodies, the dogwood and the little blue spruce, with MirAcid. Stuff stings when it gets on your hands.

I joined Cindy and Cathy for a birthday brunch. Ron and I did the transfer station and he did laundry. I treated him to ice cream at Polar Cave.

UpATree stood us up, yet again. We told them not to bother.

Laura came over for pizza and wine.