Author: marcia

Today I filled about half the truck bed with compost from the transfer station.

According to the DPW, the compost is left over from town landscaping jobs. So, I’m guessing it’s fairly decent stuff, although as Ron noticed, quite sandy.

I dumped it into the second garden with about four pounds of Garden Tone. By that time, my back was screaming, so I set up my hammock and rested for a while. Easy supper tonight, meatloaf. Loaded up on frozen vegetables on the way back from the transfer station.

Ron was busy, too; he shoveled enough compost from our bin so that I could cover the herb garden. Then he fixed the patio umbrella so it won’t tip over.

He brought the van back from the shop. It needed a catalytic converter. Hope this is the last big repair for a long while.

Fed/fertilized the roses today. They are already leafing out.

Planted pansies yesterday after redoing the soil in the windowboxes.

Ron and I cleaned up leaves at Edgewater.

Gave a little training session last evening at Occupy Falmouth.

Today was just about perfect for yardwork, so I spent most of the afternoon cleaning up the front and doing some pruning of the horseshoe in the back. Put away the winter decorations as well. The crocus are blooming and are quite pretty, including three in the woods.

We invited James and friends over for tacos, cake and ice cream.

Started my birthday yesterday by scoring a free cherry cheesecake at the Senior Center. Cleaned out more brush and since it was the first calm day in a long while, burned it in the Weber. Gorgeous day, I worked in short sleeves.

Got a birthday special ($5 off) for lunch at Baccari’s Diner in North Falmouth. Ron treated again for dinner at Bobby Byrnes (BOGO on your birthday).

Did the transfer station run in the afternoon. Went to an Occupy meeting, then the Mashpee Selectman meeting on the town budget.

Got together with the girls on Sunday at Dana’s Kitchen; seeing more friends tonight at BBC for 2-fer pizza special.

My particular interests are adoptee rights, STEM education, food recovery, collective enterprises and preventing bullying in the workplace. I’m the volunteer webmaster for an Occupy group.