I picked up our lean-to shed kit – now out of stock(!) – this morning and Em and I unloaded the entire thing off the truck. We managed to get all but one piece into the shed and/or the cold frame; Ron helped with the last one, a 4×8 3/8 inch piece of plywood.
Distributed 20 bags of mulch yesterday. Hope to spread it tomorrow.
Ron had another good day at work.
We were busy yesterday, too – laundry, sheets, transfer station.
The Adorable One doing his shoulder exercises.
Tourism benefits only the wealthy and workers from overseas and out of state, not the average Cape Codder. It creates minimum wage jobs and puts an unreasonable burden on our infrastructure and environment. It’s also indirectly responsible for housing shortages, since in some communities, as many as half of housing units are occupied only part of the year. Community leaders would do well to a) figure out the net benefits of tourism, if any and b) develop alternative sources of revenue. The reason this won’t happen in my view is that the Chambers of Commerce are run by wealthy hotel and restaurant owners and their sycophantic minions.
Ron returned to work today!
Ben dropped by to check out the site of a concrete slab for the new lean-to.
Ron had PT and a visit with his doctor this AM, and managed to lose one of his hearing aids.
Jim set me up with FTP to BABBAGE. Thank goodness!
Ron’s doctor cleared him today for driving and to return to work, so we had a celebratory lunch at the Lobster Trap in Bourne. This was the view from our table. (The signal flags spell “LOBSTERTRAP”.)
We also stopped at the Upper Cape Tech greenhouse, which was invaded shortly after we got there by a party of ladies who seemed to be marking time before lunch. I picked up a pansy 6-pack for the birdhouse planter and two pots of lavender.
I put the dear ones to bed before sunset. Planted the rest of the White Flower Farm shipment and covered it with Agrabon. Put Agrabon on the newly potted plants in the cold frame and brought the lavender in for the night.
The stupid grow light failed, so I moved the seed tray to the top of the frig, under a window. Packed up the light to send back to Amazon.
Terrific JALC set, featuring vocals by Kate Davis. Up late watching the Dem debate.
Here’s my answer to an Ed Schultz groupie/pro-Bernie cow who claimed that “(Hillary) gets so many delegates even from states Bernie wins…even more than he gets.”
It being not too cold, we invited two of our neighbors over for beer and pizza last night. It was fun to catch up!
We got half the corner garden fence up yesterday, but it’s raining and a bit unpleasant for outdoor work this afternoon, although I did an hour’s worth this morning at Highfield, weeding before the rain started and potting afterwards.
Did the banking, stopped for gas at Cumby’s, Senior Center. iCape, Job Lot and post office. Falmouth is rerouted with detours all over town.
We redeemed our voucher yesterday for three quarts of Four Seas ice cream and sherbet.
Guess what we had for dinner?
We got the usual chores done: laundry, changing sheets, transfer station run. Had so much cardboard and so many leaves that it took two trips.
Set up the seedlings and the grow light.
Continued the “hardening off” of the plants for the corner garden.
He already missed one target, Wyoming. He got 56%, not the 84% he needed.
Have been raking leaves the last two days, the front yesterday and the driveway side today.
Ron and I figured out a good way to anchor the corner garden fence. We got the front fence installed today.
My plants* arrived yesterday from White Flower Garden! I started acclimatizing them, gave them a good watering and put them on the deck near the outdoor shower for several hours today . Am keeping them in the basement for the remaining hours.
The grow lamp arrived today, so I can start my seedlings this weekend.
*Agastache Blue Fortune, Coreopsis Verticillata Moonbeam, Echinacea Powwow Wild Berry, Phlox Blue Paradise, Salvia X Sylvestris May Night.
