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Reasonably Big Day
Feb. 15th, 2009 06:37 pmWhat I did today:
Glued Kip's chest of drawers back together--a finicky process involving 3 tiny clamps and a bar clamp. Don't know if it worked; will take all the clamps off and try to fit the drawers tomorrow. If it did work--hooray--we've been fiddling with this thing for years.
While Kip packed out one bookshelf worth of books from the old house, I gathered up loose papers on the floor, sorted them roughly into "keep" and "recycle" and moved about a briefcase full of the keepers out of there.
Went to Wal-Mart and bought bags and bags of half-price chocolate. Happy Ides of February! Or is that "Ids of February."
Swept out the garage and carried out all the junk in there to the curb, where I'm told the city will haul it away. Some of the salvageable junk will be going to Habitat for Humanity. The broken glass and broken mirror I threw out. The good pieces of wood and plywood I saved. I measured the garage; it's 24 feet long and almost 12 feet wide--plenty big enough to build a canoe if I want to turn it into a workshop. I am seriously considering this.
Set out my first attempt at a "lasagna garden" (named for the technique of laying down layers of different mulches over the soil without tilling the soil first.) If I have done the job correctly, worms will be attracted to the peatmoss/paper/dead leaves/manure combination, tilling the soil underneath for me with all their little worm tunnels. Did I get it moist enough? Did I put in enough manure? Is it too shallow? Time will tell. I used 2 bags of peat moss and 2 bags of manure, and all I did was the flower box around the front stoop.
I will do another garden for tomatoes and basil on the south side of the house, where the removal of The Tree should give rise to a sunny spot. However this time I will use just dead leaves and wood chips from The Tree to supplement the manure, as I'd like to have a *little* money left to spend on more flowers, and I pretty much had to get a hose, a soaker hose, and a rake.
What I did not do today:
Install the washer and dryer. I have all the stuff to do it; I just didn't feel like wriggling around behind stuff today. Tomorrow.
Pwn the chicken (make soup out of the carcass). I meant to do this but forgot to set up the crockpot and such at noon. Tomorrow will work for this too.
Glued Kip's chest of drawers back together--a finicky process involving 3 tiny clamps and a bar clamp. Don't know if it worked; will take all the clamps off and try to fit the drawers tomorrow. If it did work--hooray--we've been fiddling with this thing for years.
While Kip packed out one bookshelf worth of books from the old house, I gathered up loose papers on the floor, sorted them roughly into "keep" and "recycle" and moved about a briefcase full of the keepers out of there.
Went to Wal-Mart and bought bags and bags of half-price chocolate. Happy Ides of February! Or is that "Ids of February."
Swept out the garage and carried out all the junk in there to the curb, where I'm told the city will haul it away. Some of the salvageable junk will be going to Habitat for Humanity. The broken glass and broken mirror I threw out. The good pieces of wood and plywood I saved. I measured the garage; it's 24 feet long and almost 12 feet wide--plenty big enough to build a canoe if I want to turn it into a workshop. I am seriously considering this.
Set out my first attempt at a "lasagna garden" (named for the technique of laying down layers of different mulches over the soil without tilling the soil first.) If I have done the job correctly, worms will be attracted to the peatmoss/paper/dead leaves/manure combination, tilling the soil underneath for me with all their little worm tunnels. Did I get it moist enough? Did I put in enough manure? Is it too shallow? Time will tell. I used 2 bags of peat moss and 2 bags of manure, and all I did was the flower box around the front stoop.
I will do another garden for tomatoes and basil on the south side of the house, where the removal of The Tree should give rise to a sunny spot. However this time I will use just dead leaves and wood chips from The Tree to supplement the manure, as I'd like to have a *little* money left to spend on more flowers, and I pretty much had to get a hose, a soaker hose, and a rake.
What I did not do today:
Install the washer and dryer. I have all the stuff to do it; I just didn't feel like wriggling around behind stuff today. Tomorrow.
Pwn the chicken (make soup out of the carcass). I meant to do this but forgot to set up the crockpot and such at noon. Tomorrow will work for this too.
