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Apr. 28th, 2020 09:04 pmWhew. So, I had no focus for writing this morning. I did at one point and then about an hour into writing it all just vanished. I made several attempts, none of them very useful. I'm very disgruntled with myself in that regard.
However! All of the seeds I'd ordered are now in, so after the lack of what writing I wanted to get done got through I went out, chopped up the ailanthus tree we'd felled a few days ago, dragged it back to the refuse pile, and set about cleaning off the section of the porch where I've started container-growing some things in old TidyCats 35lb buckets. That took a bit of time but was definitely worth it, and now I have daikon and purple plum radishes starting, as well as coyote and indigo blueberry cherry tomatoes starting inside the sun porch just to be sure it's away from predators. Coyote cherry tomatoes, for the record although I'm sure I've said this before, are yellow. Indigo Blueberry cherry tomatoes are the kind of blue you get with tomatoes, which is to say they're probably going to turn out more purpleish black. I do not care. I am all about the funky colored tomatoes.
And I wrote down on my whiteboard how quickly I can expect to see results from any of this, so I don't get little tiny green shoots coming up in a couple weeks and get overexcited. Because that will happen. I know it will. I'm not sure why I didn't get coyote tomatoes the last time I tried this, except I think I may have started it from seed outside in which case animals probably got to the shoots. We'll see what happens this year.
And then the pink blueberries that I ordered under the expectation that they would get hear in the early-middle of May ... have shipped. So I don't know what to do with that other than scramble around and stick them in more TidyCats bins until I have the beds cleared and holes dug. Shrug emoji.
And then I got back in from gardening, had a shower, got dressed, came downstairs only to find out that the power had gone out most likely from the two loud bangs after my shower. The boy said it was probably the transformers, and I suspect he was right. There were a few minutes where I considered reading a book but at that point I was so disgusted with things that I went upstairs and had a nap. Also I'd been doing hauling of dirt and debris for a couple of hours and I was tired.
And now it is Relax With The Untamed O'Clock, and hopefully get some writing done if I can, or at least write down more in the couple of ideas I had two weeks ago now? Something like that. Before they vanish forever. I did have to file a weekly certification for unemployment today, so there's some hope I may get some income soon while I'm not going to work. I'd like that, even if this not going to work period only lasts through May, which I'm kind of hopeful it will. I'm nervous about any upheaval past that.
However! All of the seeds I'd ordered are now in, so after the lack of what writing I wanted to get done got through I went out, chopped up the ailanthus tree we'd felled a few days ago, dragged it back to the refuse pile, and set about cleaning off the section of the porch where I've started container-growing some things in old TidyCats 35lb buckets. That took a bit of time but was definitely worth it, and now I have daikon and purple plum radishes starting, as well as coyote and indigo blueberry cherry tomatoes starting inside the sun porch just to be sure it's away from predators. Coyote cherry tomatoes, for the record although I'm sure I've said this before, are yellow. Indigo Blueberry cherry tomatoes are the kind of blue you get with tomatoes, which is to say they're probably going to turn out more purpleish black. I do not care. I am all about the funky colored tomatoes.
And I wrote down on my whiteboard how quickly I can expect to see results from any of this, so I don't get little tiny green shoots coming up in a couple weeks and get overexcited. Because that will happen. I know it will. I'm not sure why I didn't get coyote tomatoes the last time I tried this, except I think I may have started it from seed outside in which case animals probably got to the shoots. We'll see what happens this year.
And then the pink blueberries that I ordered under the expectation that they would get hear in the early-middle of May ... have shipped. So I don't know what to do with that other than scramble around and stick them in more TidyCats bins until I have the beds cleared and holes dug. Shrug emoji.
And then I got back in from gardening, had a shower, got dressed, came downstairs only to find out that the power had gone out most likely from the two loud bangs after my shower. The boy said it was probably the transformers, and I suspect he was right. There were a few minutes where I considered reading a book but at that point I was so disgusted with things that I went upstairs and had a nap. Also I'd been doing hauling of dirt and debris for a couple of hours and I was tired.
And now it is Relax With The Untamed O'Clock, and hopefully get some writing done if I can, or at least write down more in the couple of ideas I had two weeks ago now? Something like that. Before they vanish forever. I did have to file a weekly certification for unemployment today, so there's some hope I may get some income soon while I'm not going to work. I'd like that, even if this not going to work period only lasts through May, which I'm kind of hopeful it will. I'm nervous about any upheaval past that.