Flinging into spring
Apr. 18th, 2013 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscWe spent almost six hours in Gloucester today. (We hadn't really expected to be there that long, but there was Stuff to do.) If we'd thought ahead, we would have planned to stay the night -- we're not going to get another chance for a while.
But we did have to get the lettuce seeds in, and the second crop of peas, and the blueberries that came from Miller Nurseries just before we went to California. Also, we had ordered the (city-supplied) water turned on, so we wanted to get it all going in the house, too.
The turning on of the water has been an uneventful operation for so long that we've kind of come to expect it. But the cold-water tap in the upstairs sink, which has often been a problem, was more than usually temperamental, and among other things the washer and the screw holding it apparently fell into the pipe; John was eventually able to fish out the washer, and found another screw. Then there was an as-yet-undiagnosed problem with the hose connection to the (new last summer) washing machine that resulted in a bucketful of water ending up on the pantry floor, so the water is off to the downstairs bathroom untiol we deal with it.
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jwg spent most of the time we were there (along with replacing the tarp over the woodpile, the old one having deteriorated uselessness). I dealt with planting stuff -- and discovered, when I unpacked the three blueberry plants, that the package also contained the 25 strawberry plants we had ordered at the same time. I carefully counted them, because sometimes a package of 25 plants actually contains some other number, and came up with 24. Twice. So I selected 24 locations in the bed and planted one strawberry plant in each of them -- and discovered that there was one more plant. So much for regular arrangements.
Planting strawberries is backbreaking work, and my back is broken. (Not too badly, but it knows that it had to work today.) But it was a lovely day, and we feel Accomplished.
But we did have to get the lettuce seeds in, and the second crop of peas, and the blueberries that came from Miller Nurseries just before we went to California. Also, we had ordered the (city-supplied) water turned on, so we wanted to get it all going in the house, too.
The turning on of the water has been an uneventful operation for so long that we've kind of come to expect it. But the cold-water tap in the upstairs sink, which has often been a problem, was more than usually temperamental, and among other things the washer and the screw holding it apparently fell into the pipe; John was eventually able to fish out the washer, and found another screw. Then there was an as-yet-undiagnosed problem with the hose connection to the (new last summer) washing machine that resulted in a bucketful of water ending up on the pantry floor, so the water is off to the downstairs bathroom untiol we deal with it.
That's how
jwg spent most of the time we were there (along with replacing the tarp over the woodpile, the old one having deteriorated uselessness). I dealt with planting stuff -- and discovered, when I unpacked the three blueberry plants, that the package also contained the 25 strawberry plants we had ordered at the same time. I carefully counted them, because sometimes a package of 25 plants actually contains some other number, and came up with 24. Twice. So I selected 24 locations in the bed and planted one strawberry plant in each of them -- and discovered that there was one more plant. So much for regular arrangements.Planting strawberries is backbreaking work, and my back is broken. (Not too badly, but it knows that it had to work today.) But it was a lovely day, and we feel Accomplished.
