600 pounds of dirt and some Jack Daniels
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dragonlady7Are two things I was involved with today.
I just liked the juxtaposition. It sounds like a country song.
An alternate title for the post could be How Many Times I Can Walk Back And Forth To Dave's Mom's House In One Day, but the one I used is better, I think.
Woke up and went out to weed the garden. Was a pot sitting by the herb garden, with some dug-up dandelions in it. Strange, I thought; I hadn't realized Dave had been doing any weeding lately. I proceeded to toss more weeds into said pot.
After a bit Dave called out the door. "Mom emailed me that she'd left some nightbloomers in the driveway."
"Huh?" I looked around for a bit.
"They look a bit like dandelions."
I looked at the pot. "Ohhhh," I said, as all made sense.
"She says to plant them right away."
Dug through the pot, retrieved all dandelion-like things (fortunately I hadn't dug up any dandelions), and we now have night-blooming sirius (cereus?) in the backyard. Very, very cool. I wish I had a raised bed to put them in.
Went over and dumped two bell pepper plants on dave's mom's stoop, and ran away. (She wasn't home.) She called a bit later. She's doing intensive gardening today. Will we be going out? If so, could we pick her up some topsoil?
Uh, sure. We were going out to get bits of things to make some sort of trellis for the peas. So, sure. How much topsoil?
Heh. We borrowed her car, as Dave's car wasn't going to be up to hauling both bits of trellis and 15 bags of topsoil. We got her dirt, and found for free enough 8-foot bits of pipe in her garage that we didn't have to go buy them (whew), and got her a single tomato plant and 24 white petunias while we were at it. So we came home and had a Lynchburg Lemonade apiece, which were very good, and I planted the dug up bits of leopard's bane she gave me. (They won't bloom this year, but next year apparently they'll look like yellow daisy kinda things.)
Lynchburg Lemonade
1 oz Jack Daniel's
1 oz triple sec or Cointreau
1 oz sweet and sour mix
4 oz 7-up or Sprite or what-have-you
Mix over ice.
Drank one, passed the fuck out. Now I should probably wake up and go have dinner-- chinese takeout with Dave's mom, which means we can hike down there yet once more. I started the day intelligently with a heavy dose of SPF 30 (highest I have) over the top of the SPF 20 moisturizer I use every day, but I still feel sunburnt and have a nagging feeling that-- I am. Also my hair today is humorously bad, and I feel I should take a picture. May do so. I don't have Amazing Bad Hair Days often, so I should document them. Am pissed about the sunburn though. I will have an old lady face by the end of this summer if I don't get a fucking hat. I need a goddamn hat with a brim already but don't know where to find one. And to be honest, wouldn't have worn it today anyway because of the Ridiculous Hair, which I am enjoying in its sheer ludicrosity and the fact that nobody else will mention it.
I just liked the juxtaposition. It sounds like a country song.
An alternate title for the post could be How Many Times I Can Walk Back And Forth To Dave's Mom's House In One Day, but the one I used is better, I think.
Woke up and went out to weed the garden. Was a pot sitting by the herb garden, with some dug-up dandelions in it. Strange, I thought; I hadn't realized Dave had been doing any weeding lately. I proceeded to toss more weeds into said pot.
After a bit Dave called out the door. "Mom emailed me that she'd left some nightbloomers in the driveway."
"Huh?" I looked around for a bit.
"They look a bit like dandelions."
I looked at the pot. "Ohhhh," I said, as all made sense.
"She says to plant them right away."
Dug through the pot, retrieved all dandelion-like things (fortunately I hadn't dug up any dandelions), and we now have night-blooming sirius (cereus?) in the backyard. Very, very cool. I wish I had a raised bed to put them in.
Went over and dumped two bell pepper plants on dave's mom's stoop, and ran away. (She wasn't home.) She called a bit later. She's doing intensive gardening today. Will we be going out? If so, could we pick her up some topsoil?
Uh, sure. We were going out to get bits of things to make some sort of trellis for the peas. So, sure. How much topsoil?
Heh. We borrowed her car, as Dave's car wasn't going to be up to hauling both bits of trellis and 15 bags of topsoil. We got her dirt, and found for free enough 8-foot bits of pipe in her garage that we didn't have to go buy them (whew), and got her a single tomato plant and 24 white petunias while we were at it. So we came home and had a Lynchburg Lemonade apiece, which were very good, and I planted the dug up bits of leopard's bane she gave me. (They won't bloom this year, but next year apparently they'll look like yellow daisy kinda things.)
Lynchburg Lemonade
1 oz Jack Daniel's
1 oz triple sec or Cointreau
1 oz sweet and sour mix
4 oz 7-up or Sprite or what-have-you
Mix over ice.
Drank one, passed the fuck out. Now I should probably wake up and go have dinner-- chinese takeout with Dave's mom, which means we can hike down there yet once more. I started the day intelligently with a heavy dose of SPF 30 (highest I have) over the top of the SPF 20 moisturizer I use every day, but I still feel sunburnt and have a nagging feeling that-- I am. Also my hair today is humorously bad, and I feel I should take a picture. May do so. I don't have Amazing Bad Hair Days often, so I should document them. Am pissed about the sunburn though. I will have an old lady face by the end of this summer if I don't get a fucking hat. I need a goddamn hat with a brim already but don't know where to find one. And to be honest, wouldn't have worn it today anyway because of the Ridiculous Hair, which I am enjoying in its sheer ludicrosity and the fact that nobody else will mention it.
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Date: 2005-05-30 11:58 pm (UTC)Love me some Lynchburg Lemonade. Usually get lazy and buy the pre-made in bottles though.
And takeout chinese sounds like yum. :-)
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Date: 2005-05-31 02:25 am (UTC)Chinese takeout was good, but I'd really rather have had something else. For once. Funny how that works. But we have a whole pot of turkey soup made with fresh herbs in the fridge, and were planning on serving that, but Dave's mom insisted on buying us all Chinese. I won't complain, it's free food.
Floppy hat at JC Penney... Dave's mom would know. She used to work there, so she's just always been a good JC Penney shopper. But I don't ever go shopping with her. Hm... I should just ask my Mom for one. She'd find me something utterly ludicrous and send it to me and I'd never know if she were serious or not.
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Date: 2005-05-31 02:30 am (UTC)I should give you Grandma's phone number, she could probably tell you. But she'd wonder who you are and why the hell you're calling. But get on her good side and she'll make you cookies. Mmmmmm....
Next chapter is up. Hurrah! One to go.
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Date: 2005-05-31 02:54 am (UTC)Where does she live again? Doesn't she live down by Jamestown?
> Ludicrous hats
It's true. And I think I sunburnt my scalp AGAIN today. Ow. So. Yeah.
> Next chapter
Hurrah!
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Date: 2005-05-31 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-31 05:54 pm (UTC)Ah. Dunkirk looks to be about halfway between Buffalo and Erie PA. Though the map didn't show me Jamestown, so I'm still not sure where that is...
I am obviously not up on my local geography. The TV weather people still confuse me by standing in front of my hometown to point to Buffalo. (Move your ass so I know what it's doing at my mom's house! Aurgh!)
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Date: 2005-05-31 05:57 pm (UTC)Supposed to be...well, SUPPOSED to be working, but blowing it off to finish The Last Chapter. Except I'm blowing THAT off to look up some genealogy links online. Whee!
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Date: 2005-05-31 06:05 pm (UTC)> blowing THAT off
What tangled webs we fabricate
when engaging to procrastinate.
and there's my heroic couplet to end the scene. :D