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Planning Garden 2012

  • Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:00 am
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Garden 2012

No, you haven’t lost your mind. Our family is down to one computer, and I was hoping to have mine fixed by now. Unfortunately, laptops are not too fond of mac & beef, so repair has been agonizingly slow. And when I only have a few minutes in an uncomfy chair right before bedtime, expounding upon the subject at hand is easily delayed/dismissed. I’m backdating the entries for the days they *should* have been published. Thanks for joining my time-travel team <3

I’m making a list of all the things I want to plant this year. And researching methods of automatic watering so the whole thing won’t get krispy before the end of the season.

Oh wait. I can’t do anything expensive or permanent1. Crap. RETHINK!!!

And also? FOCUS!!! The list!!!

Carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes (mostly paste), beans (glorious beans), lettuces (Earthbox #1), garlic, corn, watermelon, canteloupe, beets, potatoes, radish, cilantro (maybe?), sugarsnaps, onions, and honestly. Who knows what else will tickle my fancy between now and then?

Resolved: container gardening is fun, but not all that successful for me. I’ll be turning the earthboxes into herb boxes and I’m not sure WHAT I’ll do with all the buckets and bins.

  1. Beltway coming through toward the end of the year. Hopefully at the end of growing season [↩]

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Kinda fell off the wagon there…

  • Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:00 am

Things have a way of getting infrakkinsane around here, and blogging is one of the first things to get tossed under the bus. And scheduling posts does me no good if I don’t sit down and write them to begin with.

What’s been going on?

Thanksgiving. Everyone knows about that, right? Yeaaaah, I thought so. I’ve had to clean out the fridge in stages.

The boys. Joe had his tonsils & adenoids out. He’s healed well, but wanted to argue every.single.damn.time it was time to take more grape-flavored nastiness. I don’t like to argue. We know this. Especially over something like pain medication.

“It won’t do you any good if it’s in the cup.”
“Drink it.”
“Drink it or I’ll pour it down your throat.”

Hint to Big Pharma: there is a HUGE untapped market for medicine syringes for older special needs children. Our acetaminophen doses are +2 tsp. Holding your child down while pouring from a cup is zero fun – the meds splash everywhere. Just sayin’.

Dan had a visit with a GI doctor that has proven incredibly….productive. Helpful!!!! and Productive!!!!! We’ll be going back, but the changes in him already are amazing. One day last week he came home from school and ate two grilled cheese sandwiches. I resigned myself to serving a heavier than usual bedtime snack but? he totally cleaned his plate at dinner. And and? He’s eating VEGETABLES y’all. He added mashed potatoes (instant, but I’ll take it) and peas (frozen, canned is too mushy). And decided that maybe canned peaches aren’t all that bad after all.

And now, I get to recover from being home for two weeks. Unpaid. HOORAY! >.<

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