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Forgot to feed the neighbours' cats last night. Remembered at 4am.
I fed them a little more at 7am instead. They're big healthy young bois (3 years old at most), they'll be fine. But next time I won't ignore the reminder alarms!
This morning, the chooks were Very Offended that I'd sealed up their food bins against the rats getting in. There were some noisy protests (somewhat dimmed by the windows) until I went out and opened things up for them. I've been using them to clear the 'asparagus patch' - just enclosing them up and leaving them there for a couple of hours to scratch everything up, eat all the green things, debug the place, and manure the ground. It'll probably need a bit more manure once they've finished with it.
This morning, the cats are following me around everywhere. Probably hoping to be let into the study where I have the space heater on during the day.
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I bought a lounge (or am in negotatiations to buy a lounge; my paypal doesn't connect with the app so I had to ask for their paypal email address - I hope she doesn't think it's a scam) and am now negotiating to find someone to move the lounge next week.
Anyway, the lounge (if I can get it) is good because it's a 5 piece sectional in light colours, and what I can do is put four pieces in an L-shape in the lounge, then one piece in the study for a general 'couch'. Put bookshelves either side, and cube storage above that, and there's a nook for reading/sitting/space and plenty of storage for 'stuff'.
The hope is to get it in and settled, then unpack things from boxes, then invite people around BEFORE B1 gets back from her holiday in the UK...
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B1 seems to be having a good time at least. It helps that Australia are leading in the Ashes, but also they've been good games to watch. She's been up and down and around and around, and is presently in London, heading up to Gainesborough next week. She's planning to go back to Wales for a day or two and honestly, it's the most SCATTERED trip I've ever seen, back and forth all over the place. (Okay, so it's not how I'd do it, anyway.)
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The quilt I submitted ("Surplus to Requirement"> got accepted into the Sydney Quilt Show.
quilt: surplus to requirement
It's made up of the 'extra' blocks of a dozen-and-more quilts, filled in with some 'low volume' prints that I've had floating around for ages, and you wouldn't believe how long it took me to get the arrangement of those blocks so they balance out! It needs backing, quilting, binding, and hanging prep in the next six weeks. I'll end up doing it all in the last two weeks because THIS IS ME. But for now, just let me bask in the satisfaction of a quilt accepted. (I'm not sure they actually reject any quilts. I don't know of anyone who's ever had a quilt rejected from this show, tbh.)
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Speaking of the asparagus bed, I have four asparagus crowns that have been sitting elsewhere that I need to put into the lower bed. It's two beds next to a couple of steps: upper contains asparagus, lower has tended to grow weeds no matter what I planted there. Useful ones, of course, like nasturtium and nettles, but still weeds. So I'm going to plant the lower out with more asparagus and plant companion plants around them. This site has a bunch of suggestions for companion plants; I'm already growing comfrey and parsley and strawberries, so maybe thyme, basil and coriander (cilantro). All that once I run the chooks through it again to give it a thorough aerating.
Also need to get my root vegies sorted out for sowing, and start thinking about sowing for summer. (Garden never stops growing.)
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A friend from church (possibly more correctly: the husband of a friend from church with whom I'm 'friendly' but probably would not consider a friend) has rerouted his walk to the bus stop to go past my house every morning and evening. It's interesting, because most people I know tend to avoid the possibility of interaction with someone they kinda-sorta-a-bit-maybe know on a regular route, and I would have expected him to be at the top of the list of introverts seeking to avoid the possibility of casual contact.
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I called in unwell yesterday afternoon and napped most of the afternoon away, felt a bit better by evening. Slept the usual hours (about 5-ish? From 11 until 4am, drowsed a little for the next two hours. So I'm still feeling a little bit hazy after the other night's complete lack of sleep. Basically I'm here, but not very anchored.
Personal training today.
I fed them a little more at 7am instead. They're big healthy young bois (3 years old at most), they'll be fine. But next time I won't ignore the reminder alarms!
This morning, the chooks were Very Offended that I'd sealed up their food bins against the rats getting in. There were some noisy protests (somewhat dimmed by the windows) until I went out and opened things up for them. I've been using them to clear the 'asparagus patch' - just enclosing them up and leaving them there for a couple of hours to scratch everything up, eat all the green things, debug the place, and manure the ground. It'll probably need a bit more manure once they've finished with it.
This morning, the cats are following me around everywhere. Probably hoping to be let into the study where I have the space heater on during the day.
--
I bought a lounge (or am in negotatiations to buy a lounge; my paypal doesn't connect with the app so I had to ask for their paypal email address - I hope she doesn't think it's a scam) and am now negotiating to find someone to move the lounge next week.
Anyway, the lounge (if I can get it) is good because it's a 5 piece sectional in light colours, and what I can do is put four pieces in an L-shape in the lounge, then one piece in the study for a general 'couch'. Put bookshelves either side, and cube storage above that, and there's a nook for reading/sitting/space and plenty of storage for 'stuff'.
The hope is to get it in and settled, then unpack things from boxes, then invite people around BEFORE B1 gets back from her holiday in the UK...
--
B1 seems to be having a good time at least. It helps that Australia are leading in the Ashes, but also they've been good games to watch. She's been up and down and around and around, and is presently in London, heading up to Gainesborough next week. She's planning to go back to Wales for a day or two and honestly, it's the most SCATTERED trip I've ever seen, back and forth all over the place. (Okay, so it's not how I'd do it, anyway.)
--
The quilt I submitted ("Surplus to Requirement"> got accepted into the Sydney Quilt Show.
quilt: surplus to requirement
It's made up of the 'extra' blocks of a dozen-and-more quilts, filled in with some 'low volume' prints that I've had floating around for ages, and you wouldn't believe how long it took me to get the arrangement of those blocks so they balance out! It needs backing, quilting, binding, and hanging prep in the next six weeks. I'll end up doing it all in the last two weeks because THIS IS ME. But for now, just let me bask in the satisfaction of a quilt accepted. (I'm not sure they actually reject any quilts. I don't know of anyone who's ever had a quilt rejected from this show, tbh.)
--
Speaking of the asparagus bed, I have four asparagus crowns that have been sitting elsewhere that I need to put into the lower bed. It's two beds next to a couple of steps: upper contains asparagus, lower has tended to grow weeds no matter what I planted there. Useful ones, of course, like nasturtium and nettles, but still weeds. So I'm going to plant the lower out with more asparagus and plant companion plants around them. This site has a bunch of suggestions for companion plants; I'm already growing comfrey and parsley and strawberries, so maybe thyme, basil and coriander (cilantro). All that once I run the chooks through it again to give it a thorough aerating.
Also need to get my root vegies sorted out for sowing, and start thinking about sowing for summer. (Garden never stops growing.)
--
A friend from church (possibly more correctly: the husband of a friend from church with whom I'm 'friendly' but probably would not consider a friend) has rerouted his walk to the bus stop to go past my house every morning and evening. It's interesting, because most people I know tend to avoid the possibility of interaction with someone they kinda-sorta-a-bit-maybe know on a regular route, and I would have expected him to be at the top of the list of introverts seeking to avoid the possibility of casual contact.
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I called in unwell yesterday afternoon and napped most of the afternoon away, felt a bit better by evening. Slept the usual hours (about 5-ish? From 11 until 4am, drowsed a little for the next two hours. So I'm still feeling a little bit hazy after the other night's complete lack of sleep. Basically I'm here, but not very anchored.
Personal training today.
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Weird about the church dude.
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It's just a little odd.
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Is asparagus difficult or time-consuming to grow? I sometimes find myself thinking it might be worth a try, given that the resultant crop would be so delicious.
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Asparagus takes at least two years to reach harvestable state (you want to give time for the roots to grow), but other than some feeding and mulching over winter thereafter, it's a really low-maintenance crop.
That said, you need a place where you're only ever going to be growing asparagus for some time. They can last through several decades of harvesting.
As an example, I heard a story told about a guy who only realised that it wasn't typical to be handed a knife and told to harvest asparagus from his back lawn for dinner after he left for college.
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