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Flapping about the house...
Oct. 21st, 2012 09:10 pmA few days ago, Galina and I were at a Home Depot where I spied an abundant supply of containers with various vegetables of different maturity. Back before we left Houston to go back to Colorado in 2000, I never really paid attention to gardening, but the lady at the Home Depot checkout maintained that now was an excellent time to put in a vegetable garden, as the heat of the summer has passed.
So, on the basis of the plants being there and aided by her say-so, I decided to gamble a ten-spot on a couple of tomato plants and a bag of garden soil. The tomatoes have been potted on the back patio, and have not exhibited any sign of transplant shock, that I can tell. Indeed, one of the plants is now wearing a small green tomato on one of its leafy stalks. We'll keep an eye on how this progresses. The last time we did any gardening was, if memory serves, back when we lived in Jacksonville when the kids were in preschool.
We went up to the west side of town today, stopping by IKEA and the Costco. Although IKEA was making a big deal about the "steady decline" in the store's prices, I was a little taken aback at the cost of a single 30-inch BILLY shelf ($15 for a piece of plastic-veneered particle board 34 inches long!) and we ended up just getting some stuff that Galina had run across. Costco was its own little adventure (in trying to keep from putting more goodies than we can afford into the cart), and I am coming to the conclusion that between Costco and Sam's Club, the former is a better deal. Too bad it's so far away from where we are in Seabrook.
I sent a "state of the plate" to my main client, since right now, pretty much the entire plate consists of said client's work. This coming week is going to be some kind of crazy, with something like 15,000 source words already lined up. My warm-up tomorrow, however, is going to have to be an invoicing session.
Dinner was falafel with tzatziki. Yum.
So, on the basis of the plants being there and aided by her say-so, I decided to gamble a ten-spot on a couple of tomato plants and a bag of garden soil. The tomatoes have been potted on the back patio, and have not exhibited any sign of transplant shock, that I can tell. Indeed, one of the plants is now wearing a small green tomato on one of its leafy stalks. We'll keep an eye on how this progresses. The last time we did any gardening was, if memory serves, back when we lived in Jacksonville when the kids were in preschool.
We went up to the west side of town today, stopping by IKEA and the Costco. Although IKEA was making a big deal about the "steady decline" in the store's prices, I was a little taken aback at the cost of a single 30-inch BILLY shelf ($15 for a piece of plastic-veneered particle board 34 inches long!) and we ended up just getting some stuff that Galina had run across. Costco was its own little adventure (in trying to keep from putting more goodies than we can afford into the cart), and I am coming to the conclusion that between Costco and Sam's Club, the former is a better deal. Too bad it's so far away from where we are in Seabrook.
I sent a "state of the plate" to my main client, since right now, pretty much the entire plate consists of said client's work. This coming week is going to be some kind of crazy, with something like 15,000 source words already lined up. My warm-up tomorrow, however, is going to have to be an invoicing session.
Dinner was falafel with tzatziki. Yum.
