Good Morning, All! I hope you are all doing well out there on this beautiful Sunday. It's such a pretty day outside; Mama wren is singing her good morning song from the trellis on the porch, and - so far! - it's not raining!! I'm just waiting for Hubby to get out of the shower so that I can toss sheets in the washer; they should dry quickly enough on the lines today that I can put them back on the bed in time for my before work nap! I do need to ask Hubby to tighten up the turnbuckles as hanging the towels to dry yesterday had the new lines drooping some yesterday. We also need to replace one line as the coating on it is cracked and I'm afraid it will catch and tear anything that might get blown on to it by the breeze.
Here in a bit, we are going to cut and nail together a tiered raised bed for the strawberries that have been languishing in their box for the past few weeks. Yup - I finally gave up on planting them in the ground; the rain has not let up enough for nearly a month to allow me to do the finish tilling on any of the gardens. I thought I had ordered 100 strawberry plants, but there were only 50 in the box, so the raised bed can be smaller than I had been planning - no complaints on that one!! We will make one 12'x 8' bed from treated 2x8's, set and level it; then make another bed 8' x 4' to set inside it - I have some paving blocks that we'll use to raise the level of the second bed. A couple of trips to the sale barn for composted manure next week, and it will be ready to plant. I picked up a bag of onion bulbs to plant around the strawberries to help fend off the blasted rabbits, but we will also use the chicken wire I bought to make covers for over the garden rows to help with that as well. I'm also going to plant some salad greens here and there in the beds; they'll be cut and used before the berries spread to fill the area.
Late afternoon, we plan to run in to town to the cemetery where my parents, aunt and uncle are buried. We'll place flags on my Father and Uncle's graves; plant a pair of peonies and place some flowers on my parent's graves, and place flowers on my Aunt and Uncle's. I don't want to plant them until closer to dark so they have a chance to recuperate overnight from being planted! After we get done with that, Hubby needs to run over to his Mama's and clean out her gutters and knock apart and haul off a flower bed; while I go home and get ready to go in to work.
I only have to work one night and Hubby is off tomorrow to haul me around so I'm only going to take a short nap - if any - today. Daughter and grandsons will be back home on Tuesday so I am going to stop after I get off work Monday morning and pick up a bag of dog food, hit Aldi for some fresh food; then will have Hubby drive me over to her house later on so that I can clean out the fridge and do a few other things; maybe fix up a cassarole that she can just reheat for supper when they get home. I plan to pick the boys up Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning, depending on when they get home; and then keep them until Thursday noon so daughter can get everything ready to re-open her shop next week!
Groceries and household goods are starting to reappear in the stores but are still low in stock on some items - probably due to people buying in fear of another shortage Dollar General has had reasonable stocks of canned and mylar vacuum sealed packs of meat/tuna all along, but we can our own meat and I was well stocked on tuna already so have not needed to purchase any. I have been able to pick up small bottles of Lysol concentrate at Dollar Tree; and they, and Dollar General have ammonia back in stock, so should be set for spring cleaning - as soon as my helper gets back from her trip, that is!
Well, Hubby is done with his breakfast, and I'm not getting anything done sitting here on the computer so I'd best get to work. You folks all take care out there; and stay safe!
Here in a bit, we are going to cut and nail together a tiered raised bed for the strawberries that have been languishing in their box for the past few weeks. Yup - I finally gave up on planting them in the ground; the rain has not let up enough for nearly a month to allow me to do the finish tilling on any of the gardens. I thought I had ordered 100 strawberry plants, but there were only 50 in the box, so the raised bed can be smaller than I had been planning - no complaints on that one!! We will make one 12'x 8' bed from treated 2x8's, set and level it; then make another bed 8' x 4' to set inside it - I have some paving blocks that we'll use to raise the level of the second bed. A couple of trips to the sale barn for composted manure next week, and it will be ready to plant. I picked up a bag of onion bulbs to plant around the strawberries to help fend off the blasted rabbits, but we will also use the chicken wire I bought to make covers for over the garden rows to help with that as well. I'm also going to plant some salad greens here and there in the beds; they'll be cut and used before the berries spread to fill the area.
Late afternoon, we plan to run in to town to the cemetery where my parents, aunt and uncle are buried. We'll place flags on my Father and Uncle's graves; plant a pair of peonies and place some flowers on my parent's graves, and place flowers on my Aunt and Uncle's. I don't want to plant them until closer to dark so they have a chance to recuperate overnight from being planted! After we get done with that, Hubby needs to run over to his Mama's and clean out her gutters and knock apart and haul off a flower bed; while I go home and get ready to go in to work.
I only have to work one night and Hubby is off tomorrow to haul me around so I'm only going to take a short nap - if any - today. Daughter and grandsons will be back home on Tuesday so I am going to stop after I get off work Monday morning and pick up a bag of dog food, hit Aldi for some fresh food; then will have Hubby drive me over to her house later on so that I can clean out the fridge and do a few other things; maybe fix up a cassarole that she can just reheat for supper when they get home. I plan to pick the boys up Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning, depending on when they get home; and then keep them until Thursday noon so daughter can get everything ready to re-open her shop next week!
Groceries and household goods are starting to reappear in the stores but are still low in stock on some items - probably due to people buying in fear of another shortage Dollar General has had reasonable stocks of canned and mylar vacuum sealed packs of meat/tuna all along, but we can our own meat and I was well stocked on tuna already so have not needed to purchase any. I have been able to pick up small bottles of Lysol concentrate at Dollar Tree; and they, and Dollar General have ammonia back in stock, so should be set for spring cleaning - as soon as my helper gets back from her trip, that is!
Well, Hubby is done with his breakfast, and I'm not getting anything done sitting here on the computer so I'd best get to work. You folks all take care out there; and stay safe!