Loads of laundry done: 0. Clothing items ironed: 0. Milkweed beds completed: 1. Number of bags of garden soil worked in: 4. Varieties of milkweed: 5. Number of common milkweed seeds: 500. Number of showy milkweed seeds: 100. Number of swamp milkweed seeds: 75. Number of butterfly weed seeds: 150. Number of sunset flower seeds: […]

I wasn’t going to make any flowerbeds today because it rained last night, but I didn’t feel like sanding, painting, or making windowpanes, so I decided to clip some bush honeysuckle. When you can’t decide what to do, grab your pruning shears and walk around the yard–it’s worked for me for years! I started just […]

I’m awash in daffodils, petunias and surprise lilies, but my favourite non-wild spring flower…just two. Purple hyacinth. Still, pretty, and will soon bloom!

Plowing the back forty. Hehe. Worked like it was supposed to; hundreds of little holes and what appear to be little poops all over the yard. Remains to be seen whether it’ll help, but Parview’s dirt is sad and needs all the help it can get. Outside of the patio flowerbed, I’ve found one single […]

I’m not sure the manufacturer had two drunks in mind when they wrote the instructions, but aside from being missing two bolts and nuts (not our fault!) we got it assembled, and each of us ended up with only one small cut. Our blood will be in the very soil of Parview!

I dug the bed for my beloved cosmos, and marked one for joe-pye and boneset that I’m not sure about yet, and if I don’t dick around too long (just woke up from a lovely nap), I might just get the milkweed bed dug today, too. Just one for now, though! I didn’t do the […]

The old lady’s lilac did survive the winter, and I had the landscapers place it where it won’t have to strain to reach the sun anymore. It’ll get sunlight from sunrise to probably an hour before sunset. I think it’ll be happy there.

Well, mostly. I fucked up my system even worse, trying to fix it, but this morning, I managed to get it mostly working. I have both monitors, I can log in and use Netflix, so that’s good enough for now. It’s using the Nvidia driver I installed manually and won’t let me change it, but […]

Nothing like putting in a new flowerbed in neglected dirt to remind you that you’ve been lazy all winter, and didn’t do shit last spring/summer because you were recovering from surgery! My biggest flowerbed is dug, at least,  though it still needs soil and sheep poop, and it doesn’t look like much, especially around my […]

I should not have been watching Netflix when the update manager asked me if I wanted to update, because I didn’t even look at the list of updates. In the middle of whatever it was doing, Netflix suddenly died, and I had to reboot because my screens were black. by “reboot”, I mean hold down […]