It’s kind of early, but I couldn’t resist, so I got a flat of Salvia for the MLBs. I’ll bring it inside if it gets really cold, but I ME, as long as it doesn’t freeze, this stuff is okay.

While I was waiting for the haze of fumes from clear coating my office furniture to back off a little, I decided to install one of the round pavers I got to make a path to the feeders. I didn’t have much time, but each one I do is progress.

I set the paver on the grass and carefully cut around it with the shovel, then scraped it flat with my super-useful tool whose name I really don’t know.

Dropped the paver in place, and packed dirt around to make it level. Crap-grass will fill it in no time flat.

I put the other ones in place; I might want one more. Dunno yet.

Not much, but something!

After I’d planted the creeping jenny, I came inside to start the moulding in the bathroom with the mitre box I got today. Cove moulding is a PITA for corners because what looks like it should be right…isn’t. I figured it out eventually, but while I waited to be less pissed off, I caulked the tub with silicone.

Did a much neater job on the drip guard than they had.

Sanded and primed the wall repair.

I got only two pieces of moulding up, and the nails aren’t set, but the angle between the wall and ceiling is a gunky mess, and one of the cuts was the weird one over by the shower. Hopefully the rest will go faster. I’m tired.

EDIT: I should’ve been showering, but I threw the final coat of paint on the sides of the printer cabinet (I somehow managed to forget the sides on the first coat, so they were a coat behind), and on the back sides of the doors. One more coat on the front of the doors, and that cabinet is done except for top coat. Now, I’m definitely tired!

C brought me some today, and as soon as I got home, I planted it in spots amongst the rocks around the pond. I just used the cheap potting soil I’d got for Cliffie’s Walstad tank; I don’t want fertilizer runoff in the pond (already enough algae in there).

I was too tired to do much on Friday night, but I did at least get the hardware back on the cabinet. That’s better!

After practically killing myself to get rid of that goddamned honeysuckle on Saturday, I really didn’t want to do anything, but I’m close to done, so I sanded the printer cabinet.

A coat of primer.

First coat of paint.

I left that alone, then started removing the mildewed caulking from my shower. They’d started with latex, and when it got mildew, instead of removing it and putting on new, they just slapped white silicone on top. This is my complete lack of surprise. The stuff I dug out was fucking gross.

I left that overnight, then finished this morning. Still needs another coat, but I didn’t want to glop it on too thick.

While I was making a mess in my bathroom, I decided to fix the toilet paper roll wall. I half-assed it when I was painting, but like everything half-assed, it didn’t hold. This will.

I’ve looked everywhere for the extra curtains I had from the living room because I hated the lace ones in the window by my beadboard wall, but couldn’t find them. I did find curtains that were either in the Man Cave or my closet, and I’d completely forgot I had them. Not perfect, but I’m okay with them. Better than the stupid itchy-looking lace things.

P was busy today, too, installing the new light fixture in my office. Goodbye, gaudy gold chandelier!

The globe for the new light, worn as a stylish hat.

Electrical contractor.

Yaaayyy! I like it!

P.S. I also planted three “accent plants” sold for under $2 at Buchheit as annuals for the garden. I bought four, but the last one will have to go in a spot on its own because the pot wasn’t big enough. Anyway, this is Setcreasea pallida ‘Purple Heart’. Related to wandering jew (Tradescantia) , and I’m putting that in here because it’ll be easier to find when I forget the name of the purple heart plant. 🙂

I did a lot indoors this weekend, but I spent time outdoors, too. Nearly 5h of it was because some dingus 40 years ago chose not to reach down and pull a bush honeysuckle seedling that was growing very close to an osage-orange tree. I’d tried poisoning it, but it had been cut so many times by lazy bastards who should’ve taken the time TO DIG THE GODDAMNED THING OUT BY ITS ROOTS that I couldn’t get enough Bonide 274 into it to kill it all. The treated part had died, but there were still living roots that sent up shoots. I saw it and although I didn’t have time, I went after it. I dug up some other stuff, too, both alive and dead, but this bitch was in an impossible spot; wedged tightly into a crevice in that giant tree, and it had roots everywhere. It took a hatchet, a pruning saw, a crowbar, a shovel, a chisel, a big hammer, lopping shears, and my little weed puller (to dig small areas so I could find the roots), and in the end, once I got it moved far enough from the osage-orange that I wouldn’t run into it…with my little chain saw. Jesus, what a nightmare! I even treated the roots I couldn’t pull with Bonide and covered the cut ends with plastic so it wouldn’t just absorb into the soil. By the time I got it out, this was all that remained, and I’m considering cleaning it up, letting it dry, and trimming it, then spraying it with a clear coat so I’ll have a little sculpture to remind me that dumbasses who can’t be arsed to pull seedlings can cause a lot of damage in the future.

I planted some trumpet creeper seeds in both spots that I’d fug bush honeysuckle out right next to the tree. We’ll see how that goes; they were cold-stratified for only a month, plus the deer like to eat trumpet creeper. I tried, at least, and I want something good out of all my effort and hands that’ll be sore for at least a few days.

I was up early on Saturday, and by 7:00AM, I was planting mini daffy-down-dillies and tulips. I put a few out front, and also tidied up the butterfly bush out there.

The rest I put by the patio.

I found a home for the long-suffering stinging nettle.

I think these are volunteer Mexico Midget tomatoes.

Canada bloodroot, almost ready.

Canadian ginger has flowers.

Allegheny spurge isn’t dead after all.

Purple croci

New tulips. I bought three pink and two yellow.

Buchheit had miniature daffy-down-dillies on sale yesterday.

Virginia bluebells are starting to bloom.

More hyacinths are never
unwelcome. Yellow and orange are slow, but coming along.

Crazy, a little stupid, and it worked! I think the drywall compound will even be okay; it sucked up the oil-based primer like a camel in the desert, which is good because once that primer hardens (and it hardens like rock), the front of my door will be more resistant to potential dings. Another coat of primer, and then I’ll paint them with two coats of latex, and then acrylic clear coat. Then, I get to use the board that I bought for new doors to make a shelf instead–it’s win-win!

I also primed the Cove moulding for my bathroom. It ain’t pretty, but it’s done, ready to paint.

So much for my non-plastic room! 🙂

It’s been cold and kind of yucky lately, but that hasn’t stopped Parview’s flowers!

The mystery flowers that didn’t bloom last year and have buds that look “onionish” are… Narcissus! Actually double-bloom narcissus. I kind of wish they were single because I like those best, but I’ll take pretty, free flowers however they come!

Some pretty croci.

Hyacinths.

Not a flower, but this stinging nettle is getting a forever home. It volunteered in the Bee Happy bed last year, and I dug it up to plant surprise lilies. I stuck it in a bucket, and never got around to finding a place for it. It’s been flooded and frozen repeatedly, and I was sure it was dead, but it’s still in the bucket, and…

Not bad for what it cost, and won’t look so weird and stark once I can put my stuff back, and get the doors on the cabinet. Hopefully, I’ll get Cliffie’s old tank taken down before the weekend, then I can do the small cabinet.

Slow to open, but getting there!