Ugh, sick

Sick yesterday - a 24 hour stomach thing, maybe? Better today, though.

I think I might drag Cute Boyfriend out to Survivor: Greenhouse today. I need some fruit trees, and maybe some bedding plants. I have one raised bed assembled, the grass covered with wet newspaper and spoiled straw, and I think I'll get the soil for it this week.

I have a friend, Laura, a teacher, who took a part time job at a garden center so she can work there full time through the summer. She's offered me her discount on soil as well as the use of her pickup truck in exchange for the loan my rototiller and some baked goods. Laura's middle child is one of Tori's good friends. Hannah's been accepted to a summer student exchange program in CHINA! and needs to raise the money to go. It's ridiculously inexpensive, less than $1000 I think, but it's more than their budget can accommodate. The girls have planned carwashes and a bake sale (and some solicitations, of course, from wealthier family members.)

Our little city's Memorial Day Parade is the largest in the state, and goes right past the front yard where the girls are holding this bake sale - there's always a crowd, and trusting good weather (finger crossed!) Hannah should make a hundred dollars or so. I'll send Tori with a couple dozen cookies and any luck I can scrounge up. That's this weekend, I guess I'd better get planning some time to bake. I want to make butter tarts too, maybe Nanaimo Bars. We're watching the parade at Jackie's again this year, and I like to bring something. Whichever I choose, I'll post pictures and a recipe, I promise. Butter Tarts and Nanaimo Bars are Canadian treats we can't get here, and *sniff* I miss them.