Last Week
Needlework
Assemble 48 blocks into 12 chunks
Other
clear old rose bed, plant Stella D'Oros
continue garden chores
No, Greg, as you can see by the list above, the rose bed is still full of clay and stupid Ajuga. The stuff refuses to die! This week was a miserable one, weather-wise. As I commented on my Facebook, I would truly rather shovel 3 feet of snow than deal with the 90ยบ / 90% humidity we've had this week. Not conducive to yard work.
Yesterday was a Tax Holiday in VT. While the masses raced to Best Buy and Small Dog to drop bucks on laptops and flat panel teevees, I picked up the phone and "bought" a new tractor. I'd already bought it, Thursday in fact, but I needed to call in yesterday to cancel the pick-up sale and re-buy it as a delivery. It's not the big New Holland or Kubota that Scott believes we need, but it's bigger than the (dead) little putt-putt we had (sitting in the driveway.)
Tomorrow is the final summer band concert in the park and I see no mention anywhere of the pie and ice cream social it's been in past years. I may have to bring my own pie. I'm a stickler for tradition like that, especially if it involves food. And next Saturday is Vergennes Day - a celebration of all things local with pancakes at the firehall, a 5k or 10k race for those who choose to skip the pancakes, a market on the town green, and the Lion's Club Chicken Barbecue for dinner. It's bittersweet, really. It's a fun day, and then summer's over. The kids start back to school the following week.There was never an opportunity to spread out and work on Tori's quilt this week. She's babysitting a few hours this evening, but it falls right during dinner time, so I probably won't get to it then either. The red scarf progresses though, and the homely Hummels have heads (technically, they share an enormous 754 Peach-Flesh Lt blob, but let's be kind.) Pictures of progress later in the week.
The garden is sad. The corn was stunted by too much rain and is now being savaged by too many squirrels. They climb the stalks and tear ears off, then chase each other around the field playing keep-away with my vegetables! The beans are recovering, somewhat, from the woodchuck attack, though I'll be lucky to get much more from them. And the tomatoes are succumbing slowly to Late Blight. Cucumbers, though, boy-howdy! We've got cucumbers! And there's 4 or 5 nice cantaloupes forming. And (whew!) at least one more pumpkin than we have children.This Week
Dinner Menu
Monday - hot dogs at the park
Tuesday - fried rice and egg rolls
Wednesday - ?? Simon
Thursday - pulled pork
Friday - ?? Tori
Saturday - pizza
Sunday - pork loin
Needlework
Assemble 48 blocks into 12 chunks
Oma's Hummel for Christmas
Red scarf
Other
Wednesday - truck in for inspection
Saturday - Vergennes Day
clear old rose bed, plant Stella D'Oros
continue garden chores
2 comments:
Wow! My name (almost!) in lights!!! What will you do when you finish your list? Dinner sounds good, what time do we eat? :) If its not the weather reeking havoc on the veggies its always something else. At least you got cucumbers and pumpkins. Some of us don't have the space to plant, even though my wife and are are dieing to put in a garden!!!
You're so cool, buying a tractor. Anyone can buy the kind of junk I do, books and colored pencils. Not too many people get to buy tractors, though.
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