Too Tired To Type

The last two weeks have been dedicated to the garden. I've been digging, planting, pruning, mulching, fertilizing, cutting, and seeding. I'm exhausted...and although I'd love to blog about my discoveries, successes and failures; I'm much too tired to compose anything. Soon I will have pictures and more. June 1st should be the last frost date, so after that it's full steam ahead.

Sierra posted this on May 29, 2007 from the garden | | permanent link

Whatever Happened to May Two-Four???

May long week-end used to be a time for beers and bratwurst cooking over the campfire. Unfortunately, it now seems like the Victoria day week-end, is not a holiday, but an extra day of house and yard work. It's 7:00 pm and I feel like I've run a marathon. In reality, I've been hauling wood, soil, peat moss, compost, and garbage. I'm still two weeks away from being able to plant my annuals and I probably won't put any seeds in the vegetable beds until next week, but there is still lots to do.

Preparing the garden for a busy summer is a lot of work. To get started, I worked on the vegetable and greenhouse beds. I added peat moss, manure, compost, blood meal, bone meal and some wood ashes to make the soil nice and nutritious for all my plants. I turned the beds over and covered them with a light woven cloth that will help warm the soil until I'm ready to plant. For the perennial beds, I added peat moss and compost and dug it in between the plants. There is not much up, but I'm hopeful that in the next few days the perennials will pop up.

After the soil was taken care of, it was time to work on the trees and bushes. Most of the stuff needed a good pruning, especially my crazy currants that like to grow in odd directions and have yet to produce any berries. Despite this, I bought another black currant bush, because I'm confident that if I just keep adding bushes eventually they will have to produce some kind of berry (right???).

Tony and I also joined the majority of Whitehorse at free dump day. A fabulous opportunity to get rid of all the crap that has accumulated in the back yard over the course of an entire winter. Then continued on the Victoria Day tour to Home Hardware, where we picked up a small forest worth of trees.

As I finish typing this entry I realize how pathetic my life has come. Where are the stories about someone shoving a dozen marshmallows into their mouths and screaming "chubby bunny"? Where are the injuries incurred from keg athletics? How did I transform into a garden obsessed yuppie??? So many questions, but no time to ponder them because there are plants to water, greenhouses to seal and lawns to seed...

Sierra posted this on May 20, 2007 from the garden | | permanent link

The Morning Commute

Finding excuses to not ride your bike is easy. There are tons of totally valid reasons not to ride, in fact until I started my new job I found it very hard to ride my bike to work. At my previous job, I needed the car to run errands around town. Now that I have access to a pool car, I have found it much easier to get to work on my bike.

The biggest problem I've found riding to work, is carting all my junk back and forth. Clothes, food, work clothes, yoga clothes...it all adds up and takes up a LOT of space. Fortunately, I have found a solution to this little problem. Last month, I ordered a new messenger bag from Under the Weather . It arrived in the mail today and I am super stoked.

To demonstrate the greatness of my new bag, take a look at all my stuff. Tomorrow I'm going for a swim and I have some important meetings, so from left to right: my make-up, lunch, u-lock, swim gear and suit. Definitely too much stuff, right?

Wrong! It all fits snug as a bug in a rug in my new bag. The best part, is the bag is super comfortable on my back and doesn't move around while I ride. Plus, it is sturdy and you can tell that the bag was made of high quality material. Here it is, I had to use the flash, but it highlights the reflective tape sewn onto the back.

Sierra posted this on May 09, 2007 from the outside | | permanent link

My Lost Ring

It has not been a good couple of days. On Thursday I looked down at my hand and realized I was missing my engagement ring. I have no idea when it disappeared or where. The only thing I know is that it was definitely on my hand on Tuesday at work and by Thursday at 1:00 pm, it was gone. I've been swimming on Wednesday mornings, so I figure it could have fallen off in the pool. Unfortunately, several trips back to check have yielded nothing. Today, I visited all the pawnshops in town, with the hope that someone found it and brought it in. The entire thing makes me sick to my stomach and I'm torn between curling up in a ball and sleeping until someone finds it and manically covering all of Whitehorse with a metal detector. If you have heard rumor of a found ring, or if you happened to find a ring - I'm offering a $500 reward for its safe return, no questions asked. I'm sending lots of prayers to St. Anthony and I hope that the week-end ends on a good note. I'm not sure if I do find the ring, if I'll ever wear it again. This has been just too tough on my nerves. The missing ring is the one in the middle of this picture:

UPDATE- The ring has been found! Yippee! It must have fell off while I was digging through the garden on Wednesday after work. Tony found it using the metal detector in a pile of mulch beside my perennial bed. It going in to get resized on Monday!

Sierra posted this on May 06, 2007 from the livingroom | | permanent link

Attack of the Killer Tomato Plants

Only three more weeks until the greenhouse is ready to be planted. These tomatoes have been growing since February. They are getting bigger and stronger; I can only hope that they are ready for the summer. Some of the plants are doing much better than others, and last year's standout star, Stupice, is looking pathetic. To help my little tomatoes, I water them with diluted 30-30-30 fertilizer every time I water. Hanging out behind the tomatoes are the herbs, cabbages, flowers and other assorted plants. Summer is so close...yippee!

Sierra posted this on May 03, 2007 from the garden | | permanent link