Archive for the 'Gardening' Category
Now there’s a sappy title. What can I say. Angie and her partner Cam came up to visit this past weekend and it is true that aquantences come and go but friends span a lifetime. I had not seen or spoken to Angie for nearly 10 years but we were able to pick up pretty much right were we left off. All the reasons we were good friends back in the day are all the reasons we can continue to get along fine now as adults. We did the whole nine yards up here in Leelanau. The beaches, the Sand Dunes, Peterson Park, Glen Arbor, the Light House, Suttons Bay…it was fun to show them around and imerse them in my world for a few days. They are on a whilwind tour around Lake Michigan, likely relaxing somewhere in the UP by now. Tomorrow I’ll be posting a new gallery to my Facebook album and I’ll be uploading to my photography web site with new photos of their visit. Check them out. The computer is uploading photos now so I need to close this down for the night. I’ll write another entry tomorrow.
Tags: friends, Leelanau, Summer
REALLY stinks!!! My dog however thinks it smells like the greatest perfume ever made!! Today was pretty productive. I went to Plant Masters with mom and we each purchased well over $100 in plants (you know, had I been a straight boy, you might never have even convinced me that Plant Masters was even a “cool” place to shop. Suffice to say, I’m moving out of here in 3 months and I’m still spending money on the landscaping!! Anyhow, I’m also still pretty buzzed up so I’d better quit while I’m ahead!!
Tags: drunk, familly
Part 2! Tonight I decided that it was staying warm enough at night to move my cold frame greenhouse outside on to the deck. I’ll still leave the cover on it especially at night but the grow lights are done now, it’s time for the sun to take over. I’ve had some surprising results with this project. I’ve got a huge planter now of fully blooming flowers just in time for transplanting. Those are on the right side in the picture below. Everything else I have is ready to go into the ground as soon as I feel it is staying warm enough not to kill everything. I should be able to get things in early. I spent the afternoon today digging up and weeding out my 2 garden beds down in the “pit”. I never harvested my carrots last year and they were all over one of the beds. Of course I had to clean out all the fucking cat shit from the roommates cat who has decided that my garden beds are fine places to take a shit. Oh well, I suppose it could be worse. Everything is still REALLY wet right now. Things need to dry out a bit from all the rain we’ve have in the past couple days. I’ve got a near lake in the backyard down in some of the low spots in the woods. I’ve never seen that happen before. I’m waiting for the water lilies to sprout, well actually it’s just going to spawn bugs. Well tomorrow was supposed to be my day off but it’s the busy season. I’ve got to go into work tomorrow to help clean. Everyone is doing 6 day weeks now for the near future so the store stays in shape. I won’t complain, it’s good money and I’ve got nothing going on here yet…it’s still too early to do much outside. It’s the 6 day weeks in late July and August that I hate. That’s MY busy time.
Tags: cat shit, greenhouse, plants, work
So I was at work today and I heard this come on over the loud speaker. Click on it and then continue reading while you listen. Maybe it was just the combination of the music and the man I had just waited on with no teeth who clearly had not showered in months but I just about died. In EVERY other setting, that song is hardly wroth hearing, in this one however, it fits the customers I see every day to a tee! The weather is getting nicer up here and the means the really strange ones come out of hiding and start going shopping. We were SLAMMED at work today finally! I’ve been waiting for a weekend like this one for months and finally we had a nice day with no rain and no wind. People have finally realized that everything is pretty late this year so they better get their shit going. It will be full on summer in a few weeks now….we don’t get spring up here, just winter and summer. Well, it won’t be that drastic but the season is very short up here, you’ve got to take full advantage of it when you have it.
Jirar comes home this next week, its unlikely I’ll have another entry on this blog until after he has gone again. I spent my evening tonight outside raking leaves. I got the entire back yard picked up and it looks amazing right now. I have a big problem with gophers though or something. There are lots of holes in the yard where the dirt has been pushed up. I was a fool and left all the leaves from fall on the lawn all winter so it has taken me the better part of a week now to get them off the lawn now that it’s spring. I pretty much have a lawn of dirt now. I hope to God the grass grows. I need to get out there now with the fertilizer and grass seed and see if I can push it along. Once I get that done, I need to fumigate the yard. I have huge problems with bugs at this property. I can control them if I keep the grass very short and I spray killer all over the the yard. Hard to do though becuase I have to get stuff that is pet safe and it’s not very effective.
OK, I need to get off to bed now. I’ll write again in a week.
Tags: grass, redneck, yardwork
has Sprung! It was 74 here today and sunny all day long. Windy as hell though. I got outside this afternoon and did some yard work. There is just so much to be done and I don’t have much motivation to do any of it…not like I used to. I need to get it cleaned up though, I can’t leave this house at the end of the summer in any worse shape than I found it. That means a little work has to be done.
Don’t have much else to say right now, I’ve provoked outrage from certain people regarding some blog posts I’ve made here. I will admit that it’s not really fair for me to make comments about people who are not given the opportunity to defend themselves outright. At the same time, my life, my choices. I am only obligated to respect one person right now and that is me. I will however choose to back down for a while.
I Get Along
I’m on a Pet Shop Boys kick lately. I have always liked them. I can remember sitting on the tour bus at the boychoir school listening to them with headphones on. A sure sign of a gay boy, nobody else would listen to them. Oh well, I like my taste in music. It keeps my life interesting.
This picture just killed me, I had to post it. No prudes here. For those of you who don’t know:
OMG = OH MY GOD
WTF = WHAT THE FUCK!
Tags: OMG, Pet Shop Boys, Spring, WTF, Yard
The vacuum is going downstairs right now. I guess there is a first time for everything. Or my roommate read some of my older blog entries. One or the other. Good to finally hear it on down there, perhaps I’ll clean a common area tomorrow…perhaps not. I quit cleaning when my efforts became secondary to MAKING A FUCKING MESS!
I’ve been a little quite lately on the blog front. I’ve been pretty tired out both mentally and physically. Things are going to come to a head at work on Tuesday and people are going to realize that I’m just not going to put up with shit this summer from them. If they want to work for me, they all need to get it together and start working otherwise I’ll replace them all. I’m the boss, I’m sick of being so fucking accommodating to everyone else. I’ve been dealing with the Jirar split up one day at a time. While I’m still going to remain hopeful that this is not a final thing, I have to be able to accept it if it is. Everyone moves on…eventually.
I’ve got to start looking at where the housing options are in Traverse City. I think maybe on my next weekend off, I might take a drive into town and try to find some of these places that are for rent out there. I want to get into a managed property, I’d really rather not rent from joe blow landlord again. I see way too many dipshit land lords at work….I know how they operate in this area. They don’t give a fuck about their properties, they just want the residual incomes. There are a LOT of lazy fucks up here.
OK, off for tonight. I’ll try to get back into a daily entry again soon. The weather is getting nicer, it’s going to be much harder to sit in front of the computer when my garden is calling me outside!
Sarah see pic below - NAME THAT MOVIE!
Tags: apartments, Blogging, cleaning, housing, mess, roommate, vacuum
Wow, what a day at work today. It was really busy but nobody was buying much. You can tell this economy is in the shitter or headed that way, lots of lookers but very few serious buyers. That makes my job quite difficult. Over all it was a decent day and I’m excited. The garden center was open today for the first time this season. That means I can start looking at the summer goods and seeing what fun things I can buy (although since I’m moving this fall, I likely won’t bother spending my money).
Spent this evening outside raking leaves out of my garden pit. I’ve got to pick up some mole traps again this year. They’ve not started yet but I can feel that I’m going to have problems again. I don’t think the random cats around here will do much to control the problem. I will be doing another vegetable garden again this summer. Since I’ll be here for pretty much the entire growing season, it doesn’t make much sense to just let those expensive raised garden beds and premium soil sit there to be used as a big cat box. Not sure what I’m going to plant, hopefully I can start just about everything from seed this year. Last year I could not do much form seed because my team member got hurt and I was working 80 hours a week. I’ve already told the GM’s that I refuse to pull that shit again this year. My team is perfectly able to run the show when I’m not there…well most of the time they are…they will be after my department meeting with them on Tuesday. That’s another post.
Here’s some music to listen to while you look at the picture below.
The Winter’s Gone
Tags: earth day, garden, leaves, stupid, work
