April showers

[vanillafluffy]

It's raining this afternoon, which is fine with me; it means I don't have to haul water for the hydrangeas. Everything will get saturated for a change, not just a gallon of water dribbled from one end of the bed to the other.

It's really coming down. I don't have to go anywhere or do anything, so that's fine. It means I'll have to get it mowed again that much sooner, but knock wood, the January freeze SEEMS to have killed off the sawgrass. Considering what a pain in the ass it's been over the years, I'd do it again just for that. I know, bite my tongue, right?

Sometimes it's GOOD when there's nothing going on....

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[socialhermit.livejournal.com]

*nods*

That's been my motto/mantra for YEARS!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a reason "May you live in interesting times" is considered a curse.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Yah! That makes freezing your butt off for most of the month well worth it.

I did heavy-duty veggie gardening today and put in the plants for this season after Corgiguy prepared the plot. Got damned tired of digging holes and spreading composted cow manure around, but it now looks very promising. There are lots of tomatoes (big ones and grape-sized), chilis and sweet peppers, zukes, cukes, yellow squash, eggplant, onions, lettuce, basil and dill. We lost the huge old rosemary bush to the snow, but the smaller ones are thriving, as are the sage, chives and lavender.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I might do something like that in my backyard---or indeed, ANYTHING with my backyard---if my damned sliding glass doors actually slid. They're frozen in place, and while it could probably be fixed by taking them down and cleaning the mechanism and the tracks, *I* don't have the strength to do it myself, and I can't get any help, so....

[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a job for the ever-popular BC--- see if you can't talk him into it! He's strong like bull according to you...

[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

Another tip: a lot of time those doors will loosen up if you spray some WD 40 on the sliding part.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Note to self, snag some WD40....

[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

This rain helped me water the 15 or so tomato plants that hubby potted a few weeks ago. I think our peach trees are dead from the freeze but we actually ate peaches off of them last summer.
Was a glorious day for being indoors--typically, the rain waits until Monday morning when I am leaving for work to start coming down.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

The weather today is pleasant enough, but they're keeping the shuttle up for another day...I'm gonna have to guess that there's a front somewhere between here and where it enters the atmosphere.