Went to a minor league game in Greenville (vs. Savannah Sand Gnats) tonight with a group of residents and attendings. I think it was better than the majors because the crowd wasn’t enormous.
The lady who sat next to me was a very chatty pharmacist with the residency program. She brought her own mini bottles of rum to spike her coke with. She assured me several times throughout the game that “I don’t usually act like this”.
Please leave some blueberries and blackberries on the bushes for me.
All I’m asking for is enough to make a cobbler.
One.
Measly.
Cobbler.
There’s 8 bushes. Surely we can manage a few cups of berries.
Come guys, do it for me.
I mean, I’ve been leaving bread crusts and birdseed out for y’all, so how bout returning the favor?
The first hints of life from the garden. It looks like I will be having squash and beans. And lettuce of course. No sign of the peppers yet.
Today’s project: composting. Apparently you can buy hi-tech compost bins, but they’re like whoa expensive, so I am using a Rubbermaid box that I drilled holes in. It’s in my storage room for now. I will move it out in the sun later to help it heat up, but right now it’s really wet outside and I don’t want it to get super soggy.
Right now it only has about 3 inches of stuff in it: a layer of dead leaves and straw that I raked up yesterday before it started raining, and a thin layer of 3 days’ worth of kitchen scraps (finally a use for used tea leaves!) and squirrel-gnawed crabapples from the yard.
Oh, and worms. I threw in 30 red wigglers from the bait store to speed up the process. Hopefully they’ll be fruitful and multiply in the box.
Hopefully by fall I’ll have some compost to use as fertilizer for fall/winter veggies in the garden.
And yes, I am fully aware that my storage room looks like a serial killer’s secret lair.
5/29/12
Finished painting the chest of drawers and vanity in the guest room. They feel much less outdated now. Still got to do the bed and side table, but I ran out of paint. And I need to get pulls for the drawers. The holes are spaced weird, though, so it’s going to be difficult. Overall, I’m pretty pleased. Picking a white is difficult. Did you know there are like 2394824 shades of white in the paint department? Cuz there are. This one is called whipped cream. It looks nice with my mocha/grayish walls.
This morning I noticed that there were 2 blueberries on the bush looking pretty ripe. This afternoon, they were gone. I blamed the birds at first, but now I think I’ve found the real culprit. I was eating dinner on the patio and saw little Alvin here creeping around the blueberry bushes. I’m watching you, Alvin. Be on your guard.
Container purchased, holes drilled. Composting commences tomorrow.
