Happy February! It's going to be a great weekend. Why? Because I am going to move my greenhouse into the craft room and start some seeds inside while it's still 20F/-6.6C outside. It's part of my plan to make the most of the spring/summer by having larger plants ready to go when the last frost date arrives. I'm also giving blood on Sunday, which usually makes me feel great once it's done and I'm having snacks. And since February is the shortest month, I'm trying a low-spend month. I ...
Friday 5: Self-care
This week is TNP's annual conference which is being held online. It's a very ambitious program with a mix of live workshops and prerecorded sessions with live chat and as of this writing at lunchtime on the last day, everything's going well. So far I've worked on 3 live sessions, had two shifts at TNP's booth in the exhibit hall, and this afternoon I'll be moderating chat for 2 prerecorded sessions. We have Monday off to decompress from the whole thing, and I think we'll really need it. I play a ...
Angry Man Farm 2020
(celebrating one year of success!) In the middle of all of the abnormality and fear, the days grew longer and springtime returned. It seemed weird planning for a future in a world that seemed so dire, but I'm not going to prematurely lay down and die from an virus that may not even kill me in the first place. Thus, we're gardening. (insert quiet good-humoured resolve) This post is photo-heavy, so I'm going to pop a more tag after this gratuitous shot of a filthy, tangled gardener and her ...
Angry Man Farm: Raised Garden Bed!
A while ago when WM and I were heading to the PA Renaissance Faire, we passed some farms and idly wondered what our farm name would be, if we had one. We laughingly settled on Angry Man Farm. Whenever we do any type of outdoor or baking work, we call it an Angry Man Farm product. This past weekend was amazing for two reasons: 1) it was a three-day weekend and 2) the weather was AMAZING. Thusly, it was time for me to put my gardening money where my mouth is and build the small raised garden I ...
Currently, slacking edition
SLACKING on this blog. Seriously, Kim, get over your post-vacation funk and get it together. Painting my future craft room. Finally. I went to Lowes with the sunbeam paint swatch in hand. Dumped painting supplies in the cart. Wheeled it over to the paint department, where I didn't see any Glidden paint. I went to the paint desk - "Do you not sell Glidden anymore?" ANNNND was told that paint chip came from Home Depot. Yay me! Rather than go to another home improvement store, I picked a color ...
Outdoor adventures
(rabbit rabbit!) Back before Murphy arrived, when our days looked like this... ...we embarked on a few outside projects to make the house on Literary Lane sparkle. We purchased a powerwasher and WM washed the house. I did not realize houses needed washing, but ours definitely did. We planted some grass seed in the 50% of our front lawn that was dead, and the grass is actually growing! I'm becoming a "must turn the sprinkler on" person. See the front potted plant? It ...
Catchup, and a plea.
My life, in a nutshell, since I spoke with you last: Went to a work-sponsored bowling party 2 weeks ago. It was fun. That's me, bowling, courtesy of the timer on my camera. I'm wearing a NJ Devils (ugh...win today, guys! c'mon!) jersey and am still showing the exquisite graceful bowling form I had when I bowled Varsity in high school. Mom & I went to a Camden Riversharks game and had much fun. Chipper is now 14 lbs. A new truck for Baron vonPlaque! (who I may revert to calling Thor for brevity's ...
