– make bread – clear out weed bed in garden – sweep up garden floor – locate or purchase work gloves so the cruft from the weed bed & garden floor can be picked up without introducing delicate hands to bugs with an obvious “-pede” suffix – pour boiling water over garden floor – scrub garden floor with bleach water – scrub garden wall with bleach water – paint garden wall if weather permits – perhaps hang a second clothes line – call in order for the dryer – finish…
plans for the weekend
It seems like there’re about 1200 things to do this weekend. Hopefully by the end of it–or at least by the end of July–we’ll be Fully Moved In and won’t have to do quite so many Things. Which is of course the idea, and part of the reason to have the housewarming party on August 1. Remember that? You’re coming, aren’t you? :) thinks to do this weekend: – make bread – dye my hair – email Cat – clear out weed bed in garden – sweep up garden floor…
thinks to do
some thinks i would like to accomplish today: – a nap – find a vet to get food for stupid poopy-butt zilli UTTER FAIL but I did get food for stupid picky-pants lucy – buy a bristle broom to scrub down the back ‘garden’ – find the toddler group UTTER FAIL but only because I decided I was tired of walking around – write we shall see.
it’s a busy life, somehow
Mmm. Cherries are good. I wonder if I plant some of these cherry pits if I’ll get cherry trees eventually. My life seems very busy, although I think in absolute terms it’s actually not. Still, yesterday we went into Dublin, I said as if we weren’t living in Dublin, but meaning the city centre when I say that, and wandered about buying important things like barrettes, hair dye, and athlete’s-foot-cure. And new socks. Does anybody know if semi-permanent hair dye really washes out, or if it just fades unpleasantly? I…
ugh.
For reasons not entirely clear to us, though the landlords had kept the recycling and trash bins in front of the house, the compost bin was in the back garden. Today is compost-collection day, so last night Ted brought the bin in through the kitchen (the only way it can be brought in) out to the front. In the brief time it took to do that, one jillion fruit flies swarmed out of it. We set out hole-punctured plastic-wrap-covered jars of cider vinegar, which got most of the little fuckers,…