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Greenhouse-related
Apr. 17th, 2014 12:38 pmDidn't enter the fabrics-store contest, as we ended up working on clearing up the area around the greenhouse for the neighbor's first house showing, plus some yard work in the front yard. Oh, and we moved a fancy metal arbor over to our place (has gates and side planter stands), as well as a really cool fish statue. It can be a fountain but I like it just as it is.
Did move a bunch of things both before the showing on Monday. Tuesday it was cold and wet, and then we had snow overnight. Wednesday afternoon though, I made several trips. I moved a couple of loads of smaller stuff in the garden cart and also carried over a couple of metal trellises, two tall tripod planter things, and a couple of those planter boxes that are metal ribs that you put coconut coir matting in them. Not sure as I have a use those last, but there are more of them in the greenhouse (L brought a couple more over today), but maybe somebody does.
This morning we wanted to make a trash run to the transfer point, to take some recycling and trash, and especially one of the bags that smelled of something truly nasty -- and better first thing in the morning, while it was frozen and not yet completely hideous to be near. As it was, we drove with a couple of the windows partly open :D
After breakfast, L had a meeting so I worked on sorting through the bags that neighbor D had filled as trash, pulling out what could be recycled and what might still be used by us or other folks. One of D's business plans had been to make silk floral and holiday arrangements, so a lot of the current bunch of trash I'm working on is ornaments, flowers, straw wreaths, and fake evergreens. Most of it is trash, unfortunately. While none of it is really needed in our world of too-much-stuff, it's doubly sad that most of this was and never will be used...
I did save one little evergreen "tree" so far, and a bunch of ball ornaments. The latter aren't in great shape but they're whole, so I can remove the dust and re-paint or otherwise cover them. There's a lady in town who does a cancer research fundraiser at her family Christmas tree farm every year, so these would be perfect for that. I also found some sort of berry wreath thing that is mostly trash but has some interesting beads on it, so I'll take those off first.
Anyway, we took a total of 4 bags of trash to the transfer point today, and quite a bit of recycling (plastic and paper mostly, but also a little metal). L commented on the first three bags we took on the first trip this morning that that was the equivalent of about 6 months' worth of trash for the two of us. Of course, what's in the greenhouse has accumulated over many years, but still, interesting.
L also moved the pressure waterer today, so it'll be easier to get in and out of the building now.
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The one issue I have with doing all this is that I don't really have the energy for cooking, but we need to keep moving on this because I saw a hornet the other day. There are some old wasp nests in the greenhouses as well as some old snake skins, so we want to break up the habitat before they come by to try to set up house this year.
Once we have everything out and sorted, I can maybe invite folks to come over and pick through anything we don't want to keep for ourselves.
Did move a bunch of things both before the showing on Monday. Tuesday it was cold and wet, and then we had snow overnight. Wednesday afternoon though, I made several trips. I moved a couple of loads of smaller stuff in the garden cart and also carried over a couple of metal trellises, two tall tripod planter things, and a couple of those planter boxes that are metal ribs that you put coconut coir matting in them. Not sure as I have a use those last, but there are more of them in the greenhouse (L brought a couple more over today), but maybe somebody does.
This morning we wanted to make a trash run to the transfer point, to take some recycling and trash, and especially one of the bags that smelled of something truly nasty -- and better first thing in the morning, while it was frozen and not yet completely hideous to be near. As it was, we drove with a couple of the windows partly open :D
After breakfast, L had a meeting so I worked on sorting through the bags that neighbor D had filled as trash, pulling out what could be recycled and what might still be used by us or other folks. One of D's business plans had been to make silk floral and holiday arrangements, so a lot of the current bunch of trash I'm working on is ornaments, flowers, straw wreaths, and fake evergreens. Most of it is trash, unfortunately. While none of it is really needed in our world of too-much-stuff, it's doubly sad that most of this was and never will be used...
I did save one little evergreen "tree" so far, and a bunch of ball ornaments. The latter aren't in great shape but they're whole, so I can remove the dust and re-paint or otherwise cover them. There's a lady in town who does a cancer research fundraiser at her family Christmas tree farm every year, so these would be perfect for that. I also found some sort of berry wreath thing that is mostly trash but has some interesting beads on it, so I'll take those off first.
Anyway, we took a total of 4 bags of trash to the transfer point today, and quite a bit of recycling (plastic and paper mostly, but also a little metal). L commented on the first three bags we took on the first trip this morning that that was the equivalent of about 6 months' worth of trash for the two of us. Of course, what's in the greenhouse has accumulated over many years, but still, interesting.
L also moved the pressure waterer today, so it'll be easier to get in and out of the building now.
****
The one issue I have with doing all this is that I don't really have the energy for cooking, but we need to keep moving on this because I saw a hornet the other day. There are some old wasp nests in the greenhouses as well as some old snake skins, so we want to break up the habitat before they come by to try to set up house this year.
Once we have everything out and sorted, I can maybe invite folks to come over and pick through anything we don't want to keep for ourselves.
