End of a Long Week

Maybe the grayness and rain contributed to making this feel like a long week. Or life's little hurdles might have entered in there, too. Don't know, but even though each individual day did not drag, looking back on this week makes it one I'm not eager to repeat.

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Good News: We have (what we sincerely hope is) enough fake brick ordered to finish the wall behind the living room wood stove.

Bad News: We don't expect it to arrive for two more weeks. And let's all hope it arrives undamaged. The bricks are somewhat fragile and don't take to being handled roughly in shipping. The factory acknowledges this and is doing special packaging to minimize damage.

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I think I must be the gardener most behind any of the rest of you. Not because I've been lazy in getting my rear out there to do what needs to be done, but because our season starts so much later than most anyone else's.

I did plant out two raised beds with salad greens, scallions, radishes, kohlrabi, Swiss chard, spinach, etc. a week ago but decided not to put cold frames on top of them because our weather has been mild. If we had had more than 15 minutes of sunshine this past week, I think the seeds would have done better. But they didn't get much heat without the cold frames, and today only the blessed, hardy, little radishes are poking through. Next week's forecast has more clouds and rain in it so I might be wise to drag out the cold frames this weekend and get them in place.

All my inside started seedlings are looking good, but aren't big enough to transplant to bigger, individual pots yet.

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I managed to stretch my birthday celebrations (birthday was last Monday) out for nearly a whole week. Was taken out for a lovely birthday lunch by a good friend yesterday and tonight we'll finally get together with our daughter for our celebration. She's making homemade hoagies (I LOVE sandwiches!) and my birthday "cake" which is Banana Cream Pie.

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What with our continued remodeling and spring things outside to do, I haven't been spending much time on housekeeping lately. A couple of you bloggers have been posting about decluttering, cleaning, straightening and sorting and you've inspired me to tackle my closet. So far today's weather doesn't hold much promise for sunshine so I may talk myself into attacking that area. If I survive that, there are plenty other hidey-holes I can move on to in the hopes or organizing and having better use of the space.