It's a garden
Apr. 27th, 2020 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrj Today's after-work project was to get all the tomatoes (and the couple other things I bought at the same time) into the ground. Also: adjust the sprinkler for the vegetable bed. I found one that does the right shape, but the flow from the automated timer mechanism is too strong and I end up watering the grass. (I don't do "lawn" in the back yard. Watering it isn't a tragedy, but it's unwanted.) Eventually I'll either need to find an in-line flow restricter that I can adjust to exactly what I want, or a single-channel timer so I can put it on a different branch of the splitter and adjust the flow via the splitter toggle. In the mean time, I've done the last but with the mechanical timer that you have to set for each session. I'll just need to make it part of my daily routine until I have a separate excuse to hit Home Depot again.
I think that's it for new plants this year. I'm leaving the beds that I used for tomatoes the last couple years fallow, though the intent isn't so much "fallow" as "put in some serious effort to eradicate the bermuda grass." Other than that, I think it's time to relax into maintenance tasks for a while.
I dropped off the car to do the assorted recommended maintenance I didn't have time for the last time it was in, and I let the service guy talk me into doing my next major service just a smidge early. It's so much more convenient to do it while I don't actually need the car on a day-to-day basis. They found a couple other long-term maintenance things that will keep it going in good shape and praised how well I'm maintaining it. (Since they're the ones doing the work, I don't know that I deserve any praise other than being willing to keep investing in it.)
Felt sluggish all day, like I hadn't really rested over the weekend. Wait: I spent the weekend doing lots of yard maintenance. OK, maybe I deserved being tired. I keep waiting for the yard work to be muscle-building exercise rather than exhaustion-building exercise.
I think that's it for new plants this year. I'm leaving the beds that I used for tomatoes the last couple years fallow, though the intent isn't so much "fallow" as "put in some serious effort to eradicate the bermuda grass." Other than that, I think it's time to relax into maintenance tasks for a while.
I dropped off the car to do the assorted recommended maintenance I didn't have time for the last time it was in, and I let the service guy talk me into doing my next major service just a smidge early. It's so much more convenient to do it while I don't actually need the car on a day-to-day basis. They found a couple other long-term maintenance things that will keep it going in good shape and praised how well I'm maintaining it. (Since they're the ones doing the work, I don't know that I deserve any praise other than being willing to keep investing in it.)
Felt sluggish all day, like I hadn't really rested over the weekend. Wait: I spent the weekend doing lots of yard maintenance. OK, maybe I deserved being tired. I keep waiting for the yard work to be muscle-building exercise rather than exhaustion-building exercise.
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Date: 2020-04-28 02:40 am (UTC)Dropped the car off at Concord Honda. Wore a mask throughout but wasn't entirely able to maintain 6ft distance or sanitize after. Biked home then washed.