Ibuprofen 9, Ken and Lisa 0
Lots of work recently for both of us. But we're mostly caught up now, thanks to the 3 day weekend. Here's the weekend in review:
Friday night
We went out for dinner with some friends and then went "cosmic bowling", i.e. drinking beer while bowling in the dark with spinning colored lights. I got my highest score ever -- 118. It was exciting.
Saturday
Went to a garden & patio show with Emily that morning. I bought two new "friends": a red currant and two lingonberries. I am excited to have more fruit in the yard. Especially since they come back year after year.
Lingonberry
After the garden show, I baked off some ciabatta bread that I made the night before and we took it over to Mindy's for a scrabble tournament. We'd never done a scrabble tournament before -- neither had they, but it was fun. 8 of us; double elimination. We had a round robin first to determine seeding: 1 minute per turn, 30 minute max. It was very stressful. I much prefer the 2 minutes per round that we had for the actual tournament. I ended up coming in third and I knocked Ken to the loser's bracket. Fun night overall.
Sunday
This was a big gardening day for us. It was 50 and sunny. We cleared a big mound of rock and dirt out the backyard (the new portion we bought in the fall). Then Ken went to his football game while I added a stone border around one of the beds. It had been on my "to do" list since last summer. When he got back, we ate fresh bagels that I made for lunch (I didn't know bagels were so easy to make). Then we built a two-bin compost area out of cinderblock in the backyard. It is ~14 square feet and I got to dump all of my yard debris into one of the bins. It felt good to clean up.
Monday
We were sore when we woke up. Lots of digging plus moving 60-some cinderblocks will do that. Ken went to the store and bought some posts and concrete to build part of an arbor (for the grapevine) and extend a fence (to cover the compost). While Ken was at the store, I laid stone around another border and trimmed my roses. Ken laid the posts and cut the wood for when the concrete cured. We both sufficiently ached.
I went to the store to get some project materials (not gardening related), but on my way I passed Portland Nursery so I stopped in to see if anything was new. Oh behold. I bought three new friends:
Gooseberry (Captivator)
Nugget Hops
I planted them all when I got home. Then we ate more ibuprofen and went to bed around 10. I am still sore. It hurts to walk.
posted by Lisa @ 1:18 PM
3 Comments:
I just started making bagels too. Easier than I thought and the varieties are endless.
Lisa,you will have to make some Tyttebaer Jam with those lingonberries. I remember my Mom serving it with a big turkey dinner. Just one of those memorable trimmings.
The "Inbombatable(sp?) SnowANN" from New Hampshire
When I get a new plant "friend", Ken tends to give me a "you got another plant?" look. Except if it's an edible plant, then he gets excited. I've switched my strategy to where I bring home at least one edible from plant sales. He was really excited about the lingonberries. I read that they do really well as a groundcover under currant/gooseberry bushes. Perfect! I hope to have enough to make jam. You'll be the first to get some!
I see some more strawberries in our future (We always eat all that we plant and I'd like to try the everbearing variety). Plus some asparagus. That would be fun.
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