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a good start to the holiday weekend!
Mar. 25th, 2016 10:30 pmIf ever there was a day for sunshine and the arrival of spring, the first day of a four-day weekend would be it! In the morning Gwen and I cleaned up all the planters from last summer, tearing out the dead plants and removing a layer of moss and weeds -- all except for the planter which had the strawberries, since amazingly some of the strawberries survived!
We then took a break as just 'cause it's Good Friday doesn't mean Latin reading group up in St. Andrews doesn't meet, so I left Gwen in daddy's capable hands and headed up to the bedroom to skype in as I usually do (well, usually I do it from the office). I do enjoy 21st C academia: First Neffie came and sat on my lap, and later on I swapped her for Gwen, who was suddenly struck by the need for some cuddles.
Afterwards, she and I headed out to B&Q (she on her bike, which makes the walk substantially faster!) to go plant shopping. Last year we waited way too late, really, which is why we didn't get much from our tomato and pepper plants, so I didn't want that to happen again. It turned out we erred on the other side with our trip, since the only vegetable seedlings were peas, broad beans, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower. We ended up coming home with one box of pea sprouts and one of cauliflower sprouts, which we cheerfully planted. We also went a bit crazy and came back not only with four raspberry canes (it had always been my intention to clear out some of the growth in the alley behind our garden to plant raspberries there; but I hadn't gotten around to it yet), but also two blackberry canes and a blueberry bush. Oh, we're going to have fun!
Gwen and I then headed over to the new place via the river, stopping halfway there to patronize the ice cream van.
(Amazing sometimes the photos you can get via cell-phone selfies quickly snapped!)
We then cleared out a bunch of debris from the alley garden, and planted the raspberries and blueberries; not sure yet where the blackberries will go. We did supper at the Elm Tree, where the cook gifted Gwen with a bag of mini chocolate eggs, simply because she is so cute. It was past bedtime (and dark) when Gwen and I started back home, but she was in a surprisingly good mood (and had been pretty much all day!), that as we crossed the bridge and I pointed out how beautiful the castle was in the twilight with the lights on, and she said "someday I want to go there", I took a gamble and asked if she wanted to go there now. So we did.
We alternated her walking and me carrying her, and we made it home all the way without any whining, even though by the time we got there it was an hour past bedtime and she'd walked or biked around 4.5 miles over the course of the day.
We then took a break as just 'cause it's Good Friday doesn't mean Latin reading group up in St. Andrews doesn't meet, so I left Gwen in daddy's capable hands and headed up to the bedroom to skype in as I usually do (well, usually I do it from the office). I do enjoy 21st C academia: First Neffie came and sat on my lap, and later on I swapped her for Gwen, who was suddenly struck by the need for some cuddles.
Afterwards, she and I headed out to B&Q (she on her bike, which makes the walk substantially faster!) to go plant shopping. Last year we waited way too late, really, which is why we didn't get much from our tomato and pepper plants, so I didn't want that to happen again. It turned out we erred on the other side with our trip, since the only vegetable seedlings were peas, broad beans, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower. We ended up coming home with one box of pea sprouts and one of cauliflower sprouts, which we cheerfully planted. We also went a bit crazy and came back not only with four raspberry canes (it had always been my intention to clear out some of the growth in the alley behind our garden to plant raspberries there; but I hadn't gotten around to it yet), but also two blackberry canes and a blueberry bush. Oh, we're going to have fun!
Gwen and I then headed over to the new place via the river, stopping halfway there to patronize the ice cream van.
(Amazing sometimes the photos you can get via cell-phone selfies quickly snapped!)
We then cleared out a bunch of debris from the alley garden, and planted the raspberries and blueberries; not sure yet where the blackberries will go. We did supper at the Elm Tree, where the cook gifted Gwen with a bag of mini chocolate eggs, simply because she is so cute. It was past bedtime (and dark) when Gwen and I started back home, but she was in a surprisingly good mood (and had been pretty much all day!), that as we crossed the bridge and I pointed out how beautiful the castle was in the twilight with the lights on, and she said "someday I want to go there", I took a gamble and asked if she wanted to go there now. So we did.
We alternated her walking and me carrying her, and we made it home all the way without any whining, even though by the time we got there it was an hour past bedtime and she'd walked or biked around 4.5 miles over the course of the day.
