Larry is not happy with my new gadabout lifestyle. For the last 9 months he’s been here, I’ve been on the farm most of the time. On Monday I left at 9:30AM, back at home and inside for 10 minutes at noon, then outside until after 4PM.
He had to come lay on me for extended periods to make sure he was still loved.
As a result of such an arduous Monday, once my appointment on Tuesday morning was done, I didn’t move far from my chair or the couch. I think I might have done some laundry.
At supper Tuesday night I noticed the Cortland storage onions were just up. So on Wednesday morning I took the cover off, thinned and transplanted a bunch, found a board to raise up the tray to the light, and put them back in the window.
Three pots of the 6 started had come up of the verbascum, a flower.
By suppertime, nearly 12 hours later, this is how the onions looked. You’d never know I’d thinned them. I will have to do it again soon.
I went to exercise class Wednesday morning and picked up a shower stool for my mom while at the Senior Center. I had an hour rest and fell asleep in my chair until noon.
My general helper arrived and I had a lot of errands and shopping to do. It was cold out and too wet from the rain to do garden work. So we went north and did a big shopping, came home and put it away, and headed south to do more.
We got back about 3:30PM and I put things away (she did the cellar stuff) and then she washed up covers and a couple trays for the next seed starting next Friday.
The next seed starting will be 7 trays, so she got a good start on it.
I went to show her the little Iris reticulata in the South garden and we found nearly a dozen buds on the daffodils in front.
As with all things, post writing must be supervised.
I was again really wiped out, but won’t have a lot of rest time on Thursday. It’s been warm enough lately that I’ve only lit the masonry heater once every 36 hours or so. The wood stove has been burning low most of the time still. I don’t even pull shades until 6 or 7PM, and it’s still stayed in the middle 70’s inside.
On Thursday my mom arrives in the afternoon. In the morning I need to get my post up, create a slide show of the Bulb Show for her to watch, clean up the kitchen, shower, and then a phone call. It will be with the SHINE lady to try yet again to find out what’s happening with getting home help. I haven’t much hope we will get any farther. My mom arrives after 3PM.