Friday, June 5, 2009

Rain, rain go away but come back when we need you, OK?

We had a bit of rain today, most of today.
But its days like this that I try to remember when we were all doing rain dances because it was so, so dry and we had a severe drought, wow; wasn't that only a month or so ago?
How soon we forget.

In spite of the weather my husband performed his mix-ology of the soil sweeteners/amenities by pouring them, then using a pitch fork to blend them in and last raking it all together to make it smooth; he had taken many breaks in between. Hubby had decided that whenever the sun would go behind a cloud that he would go to the side garden where this all is, and accomplish the merge of Pete moss, topsoil, and high test famous maker (what the heck, Miracle-Gro), pre-fertilized veggie-flower soil.
His next step of the project is to install the watering system (update, completed), fortunately, the second rain-barrel was hooked up to the original one for overflow purposes before this last rain fall, and so both have filled now, a total of 104 gallons, wow! The compost container’s top was removed for nature to water it down as well.

I imagine that the seed planting is not that far away, within days I suspect.
Sounds like we are not far off from picking those veggie bounties; our grape vine on our other trellis to our other side courtyard is blossoming with an overabundance of fruit; viniculture may also be in our future?

Update: on my FEDEX delivery…when I still heard nothing back from them I went online with my tracking number and found out, much to my surprise that my package had been delivered, again, this morning, but to where? Not here! And so my darling called and when all was said and done apparently someone misinterpreted the street number to one around the other side of our block, and so my husband went over there and although two vehicles were in the driveway no one answered the doorbell.
Now FEDEX will have to retrieve the mistake, and we have been told they will by tomorrow? Huh, this didn’t seem that difficult a task. If all else fails I can always call the store I ordered from and tell them and then they will cancel the order and re-order my order and resend! Geez, is it really worth it? Annoying and aggravating, should have wasted the gas and gone and picked it up!

On that slightly frustrating note I bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!


Addendum, update on FEDEX package: Neighbor around the corner just delivered it, and you know what? The label was just fine and readable, what a shame that a reliable company like FEDEX has liars in their workforce!

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