Months and Months go by…
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010…and the blog is ignored.
We’re counting down the days until school is out. Sixteen days, and three of them are half-days. We went to the pool yesterday, and plan on going after school on Wed, Thur, and Fri. Of course, now I still need bathing suits for both boys and a sun shirt for Jim and towels…
The garden is in, and in the ten days since I planted and transplanted, the seeds have been sprouted and thinned. The transplants are a different story. The basil is fine, the calendula (a flower) is OK, and the pumpkin is so-so but seems to be recovering. The tomatoes and pepper plants didn’t make it. I checked on them yesterday, and all the leaves were gone, and one of the tomato plants was all shriveled up too. Of course, I’m sure it didn’t help that the timer for the sprinkler was wrong, set to water for zero minutes. So it missed getting watered for two and a half days. But that’s all fixed now.
I also set up a pretty sweet sprinkler system. It cost about $125, but it’s run by timers, and the hoses run along the house, not the lawn. It makes edging a little harder, but it’s way better then having hoses on the lawn and brown grass! And eventually, the spots where the hoses run will be flower beds, and edging there won’t be a problem at all.
In Colin news, he’s now fully potty-trained. There were some setbacks early on, but the enticement of a new train and fear of what would happen to the train (going back to the store) if he kept backsliding, worked. He’s even dry at night!
Since Colin is a big boy now, I gave into the peer pressure, and gave him a streamlined summer haircut last night…
My moppet before his haircut….
…is turned into a hooligan after it:
