Cloudy, gray & cool air to wear light suit jacket. Yday was sunny, clear blue skies w/ cool breezes & warm afternoon sun. Did yardwork in backyard & in streets.
Tag: gardening
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20090909-Yard Working
After attending this morning’s mass, after a slight delay in conversation from Emmer and his crone-faced wife, Myrna who both ran to intercept Maw (and maybe Paw) on the unknown whereabouts of not sitting in the normal location up front in the pews, after eating breakfast in McDonald’s for an hours of idle conversation and after Paw’s deposit of a measly check from AT&T, I proceeded to do yard work for about two hours and stopped around 12:20pm:
- Blowing dust, eucalyptus leaves, twigs and barks from the ginger rocks and cement.
- Yanking old parts of the orchids, throwing away dead one, cutting dried leaves and plucking eucalyptus leaves from inside their containers.
- Plucking eucalyptus leaves from inside the containers of pink-colored geraniums hanging from the fruit trees.
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20090829-Big Thanks
For happier plants & more veggies, water not drown in mud & fertilze soil AND leaves. Visualize thanks WHILE harvesting EACH one. Bless, luv & heal losts limbs.
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20090829-Sylphs Ahoy
Some sylphs appeared. A big one seemed right over our home. Cool in morn while we watered in backyard & hosed house & windows. Then friggin’ hot after noontime.
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20090826-Yard Working
Prior to entering more blogs this afternoon and right after eating lunch, I’ve worked in the backyard:
- Re-planted to air plants from ant infested moss, sitting in nook of one of the fruit tree.
- Removed old cactus leaves, dumped old soil and washed out that container.
- Flushed out two potted plants containing bulbs and one spider, drowned by moi into lawn.
- Re-planted seedlings growing from the base of its flowering parent-plant.
- Swept dried leaves with the almighty ~walis~ for one-hour, getting fresh air and sweating under warm sun while wearing a sleeveless, fleece, gray-colored vest:
- Eucalyptus tree.
- Other leaves dropped by the squirrels from four of fruits trees clustered together.
- Damn you, God-nature! Defeated again, daily.
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20090823-Favorite Tool
Been using Weed Eater – Electric Blower Model 2510. And recently bought @ Lowe’s an orange reel Item #KW-130 w/ black handle to wrap green 150ft. extension cord.
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20090823-Sylphs Ahoy
The weather today is noticeably much cooler, making yard work tolerable under the sun. Some sylphs are present, mostly towards the east side of the Bay Area. The sky is crispy clear and blue. The breeze is blowing softly through the tree branches.
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20090816-Harvesting Garden
After dinner tonight, we three decided to harvest our fruits and vegetables:
- 65 – spicy peppers (green),
- 20 – eggplants,
- 16 – bitter melon and
- one recycling bin (yellow) of pears, which Paw separated between edible and trash.
Actually, I did MOST of the harvest with my bare hands and and pair of scissors. Maw and I started with the spicy, green peppers (long), then the eggplants, followed by bitter melon and the pears, which took longer since I was too short to could reach the top of the tree and was able to get the job done by using a kitchen stepping stool for the extra height.
The tenants (a Filipino couple in their sixties) of the next door neighbor received some vegetables, which Maw handed over the standard height fence dividing our property on top of a 6 foot ladder, which Paw held steady for her. He also cut some New Zealand spinach for them.
These bountiful blessings will be distributed to some parishioners, who are mostly friendly to Maw than to Paw or me – both of us are quieter and non-interactive in conversation.
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20090813-Daily Diary
Attended 0800am mass. Ate @ McD. Drove to Maw’s doctor’s appt: waited in car while trying to listen to `El Rushbeau`; to read `Liberty & Tyranny` and ended up blogging a bit and napping.
Went to Magats store to buy tinapas fish and meat stuff for lunch. @ 11:27am: tall, dark-shaded, bug-eyed, big ass Mexicana came out of a discount store and spat on the sidewalk; while I waited in the Mercedes-Benz E430. Of course, I made expletives through the opened windows. Low class, reptoids.
Did yardwork of blowing eucalyptus leaves, sweeping, hauling and piling on MY road for pick-up tomorrow morning (every Friday). Ate tinapas fish for lunch. Took shower. Blogged upstairs. Enjoying clear, blue skies and cool breeze blowing through the tree branches, which are dancing and waving in the air.
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20090721-Daily Diary
Today’s sunny, clear, blue skies like yday but much cooler. Lovely! Blew eucalyptus leaves in the morning while still cool. Feeling sleepy now.
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20090719-EMO Whacked
A person or group that is made to bear blame for others. According to the Old Testament, on the Day of Atonement, a priest would confess all the sins of the Israelites over the head of a goat and then drive it into the wilderness, symbolically bearing their sins away.
I recall watching only one episode of Malcolm in the Middle in which Malcolm, the middle kid, became the new scapegoat and the once brooding and quiet family became once again alive when the parents started screaming at Malcolm, who took the blame when it wasn’t his fault, now that the old scapegoat moved out of the house.
Below is a short story of portraying how we suffered as scapegoats while trying to enjoy gardening under sunny, clear blue sky day:
Last night, two of the chayote vines looked dried. Maw prompted me to fertilize the dying plant. I did with a sprinkler bucket full of Miracle Grow. I went over there and found out that piled on dirt of a ‘moat’ that Paw formed with one shovel over the past few months leaked. There was a break in the small retaining wall of dried soil with the surrounding areas darker from being watered instead of the plant.
Today upon rising at 0900AM and skipping breakfast, I immediately went to the area to the ‘right’ of the CB (created by J—/Sensei) and proceeded to cut the dried vines and to extricate the vines from its former trellis. It was to be transplanted near the pear tree on the grounds that a gopher was eating the roots. This was false as Paw and I later discovered that the roots were really dry from lack of water.
After the twosome finished their two slices of wheat toast for breakfast, they came out and Paw dug the new place of dried soil, added fresh soil, mixed those two types of soil together and helped to dig out the first of two chayote plants. The first one was placed well after Maw noticed that the soil needed to be two holes instead of Paw’s one center hole.
The second one was dug up and transplanted. Maw wanted the vines of the second plant to go right through the center of the trellis with the first vines weaving on either side. She wanted the bamboo sticks tied to the bottom of the second plant but insisted for me to stop fixing the vines until the bottom portion of the plant is secured.
I didn’t listen because I knew Paw was already tying the support to the vine and saw no reason to stop what I was to doing so as to speed up the completion of the transplant. Of course, she started ranting and raving as an EMO would with the hot sun beating down upon her already hot headed temperament.
I told her to calm down, stop being mean and be nice for once but she started to get violent and threatened to throw a big rock or stone at moi. Of course, I called her bluff and continued to say I’m sorry. But the demon-possessed one continued to spew at me to stop, raised one of the long, old bamboo stick and twice whacked a grown forty-year old woman.
The striking of the stick from my left and upon my lower extremities was rather soft and didn’t hurt but thanked the teacher for putting me into place. We were tired and I didn’t care as long as the plant thrived in its new home. Her eyes were still piercing from her adrenaline rush and I went over to place a left arm of assurance that the plant will be fine.
In another televised programming, I recall watching a cartoon espisode of Futurama in which Leela became a teenager, relived her youth with her old mutant parents living underground and sneaked out of her bedroom windows upstairs after taking the blame for knocking a school over.
Leela: No! A grounded teenager must be confined to her room!
I suppose it’s good to stay upstairs for awhile until everything cools down and blog my sentiments as ‘justified punishment’ for talking back to an emotional elder earlier this morning. At least, I’m enjoying myself after a nice warm shower to remove dirt and grime from transplanting and blowing eucalyptus leaves, knowing there’s fried riced cooked by Maw as repatriation for her karmic deed of whacking moi.
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20090718-Friggin Warm
High altitude clouds made eating lunch under patio & sleeping past few nites tolerable. Been warm in morn for blowing eucalyptus leaves, defeated by God nature.