Yesterday was fairly productive. Dropped redmed off at the airport at 7 in the morning, so I was able to make the 8am yoga class at Eyes of the World. A nice two hour workout, first thing in the morning, does wonders for my attitude.
Stopped off at Home Depot on the way back, to get six tomato plants, 9 cabbage plants, and a sturdy rake. I’ve basically given up on the seedlings that I started indoors. They’re spindly and weak, and they fall over any time the wind blows. So, tomatoes and cabbages in the ground, interspersed with the onions, radishes, garlic, and flowers. The hops are almost obscenely healthy, and seem to be growing at a rate of inches per day. Rhubarb is up … things are pretty good all around.
I spent a couple of hours “de-thatching” a portion of the lawn. So far as I can tell, this involves
* Mowing it pretty close
* raking the ever living hell out of it
* Mowing it really close.
* raking the ever living hell out of it
And so on. That was pretty tiring. I got a lot of dead grass and dense, matted stuff out. I think that I either did something good, or killed my lawn. Time will tell.
Then things took a turn for the unproductive. Went to the East Providence “skeptics” meeting, which was at TGI Fridays. Conversation was good, but we lingered, refilling our glasses, for much too long. A few of us wound up back at a friend’s house, watching the Matrix until past midnight. Didn’t sleep well, and I’m having trouble mustering the initiative to do much of anything at all this morning.
Ah well, back to the raking.
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