We have been to Great Cuts (haircuts for mr. flea and Casper), the YMCA (the office that has summer camp info is not open Saturdays) and Target (a replacement toy for Casper for the toy that mr. flea accidentally broke, plus m&ms and spinach seeds).

Now grilled cheese and after lunch mr. flea is going to go buy boards and dirt so we can build my raised garden beds! I have 4 crocuses in bloom and many daffodils in bud and within a few weeks I can plant peas and spinach.

We're going to the gym, cleaning the house and having a friend over for pizza and Wii later.

Ooh! What are you going to do for your raised beds? How big, deep, etc.? I think we may be doing the same as well. We're supposed to be getting snow this weekend, so we have longer before growing season starts, but we're ready. The sunroom container plants are all doing great, though. We've got about a dozen and a half cherry tomatoes fruited, lots of basil. The hot peppers are flowering again and the bell peppers are still growing. We may just plant those out instead of starting new seedlings.

Weekend: Yesterday, no private music students. Today, three, with two of them telling us they're cutting back.

But today later a couple of our girls are coming over. We need to go to the church first to clean. Then probably Wii also.

Sunday, church. I don't think we've got anything else planned see above re: snow.

It's been a housecleaning weekend, though, and that's going well. Plus D. split a bunch of wood and I stacked it and filled the woodrack on the deck, so it's nice to have that ready.

Monday I hope we make it to our location because we've been off schedule a lot this semester for one reason or another.

Thanks, everyone! I'm hoping to payoff the loan but no one can tell me what I owe

We bought metal corners for the beds that screw on to 2x6es. They cost $17 per pair at Gardener's Supply, and we are building one 4x8 foot bed. We're using untreated pine, which is cheap cheap cheap and we don;t have to worry about chemicals, and if it rots in 4 years we buy new $3 boards. The dirt will probably cost as much if not more than the bed, especially if we go with composted manure and peat instead of topsoil.

Good on you for the loan payoff attempt, Stephanie!

Awesome, flea, thanks. I was looking at those Gardener's Supply corners. Yeah, we need to buy some manure. Our soil is so clay heavy we really need to improve the organic material quantity.

ha.

Yesterday was the first furlough day for CA state employees -- and guess was downtown businesses had horrible, terrible no good very bad days. I don't usually read the comments in the paper -- but today , they were worth reading. to sum up: d'uh. Or if you want to be more articulate -- the savings from the furlough is at best going to be a wash.

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I dunno. Take me a while to get through all the whozits and privacy settings and whatnots. Is there a good FAQ somewhere?

Oh Liese- I love your name!

Friendicated you, Liese, and recommended your name to a bunch of Buffistas (and to no others), which should make it easier to find people. Unfortunately, I only got through the "E's" before the number of recs I could make ran out...