That Time Of Year Again
Apr. 30th, 2011 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythicalgirlI finally got the last of the mud out from under my fingernails.
Let me explain. I woke up this morning before 9am, which is pretty much unheard of for me on a Saturday. Unable to sleep I got up, ate, then put on my yard clothes and headed to Lowe's for mulch and garden soil. For anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the weather in the Midwest section of the US, well, it has been raining here. A lot. So all the bags of mulch and dirt were pretty well soaked, making them about twice as heavy as normal. Plus it meant that I got pretty dirty hauling them around. Luckily I put down an old shower curtain in the back of the car to protect it so I don't have to spend the rest of the day cleaning my car.
Back home I lugged the two bags of soil and my trusty shovel out to the new raised bed where I proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes turning the soil over and over with the shovel, mixing the new soil in as best I could. Remember what I said about the rain? Well, turning over the soil was fairly easy since everything is so wet. It also left me with mud all over my shoes and about half way up my jeans. That's OK - mud won't hurt me. I then did all the mulch, brick red color, so by the time I was done with that my upper half was pretty much dyed red since all the mulch was soaking wet. Then to the back garden to plan a couple of Black-Eyed Susans that P- brought me from her garden. More mud. Lastly I set up one of the containers on the deck, filled it with potting soil, and planted the radishes. By this time I had mud/dirt/mulch stains pretty much all over me - jeans, shoes, socks, shirt, across my neck, all up my arms, on my face, in my hair - and my gardening gloves were black with dirt (they are usually white & green).
Yard work done I showered, dressed and then went to the grocery store. I'm half way through with my shopping, getting frozen veggies out of the case when I realize I still have dirt embedded under my nails. Despite wearing gloves and then taking a shower I still had lines of black dirt under my nails. GROSS! I finished my shopping a quick as I could and got home. I was so embarrassed. It's all good now but damn, I feel like an idiot going out with dirty nails. Thank goodness I got it all out of my hair before I left the house!
No more playing in the mud for me today. I'll be goofing off the rest of today and then working from home tomorrow. I worked overtime again this week and once again I'm still not done with everything I need to do. So I'm looking at about 4 hours of work tomorrow. I could do it today but I need a day off more than I need to get work shit done. Plus it is supposed to rain tomorrow so I wouldn't be able to play outside anyway. Unless I just wanted to wallow in the mud of course.
Let me explain. I woke up this morning before 9am, which is pretty much unheard of for me on a Saturday. Unable to sleep I got up, ate, then put on my yard clothes and headed to Lowe's for mulch and garden soil. For anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the weather in the Midwest section of the US, well, it has been raining here. A lot. So all the bags of mulch and dirt were pretty well soaked, making them about twice as heavy as normal. Plus it meant that I got pretty dirty hauling them around. Luckily I put down an old shower curtain in the back of the car to protect it so I don't have to spend the rest of the day cleaning my car.
Back home I lugged the two bags of soil and my trusty shovel out to the new raised bed where I proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes turning the soil over and over with the shovel, mixing the new soil in as best I could. Remember what I said about the rain? Well, turning over the soil was fairly easy since everything is so wet. It also left me with mud all over my shoes and about half way up my jeans. That's OK - mud won't hurt me. I then did all the mulch, brick red color, so by the time I was done with that my upper half was pretty much dyed red since all the mulch was soaking wet. Then to the back garden to plan a couple of Black-Eyed Susans that P- brought me from her garden. More mud. Lastly I set up one of the containers on the deck, filled it with potting soil, and planted the radishes. By this time I had mud/dirt/mulch stains pretty much all over me - jeans, shoes, socks, shirt, across my neck, all up my arms, on my face, in my hair - and my gardening gloves were black with dirt (they are usually white & green).
Yard work done I showered, dressed and then went to the grocery store. I'm half way through with my shopping, getting frozen veggies out of the case when I realize I still have dirt embedded under my nails. Despite wearing gloves and then taking a shower I still had lines of black dirt under my nails. GROSS! I finished my shopping a quick as I could and got home. I was so embarrassed. It's all good now but damn, I feel like an idiot going out with dirty nails. Thank goodness I got it all out of my hair before I left the house!
No more playing in the mud for me today. I'll be goofing off the rest of today and then working from home tomorrow. I worked overtime again this week and once again I'm still not done with everything I need to do. So I'm looking at about 4 hours of work tomorrow. I could do it today but I need a day off more than I need to get work shit done. Plus it is supposed to rain tomorrow so I wouldn't be able to play outside anyway. Unless I just wanted to wallow in the mud of course.