Popcorn

Our Wedding Anniversary has come and gone. It is interesting how it played out. I had been thinking about it a week or so before the event. Attila says he was too. But on the actual day, we both forgot about it completely, until a few hours before bedtime, when we suddenly realized that it was our anniversary. I don’t know if it means anything at all, forgetting the anniversary, but since we both forgot there was nothing to get upset about, we laughed, then we ate popcorn.

This morning’s breakfast saw the last of the sugarless cookies consumed. It was surprising how enjoyable they were. They are more enjoyable with the inclusion of the scant amount of sugar called for in the recipe, so the next batch will find me following the recipe with great care.

Last week the garden seeds were ordered. Attila is expanding the main garden, and I am going to create two small raised gardens in giant totes. At first Attila had little interest in raised bed gardening, but the concept has grown on him, and now he wants to build a small wood raised bed to see how that works. The wood raised bed will be his project. My raised beds will grow things like spinach, strawberries, and green beans. Attila has also expressed an interest in building a cold frame. In a few weeks the weather will improve enough so that the projects can begin.

With all the melting, water is leaking into the garage along the floor. This year Attila will dig up around the garage floor perimeter and install a water barrier, and a French drain, which will resolve the issue. It was not noticed before, because there used to be so much water pouring in through the roof, that a leak along the foundation was completely masked. It isn’t a big project. The water barrier material we picked up at a restore for under $10. We are good to go without further expense.

I continue to fight the Asian Lady Beetles and the Wasps in the interior windows. The spiders I am leaving alone to do their thing, they must be finding some small insects to eat, or they wouldn’t be in here.

There have been a lot of heavy equipment transports lumbering up and down the street this week, bringing in the heavy equipment for road building, basement digging, and land clearing. The construction season has begun again. Perhaps they will finish the project this summer and fall, I hope so. There are ten units completed and occupied. The new residents walk up and down our street, which is the only access to their private road. Their presence is a game changer, they don’t interact with each other, or with anyone on the street. Their vehicles speed up and down our street, which used to be a quiet dead end street, and is no more. It is becoming very “city-like” here. There are pros and cons to that.

The weather is dismal again today, terribly windy, and clouding over, then clearing, then clouding over again. The snow is melting though. It is surprising how exciting it can be to see the snow slowly retreat, to reveal small patches of grass around the yard. Nature’s strip tease.

Worldly

Weather

6°C
Date: 9:00 AM EDT Friday 15 March 2019
Condition: Mostly Cloudy
Pressure: 100.4 kPa
Tendency: Rising
Temperature: 6.3°C
Dew point: 2.3°C
Humidity: 75%
Wind: SW 29 gust 40 km/h
Visibility: 24 km

Quote

“It is the nature of ambition to make men [humans] liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.”
Sallust
86 BC – 34 BC