pepper update, Monday 5/2/16

Pepper update!


my peppers on Monday, 18 April 2016



my peppers on Monday, 25 April 2016



my peppers on Monday, 2 May 2016


Last week I removed the dead/unsprouted peat pucks from the tray. Between last Monday and this Monday, I had a scare with the three sprouts in the upper left corner -- they got horribly dehydrated and wilted to the brink of death. I was able to successfully (...so far) revive two of them, but the third (which had previously had trouble shedding its seed coat, and had consequently not been growing terribly fast/well) only made a partial recovery for a day or two, after which it shriveled for good. :( I have since removed its puck as well.

I like these peat pucks for rapid sprouting, but it is really hard to judge appropriate water levels in 'soil' whose consistency and color don't match anything I'm used to.

Ah well, perhaps it's just as well to weed out the weak before I start subjecting them to open windows and fans and such, to say nothing of repotting them and moving them to the wild environs of my back porch. And the survivors so far are doing quite nicely! They're growing their first proper leaf pairs and everything! I am so, so proud of them. :)

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Stuff I've done over the past few days:

1. Submitted my unemployment claim. In a week or two, I should know whether or not it was accepted.

2. Packed about 2/3 of what I need to take when I catch a bus to NJ on Wednesday morning. I am going down mostly to pick up Dottie for a stint of dogsitting, but also to watch Richard Strauss's Elektra on one of those Met in HD movie nights with my parents and some of their church friends, because why not.

3. Bought a ticket for the aforementioned bus trip.

4. Cooked a batch of veggie sidedish before the pepper and squash rotted in my fridge. \o/

5. Deep-cleaned three of the burners on my stove because I went into the kitchen to do something completely unrelated, casually squished a couple ants, and then kind of... kept going... after I wiped the squished ants off the stove. *headdesk*

6. Wrote two Cotton Candy Bingo fills. (Thanks for the prompts!)

7. Fought extensively with my next Cotton Candy Bingo fill, which took a wild left turn into AU crossover territory and I have no idea how I'm going to shoehorn part of the prompt scenario back into it. *double headdesk*

8. Deposited Upstairs Neighbors E and T's last check for the sublet of my driveway, which they don't need anymore since they finally sold their old pickup truck. This is both sad (loss of income) and convenient, since I am just about to acquire a minivan for two and a half weeks.

9. Said goodbye to Diagonal Neighbor P, who moved out yesterday. I will miss her adorable puppy. :(

10. Signed up to facilitate my church's high school youth group again next year, since I've had a lot of fun with that this year and I think some continuity will be useful as the kids try to get organized enough (and solvent enough) to eventually host a con.

11. Stuck a suction cup and hook on one of my kitchen windows so I can finally hang up the weird stained-glass thing Susan paid for me to make at the glass studio where she worked a few years back.

12. Tried out a recipe for soupless ramen with egg, which came out fairly well. :)

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I am only intermittently and idiosyncratically productive, but I do get more done than my depression would like me to think. *wry*