Liz vs. the home improvement projects
May. 17th, 2015 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingHa, victory is mine!
Or, in other words, I've been in a blue funk for the past couple weeks (which interacted... oddly... with taking care of the dog), but today I was feeling moderately together again, and the weather cooperated, so I washed, sanded, and peeled away dirt and old paint from my front room windowsill, and have now repainted the damn thing so it will hopefully not rot out from under my air conditioner once I get that installed on Wednesday. Take that, universe!
(Also I dug a weird virulent-yellow fungus out of one of my houseplants' pots and sprayed the remaining dirt with fungicide, but that's minor. I could have done that even with no spoons. But I might not have gotten the fungus out to the compost bin if that had happened a couple days ago, so yay spoons!)
On Thursday, weather permitting, I will try to actually get around to scrubbing my back porch like I've been meaning to for three weeks now, after which I can spray it with animal deterrent and finally repot my first batch of peppers to move outdoors. They're starting to tip over in their baby pots -- I have three braced with popsicle sticks and twisties -- and this suggests it's time to give them proper adult pots and stakes.
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Also maybe I can cook stuff. Because I've been completely unable to manage that since I came back from NJ, and that's getting stupid.
Or, in other words, I've been in a blue funk for the past couple weeks (which interacted... oddly... with taking care of the dog), but today I was feeling moderately together again, and the weather cooperated, so I washed, sanded, and peeled away dirt and old paint from my front room windowsill, and have now repainted the damn thing so it will hopefully not rot out from under my air conditioner once I get that installed on Wednesday. Take that, universe!
(Also I dug a weird virulent-yellow fungus out of one of my houseplants' pots and sprayed the remaining dirt with fungicide, but that's minor. I could have done that even with no spoons. But I might not have gotten the fungus out to the compost bin if that had happened a couple days ago, so yay spoons!)
On Thursday, weather permitting, I will try to actually get around to scrubbing my back porch like I've been meaning to for three weeks now, after which I can spray it with animal deterrent and finally repot my first batch of peppers to move outdoors. They're starting to tip over in their baby pots -- I have three braced with popsicle sticks and twisties -- and this suggests it's time to give them proper adult pots and stakes.
...
Also maybe I can cook stuff. Because I've been completely unable to manage that since I came back from NJ, and that's getting stupid.
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Date: 2015-05-18 12:58 am (UTC)I went out and picked up the chinotto I'd ordered, got home and tucked it into a cachepot and the drip sprinkler. I'll need to double-check after a few days to make sure that it's getting watered.
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Date: 2015-05-18 05:51 pm (UTC)Anyway, good luck with your... *quickly googles*... tiny Italian orange tree?
flaps hands excitedly
Date: 2015-05-18 11:13 pm (UTC)The point, however, is that the fruits are beautifully flavored and sour as hell, which makes them excellent for marmalades. In Italy, people candy them whole in sugar syrup: think kumquats, only sourer.
I used to make lots and lots of jams and marmalades; now standing up long enough to stir is a problem, but the chinotto is a commitment to do that again some day. Also gorgeous.
Re: flaps hands excitedly
Date: 2015-05-20 08:14 pm (UTC)