A mixed bag of a day so far...

[mousme]

Today has consisted of a beautiful spring day. The Brandywines are wilting, perhaps due to overnight frost, which is making me very sad. I slept well and long enough that I'm not stupidly tired anymore, and I had a nice breakfast of coffee and cereal with a banana.

Spent a chunk of the morning gardening first by myself and then with moonandtree and we ironed out some of the plans for the garden, and planted cucumber, onions, garlic, parsley and tarragon. I need to buy a hose for the garden. We also cut back the rose bushes, which according to moonandtree are behaving atypically for rose bushes.

I made lunch, and prepared to go to work. Then I stepped in grass-riddled cat puke which someone (*cough*Gretzky*cough*) thoughtfully left at the foot of my bed. I ranted at the cats for about five minutes, along the lines of "Why must my life necessarily involve stealth puke? WHY?"

I changed my socks, made it to the bus in time, and arrived in time to be told that one of the members had made a complaint about me yesterday, claiming I was impolite with her. See, apparently "impolite" now means "didn't give the answer I wanted to hear." Luckily my supervisor listened to the call and determined that she was on crack, and apparently told her so in no uncertain terms. Yay for having good bosses! :)

So today has been a mixed bag. Overall I am in a good mood, though, so I'm chalking it up as a win.

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

My theory about the roses is as follows: Native Canadian rose bushes are hardy in our climate, and tend to have big fluffy pink "wild rose" roses. Fancy elegant-looking long-stemmed cultivated roses in red and yellow and white aren't hardy in our climate. So they graft the elegant rose tops onto hardy rose roots. The elegant tops have died. The hardy roots have taken over and are sending up shoots. The roses are behaving atypically for fancy cultivated roses, but perfectly normal for wild roses :)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

It's weird, though. The tops are fine, as are the roots, but the middle part appears dead.

Anyway, we did some pretty ruthless cutting back, leaving the very obviously healthy base, and with any luck it'll grow back into happy healthy rosebushes. :)

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

snicker .. stealth puke .. sorry dude.

as for a coworker complaining? HA! On you crack user!

[thinkingoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I hope your Brandywines are going to pull through. They are what all other tomatoes aspire to be....I am testing the proverbial waters with Roma tomato plants first, because I could never place a Brandywine in danger that way, especially after I sold a plant to a woman at school and told her it was too young to put outside. She ignored me and ended up killing that blessed plant. :-(