VSG Maintenance Group
Friday June 26, 2020
on 6/26/20 3:24 pm, edited 6/26/20 8:42 am
Gorgeous, Peps! I also have a lot of hybrid teas/roses for cutting, but for this project I was thinking heavy blooming shrub roses. And I finally found them! I hear you on the bareroot being best, but I am impatient and timing is bad, given how rarely the project motivation fairy visits me. I feel the need to strike while the iron is hot so to speak.
I went to an independent nursery I have never been to before. Why have I never been there?!? It's ENORMOUS with really well-tended, healthy stock and a ton of staff running around taking care of it all and helping people. I found one of the roses I had been thinking of and realized the pink was too dark for what I wanted. So, dejected, I turned to leave the rose area and ran smack into a bunch of iceberg roses in different colors. I have a whole lot of the white ones in my front yard (pretty ubiquitous in most front yards around here, because they bloom almost all year with loads of flowers all a time). And they had light pink ones! And they were really healthy bushes. They also had magenta purple ones that were fantastic, but not what I need right now.
So I snapped up three of them. And 3 Mexican Sage. And now I have a lot of digging to do.
Ooh, also they had a ton of fountains, one brand I was drooling over online. I laughed out loud when I saw how big it was. Thank God I didn't order it sight unseen in a moment of insanity! They did have some giant birdbaths by the same company and I think like Shirley suggested, that might be the way to go. I was thinking it would be too small, but now that I've seen it, I don't think so. The one they had in stock inexplicably had a golf club motif, so I need to find a plain one, but I know what to look for now.
The house is returning to normalcy! The floors are finished and all the furniture has been returned to its proper place. We still have to unpack boxes, but we can do that over the next few days. What the floor project has sparked in both of us is the urge to purge! I'm so excited about that. We are very good about purging clothing as it ages out, but we suck at getting rid of 'stuff'.
Motorhome will be refloored on Monday. That's going to be so awesome!
I have made the difficult decision to let go of some of my treasures from the past - one of which Ron is trying to dissuade me from doing. I mentioned that I was going to get rid of all my music transcribing stuff. I used to write my own charts using pen and ink, like they did in the old days. This information did not sit well with him. My lack of musical engagement has been an issue for him which he brings up time to time. I sort of feel like that part of my life is best left behind because I have strong feelings of unfulfillment in that area of my life. I can not turn back the hands of time nor do I want to. I just think it's best to acknowledge the regret and sadness that I have about that, and forge ahead. I spent a good 10-15 years pursuing that life and I found I just didn't have the stamina to make a go of it. I also lacked the self confidence and positive self image that really are needed to succeed in that field - even when one feels insecure.
The bathroom scale is packed away so there was no weighing of self today. That's probably a good thing given how I have felt about my 4 pound weight gain this week. I know I have not gained 4 real pounds, but it still ****** me off - especially because my eating has not warranted an upward tick since my eating on the road last Sunday. I am having visions of 'dieting' and wanted to cancel my NUT appointment today. I decided to keep it, but am not sure how open I will be to talking cuz I am miffed with my body.
i am looking forward to having my whole family of dogs back home. I find one dog to be sort of lonely. I can tell Keira would like some of her buddies home, too. Though, she has been enjoying the individual attention showered upon her. Having the workers here also stressed her, too. She wanted to be with them investigating all they were doing, and of course, that was simply not possible. They needed the gates to be open so they could go in and out, which just wasn't a safe scenario for her.
Ceci - totally feel you on the therapy thing, but I think you need to relook at it as perhaps you are sitting on a precipice of new awareness and change and you will get there faster with twice weekly sessions. You don't have to continue twice weekly sessions, if you don't like the new schedule. I am seeing the NUT weekly right now, instead of twice monthly, because I think I need the extra support during the COVID era. For better and worse, the pandemic has affected my outlook on life and my daily eating. Maybe your therapist senses an impending and positive change and merely wants to support you through it.
Happy Friday to you all!
Good Morning All
Popping in super fast while I eat my breakfast and defrosting from going out to feed and check on the cows. They are enjoying a bale of hay!
Good drive up last night. Few dramas with solar system & very low batteries saw me wrangling very heavy concrete posts that told down the tin sheet we use to protect the generator. I curse being short and this was one of those times- lifting above my head. My nephew is coming to help put it back together later this afternoon.
Going into Wangaratta to pick up a 10 ft pool I bought secondhand. Will be great at farm over summer. Then cuppa & catch up with a gf. Then home to mow and do chores
Will check in later
Love to you all
