Adventures in Shopping, Mid-Week Friday Garden!

I want to move my phone service from Boost to MetroPCS.  I use the phone as my internet connection, and Boost has a 2.56 gig cutoff, after which I'm basically at the end of a string poked into a tin can.  Metro claims to offer a true, all-you-can eat service for about $15.00 more a month than I'm paying now.

Their website leads me to believe that I can use my phone on their system.  The folks at BestBuy, where I went first, told me that they couldn't transfer my phone number, because they weren't set up to do that.  The young lady at the MetroPCS store told me it couldn't be done because of phone incompatibility.  Since I was about to run out of phone, I went to Weis and got a phone card, and topped my Boost account for another month.  I figure I'll handle the whole transfer thing over the interweb next month.

Anywho, that left me some cash, so I decided to plow it into the garden.  Four bags of topsoil for the kitchen bed, and plants:

Sweet Basil (top), and Basil.  I've never seen blue basil before!

4th of July Tomato.  Supposed to have fruit in 6 - 7 weeks

Cantaloupe

Watermelon

Roma style tomato, in the front deep bed.

Onions and garlic!

Yellow Tomato

Blackberry, weeded and trimmed.

Saturday's Friday Garden

Got the kitchen bed "framed".  I used 2" X 8" pine boards.  It needs a couple more bags of dirt before I plant in it. 

The front double bed now has an Early Girl tomato and sweet onions.  It will also be home to a Big Momma Roma hybrid if/when I find one, and melons.  Tomatoes are on the south side of the bed, so as not to shade anything else. 

The low bed is 1/2 garlic, 1/4 red onion, and 1/4 sweet onion:

The back bed now has a yellow tomato in addition to the Quince and Blueberry sticks.  This will be pepper land.

Buds on the rose bush:

Not sure what these bulbs are:

 King's Candles starting up:

My bake and take mini-green house, an aluminum baking pan with a clear plastic lid.  Trying to start peppers. melons and pumpkin.

 The Blackberry:

Friday Garden

...late winter edition.

It's supposed to freeze again tonight.  But, no precipitation like we had Tuesday night.  Ran errands this AM, including getting dirt for the garden.  It was nice enough that I went ahead and got the beds as ready as I could:

I have the kitchen garden dug up.  I want to put cedar boards around it to raise it a bit, and improve the soil.  Which has a fair amount of clay in it. This will have Rosemary, Oregano, Sage, and maybe a tomato.

I have the front tall bed cleared, and two tomato cages ready to go.  I'll put a couple of melons on the left side, and *maybe* a couple of peppers down the middle.  Two bags of top soil for the kitchen bed.

 I adde a couple bags of soil to the back bed, and moved the Quince tree to the far corner.  There's a blueberry stick in the front right corner, and a tomato cage in the back.  More peppers, or maybe a melon here. too.

Got the rose bush pruned back last week, and it's starting to bud out a bit.  Got the debris out of there, so that part of the garden is more accessible right now.

 

The low bed is half full of garlic.  These are left over from last year that over-wintered in the ground and have sprouted around the garden.  I collected them and stuck them in the dirt last week, too.  Topped this bed off with some fresh soil, and re-planted them individually, except for the little one that are bunched together in the background.  I plan on onions in the back half of this bed.

No sign of Tiger Lillys or Kings Candles yet.  I have some Gladiolus bulbs that I'll plant as well, maybe this weekend.

New Time Waster...

...Twitter.

I opened an account so I could Tweet when I put up a post.  Sadly, it got out of control in the last month, and I've spent a significant part of my time over there.

Which has to stop.  I stumbled into a potential money-making gig about a week and a half ago, and we met today to start getting our brains around it.  I walked away with a pretty good list of things I need to do.  In addition, I need to get some things sorted out at the office here at home in order to support what I'll be doing there.

Yes, I'm being deliberately vague about what it is.  I think we need to get the proverbial ducks lined up before I make a big to-do about it here.

But I'm optimistic about it.

And I'm saying the (Alan) Shepard's prayer, too.  A lot!

The Day After

I'll need a Sherpa if I want to go get a sandwich!

Subway  is open, but opened late.  The guys have been digging access tunnels from street to store.

Looking west from my steps...

...and looking East.

Aaaand, another advisory from 11PM tonight till 4PM tomorrow.  Another 2"to 4"predicted.  Like we need it.  Guess I'm having a "white"birthday.

Oh. Yay. Whoopie.  Woo. Hoo.

2-13 About 10 AM Update @ 1:25 pm, Again @ 9 PM

Update II 9 PM:

Zero traffic. Windy and snowing.  More to come.

  
Update 1:25 PM

Drift by the fence:

Stairs?  What stairs??

Earlier...

View out the back window, facing South. About a 3 foot drift on the roof outside:

Backyard:

Even Subway is closed:

In the 20s.  Very quiet...only the occasional vehicle goes by.  Most of those are big rigs.  Got a ping that the library is closed.    Snow is coming down steadily but not heavy.

Chili is on "Warm" (heh).  We are all in my bedroom, staying warm.

Hunkering Down

The local forecast is not cheerful.  Here's the map:

I'm just about right between the "York" label and the minus sign in the "9 - 12""

Prepped, tho:

Crock Pot of Beef Chili Simmering

Cast Iron Skillet o' (Yankee) Cornbread

Dishes Washing

Laundry is going, and trash and recycling are out.  Friday is pick up day, but who knows exactly when they will pick up and I don't want to slog the stuff out thru shin-deep snow.  Taking a cue from many of the neighbors, who have their items out!

Still a few inches of snow (and ice) on the ground from the last go-round, so we're going to be Well Under It.  No salt to be had anywhere, even from the big box stores in York.

As the sign said" "Whoever has been praying for snow, good job."

Now, please.  Stop.