Thursday, 24 January 2019
This is out of order with Allan’s post from yesterday. That makes me feel all squiggly but it cannot be helped now.
Before I could start on gardening projects, we almost came through on our offer to help Jenna move three loads of furniture and boxes to her new Mermaid Sandcastle in Long Beach. I say almost because after two loads we all pooped out.
Before leaving home, I saw that the tommy crocuses are beginning to bloom. This means I have left it too late to achieve my big plan of the winter mulching with eight yards of soil energy.
However, my new project will generate some soil and will cost more than the eight yards of soil energy would have, I fear.
At noon, we joined Jenna at her Ilwaco shop and started packing the van and trailer.
While we were loading, two darling dogs on the loose came by, on a run away from Biocharm Farm east of Ilwaco.
Their human came to fetch them.
Between loads, we delivered a B&O tax form to Long Beach City Hall, where we found a hellebore blooming.
For our second load, a strong friend of Jenna’s showed up in Ilwaco and helped Allan load some heavy furniture sorts of things into the trailer…and then he did not come to Long Beach to help unload them! That was the end of the idea of doing the third load. After we hit the wall of exhaustion, the three of us repaired to the Shelburne Pub for dinner.
It was light enough to look at the Shelburne garden.
I concluded (or hoped) it can wait till the second week of February before we start work.
I was pleased to see this in the front door window.
While Jenna and I settled into a cozy corner of the pub….
….Allan went upstairs to check on the second floor plants. I was so pleased to see in his photos that they look good.
We toasted Jenna’s new Mermaid Sandcastle.
And then we feasted.
Dessert followed.
I hoped for good weather so that my project could proceed at home.
The second floor plants are looking great! Love seeing the hellebore and narcissus in bloom. Those naughty runaway dogs are so cute! Best of luck to Jenna at her new location in Long Beach. She must really appreciate your kind help with moving.
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I look forward to seeing what she does there. It will be a party venue, for one thing. One of her specialties is mermaid parties for kids. There are plans for an outdoor space in the small but full of possibilities back yard, very enclosed.
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Flowers! Yay! We have 5 inches of snow and subzero temps, but I keep hoping for spring. It’s nice to enjoy it on your web page.
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Not anymore, snow all week here!!! Truly bizarre. It snowed but once, deeply, and has stuck and stuck, with more predicted. Photos in Saturday’s post.
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I suppose the Gladiolus papilio will not be up for a while, if it is a summer bloomer. I am so pleased with those you sent me, even if it is still early for them to do much more that put leaves up. I keep watching for more.
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If you can already see leaves, that’s very promising. Found out there is a red flowered one which I am determined to acquire.
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No others have come to the surface yet. I think those first two are just early. It is still cool here. I do not see them daily, but I get so jazzed when I stop by that those who work in the adjacent building are watching the spot too . . . and they do not even know why.
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I like the sign in the Shelburne Pub window. 🙂
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