Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
gardening & landscaping

garden fatigue

It’s the end of another gardening season and the garden is a mess of weeds once again. Every year, I plan on keeping up with things and every year my motivation peters out by the end of the season.

While this was not the best year for a garden, I did get a lot of tomatoes, so that made me happy (that was the first year in a while for that). I’ve canned a couple of tomato-related products already and have a few more on the horizon. The year’s biggest disappointment was the lack of peppers. I normally get a ton, but haven’t harvested any yet. The plants are still growing, so we’ll see if they produce anything before the frost.

Other hits and misses…

Hits: cucumbers, garlic, zucchini, basil, onions
Misses: potatoes, fennel, cabbage
I’ve been trying to do the winter harvest thing the past few years but haven’t formally planned anything out. Not coincidentally, I haven’t done all that well with it. So, this year, I’m going to skip planting anything and actually come up with a planting schedule for next year.
movies

american sniper

This told the biographical story of Navy SEAL (and sniper) Chris Kyle. I’m a sucker for a good war movie and this was definitely one of those. I guess there was some controversy over the movie due to the subject matter, but the guy was just doing his job. Conversely, watching this movie made me want to go out and buy a flag. ‘Murica!

My rating: 4/5

live entertainment

foo fighters

Today is the first day of Jake’s sophomore year. So, like any pair of responsible parents, we took him to see the Foo Fighters last night. What an amazing show! I opted out of their last tour due to the ticket prices and have been kicking myself ever since. So, there was no way I was going to miss them on this tour–I’ve had the tickets since December.

Due to all of the construction on the parkway, we went to/from the show via Washington. That’s the way to do it. I know it adds a little time to the trip, but there’s virtually no chance of getting stuck in traffic. We arrived home around 1am and I am freaking tired today (the dogs got me up at 6:30). I took the day off, though, so a nap is planned for later.
small business ownership

mucho dinero

We had new sewer lines put in our investment property yesterday. It’s a relief that project’s finally done. If the place should sell, it was going to need to be done before the sale went through. In the more likely event that we end up renting it out again, it’s good to know that it is already done (so that we won’t have to inconvenience the renter(s).

We are getting an estimate for the office today. I can’t wait to find out what that’s going to cost. And we might have to replace the lines at our house, too, though that won’t be this year (thankfully).

One down, two to go.

celebrations, friends, tv

ftwd

Yesterday was busy in a social kind of way. We went out for lunch at Asiago’s to celebrate the birthdays of my mom, dad and grandmother (who all had birthdays in the past week).

And, Sunday night, Judy came over to catch the first episode of Fear the Walking Dead. Despite some technical difficulties (Sling TV–get with it!), it was a fun evening. I guess the positive thing about the Sling TV outages was that it gave us extra time to talk. As for the show, I thought the first episode was a little slow, but it looks like the SHTF in the next episode, so I am hopeful that this is going to be a good series. It’s definitely an interesting take on the existing story.