Angela Law

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

twilight gardening

Please note that this post does not have anything to do with teenage vampires. Or werewolves, for that matter. Rather, it is the result of not getting the garlic planted in my garden earlier in the month, when I took a day off work to do just that.

With the nice weather we’ve been having, I knew I’d have to commit to this task early in the week, lest I end up having to do it after the weather turns. So, I committed to planting the garlic today. I intended on leaving work a little early (or at least on time), but that did not happen. Still, I was able to get about half of the garlic planted before supper. I hurried up and ate and went back out, but it was getting dark already (and this fact isn’t going to improve after the weekend). But, I did manage to get all of the garlic planted.

Unfortunately, I have a bunch of other things that need to be done outside and it appears that I’m running out of time, but at least this task is done.

holidays

yesterday

Brian and I finished installing the railing for the office porch yesterday. Whew! It turned out really nice, if I do say so myself. We ran out of time because we had a Halloween party to go to, so we were not able to install the hardware cloth around the base of the porch, but that’s a pretty small job so I’m sure we’ll be able to squeeze it in at some point before the snow flies.

As for the Halloween party–it was a costume one. This was the first time I wore a costume since I was a teenager. Not one for dressing up, I found an idea for a “selfie” costume, which Jake created for me. It turned out great! Brian went as a lumberjack (which, surprisingly, didn’t involve much of a change to his wardrobe) and Jake wore a red Morphsuit (which made him I don’t know what).

small business ownership

not quite done

A couple of weeks ago we started to replace the back porch at the office. We’re making good progress, but it’s not quite done yet. All of the decking is down (including the trap door), so we can check that off the list. I finished patching the concrete in the brick columns yesterday, too. And, we started on the railing. It was a pain to figure out the first one, but I think the next three will go a lot more quickly now that we have the process figured out. But, that will have to wait till next weekend, because this is going to be a busy week.

movies

the conjuring

Based on a “true story”, this movie told the tale of a family that is haunted by a demonic presence at their recently purchased farmhouse. I thought the movie was ok, but nothing special. Brian really liked it, though he does like a good ghost story.
My rating: 3/5
gardening & landscaping

just got lucky

Today was a beautiful day. Surely, one of the last ones for the year. Coincidentally, I had today off work. My intentions were to plant garlic in the garden, but I still had a bunch of stuff growing in the garden, so I ended up removing that instead. I had a nice harvest of carrots, scallions, beans, cherry tomatoes and peppers.

I still have some weeding to do before I get to the garlic, but hopefully all of this will get done soon. It is difficult to get anything done outside since it gets dark so early now, but I guess I’ll figure something out.
I did zilch outside last month, so there are plenty of other things to do (putting away the motorcycles, flower garden cleanup, getting the patio ready for winter, etc.). I do not know where this year got to.